I know all about waiting ...

For this movie!

9 more days until the Force Awakens!

So doing the Finn poster was so fun and I feel like I learned a decent amount from doing it so I felt inclined to do another. Also, my wife is really digging what we have seen of the Rey character so far so I figured a little fan art of her wouldn't go amiss. 

Did I mention I love these posters? and Star Wars? I love Star Wars.

Sans staff

And a process bit.

A galaxy far, far away gets a little closer. 11 days!

So I am really loving those five Star Wars character portrait posters they put out to promote the new Star Wars movie - Episode VII the Force Awakens. So much so I decided to do a study from the Finn one. The guy looks awesome. Anyways, hope you like the study I did!

The final version of my Finn poster study! Google the original image to see how I did and, please, tell me what you think.

Sans lightsaber

And process shots ... if you are into that kind of thing.

Well, that is it. Yay Star Wars!

Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue

Something Old

I did this for a children's book class I took a while back.  We were suppose to draw something with a focus on action ... so Dino/Bird chase scene?

Something New

I decided this was the only way to display my recent Mortal Kombat sketches.  This was really fun and I may want to redo it in the near future for purposes of bettering.

Something Borrowed

This is a character from my friend Ashley's story and he is A LOT OF FUN TO DRAW.  He is the Magpie King and he may want to steal your eyes / soul / stuffs.

Something Blue

UNDER WATERED!

My friend Zach Heckert has a blog, E.I.E.I.O.

... and on this blog he has some art E.I.E.I.O.

And here is some old fan art I did of some even older original art he did.  These, as my other fan arts of his arts, are based on his most ancient of posts.  Thus if you want to find the source material you'll have to hunt for it - but I promise the hunt will be enjoyable!

As I side note ... I feel creepy there are so many of these ... but they were made over a span of multiple months!

Tribute x4 (a.k.a. my artiest and wordiest blog post of yet had times)

I have been trying to grow in a few different directions lately ... as well as have fun.

To do this I decided it would be good for me to find a few different artists to emulate.

This is something I hope I always have time to do.

I have for your viewing pleasure my recent accomplishments along this line.

In this post you will find my work as I emulate, copy, redo, and hopefully pay well-received tribute to four other artists.

Each of these persons had been chosen for a different reason though each in an attempt for myself to grow as an artist.

Person #1 - Shel Silverstein

I have chosen to re-draw the painted monsters from Shel's Dont Bump the Glump book (his first published collection of poems in fact). If you have seen my blog lately this should not come as a surprise to you. Perhaps he is not largely known for being a visual artist per-say BUT ... there are paintings in the book! Buy the book, read the poems. They are like good things ... in that they are awesome.

I chose this little project for three primary reasons.

1) I am a fan of doing drawings in a large set but usually take on projects far to vast for me to finish - this was an opportunity for me to not fail on that front.

2) My wife bought me the book at the start of our wondrous marriage. Thus I own it. Thus the research required by this project is minimal and easy.

3) An excuse to draw monsters!

and without further adieu ...

The Gursdee!

Its like a bird with like a language and stuff.

The Lop-Eared Panda!

Now in red! (arms not included)

The One-Legged Zantz!

Can't dance, CAN prance!

Person #2 - Zach Heckert

Zach goes to school with me. He draws stuff (often involving horns, bullets, crooked teeth, and awesome) and says high to me in hallways. Also, his hair does this cool poof thing in front. The drawings that follow are fan art of the art that he posts on his blog - Mind Dump.

The reasons I am posting this tribute to Zach are ...

1) He is honestly the one who motivated me to really get crackling on this blog in the first place

2) He is the only one who ever comments on this blog ... so far.

*Fingers crossed for a someday larger friend AND fan-base*

3) He draws demons, sharpshooters, and laser-horses, who wouldn't want a piece of that action?

4) I think he is a right righteous dude.

and without further further adieu ...

Please see, stare in wonder, and be inspired to donate money here ... and here.

and here ... and here.

Person #3 - Jason Bowen

Honestly I am not sure how famous this guy is. He is an oil painter in the vein of Bob Ross and he lives inside of YouTube. It is a Tron thing I am pretty sure. Anyways, seeing as how I want to be better at painting (albeit digital not oil) and I can actually almost keep up with this guy AND he is kinda funny AND he has pretty hair ... I decided to follow along with a few webisodes!

I have no idea if that is the right term or not.

The reasons I am ... hmm, actually I already told you. Nevermind. Though I will say I spent less than 45 min on each of these ... which compared to my earlier digital painting class is no time at all.

and without further further further adieu ...

So I posted this once before and this has only minimal updates.

The full length original video is found somewhere in this sentence.

I did it again ... this time without the fun added fantasy bit. why? I dunno.

Click on this to see it as a good painting!

This looks SO MUCH EASIER WITH A PALETTE KNIFE!!!

Proven here.

J.K. its here.

Person #4 - Mark Kistler 

He is my earliest remembered art hero and inspiration. His drawings are simple, cartoony, and fun.

They build joy and encouragement in children and his 12 main rules of drawing are the best art lessons I have had until my second year of collage. This is his page, markkistler.com. The following drawings are silly little things based on the first lesson in his book Draw Squad.

The reasons I am drawing from this book are ...

1) Mark Kistler is my #1 art hero

2) I like nostalgia (sp?)... and pistachio pudding 

3) I have owned four of his eight books and I think of them this is the oldest. I love it.

4) If I dont make use of my book my WIfe threatened to loan it out ... and I am sentimental ... about everything.

and without furthest adieu ...

LESSON 1! FORESHORTENING!

I messed up a bit ... but this was just a few minute warm up, not a series ... thing ... like a walrus.

CONTEST 1! TERMITE OPERA!

A title I don't understand, but fun-ness I do!

THE END

or is it?

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This is an example of another very random post. I dont apologize

I found an oil painter who lives in Youtube named Jason Bowen (while I was listning to the Bob Ross remix song) and desided to paint along digitally as he did his thing. This is how far I got durring the episode ... not the best but not tooooo discouraging ... anyways, I might work on this more and do that again. It was fun.

Find the vide here

This is dedicated to Richard and Liberty ... may story time always be epic.

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY!

DRAGON - I don't do that tongue thing

A little Painter Mirror-Monster Painting i did while watching Sherlock

Arnold!

Now fully hatched

Life is full of variety, and so is this post

So much time, so little artwork

This guy's name is Hector Krom and this is a tiny part of a side project I have been wanting to do for a while and have finally started (kind of). He is a femmy beefcake mercenary ... in space!

I checked out a book from the library filled with animal photos and sketches with the intent to draw them ... instead, that sketchbook page happened. Oops.

Those two are half-done Comic Con pieces (the first is just a cropped selection) Brandon Sanderson's Vin and J.R. Tolken's Sauron, respectively. Both still need a lot of work ... work that I plan to do! eventually ...

The Saverly Slurm!

Of the original book art, this one is alway the most striking to me

 The Tiny-Toed Flustering Phant!

Where/Why/What toes?

The Soft-Shelled Phizzint!

The Anti-hedge hog