Hockey comic book covers

A few weeks ago I got inspired to recreate comic book covers with a hockey theme, my 1st imagining was recreating the 1st spider-man cover and thought of adding Alex Ovechkin mainly due to the same color palate of their uniforms. After that, the start of the Olympics took over and I created a few Olympic themed covers, featuring Sidney Crosby as Bane in a recreation of the Knightfall cover, and of course Zach Parise as Captain America and finally Jonathan Toews in a recreation of Wolverine #1.  All of these covers I drew and colored digitally.

2013 Stanley Cup Playoffs: Washington Capitals vs New York Rangers

As most of the playoff match ups are now underway, there are two opening tonight and one of them are the Washington Capitals hosting the New York Rangers. while the entire Western Conference is not only under way but game 2's are being played tonight. The Western match ups have all been close games and so far the 2 Eastern match ups seem to be blow outs so far. I would expect this series to be pretty even and one of the most difficult to choose a winner, both teams had similar story lines during the short season, disappointing starts yet a strong finish leading into the playoffs meaning this could be a very good series to watch for the Eastern Conference. Here are two of my pieces of Washington Capitals Alex Ovechkin and New York Rangers Captain Ryan Callahan.

Alex Ovechkin

Ryan Callahan

Throw Back Thursday: Art from Tana

Today's Throw Back Thursday is some old and some not so old. I found Tana's work on Istagram, her user ID is "Taninaca", she has a few profile pencil drawings of goaltenders on her Instagram and to qualify as a Thow Back Thursday post the 1st is of former Florida Panthers and current Pittsburgh Penguin goalie Tomas Vokoun. Some of her other sketches, which are all Czech goaltenders, I've posted are Washington Capitals goalie Michal Neuvirth, and Winnipeg Jets goalie Ondrej Pavelec, my personal favorite however is her Vokoun drawing, the detail in the mask and contrast in it really comes through in that sketch, some really nice work.

Tomas Vokoun

Michal Neuvirth

Ondrej Pavelec

2012 Playoffs Bruins Vs. Capitals

Game 7 is coming up tomorrow night between these two teams. This has been an up and down series for each team and can be a toss up for game 7. The Capitals came into the playoffs playing tight defense and have received great goaltending from Braden Holtby while capitalizing on their opportunities (pun intended) with some help by some shaky goaltending fro Tim Thomas. So here are two pieces featuring the Boston Bruins Tyler Seguin and the Washington Capitals Alex Ovechkin.

Tyler Seguin

Alex Ovechkin

NHL All-stars old and new: Ovechkin, Jagr, Lemieux

With the NHL All-Star weekend upon us, here are some more works from Jim link featuring some all-stars past and present.

Alex Ovechkin

Jaromir Jagr

Mario Lemieux

Mini Goalie Mask: Washington Capitals

I remember collecting those mini goalie mask key chains but didn't care for just the team logo printed on the top so I got inspired to paint a design based on the team logo on each mask. no these are from years ago (early 2000's I think) so some logos will be outdated but i think some of them are pretty cool. Here's number 14, The Washington Capitals mini goalie mask.

Rod Langway

Stephen submitted another piece he drew of Washington Capitals great Rod Langway. I have links to his work on the side bar but he does work from all types of sport, you can check out his site is HERE

NHL Playoffs round 2: Washington Capitals vs. Tampa Bay Lightning

Big game in this series tonight as right now the Lightning have a 3-0 series lead. Here is Washington's Nicklas Backstromand Tampa's Vincent Lecavalier

2011 NHL Playoffs: Washington Capitals vs. New York Rangers

Opening day of the NHL Playoffs today and a bunch of playoff team related work coming out in the next couple of weeks. I'll start out the Capitals and Rangers series, two illustrations of Alex Ovechkin and  Henrik Lundqvist.

Stephen: Semyon Varlamov

More great Hockey art from Stephen here's Washington Capitals goalie Semyon Varlamov. check out his blog http://bardsleysportsart.blogspot.com/

Semyon Varlamov

Stephen: Alex Ovechkin, Mike Green and Matt Hendricks

Stephen submitted these pieces of Washington Capitals art of Alex Ovechkin, Mike Green and Matt Hendricks , really great stuff, check out his site at bardsleysportsart.blogspot.com He also has work featuring different sports and even photos of the players signing his work which is awesome. Thanks Stephen!

Alex Ovechkin

Matt Hendricks

Mike Green

Alex Ovechkin: Winter Classic

getting ready for the winter classic, here's an Alex Ovechkin from the Washington Capitals piece. tomorrow I'll be posting a Penguins one similar.

Alex Ovechkin

Jim Carey

Vince sent in this painting of Capitals goaltender Jim Carey, Carey had about 1 great year won the Vezina trophy but never was able to repeat or stop a puck...LOL. thanks Vince, it's a great painting

Capitals vs. Canadiens

Working hard on these, hope to have them all up but the end of the 2nd round/start of 3rd round. then I'll be doing something for the captains of the final 4 teams...Canadiens win 4-3 in games

Jaroslav Halak

Semyon Varlamov

Alex Ovechkin from Matt

Matt from Wisconsin submitted this dawing of Alex Ovechkin.

Thanks!

Playoffs: Capitals vs. Rangers

I picked the Caps in 6. just took one more game.

Scott Gomez

Alex Ovechkin

Playoff Art - Capitals vs. Flyers

Scottie Upshall and Alex Ovechkin

Artist Paul Nichols

Now let’s take a look on the lighter side of Hockey art, caricatures! Paul Nichols has done some great Caricatures of the Capitals and has them posted on his blog. The caricature of Nick Backstrom makes me laugh every time I look at it, I don’t know what it is, the expression and the hair are great! I have a link to his blog on the right and here:



http://www.capitalsart.blogspot.com/