i spent some more time drawing at the coffee shop with todd last night. this time i concentrated on a few doodles of a G.I. joe character called "bazooka." maybe i just like him because the red, white and blue jersey doesn't match the green of his helmet and pants at all. throw in a comically oversized mustache... looking good, fella.
i copied this pose from a google image search result for "assault rifle." it's my favorite of the batch, so i went ahead and colored it.
i went ahead and filled this in with some flat colors because i wanted to emphasize which shapes were blood splatter and which were hewn flesh.
things that directly fed into my week long obsession with G.I. joe:
classic G.I. joe, volume 1 (rereleased comics from the 1980s)
G.I. joe: the movie (watchthe whole thing on youtube)
YoJoe.com (archives of every G.I. joe action figure ever)
G.I. joe article on wikipedia
oh, and it is also notable that this page of doodles exists not in a free notepad, but in an approximately 5'x8' tan paperback moleskine that i bought in a set from barnes & noble.
What if all those millions of laser beams - which missed everyone - in the cartoon actually hit everybody? Blood and guts would be spattered all over the TV screen in vivid technicolor!!!
ReplyDelete.....AND would make for a more realistic cartoon!