Horse And Rider Color Version….

Here’s the finished Horse and Rider without type… Just finished it… After posting this I can see that WordPress is making the colors a little lighter and ‘pukier’. Oh, well.

I maybe could’ve done a little better on this color-wise (especially the fire), but again this is a job I’m having to do with not  a whole lot of time…. I did the colors in about 4 hours I think. It took 1 hour just for the ‘flatting part’…

Black Widow Cutie-pie art….

Isn’t that what Paul Pope calls it? Cutie-pie art? Moving on.

Here is simple art of the Black Widow I did waaaaay back.

Just trying to erase the stain of that ‘knockoff’ thing I last posted (shudder)….

Burning Head Dead Guy On Burning Hoof Dead Horse…

This is a paying job… Done as quick as possible (3 hours). It’s a ‘knockoff’ which is common in the ghettos of low-level commercial graphic art in which I dwell .A customer wants art they saw on the internet but they don’t want to pay for it, so they get a hack like me to do something similar, but not the same thing so noone gets sued.

And here is the ink version….

I still have to color it and send it off….

What’s the secret to doing knockoffs like this? A long shower afterwards helps to wash away the sordidness.

I really need to work on that Zuda thing. And then maybe pray a lot. Or figure out a way to send bribe money in the submission process….

Voodoothatyoodoo….

It’s tomorrow already so here’s another drawing… This was an eBay commission I did… Voodoo of W.I.L.Dcats/Jim Lee fame….

Wuh-wuh-wuh-wuh Wiiild-cats (Wesley Snipes? Woody Harrelson? Goldie Hawn? Anyone know what I’m talking about? Anyone?)…..

Last Post Today… Honest.

This will REALLY be my last post today. I need to get back to work. 5 minutes on the internet can turn into 5 hours if you’re not careful. I’m not getting a whole lot of hits here, but I have to happy that there are more this week than last. I’m heading towards 50 posts, a lot of it being art samples/sketches/etc… Most people aren’t coming here for my art, but for my Drag Me To Hell Spoiler review. But I’m okay with that. At least I now have a place where when people ask “Do you have a website” I can at least direct them here, where they can view a few snippets of my cartoons and past work. Not a REAL website, but I can hear the Jeffersons’ theme song playing in the background. Hopefully  a year from now I will be posting ‘behind the scenes’ sketches and character doodles of my now successful comic work. Progress. I can dream, can’t I?

Another Illustration…

Last art post today… This one is another one from my little drawing book….

Sequential Page Art…

Here’s a ‘tryout’ page I did for a guy that was writing a story called Crazy Mary.

He was looking for an artist. It didn’t turn out to be me. FAILED again! Oh, well. His dialogue here, between the girl (Crazy Mary) and the ‘housebot’…. Not very exciting, I know, but that’s what I was asked to draw. I probably could have done this a lot better at the time, also.  There is two things in particular that just jump out at me (not going to mention what they are). I don’t think it’s completely horrible, though.

Business Card Side B (start to finish)…

This is the inside of my business card. When I worked at a sign shop I got to know a guy that owned his own print shop and since I did so many  favors for him, he offered to do me a business card. So the day after he said it I had art for him to print a business card. He gave what I asked and then some (I was supposed to get 1000 and I got over 2500…. which was REALLY nice of him. Thanks Hugh!). I did it really quick and was unhappy with some of my art (my ‘logo’ for instance), but it’s fairly different as far as cards go…. Hugh actually told me that he thought it was the best card they ever produced and I was extremely thrilled with his end of the job…

This is the ‘B-side’ of the card (which I actually asked for Black and White… I’m not smart). The other side is full bright and shiny color. What? The card isn’t the right proportions you say? Well, the card unfolds to the size of 2 cards. I had a front, back, and a middle. This is the ‘inside’ part that is revealed  when you unfold the card. I wanted a bigger illustration on the card, so this is what I came up with: the gatefold business card. It’s been done before, I’m sure.

Here it is from start to finish…

 

I roughed it out with an ink pen and scanned it and added the black in Photoshop.

Then I printed out my rough at the actual card size and inked it… I was doing this as fast as possible, so I only drew one of the hands…. I also got rid of the ‘monster face’ in the background at this point.

Here it is  after being scanned and  straightened up. I flipped the hand, added an outline and the black background….

I added some greytones at this stage. This took about 10 minutes. It’s easy when you’re just doing ‘tonal’ coloring.

And here’s the finished product, complete with cheese. I have no shame. But anyway, that’s one side of my business card. Can’t say for sure how long this side took me, but the whole card was done in about 4 hours. I’d estimate that this side took about two and a half….

Peter David Caricature….

 

"And I give you: Switzerland!"*

Did this a few years back when I sent him a letter at the CBG….  I doubt he read the letter…. Probably too busy… But here it is. Looking back I think it might be more accurate if I had drawn some slobber or spittle coming out of his mouth. And he’s lost weight (I think) since then…

Oh, what  I would pay to see John Byrne and Peter David locked in a Thunderdome-like room for a month and tell one of them that they had 75% ownership of the room space… I don’t think any blood would be spilled, but there would certainly be a heart attack or stroke involved within the first 3 days. I’d even give blood to see that  and I hate reality TV and giving blood. 

The letter wasn’t anything nasty, BTW. I try not to engage in that sort of silliness. I was just commenting on some of his comments….

I think it took me about an hour to draw this and I think I was going off his CBG photo, which was the only picture that I think I had seen of him….

* From a debate with Todd McFarlane… Hopefully I was accurate with the quote…

Another ‘Photoshop’ job….

Another consisting of pictures and type. I did have to work a little harder on this one, though. This was also for the same sign company, but this was printed as a banner for  a new class of firefighters….

They were happy with it and I kind of liked how it turned out. If I haven’t said it before, all of these jobs were done under tight deadlines. A lot of times you’re only given an hour’s worth of art time, so you really have to move to keep up with the workloads….