Sunday, May 13, 2012

Friday, April 27, 2012

Homar the Barbarian!

Tims' "Homar the Barbarian" 

Homer Simpson meets Robert E. Howard...I don't think there is a more perfect summation of my entertainment tastes. This is just the line drawing (obviously), it's getting the full "van worthy" painting treatment.

and you can see that HERE! (and you should)

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Zombie ga ga ga a a a (...drool...mmm...brains)

Last week for the Rust Belt Monster Collective's topic was to design an outfit for Lady Gaga, and well...I drew her as a zombie. I believe that "zombie" counts as an outfit. What follows are soem process shots...


First up is my original sketch, kinda of a mess, but the idea works.


Next step, by using a couple multiply layers I fill in the colors and do figure out my values, I'm working  almost monochromatic, so the values are easier to distinguish. Next up I start painting over this layer, and you can see that  

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

RBMC Week13 Franken-Monkey!


For the week 13 challenge over at Rust Belt Monster Collective we all contributed to a jam piece for a poster for the anual Cleveland Drawn and Quartered event, where Cleveland area life drawing groups face off against each other in head to head (drawing) combat! So I drew a "Franken-Monkey" and his malicious maker!

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

RBMC week 11 sketch

This weeks challenge over at RBMC Central is to re-imagine an artistic masterpiece. I chose to use Ingres - "La Grande Odalisque" (1814), but you know instead of a turkish prostitue... I drew a sexy (If you're into that) robot chick!

So, in the spirit of any high school math test, I'm showing my work below, or you can skip all these shenanigans and check out the finished piece over here.  


Just a sketch...for now.


Greyscale values added to the original scanned sketch


Here I have the basic color for the image digitally painted, I do this by adding a "multiply" layer and a "color" layer over the grayscale image. I also re-cropped the image because I noticed that the original masterwork that I used for inspiration was more of a rectangle then my drawing, and I wanted to emulate that piece a bit more.  

Now go look at the Finished Art

Thursday, March 22, 2012

Kirk Kicks Ass!


William Shatner turned 81 today, and my "inner trekkie" wanted to draw Kirk, and every now and then I give in to said "inner trekkie"!  This drawing is black and white, but if you imagined the busty damsel with the antennas as being green (or blue) skinned you may have an "inner trekkie" too.