this N' that

character designs for greg's bears, a monster zack, a panel idea for cody's lyrics, character designs for a glam metal band, and a regular zack:

(accidentally inked cc deville's arm as withered.)

stick turtles

i decided to try and self-promote a little at the swag swap by printing up some bookmarks with the URL of this blog. after some thought, i settled on ninja turtles versus hip kids as a subject. the rectangles represent a possible shape for the bookmarks.

some sketches and character designs:

swag swap flyer

thumbnails/brainstorming:


loose concept sketch:


final inks:


final product with photoshop coloring:


bonus features:

open mouth

more star wars studies:

TC4PREZ

JB4MAY

flim flam

monday meeting:

overzealous

this unfinished doodle was sitting on my desk for 3 weeks:


before i had the chance to take 10 minutes and turn it into this:

gung ho vs. a cobra crimson guard.

handsome devil

peej

inspired by my brother phil and his halloween costume design, i did a little fan art:


and while i'm at it, here's another drawing of phil, the kind that looks like him and doesn't:


UPDATE: took another crack at it. this one looks less like a frightened lemur:

who doodles the watchmen?

last week, i had been working out how to draw "nite owl" from the watchmen, as the release date of the movie drew nearer and my excitement built, so he was where i started at our weekly meeting.

somebody must have mentioned star trek, cause captain picard and diana troy also showed up.

the female superhero is my attempt to remember atom eve's costume (from the comic "invincible"), but i forgot that she wears long sleeves and no skirt. not bad for freehand, though, i think.

and lastly, 2 more recent attempts to recreate the arm-break scene in watchmen. of course, nite owl wasn't in costume in the real scene, and this is the costume from the comic book, not the movie, but i can draw whatever i want, so leave me alone.


and speaking of watchmen, here are some earlier costume doodles, starring my good friend greg steele as the comedian and the undoodlable kyle almas as ozymandias. you can see i tried and tried to work out a way to draw kyle's face, but to no avail. that giant head looks nothing like him and is inexcusable.


i don't know if this is more or less flattering, but i really like it. a lot.

schmeath schmedger

i feel like the technique here is pretty decent, but i've never been good at portraiture. that's why these are in pencil - without the ability to erase i would have quickly gotten too frustrated to go on.

the other thing is that you can see me reducing the detail in these little by little until i have a model for the heath ledger comic. it still didn't come out all that recognizable.