Category: Craig’s Sly Art

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!

Rocky by Andy Smith

Craig / / 2007, Craig's Sly Art
My buddy, Andy Smith whipped up this cool rendition of Rocky Balboa. Andy is mostly known for his penciling and inking work for DC and Cross Gen comics. But I like to tell people is that when it comes to dynamic drawing, Andy wrote the book. You see, he truly did. Really! You can check it out HERE! You can also check out Andy’s site by clicking HERE. – Craig

Rocky Balboa by Andrew Robinson

Craig / / 2007, Craig's Sly Art

Rocky Balboa by Andrew Robinson. Andrew Robinson is an artist’s artist. When he starts to draw or paint, other artists gather round. I met Andrew years ago through my good buddy, John Beatty. It was obvious then how much talent Andrew possessed… and he just keeps getting better and better. Andrew will have an art book coming out soon. Save some coin, because it’s a “must have” item. Until then, here’s a link to his site to hold you over!

Sam Hiti’s Rambo Art

Craig / / 2006, Craig's Sly Art, Rambo, Sly Fan

Longtime  SZoners  probably  remember  when  I first linked to Sami Hiti’s Rambo drawings. Two of them, along  with some of Sam’s other drawings, are now available on e-bay. Click HERE to see what’s available!

Sam  Hiti  is  the  Xeric  Award-Winning  creator  of  the critically acclaimed Tiempos Finales graphic novel (optioned  as a film by Universal Studios/Focus Films).  Sam is currently hard at work finishing up his next book Death-Day.  Sam has also illustrated the Official Comic Book Adaptation for A Series of  Unfortunate  Events Movie  from  Nickelodeon,  a  Nike  comic  project,  worked  with  and  created illustrations for the New York Times,  Disney Magazine and his creator owned work, Gallows Noose, Phenoms, and Long Dark Train! His latest work Ghoulash, shows some of his best sketches to date!

Hopefully a lucky SZoner will end up with one of them! Below is my piece by Sam! – Craig

“Lords of Flatbush Stallone” by Chris Lopez

Craig / / 2001, Craig's Sly Art, Lords of Flatbush

Chris Lopez is a very talented artist who runs SpaceBop.com. BigBeatty and I were enjoying his intro toon and artwork… and we got to talking about how cool it would be if Chris did some Sly art for the STALLONEZONE.

One day later the piece above and the explanation below appeared in my e-mail:

“The Lords of Flatbush is one of my favorite flicks. It’s up there with The Wanderers. So I figured I’d do one of Stanley. I loved the scene with him in the pigeon coop, or when he goes to buy the engagement ring and gets pressured into buying the more expensive one. Oh yeah, swinging around 2 football helmets!!! Classic stuff.
So anyway, here it is. I hope you like it. I really had fun doing it. I tried not to fall back on the stereotypical Sly caricature features (eyes, lip) and give him a more realistic approach.”

Ya gotta love it!

Check out Chris’ work at Spacebop, and be sure to tell him we sent ya! Special thanks to BigBeatty for the set-up and Chris for the slam-dunk! (Craig Zablo September 3, 2001)

SLY BY KELSEY SHANNON

Craig / / 2001, Craig's Sly Art, Sly Fan

Kelsey Shannon is an extremely talented artist and a heck of a nice guy. BigRobo.com is the name of Kelsey’s home on the web. There you’ll discover that he’s worked in animation design, comics, film, and can eat a whole package of cheese in under an hour! You’ll also see Kelsey’s Gallery of very impressive art!

Thanks to Kelsey for the killer portrait and to BigBeatty for setting it up! – Craig Zablo (August 19, 2001)