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!

Another one of these ...

READY!

SET!!

GO!!!

So I don't believe I have posted these on here before ... but I felt it was past time for a little art dump! and for image number one we have some Star Wars Rebels Fan Art!

Image two is some Zach fan art of a 2013 drawing of his ... I think.  Did this a while ago and I can't quite recall. Awesome design though!

Trying out some ideas for some digital book covers ... here was #1.

Hope you enjoyed the random selection of arts!

There is a truth between these two ideas ...

This drawing was super fun to do and I think the reason why lay between the following two possible causes.

1. I have spent WAY too much of my art time on figure studies lately (not that you can do too much figure practice but that it can snuff out any time for anything else in large quantity)

2. Zach Heckert has some of the most extreme characters I've ever seen and trying to recreate them is a daunting but rewarding process I have come to greatly enjoy.

Anyways, I wanted to do another ZH fan art image to show I've improved since I made those others I have recently posted.  Enjoy!  And here is the glorious source.

The Mustached Truth

"Any dog under fifty pounds are cats and cats are pointless." 

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!

I'm not sure what _____.

I am finding I am having trouble balancing having art on Instagram, here, and facebook ... its hard, I loose track of at least one all the time and practically let it die.  If I can't learn to be better at balancing three diffrent cared about things I better make sure to never have more than two kids.  I need to find some sort of progression grove where each thing has its proper place.  After I figure that out I need to start twittering.  Then youtubeing. Then something else which I am sure we be invented before I get that far.  

Before all that happens, here is a thing for your eyes to see.

SPACE PEOPLES.

Half Life

In the spirit of Halloween .. and awesomeness .. I give you some head-crab zombie decapitation.

I can't believe how long it's been ...

... Months at least since my last baked potato.

Also, it has been a while since I posted here, I guess.

Here is my newest finished something ... in sadly low res ... oops. I'll have to fix that later.

Mario! ... man, I miss Bob Hoskins.

Luigi! My personal favorite Marioite.

Princess Peach! Looking kinda gold-diggery ... an odd thing for a princess.

Princess Daisy! Does she really have a third eye on the back of here head or was my old room mate just joshin' me?

Toad! So ugly he's cute! ... right?

Waluigi! Ever rocking the bell bottoms.

Wario! In a possible ninja pose, inexplicably.

Yoshi! A unisex dino with a long tongue that has a thing for a thing named "Birdo". Odd.

The last of the single Shel-ites

Here are the last three Shel Silverstein monsters that stand alone. There are still three more images to come to finish my collection honoring his collection but they will be large groups and will stand out from all that has come before.

The Wild Cherote!

I stayed pretty close to the source image with this one, just thickened the legs and exaggerated the face colors.

The Friendly Old Sleepy-Eyed Skurk!

He is in dire need of chapstick.

The Squishy Squashy Staggitall!

The most ferocious monster of them all! 

Now Mario wont be bro-less. 

And this finishes the Phase One Avengers! And lets not forget my random inclusion of Dr. No!

MANN MADE

I made a thing.

Guardians of the Galaxy - 2 of 5 and more!

Here are some more of my Digital Sketchbook pages where I figured out the line work for some vector images! I had a lot of fun doing Drax, Hawkeye, the Hulk, and Mario!

Drax was intrasting to do because in the new Guardians of the Galaxy film his red markings are strange and complex and would be too time-intensive and detailed to properly render on a cartoon of this caliber, thus I had to find a level of simplification I liked for the set.

Looking at this a couple hours later I can see I accidentally deformed the Black Widows legs ... oops.

I just love this page. <3

Guardians of the Galaxy - 3 of 5

Here are a couple of my Digital Sketchbook pages where I figured out the line art for my vector Guardians of the Galaxy images that I am currently about halfway through!

Peter Quill (a.k.a. Star Lord) and Rocket Raccoon

I AM GROOT!