Each week we gather up all the cool comic book art by the professionals that won't be appearing in comic books. The reason they won't is because artists often do sketches for fun or commissions at convention and post them on their websites, blogs, Tumblrs or Twitter pages. Some artists even offer commissions through their sites. These drawings are too good not to be seen by everyone.
Denis Medri has been doing quite a bit of re-imagining. We've seen his steampunk versions of characters and last week saw Western versions of the Justice League. This week he posted a couple more steampunk Spider-Man pics on his Deviant Art page but also did something a little different. Check out his "Star Wars 80s High School Re-Designs."
Philip Tan posted some more sketches on his Facebook.
Chris Burnham is at Wizard World Chicago this weekend. Make sure you find him if you're there. Check out these sketches he's done there already and posted on his Twitter.
Robert Atkins also posted a sketch of Iron Fist that was colored by Simon Gough. Check out both versions. Which color do you like better for his costume? Robert also posted a nice sketch of Taskmaster on his blog.
Craig Cermak posted his version of Batman and Robin on his Tumblr.
Chris Giarrusso posted a pic of Batman as well along with another Tribute Tuesday for AVENGERS VS. X-MEN on his website.
Ben Templesmith has been posting some sketches on his Instagram.
Ramon Perez finally got around to finishing an Archie pic he started a couple years ago. He mentioned on his Tumblr how difficult it was to come back and not make all the changes he wanted to. He's hoping to color it someday.
Gene Gonzales posted a pic of Riddler as well as a work in progress of Sue and Ralph Dibny on his blog.
Daniel HDR is taken commissions for NYCC. You can read about that on his blog here on Comic Vine. Here's a couple examples from his Instagram.
Todd Nauck posted some more iPad drawings on his Tumblr using Sketchbook Pro and Paper53.
Have you been checking out Mahmud Asrar's work on SUPERGIRL? He's been posting some sketches on his Instagram.
How about some Legend of Zelda art? Here's one Agnes Garbowska posted on her Tumblr.
Dustin Nguyen also posted a pic of Link on his Tumblr.
With all the talk about Avengers 2, I wonder if we'll ever see Beta Ray Bill on the big screen? Here's a pic Mike McKone posted on his TwitPic page.
Michael Walsh posted this commission of Karate Kid vs. Midnight Sun on his Tumblr.
Hopefully we'll be seeing Black Widow in Avengers 2. Peter Nguyen posted this sketch of her on his Tumblr this week.
Freddie Williams II posed a couple nice Avengers-related sketches as well on his TwitPic page.
Ryan Stegman is also at Wizard World. Check out these sketches he posted on his Tumblr. Hopefully you picked up his first issue of FANTASTIC FOUR this week.
Marcio Takara posted a Catwoman commission on his Tumblr as well as a colored version of three DC ladies we posted here last week.
That's it for this week. Hopefully we'll be seeing some more sketches come out of Wizard World which I'll post next week if I come across any.
Tony Guerrero is the Editor-in-Chief of Comic Vine. You can follow him on Twitter @GManFromHeck. He'd like to see more characters drawn in the '80s High School' way.