My new Super Hero Greeting Card design....

[jjohnson]

This is my newest greeting card design. I created it using a Super Hero that I first made up when I was 9 or 10 years old! Back then I called him Lightning Volt. For my updated / re-boot of the character, I first designed so many years ago, I changed his look and his name to Lightning Bolt! I plan to design a whole line of cards for boys around this guy for my online greeting card store, The Village Greetings.....

Here's the original blue line sketch along with the black line inking I did in Illustrator CS5. I finished off the color image above in Photoshop CS5.....

Here's a look at the way I drew him way back when I was 9 or 10 years old. It's fun to look back on the way we drew things as young children!.....

[Charles]

Good stuff John! About the time you were drawing Lightning Bolt as a kid I was at Hallmark developing a super hero character for them that could've been his brother! Very ironic. This is a good idea. You can develop a character property through greetings cards.

[jjohnson]

Just wanted to share some good news......I posted more info on my blog but, long story short, I'm going to be illustrating an independently published comic book! Please check my blog from time to time because I will be posting some of the work in progress on my blog and also here in the gallery when the publisher gives me the ok to show some of the work! I'm very excited about this project.....and hope it leads to more work with the character! Here is a link to my blog post about it.......
http://johnjohnsonillustrations.blogspo ... y-way.html
Wish me luck!......I've never done a project this big before!

[Charles]

Congratulations John! You'll do a great job. It's your time for a project like this. Good luck!