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Awesome Art Picks: Batman, Judge Dredd, Catwoman and More

The coolest art of the week that you won't see in comic books.

It's time once again to check out some of the coolest comic art on the internet that you won't see in actual books. The reason is artists often draw sketches for commissions or for fun on their personal blogs and Tumblr accounts. It gives them a chance to draw characters they want to and may not normally get the chance on their assigned books.

Let's start off with a little holiday cheer, courtesy of Dustin Nguyen. The first is a holiday Batman pic he did for a private commission posted on his Tumblr.

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If that wasn't enough, how about little Robin to bring in the holiday season?

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Todd Nauck reminisced a little over the first issue of X-Factor he read. Check out his version of Jean Grey, Iceman and Beast posted on his Tumblr.

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Who's the law? Judge Dredd is. And Francesco Francavilla is breaking the law with how great these renditions are posted over at Comic Twart. It's great seeing the penciled and finished versions of his second piece.

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We talked a little about John Byrne on the podcast yesterday. Kind of funny since I found these two sketches on his message boards this week. The first is a classic tweak on the second generation of X-Men. And the second is an alternate reality of Fantastic Four meets X-Men.

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When's the next issue of Ultimate Spider-Man. It feels like we were getting them on a less-than-monthly schedule and now maybe they're getting back on a normal schedule. Here's a sketch of Miles Morales Chris Samnee posted on Twitter.

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Where's Big Barda in the 'New 52'? We know Darkseid is coming so perhaps we'll see her soon. For now, here's Peter Nguyen's version posted on his Tumblr.

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Joel Gomez did these great Superboy pages "for a writer" and posted them on his Tumblr. Would I want to see more? Heck yeah!

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Joel was also inspired after seeing commercials for Golden Eye Reloaded and drew this pic of Jaws with a reflection of James Bond on his metallic teeth.

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I discovered Dan McDaid's blog this week and check out his versions of the Doctor, the Future Foundation and Harley Quinn.

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Tom Raney updated his Deviant Art page with these sketches of Mr. Freeze and the Shade (doesn't Mr. Freeze look...cool?).

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How about some more Batman? Here's a cool pic from Jock on his website I had to include here.

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And can you really have Batman without Catwoman? Yeah, you can but what's the fun in that? Here's one by Rafael Albuquerque posted on his Deviant Art page.

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You might have seen these earlier this week. Imagine if comic book covers were like animated gifs. These (and a couple others) are from Kerry Callen's blog.

That's it for this week. Be sure to check back for the next installment of Awesome Art Picks.

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Awwww Victor looks so sad.

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@Daveyo520 said:

Awwww Victor looks so sad.

He just finished his first viewing of Batman & Robin. Comfort him.
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@Illuminatus: And Tony making the same puns isn't helping.

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@Daveyo520 said:

@Illuminatus: And Tony making the same puns isn't helping.

Ugh.
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Too...many...cool pieces...to save!

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Those animated book covers are great!

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I love the moving cover of Spidey so much.

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That's not Damian... that's Tim. And Dustin never stated that it was Damian.

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Jock doing Batman is AWESOME. And that foe that Dredd is punching out..the weapon looks all too similar to the I-Gore that Grotesk uses!

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That second Dredd is awesome, would love to see Francavilla do a Dredd series.

That Shade is sinfully wicked, love it.

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Aw. I miss Big Barda.

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That Dredd stuff is sick!! The Freeze is great too. Also that Jock image is the cover for Batman V1 #650. Just fyi=]

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Can't tell you how much i love those gif covers. But Dan McDaid's art absolutely blew me away. It's like the best elements of the original Mad artists brought into the present. Wow (and that's the second wow in a row for consecutive Awesome Art Picks. Great work!).

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if they are not cool i do not kno what is cool!

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gifs!
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The gifs were nice. Too bad this can't happen yet.

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BARDA

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Jocks batman and catwoman are so sick. And the gifs are awesome

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Those Superboy pages are amazing! He should be doing the new book with Scott Lobdell!

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i think the mr. freeze one looks a little... bitter

but i always like these, kinda envious of the artists

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The animated GIFs are awesome! It's one of those ideas the make you palm slap your face and ask why I didn't think of that!!

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Cool GIF covers.

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Outstanding .GIF's

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Many great pieces!

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Awesome art pieces!

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these are great, love the detailing, particularly Superboy!

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It's 2011! Where the hell are my jet packs, flying cars and cool animated comic book covers?

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Those gifs are really cool.

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All of Todd Nauck's drawing's have the same pose, with their heads tilted to the right. Love the .gif's!

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awesome art!!!

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The last two are pretty cool to make them move like that.

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The Tom Raney pieces are really sweet, I need to explore more of his work...

The Albaquerque Catwoman is probably my favorite of the week...

But the GIFs are such a cool concept that we should see more takes on them... old and new. Heck, with the digitals as they are, how about some animated covers, companies?

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There were some great artwork this week. My favorite was the Damian christmas picture, Iceman picture, and the Superboy pictures.

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Love the Big Barda, Mr. Freeze, Shade and Catwoman

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Just love Byrne's X-Men..

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I love this animated covers!!

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That Superboy art is much better than the current art int the book. I want him to take over for R.B. Silva.

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I really like the Mr. Freeze looks like life-like, and the animated gifs are pretty cool.

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Holiday pictures :)

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more gifs! those were kinda EPIC!

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Why is Thing wearing the helmet of Nabu

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Shiney!

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Love the catwoman and gif covers!!

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awesome please keep finding the Jean art

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Great collection this week! Noticed a lot of artists taking up the classic 60's style again. I like it!

Surprised that Barta could get a new suit again. Seems like every time we see her, wardrobe change.

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"doesn't Mr. Freeze look...cool?"

Icee what you did...

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That shade picture is too sweet.

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I really like the .gifs! Also the Catwoman and Mr. Freeze. :)

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Im such a bad drawer, but I really want to make my own comics! That's why it's really awesome to see what people can make come alive on paper, where my creations fall flat, dead at birth. My favorites are FF/X Men and the superbly comic thing. THOSE ARE SO COOL!

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