Category: Craig’s Sly Art

Otis Frampton’s Cosmo

Craig / / 2010, Craig's Sly Art, Paradise Alley

Otis Frampton loves sharing his talents with his fans. Every Sunday [okay, ALMOST, every Sunday], Otis has a live UStream broadcast that he calls the 7×7 Sunday.  Lucky fans can get a headsketch of ANY character drawn live by Otis on a 7X7 inch bristol board for 7 bucks postage paid.   It’s the best deal going.

I’ve been lucky enough to get four pieces from Otis and the Cosmo Carboni from “Paradise Alley” shown above is one of them.  I’ll be showing the rest in the coming weeks.  In the mean time, check out Otis’ Gallery.  Most likely, after seeing more of his work, I’ll be competing against you in Otis’ next 7×7 Sunday.

Dave Wachter’s Cosmo

Craig / / 2009, Craig's Sly Art, Paradise Alley

This week we have Dave Wachter’s take on Sly as Cosmo Carboni from “Paradise Alley”.  I’d never seen Dave’s art until this year at HeroesCon.  I immediately got on board for the sketch above.  Since then I’ve picked up two more small pieces from Dave.  He’s talented and very reasonably priced.  You can see more of Dave’s art at his site.  Plan to spend a while!

Dick Giordano’s Demolition Man #5

Craig / / 2009, Craig's Sly Art, Demolition Man

Dick Giordano, the comics legend is back! During his fifty plus years in the biz he’s done everything from ink all the greats (including himself) to serve as Editor-in-Chief of DC Comics, to co-founding his own comic company.

I recently had the good fortune to pick up six model sheet headsketches of Sly that Mr. Giodano did before starting work on DC Comics adaptation of “Demolition Man”. This is the fifth.

John Beatty: “Expendable”

Craig / / 2009, Craig's Sly Art, Expendables

John Beatty, who’s no stranger to long-time SZoners, created this amazing drawing of Sly from “The Expendables” on Friday while I was hanging out in his studio.  John’s been my best friend since junior high and gifted me with this piece since I’ve been serving as his co-host for some of his live UStream sketch sessions.

Although I have quite a few pieces in my collection, and it’s impossible to pick a single favorite, this piece by John is going to be tough for anyone to top.  Thanks again to John for going above and beyond the call.

StalloneZone is on Twitter!

Craig / / 2009, Craig's Sly Art

Hey SZoners!

StalloneZone is now on Twitter. I will send out “tweets” when the SZ is updated. Since I plan to start updating with older material, these tweets will be especially helpful in finding archived posts that have been reloaded or older material appearing for the first time.

Special thanks to John Beatty for creating the customized StalloneZone “Twitter” background.  If you’d like John to create one for you, contact him here.  His prices are very reasonable and his work speaks for itself.  Speaking of John — don’t forget that this Friday, we will be broadcasting LIVE as he draws a new Stallone piece for my collection.  We’re calling it “Black Friday Stallone Stallone Sketch – Live”.  Tune in to watch John draw, ask questions of either one of us, comment on the proceedings or just to have some fun.  Full details can be found here.

Okay… I’m off to send the first tweet out to StalloneZone Twitter followers.  It’s about an archived piece from 2000 making it’s way back onto the StalloneZone.

“Black Friday Stallone” Event

Craig / / 2009, Craig's Sly Art

The art above was drawn by my buddy, John Beatty.  It’s his take on Sly as Cosmo Carboni from “Paradise Alley”.  John has done quite a few drawings of Sly for me over the years and he’s about to do another this coming Friday.  Only this time he’s drawing it LIVE on UStream and you can tune in to watch it being drawn.

As an added bonus, I’ll be co-hosting the event.  We’re calling it “Black Friday Stallone”.  While our wives are out dealing with the holiday crowds, we’ll hopefully have a small crowd of our own watching as John gives us his take on… well, that would be telling, wouldn’t it?  We’ll be talking about Stallone, movies, tv, art, comics and more.  We plan to get things started at about 11am. John will have a direct link on his site.  Hopefully you can join us and add to the fun.

Sly as The Black Beetle

Craig / / 2009, Craig's Sly Art

I’m a fan of Francesco Francavilla’s art. Usually when Francesco releases a new sketchbook, he offers free “quick” sketches with each purchase.  My first piece from Francesco was Sly from “Cop Land”.  My second quick sketch was in Francesco’s sketchbook of classic horror movie characters and for that sketch he did a “Jack Carter” zombie.

My most recent Francesco sketchbook was dedicated to a character that Francesco created, “The Black Beetle”.  Francesco came up with the idea for my sketch — what would the Black Beetle look like if played in a movie by Sly Stallone.  LOL.  How could I not go with it?  You can learn more about the Black Beetle here.   You can see more of Francesco’s art here, here and here.

Otis Frampton’s Jack Carter

Craig / / 2009, Craig's Sly Art, Get Carter

Otis Frampton is an extremely talented artist who loves drawing for his fans. Every Sunday [okay, ALMOST, every Sunday], Otis has a live UStream broadcast that he calls the 7×7 Sunday.  Lucky fans can get a headsketch of ANY character drawn live by Otis on a 7X7 inch bristol board for 7 bucks postage paid.   It’s the best deal going.

I’ve been lucky enough to get four pieces from Otis and the Jack Carter shown above is just one of them.  I’ll be showing the rest in the coming weeks.  In the mean time, check out Otis’ Gallery.  Most likely, after seeing more of his work, I’ll be competing against you in Otis’ next 7×7 Sunday.