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ArtBar Aurora: He Would've Laughed...
When I was a teenager coming up in Aurora, my best pal was a cat named Jeff Jacobson. We spent a lot of time watching movies, listening to comedy or music before grabbing our guitars, picking out a key...
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Jack Monroe: Nomad!
Comic book characters are fun to draw, especially if they're relatively obscure to anyone but the hardcore fan like my longtime pal, Joseph Pugh, who commissioned this pencil-only rendering of Jack...
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ArtBar Aurora: Superman vs. Lex Luthor - the Death of Everything
As this month's ArtBar Aurora theme is "death," I present to you my offering of, well...death!Now death can be perceived in myriad ways, so when I had a somewhat difficult time coming up with a visual...
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Gennady "GGG" Golovkin!
Damn, I love portraiture. And damn, I love boxing! But I especially love combining both. And regrettably, it's been a bit since I've done a portrait of any fighter, much less one I really enjoy...
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Floyd Mayweather Jr.: The Blue and the Gray
Just for the hell of it, here's an art marker rendering of the self-proclaimed "The Best Ever," World Welterweight/World Junior Middleweight Champion Floyd "Money" Mayweather Jr.Kind of a surreal, pop...
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The Lunatic Fringe, Dean Ambrose!
Because cats like Evan "Doc" Shaner, Mike Allred, Jerry Ordway and the late Mike Wieringo laid it all down in a "Less is more" manner, so will I. I could have done a little less detail in the hair...
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Manny Pacquiao in ink!
The second entry in my sketchbook is an ink sketch of eight-division boxing champion Manny Pacquiao. From what I hear, "Pac-Man" didn't look half this mean in his recent "super-fight" against...
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Fight Owens Fight! Kill Steen Kill! (in ink!)
When NXT champion Kevin Owens (real name Kevin Steen) showed up on last week's episode of "Monday Night RAW" to interrupt United States champion John Cena's open title challenge, WWE fans everywhere...
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My wife, Tracy Duran
When something or someone inspires you to do great things, whether it's living a responsible, just life or aspiring to be better at everything you do, it always makes sense to give back in some way,...
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Jon Bernthal as the Punisher!
Last week, Marvel Entertainment announced that Jon Bernthal (best known as Shane from "The Walking Dead") would portray Frank Castle, the Punisher in the second season of Netflix's original series...
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Adrien Broner: Taking girls out to dinner
In celebration of former IBF welterweight titlist Shawn Porter helping provide a meme-able moment with last Saturday night's opponent/incorrigible big-mouth/former three-division titleholder Adrien...
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Dusty Rhodes: A tribute in ink
Sketchbook Chronicles No. 4: "The American Dream," Dusty Rhodes (real name: Virgil Riley Runnels Jr.) wasn't just a professional wrestler and a character on television; he was a guy you and I, at home,...
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Steve Cunningham AKA "USS" in ink
Sketchbook Chronicles No. 5: This installment features the creator and star of the upcoming "USS Comics," Steve "USS" Cunningham. You might not know this but the former world cruiserweight...
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Attention, Howlers: Are you looking for an original art commission for yourself or a gift at a ridiculous (meaning rather good!) price? Well, now is indeed the time to belly up to the bar and make your...
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Rowdy Roddy Piper: A tribute (part one)
On July 30, a true personal influence of mine - one who made it perfectly fine to be weird and mouthy - Rowdy Roddy Piper passed away in his sleep as a result of cardiac arrest. What can I say about...
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Rowdy Roddy Piper: A tribute (part two)
For part one, please click here.Rowdy Roddy Piper once said he "was rowdy before rowdy was cool." Truer words were never spoken.As a pup, I was fascinated by the man who made life miserable for WWE/WWF...
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Finn Balor: The Demon Prince
Best known internationally as Prince Devitt, Fergal Devitt - now known as Finn Balor (the Demon Prince), has taken the WWE's developmental (though I believe it's anything but"developmental")...
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Miguel Cotto vs. Canelo Alvarez in watercolor and ink
On Saturday, Nov.21, THE RING magazine and WBC middleweight champion Miguel Cotto will face Saul "Canelo" Alvarez at the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino Events Center in a highly-anticipated championship...
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Superman in gouache (when he shouldn't have been!)
So I had a Superman piece brewing upstairs one day and I figured, I'm gonna knock out something new and different by doing something retro and familiar. These days, the mythos of the "Last Son of...
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Mickey Mouse and Walt Disney in graphite!
No matter what, one of the greatest, most fun things about creating art is the ability to give it freely to someone you care about.Luckily, I got that chance as my nephew (by marriage), Zack Van Dyke -...
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