R&D

caste system and new helmet design:


design for the training room scene:


and these are designs for the actual characters behind those masks:

stalker

little known character from series 1, 1982:


incidentally, i really like that these cobra viper costumes completely encase the soldier's head, but leave his arms exposed.

UPDATE: i just found out that stalker, a character i was never familiar with as a child, is the same character that was featured in a VERY familiar sculpt that i always thought look like a garbage man. small world!

roadblock

roadblock, the "mr. T" of the G.I. joe universe, flinging a cobra hiss driver offscreen:

bbq

barbeque vs. a cobra battle android trooper:

dreadful, too

ripper and alpine join the fun:

dreadful

joes duke and flint vs. dreadnoks buzzer and torch:

assault

roll call

flint, beach head, spirit.

minor characters

you've seen him on G.I. joe, but you don't know his name. it's "outback."

featuring a cobra tele-viper.

arise, serpentor

so, as i was drawing this, i realized that i wasn't imagining serpentor's cobra staff so much as jafar's, from aladdin. then i decided to go for it anyway.

double agent

the only thing that really makes storm shadow cool is that he keeps switching sides. if he'd stayed a bad guy or switched to a good guy and stayed there, he'd be boring. luckily, when he breaks into g.i. joe headquarters in every single issue, you're not sure if he's there on cobra business or just to chat.

poetic

sir gawain and the green knight:

the best there is

...at what he does:

games

orkneys

gawain, agravaine, garehis, gareth, mordred.

study group

king artie

initial character designs for a comic strip i'm thinking of making:

amped

with the quickness.

quick kick vs. a cobra trooper: