The DarkWing Returns

I occasionally participate in the Newsarama Art Group over on the Newsarama forums. The general idea of the group is that each week an active member of the group gets to pick a subject for the group to draw the following week, with the chooser rotating through the list of active members each week. I’ve been too busy to post there in a while, (alas, even missing the week where the subject was MODOK) but I’ve had a bit more time of late and so I popped in to see what the upcoming subject would be. As luck would have it it was my pal, and fellow CCCGer, Adam Casey’s turn to choose and his choice was Darkwing Duck.

I actually don’t know a heck of a lot about the character, but based on the name and costume, I attempted a Frank Miller/Klaus Janson riff on the character, which is harder to do than one might think. I don’t think I really pulled of the stylistic aping very well, my clunky brush line probably being the main culprit.  I did, though, I think capture the patented Frank Miller sliding-down-the-arm bicep, which you can see in full effect if you reference the page in Dark Knight Returns that I’m swiping from here.