Sketch Update... Mysterio In Color! 11-07-06

[Stuart Sayger]

While at the conventions I do a lot of sketches that don't see print anywhere! They are drawn on the spot and whisked away to a private collection. I love it that these pieces are given a loving home, but they also need to be shared and enjoyed by everyone!
THAT'S WHAT THIS POST IS ALL ABOUT!
Every two weeks I"ll update the link below to display a different convention drawing! If you have one of my convention sketches, or even a full blown commission, send me a scan and I'll be sure share!
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O.k... For one reason or another, I really don't get asked to draw Spider-man all that often. It's even less common that I'm asked to draw a Spider-man villian. And only once have I been asked to draw MYSTERIO.. and here it is!
This piece as made back in the Spring at a convention. I was flored when asked to do this character. I just never saw it coming, and honestly I didn't have much in the way of a preconceived attitude about this character. Hoestly, I racked my brain searching for what I knew about Mysterio..I think that he first appears in Amazing spider-man #13.. then there is a 25-cent covr priced issue of Amazine Spider-man where Mysterio lifts his head off of his shoulders as the cover image, and lastly I think that Mysterio died in a Kevin Smith issue of Daredevil.... That quick A-B-C might be just about everything that I know about the character's history. Still Mysterio has alot of smoke and that great big reflective dome seemed to be alot of fun to draw. It was and I hope that it shows. I believe that the fan that got this piece commented stating, "Wow... You actually made Mysterio look threatening!" There's something not too scary about a fishbowl on someone's head..

enjoy!

[Atomic Horror]

Wow. Really well done and spooky looking. Mysterio's my favorite Marvel villain, so it's a treat to see him look so cool.

[Kristin]

oh stuart, this one is gooorgeous. i love the smidge of purple you put it.

[Stuart Sayger]

I know that you meant to write "smudge" of purple.. not "smidge".... You know how all the ink gets there!

[heystacy]

While at the conventions I do a lot of sketches that don't see print anywhere! They are drawn on the spot and whisked away to a private collection. I love it that these pieces are given a loving home, but they also need to be shared and enjoyed by everyone!
THAT'S WHAT THIS POST IS ALL ABOUT!
Every two weeks I"ll update the link below to display a different convention drawing! If you have one of my convention sketches, or even a full blown commission, send me a scan and I'll be sure share!
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O.k... For one reason or another, I really don't get asked to draw Spider-man all that often. It's even less common that I'm asked to draw a Spider-man villian. And only once have I been asked to draw MYSTERIO.. and here it is!
This piece as made back in the Spring at a convention. I was flored when asked to do this character. I just never saw it coming, and honestly I didn't have much in the way of a preconceived attitude about this character. Hoestly, I racked my brain searching for what I knew about Mysterio..I think that he first appears in Amazing spider-man #13.. then there is a 25-cent covr priced issue of Amazine Spider-man where Mysterio lifts his head off of his shoulders as the cover image, and lastly I think that Mysterio died in a Kevin Smith issue of Daredevil.... That quick A-B-C might be just about everything that I know about the character's history. Still Mysterio has alot of smoke and that great big reflective dome seemed to be alot of fun to draw. It was and I hope that it shows. I believe that the fan that got this piece commented stating, "Wow... You actually made Mysterio look threatening!" There's something not too scary about a fishbowl on someone's head..

enjoy!

I am very late posting, but this is the best Mysterio image I ever saw.

[Stuart Sayger]

If you keep talking like that you can post as late as you'd like! (thanks!).. I've never been crazy about mysterio... this is just another case of an artist taking a character and trying to turn him in to something that he thinks is interesting... Mysterio could be great, but the trick is to not have his smoke but "line-drawn-clouds"... I like romita alot, but his mysterio smoke were just "pillow lines".. If you put mysterio in thick murky misty he can indeed by spooky!

[ValhallaComics]

Exceptional work, Stuart. Really cool rendition of Mysterio. I agree, he's always been a silly villain, but you really did make him look "threatening," as the fan mentioned.

[heystacy]

I agree, he looks like a real threat as opposed to the parlor tricks he's played on Spider-Man through the years.

[rilynil]

Mysterio has been my favorite villain for decades, and that is the coolest depiction of Mysterio I have ever seen! What an awesome commission!

[DrZero]

Damn, Stuart, that's the best Mysterio I've ever seen! I've always liked the name (I mean, what's cooler than Mysterio), but you made him seem downright creepy!