Silas Zee: Geeking Out for Jennifer Hale

Geeking Out for
Jennifer Hale

2013.03.07

Last weekend I got to meet Jennifer Hale and I put this piece together as a gift for the BEST VOICE ACTOR EVER.

Yeah. That's what I said. COME AT ME BRO.

I honestly never thought I'd be able to go to a convention that she would be at (thanks MomoCon!) but I've had this idea in my head just in case the opportunity presented itself. I like to get stuff signed as a souvenir but I also like to draw something for the people I meet as a thanks for all the hard work and entertainment they've brought to my dorky little life. And this being Jennifer FUCKING Hale, that means Silas has to bring his A-Game.

Since this was going to hang on my wall, I needed this to be as timeless as possible. I.E., something that I wouldn't self-criticize TOO much. So I decided that it would sport a traditional cel-animated look pretty early on. Jennifer Hale's voice roster is crazy long and narrowing down my favorites wasn't easy. I got lucky when I changed the layout a little bit in Photoshop so I added in Julia Carpenter Spider-Woman, a la the Iron Man 90's cartoon.

As far as the art goes, I stuck with the respective show/game styles a bit but wanted this to be my spin on the characters. Especially with The Black Cat, who's obviously my fav. On her I went the most off-model bringing in more current design cues on her costume and drawing her face and hair in my regular style. I kept the 90's cartoon mask, though. That mask kicks ass. :3