Sketch 126: Wolf Chick from 2007

I had to spend most of the evening at the hospital with my wife, who was having some issues her kidneys (turns out that it's kidney stones), so no new drawing tonight.

Instead I'm posting this She-Wolf sketch from 2007. It's one of the only pieces of art from those days that I'm happy with. I had started drawing again after a span of ten years in which I rarely picked up a pencil.

I was going through my old blog, and I'm astounded at the difference three years makes. Some of that old stuff was TERRIBLE! Of course, I'll probably be saying the same thing in the future about what I'm churning out now.

It's the nature of the artist, I suppose.

Night.

Sketchbook: Werewolf

Considering that I was drawing werewolves before I was drawing superheroes, I don't draw them very much.

But they remain very close to my heart.

I remember my first exposure to them... My father rented the first "Teen Wolf" when it came out in 1986 or '87. I became fascinated with it, along with the cheezy cartoon adaptation.

I would spend hours freeze-framing the transformation sequence and drawing it. I would have been about seven-years-old.

Then came the USA Network series "Werewolf", which both I found both scary and awesome!

Finally there was a chopped-up and edited made-for-cable version of "The Howling II" that I found on TV one weekend. In retrospect, the movie is awful, but I was a werewolf freak, so I was blinded. I watched it recently for nostalgic purposes. I still love it. I probably always will to a certain extent.

Even now, one of my favorite comics is Robert Kirkman's "The Astounding Wolf-Man", which will, sadly, come to an end with issue # 25 in 2010.

Did I mention I was obsessed with vampires, too?

I'll have to do a vampire sketch next...