Category: Craig’s Sly Art

Leinil Yu’s Rambo

Craig / / 2007, Craig's Sly Art
Leinil Yu is an amazing talent. I never believed that I’d have the opportunity to own a Stallone piece as nice as the one above. I met Leinil at OrlandoCon and actually won a raffle for a drawing from him. You can read about that experience here. Leinil is another artist who is as nice as he is talented. He has a limited edition signed sketchbook available through Kwan Chang and you can order it here. While you’re at Kwan’s site, you can check out more of Leinil’s art.

Thanks again to Kwan and Leinil!

Leinil Yu’s Rambo

Craig / / 2007, Craig's Sly Art
Leinil Yu is an amazing talent. I never believed that I’d have the opportunity to own a Stallone piece as nice as the one above. I met Leinil at OrlandoCon and actually won a raffle for a drawing from him. You can read about that experience here. Leinil is another artist who is as nice as he is talented. He has a limited edition signed sketchbook available through Kwan Chang and you can order it here. While you’re at Kwan’s site, you can check out more of Leinil’s art.

Thanks again to Kwan and Leinil!

Joe Bluhm’s Stallone Art

Craig / / 2007, Craig's Sly Art

Joe Bluhm is an illustrator and character designer who specializes in caricature. He’s an amazing talent. I’ve been a fan of his work for some time now after discovering Joe’s blog. Imagine my surprise when I discovered him set up at OrlandoCon. Joe is as nice as he is talented. Not only did he hit a home run with his take on Sly as Rocky [above], but followed up with the awesome Sly as Sly [below].

If you’re a fan of Joe’s work [if you’ve seen it, you must be] or of caricature, then you owe it to yourself to check out his book REJECTS. The idea behind the book is that often the “most interesting and dynamic” caricatures are rejected due to the extreme exaggeration or cutting humor. It’s a great idea for a book — especially from a talent like Joe.

Joe Bluhm’s Stallone Art

Craig / / 2007, Craig's Sly Art

Joe Bluhm is an illustrator and character designer who specializes in caricature. He’s an amazing talent. I’ve been a fan of his work for some time now after discovering Joe’s blog. Imagine my surprise when I discovered him set up at OrlandoCon. Joe is as nice as he is talented. Not only did he hit a home run with his take on Sly as Rocky [above], but followed up with the awesome Sly as Sly [below].

If you’re a fan of Joe’s work [if you’ve seen it, you must be] or of caricature, then you owe it to yourself to check out his book REJECTS. The idea behind the book is that often the “most interesting and dynamic” caricatures are rejected due to the extreme exaggeration or cutting humor. It’s a great idea for a book — especially from a talent like Joe.

Joe Bluhm’s Stallone Art

Craig / / 2007, Craig's Sly Art

Joe Bluhm is an illustrator and character designer who specializes in caricature. He’s an amazing talent. I’ve been a fan of his work for some time now after discovering Joe’s blog. Imagine my surprise when I discovered him set up at OrlandoCon. Joe is as nice as he is talented. Not only did he hit a home run with his take on Sly as Rocky [above], but followed up with the awesome Sly as Sly [below].

If you’re a fan of Joe’s work [if you’ve seen it, you must be] or of caricature, then you owe it to yourself to check out his book REJECTS. The idea behind the book is that often the “most interesting and dynamic” caricatures are rejected due to the extreme exaggeration or cutting humor. It’s a great idea for a book — especially from a talent like Joe.

Ron Salas’ Jack Carter

Craig / / 2007, Craig's Sly Art

Ron Salas is an extremely talented artist. He is a t-shirt designer whose work can be seen in Planet Hollywood, Hard Rock Cafe, Yosemite National Park and other places including his website. Speaking of his website, it’s where I discovered his work and is a regular stop on my internet excursions.

Ron was at the recent OrlandoCon and I was fortunate enough to get on his sketch list. He can through with Jack Carter and I couldn’t be happier. Post a comment on Ron’s site if you’re interested in a commission. His prices are right and his talent is obvious!

Ron Salas’ Jack Carter

Craig / / 2007, Craig's Sly Art

Ron Salas is an extremely talented artist. He is a t-shirt designer whose work can be seen in Planet Hollywood, Hard Rock Cafe, Yosemite National Park and other places including his website. Speaking of his website, it’s where I discovered his work and is a regular stop on my internet excursions.

Ron was at the recent OrlandoCon and I was fortunate enough to get on his sketch list. He can through with Jack Carter and I couldn’t be happier. Post a comment on Ron’s site if you’re interested in a commission. His prices are right and his talent is obvious!

Ron Salas’ Jack Carter

Craig / / 2007, Craig's Sly Art

Ron Salas is an extremely talented artist. He is a t-shirt designer whose work can be seen in Planet Hollywood, Hard Rock Cafe, Yosemite National Park and other places including his website. Speaking of his website, it’s where I discovered his work and is a regular stop on my internet excursions.

Ron was at the recent OrlandoCon and I was fortunate enough to get on his sketch list. He can through with Jack Carter and I couldn’t be happier. Post a comment on Ron’s site if you’re interested in a commission. His prices are right and his talent is obvious!

Sly is Superman by Alex Saviuk

Craig / / 2007, Craig's Sly Art
Alex Saviuk, perhaps best known for his work with Stan Lee on The Amazing Spider-Man newspaper strip first studied at Will Eisner’s School of Visual Arts. He entered the realm of professional comics by landing at DC on such projects as Superman, Green Lantern and The Flash. From there it was on to Marvel and a long run on various Spider-Man comics. Since leaving Marvel, Alex has worked on the X-Files comic, The Spider-Man newspaper strip, The Phantom, as well as advertising and storyboards for motion pictures.

Alex chose to draw Sly as Superman and I love the result. Alex is a big movie fan, and he knew that Sly had been in the running for the lead role. If you ever get to meet Alex ask him to SHOW you why that wouldn’t have worked out so well!

Alex is available for commissions. He can be reached at actionart2004@yahoo.com — tell him I sent ya! – Craig

Ringo’s Jack Carter

Craig / / 2007, Craig's Sly Art
Mike Wieringo’s drawing of Jack Carter is one of my favorite pieces from this year’s Heroes Con. I not only love the look and attitude of the piece, but I was able to watch Mike sketch it!

Mike was selling his latest sketch book and if you bought a copy, Mike threw in a head sketch for free! Talk about a great deal. I was worried that because Stallone isn’t a character that Mike had drawn repeatedly, it might be more difficult and therefore he might decline my request. Boy, was I wrong. Mike proceeded to sketch it out in no time and like I said, he really captured the look and attitude of Sly as Jack Carter.

In my previous post, I suggested you check out Mike’s Blog. I should have remembered to tell you about where you can buy Mike Wieringo original art. Now you have all the facts and links you need. Enjoy!