It's ABOMINABLE Time!

This week's topic at Timberlinedraw.blogspot.com was Sasquatch/Yeti/Bigfoot/Abominable Snowman

Now I'm not a huge fan of Adventure Time, but I do enjoy it. Part of me just can't get behind some of the story elements, but I respect it stylistically and see where it fits in the grand scheme of American animation. So I figured that I'd try my hand at emulating the style. The catch for me was then attempting to take a classic character, The Abominable Snowman from the Christmas Classic claymation Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and draw him as he'd appear in Adventure Time. I feel like it was successful and I hope to take this piece to completion.

Destroyer Duck

A few weeks ago the topic over at the Timberline Blog was Jack Kirby...while everyone else went with some more recognizable characters, I went with Destroyer Duck...King Kirby did the art for this book that was written by Steve Gerber who, at the time, was going through copyright issues with Marvel over another fowl-mouthed character Howard the Duck...I realize that if that explosion is actually behind him, the right side should have the thicker border of ink...and I'm sad that I couldn't figure out a way to throw the "Kirby Krackle" in there somehow...

Strange Occupation

Bond, James Bond was the topic over at www.timberlinedraw.blogspot.com .  Oddly enough, no one else picked this guy.  I struggled with the background.  I wanted to impress upon the fact that this guy is larger than life and has this intensity about him.

2100

Timberline Draw Blog topic - Lone Wolf & Cub. I took a different approach--instead opting to go with the Lone Wolf 2100 version of the storyline. A mix of sci-fi and samurai storytelling, this version of Lone Wolf features a female "cub" named Daisy and her protector Itto who holds a fascinating secret. Francisco Ruiz Velasco did a fantastic job of bringing this futuristic, but horribly ruined world to life. If you haven't read this series, I'd look it up in TPB format and highly recommend it.

Two-Face

Here's my piece for Batman.  Initially, I'd wanted to go with Commissioner Gordon, but I had recently seen the two-part Two-Face origin episode from Batman: The Animated Series and just had to go with this.  I'm thinking of enlarging this and transferring to a large canvas for a traditional oil painting (but that probably will never happen--haha).

DSC - Superman Blue

Superman Blue for the DSC. I went with the blue pencils--makes sense. Also, this sketch has a huge Ed McGuinness influence to it. I wanted an action shot, but I was strapped for time so this stoic pose has to do.

Tony the Tiger - Final with Process

Final Pencils

Final Inks

Colors

This is the first of what I hope to be a full on project that will eventually culminate into an arcade game.  

Pencils were taken into Photoshop, converted to cyan for inking.  I printed off that cyan copy, inked it, and then re-scanned the piece.  Once scanned, I clean up any stray pencil lines and brought it into Illustrator and further cleaned up using the Live Trace feature.  I did this to give a better, more organic feel to the inks as my inking tends to lose some of the organic-ness of the pencil drawing.  Then it was brought back into Photoshop for a traditional coloring.  While the subject matter usually has a cel-shaded coloring applied to it, I chose to go with a more "traditional" coloring style as it is the desired look for the overall project.

Any critiques are greatly encouraged!

Cereal Icons - A Preview

Here's my pick this week over at www.timberlinedraw.blogspot.com - Cereal Icons.  This is just a preview of an image/project that I'm looking to complete.  But this is a start.  "Ferocious" Tony the Tiger....

Alien

Here's my contribution over at www.timberlinedraw.blogspot.com. This is the first piece I've done in about 2 months. It's purely digital--all done in Photoshop.

//DSC - Tunnel Rat

Daily Sketch Challenge - Tunnel Rat from G.I. Joe

Well, the actual challenge was to draw any of the 500+ characters from G.I. Joe. I went with Tunnel Rat from the cancelled all too early but should really be running for multiple seasons G.I. Joe: Renegades cartoon series. The designs on this were just so fresh. I'm sure they were done by some great artists that frequent deviantArt.

//DSC - Kiki from Kiki's Delivery Service

Daily Sketch Challenge - Kiki from Kiki's Delivery Service

I had a whole image that just didn't work, and instead of posting the entire hot mess I cropped the part that I thought was successful.  Who knew drawing a teenager on a broom  would be so darn difficult?

//DSC - Shazam!

Daily Sketch Challenge of DC Comics new design for Shazam!  Apparently they're no longer calling him Captain Marvel and he's less super hero and more magical.

//DSC - Tyhpoid Mary

Typhoid Mary of Marvel's Daredevil for the Daily Sketch Challenge.

Roughly 30 minutes. Done last Thursday, should've been posted but never got around to it.

//DSC - Grifter

Grifter of Wild C.A.T.S. for the Daily Sketch Challenge.

Sketch - 25 minutes.

Colors via Photoshop - 20 minutes.

Wanted to post this yesterday, but after working graves and feeling really under the weather I ended up sleeping most of the day away.

//DSC - Velocity

Part of the Daily Sketch Challenge. Velocity from Marc Silvestri's Cyberforce.