Friday, November 25, 2011

Pictures from the Past


















Once upon a time, when I was very young and foolish, I had aspirations to be an artist. Thought I'd share a few pieces with you, mostly for the sake of nostalgia and fun.

Let's start with the one above, the first ever drawing I made of my HALLOWEEN LEGION, when I was in the tenth or eleventh grade. As you can see, my little group of weirdos have evolved a bit since those days.


The first stuff I ever remember drawing were dinosaurs. This one was done really early on.




















Now a couple much earlier original characters of mine, drawn when I was in elementary school.




































One of favorite characters. Someday I will get to write a real POPEYE adventure.


















Let's move along into my later high school years, when my drawings were a bit less of an eye-sore...probably because I'd discovered girls.

































This one below was drawn from life. My high school sweetheart at that time, around eleventh or twelfth grade.



















I had a mad crush on actress Jane Seymour after seeing her in FRANKENSTEIN: The True Story and LIVE AND LET DIE.
Little did I realize that year later we'd meet. She's still beautiful.















A zoo sketch.














I think it was around my senior year of high school that I had the totally unrealistic ambition to illustrate the novel DRACULA.
They're not very good, but I did try very hard to reproduce Stoker's visual description of the Count.


























Now for some classic movie monsters, another favorite subject of mine. This is a poster for an imaginary movie that would have been the companion film to Universal's House of Frankenstein and House of Dracula. Plus, some pics of Boris, Bela, and Christopher Lee. I always loved drawing them.



































































One of my more ambitious pieces. A friend and I were going to pitch a Frankenstein comic book adaptation to Famous Monsters magazine around 1980. Not very good, but at least it has mood. I was trying to capture the essence of one of the original movie posters.


And, yup. I drew some pulp stuff, too. These were done when I was fresh out of high school.



















And, yup. I drew some pulp stuff, too. These were done when I was fresh out of high school.
Doc Savage's super-firer pistol is based on a design by Steranko. The gun-totting lady is my take on Pat Savage.




















































































One of my more recent pieces, drawn in the mid-1980's. This is a character created by Dale Roberts, penciled by me, and inked by my long time pal, and co-creator of our THE VERDICT, Emmy Award winner Dean Haspiel. Exploitative, yes, but still sort of fun, I suppose.



















Okay...the misery is almost over. This is, I think, my most recent drawing. It's from 1992, when I was writing the Necroscope comic book series, and a friend asked me to draw a female vampire in his sketchbook. I'm not sure why I chose to waste two whole pages.
















Thanks for your indulgence.

The Halloween Legion Martin Powell.

3 comments:

  1. These aren't so bad Mr.Powell lol. I think with some practice,you would have become great at it!

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  2. I like the monkey! LOL!
    Actually the red haired lady has me captivated.

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  3. Watch out...redheads are pure trouble.

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