Haley Valentine’s Art

Hi, I’m Haley! I post a lot of cartoon/comic book content. This blog is mostly my own posts. I’m a big fan of Marvel (Daredevil and Hawkeye are favs) and getting into DC.

I was working on a Daredevil fan comic, but I have discontinued that as I do not have the time to work on it. If you want to know what the plans were or see the sketches, I’d be happy to share!

Posts are less frequent as I was attending university and have since graduated!

You can email me at

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Daredevil Tapestry

Not a comic update and I don’t know that there will ever be one again, but! If I make any comic related fanart in my spare time I will post it here.

This was woven using the splitshed technique on a four shaft loom with black cotton warp and 3 colors of acrylic weft.

Weaving ramble for weavers:

I honestly think the best books on making comics are the comics themselves! IMO “How to” books might leave you with some very generic paneling, perspective, and scene layout. Taking in multiple influences and experimenting will help you develop your own style of comic/graphic novel much faster.

You also might be interested in reading biographies. I’m currently reading Will Eisner: A Dreamer’s Life in Comics by Michael Schumacher. They open your eyes to the learning and art process that the artist went through as they became an illustrator.

But I have to make a nametag and took the chance to draw spider-man. He’s made with construction paper and pencils!

August 8th, 2023

This will probably be my last update for a little while! I’m going to be really busy for a couple of weeks. I’ll work on making the next update a big one :)

This is a peek into the setup I have in Procreate. Page by page. All of the panel layouts and staging of characters have been decided. I’m trying to work like this: finish all the panels, then all the sketches/lines, then all the colors and lettering, if that makes sense. I hope it does haha. Don’t read into the doodles too much unless you want spoilers!

August 6th 2023 :)

I have sketched up to page 5 now! Here’s the page 5 sketch w/o text boxes and some updates/comments will continue below.

This is just the sketch of page 3, haven’t lined it yet. I took some crits into consideration! I think it looks a lot better :) Thanks to everyone who helped me out.

I’ve been working on page 3 but for some reason it’s not turning out! It just looks OFF, the poses are stiff and uncomfortable.

I think I’ll redo the whole thing, honestly. But here it is with the very skinny lineart and no text (so no “spoilers” really.)

I’ve noticed I was posting every other day so I’m going to try to stick with that while I can.

This is only the third multi-panel comic drawing I have done (the other two are posted here) in my life and will be the first comic I ever make, so please go easy on me <3 lol

Another design sketch page for you <3

Slight Fan Comic Update: The inside cover for the comic is made. I spent today arranging some cityscape brushes so I don’t have to hand-draw every building in Hell’s Kitchen for 15 pages. The first scene will be a two page spread, which absolutely DESTROYS my ipad to make (12.5 x 19 in!), but hopefully it’ll look good!

I make these little sketch pages to help myself when I am drawing the character at certain angles. It’s a self-made reference to keep the face shape consistent. Plus it really helps with horn placement on the cowl!

And to note in the design: Yes, this Matt’s little nose scar is conveniently covered by his cowl. Don’t worry about it haha.

If you have comments or requests for this DD design, feel free to discuss in the replies!

My Daredevil fan comic plot is really starting to come together!! It involves a new crime lord, drugs, brainwashing, bombs, fire, a loss of faith, a very dramatic regaining of faith… the list goes on.

I’ll let you know now, I do NOT plan on killing off main characters for the character development of Daredevil. I hate when comics do that, so it won’t happen here. I also won’t be inserting OCs or adding any romance subplots. I’m trying to keep it as canon and “serious” as possible. (Edit: technically I am adding OC’s in new villains - but they do not have pre-existing lore and are being made specifically for this comic.)

As of right now, I think it will be a somewhat violent and gritty comic with the occasional comic relief (thank you Foggy Nelson). If that’s not up your alley, I suggest you read carefully.

DD, Matt, and Foggy designs are still not decided yet. If you saw my practice page posts, they probably won’t look like that in the actual comic. I take a lot of inspo from Checchetto (I could make a whole post about just that!), but I want to make sure I’m not straight up ripping his design from the comics.

I have 4 pages planned so far for the first “issue.” If anyone reads this, I’m eager to know how you’d best like to read the comic/how you think I should release it. One page at a time as I finish them, or all the pages at once? (In between, I will probably post sketches and lineart pieces that show progress without spoiling anything.)

Late post! To be honest, I just wanted this to be done tonight. I’m also adding a textless image if you want to zoom in on any details, and will continue below with the concept.