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Doctor Strange Fan Art – A 60s Style Tribute

A fan art tribute to Doctor Strange, inspired by his classic 1960s look. Pencil sketch, ink, and Procreate colours. Plus a quick summary of why Stephen Strange is one of my favourite Marvel characters.

I’m a big fan of Doctor Strange’s comic books.

Let me give you a quick summary of who he is.

Doctor Strange’s real name is Stephen Vincent Strange. He was a successful surgeon — but a car crash damaged his hands and ended his career as a medical doctor. He later became the Sorcerer Supreme after seeking a way to heal his hands.

Although he never managed to heal his hands, he is one of the strongest magicians in comics and one of my favourite Marvel characters.

Doctor Strange Fan Art

So I did a Doctor Strange fan art, following the style of how he looked in the 1960s.

It’s a pencil sketch, inked on paper and then scanned and coloured with digital tools in Procreate.

I referenced legendary Steve Ditko’s art of who I am a big fan off.

Which character should I draw next? The one who gets the most mentions wins!

Northstar

Currently I’m focusing on doing a lot of fan art so I can learn and improve my drawing skills with Procreate, it’s an amazing drawing app.

One of the fan art that I’m working on is Alpha Flights Northstar.

I really liked Northstar in X-Factor but annoyed me immensely when I first read his stories in the early Alpha Flight issues, a bit arrogant.

31 days of Bat

Well I did not know about this and I found out the very last day that comic book artist Chris Samnee was making a drawing for every day of October – the central theme was Batman.

This is the 4th time he has done this and the prompts he used for each art piece has been suggested by Samnee’s fans on his Instagram account

https://twitter.com/ChrisSamnee/status/1311003166180356096?s=20

Believe me its not easy to do this every day and be creative and punctual, I’ve tried it by participating in Jakes Parker’s inktober event and could not keep up.

I think who ever can accomplish this by producing for every day an image with such a good result must have a great set of skills and talent which Chris Samnee has proven he has time and time again with all the comics he has done.

Have a look at all the art pieces which I found on Chris Samness twitter account

Amazing stuff!

If you are interested in owning one or more of these stunning art pieces of Batman you will be able to find them soon on eBay, just check Samnee’s social media profiles for updates

I do believe though that events like this are a unique opportunity for us aspiring comic book artists.

We can study and learn from them on how to be creative and sketch something by using one word and also to develop our drawing and inking skills.

And yes it’s worth trying something like this, it’s self training and fun!