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The new subject for Sketch-o-Rama is a Star Wars villian from Darkhorse comics expanded universe named Darth Talon.
As you can see, she is a bad-ass female Sith with a smokin figure, (which I have decided to show off a bit in my illustration.
Perhaps this move is to distract her enemies while she cuts them to ribbons with her lightsaber.)
Thanks to fellow Sketch-o-Rama participant Jorge Lacera for the idea of the Alphonse Mucha style window treatment in the background.
No posts for a while, so I thought that I would re-visit one of my old favorites from times past...
THE MAN-THING!!!
And beware...
"Whatever knows fear, burns at the Man-Things touch!!"
Quint over at Ain't it Cool News had a contest to design to design an excisting Spiderman Villain for the next movie. The winner will get a couple of cool busts of spidey and venom. I decided to do the Rhino and really give his costume a cool new look. We also had to cast them for the movie, so I decided to go with Dwayne Johnson A.K.A the Rock. I think he would bring charisma and a level of fun that these villains need for the Spideman franshise. I love redesigning these characters and give my take on them. I had tons of fun with this image and it was a completely different way of working for me. I created paths in photoshop for each and every section of the suit to give me the cleanest possilble result. I love it. I hope to work like this more often in the future. I think Jorge and James did an amazing job with them and I think this was one of the better weeks by far here at sketch-o-rama. Big things to come soon!! Till then, stay fresh☻
I chose to cast James Marsters in this role because he not only has the physical looks to match the character but he also has the charisma needed to play one of Spidey's classic villains. I also re-interpreted the character as a monsterous, tragic figure. In my version the vulture undergoes a horrifying physical and mental transformation ala' Seth Brundle in the Fly.
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Here is my rendition of Spiderman's arch-nemisis, Doctor Curt Connors.
Alias: THE LIZARD!
I have read that Sam Raimi originally approached his pal Bruce Campbell for the role, so I decided to do my piece as if it was a film concept for Bruce playing the character, (with all due respect to Dylan Baker).
My goal was to complete this image entirely in Photoshop using textures, photographs (thats me in the lab-coat...) and brush tools. Though I toiled many hours on this piece, I would still like to noodle it a bit more. I feel it has not yet met the point of realism that I would prefer. But all in all, a great learning experience.
I didn't want to be lame and miss this week so I cranked this one out today. I gave myself an hour to color it, so its really kind of sloppy....oh well. It was sure fun beating up Robo though....dude just can't catch a break.
FINAL
Initial sketches
Photoshop sketch
Tight pencil drawing
This one took a while to develop but I'm pretty pleased with the result. I've started to sketch out the initial concept in photoshop because of its flexibility to make a cool pose without being restricted by the edge of the paper or anything like that. I also like to skew things and experiment in photoshop until I get something I really like. I then took this piece and did a tight pencil then a quicky digital color job. I'm posting an initial sketch as well to show were my initial look for my version came from. I can't wait for the next one, but till then...peace out!!
By the way who's watching the big fight on saturday?? i got my money on Maywheater!!!
It was wild re-visiting this great film from the eighties.
I watched it again to get inspired for this Sketch-o-Rama, and found it was just as cool as I remember it to be. Great pacing, witty script, awesome soundtrack, and one kick-ass villian (That 70's Show's Kurtwood Smith as Clarence Boddicker.) Check it out if you haven't in a while. You'll be glad you did.
I know this illustration is a bit redundent. Robo is already dead.
But it was fun anyway.
And remember, kids...
"STAY OUT OF TROUBLE!"
This weeks theme of Robocop was a alot of fun. Thought i'd do my own interpretation of the "copper" as a woman, just to stir things up a bit. Fun times...
Why? I do not know.
Just in the mood for some-THING new....
Here's my rendition of the Thing. I would have liked to have seen him in an action pose, but right now hes just chillin. Thanks dudes for letting me join in on the fun.
La Mujer Invisible! This was a fun one, gotta love good ol' "WASP" Sue Storm! Although there ain't nothing wrong with Jessica Alba...hhmmm... here's a bonus Thing sketch as well.
Hello world once again!! (hehe, or just the proud and the few that look at this blog) This weeks theme was redesigning the Fantastic Four. I tried my hand at the good ol' Thing. He is holding the human torch in his hands...literary. I had tons of fun with this one and I hope you guys enjoy it!! Till next time...peace world!!
I've also added the original inks just for kicks.★★★
Aw guys.
Ya went an done it. Great stuff. And in full color.
Well, heres mine colorized.
Here is my version of the good old Tarks. I had fun with this one, all in photoshop once again just a little different look this time. I wanted this one to be more comic book style and I had fun digitally inking it. Looks good from far but believe me is far from perfect when you look at it closely. Anyways hope you guys dig it.
"Tars Tarkas may be a cruel green warrior, but he can be a friend as well."
From John Carter of Mars, Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1917.
Awesome news from the world of entertainment.The rights to Edgar Rice Burrough's (The man who invented Tarzan) novel: "A Princess Of Mars" have been purchased/optioned by Disney/Pixar. Having read most of the books in this John Carter of Mars series, I am totally jazzed to see this project underway.(well, almost underway...) Hollywood has been trying to make this property into a film for over 60 odd years or so.
We here at Sketch-o-Rama have decided to do drawings of one of the lead alien races in the books. They are 15 foot, four armed creatures called Tharks. This particular Thark in my sketch is named Tars Tarkus, and he is John Carter's most trusted friend throughout a number of the books. Can you imagine one of these guys animated on the big screen?
Hey all, its been a while.... Here's my unfinished Hydra. They were a terrifying monster that lived in a swamp near Lake Lerna. Cut off its head and two grow back. Had a body of a serpent, and it's fowl breath alone could kill a man, but not Heracles. Note the eyes inside its mouth (I took a few liberties.)
Some great stuff happinin' on this blog today! Kellee, Jorge and Carlos came out swinging! Heres my Cerebus to add to the mix. The color is quick, so I'll post a better one in the days to come....
Quick digital painting, photoshop...no drawing just photoshop.
Here is a quickie version of everyones favorite sword and sorcery hero: Conan the Barbarian (and friend....)
Drawn in prisma, scanned and colored in photoshop.
There is nothing in this universe worse than when a full grown bull Tauntaun goes rogue...
As this unfortunate Wampa has discovered...
"INTERIOR: REBEL BLOCKADE RUNNER -- MAIN HALLWAY. The awesome, seven-foot-tall Dark Lord of the Sith makes his way into the blinding light of the main passageway. This is Darth Vader, right hand of the Emperor. His face is obscured by his flowing black robes and grotesque breath mask, which stands out next to the fascist white armored suits of the Imperial stormtroopers. Everyone instinctively backs away from the imposing warrior and a deathly quiet sweeps through the Rebel troops. Several of the Rebel troops break and run in a frenzied panic."
Maybe we were foolish to try and re-design a movie icon like Darth Vader, but it was fun as hell to try!
Anyone remember these guys? They appeared on television in the early 1960's when Super Saturday morning was owned by animators;William Hanna and Joseph Barbara. This was just a way-cool, wacked out concept from the mind of comic book artist Alex Toth. The show consisted of a highly imaginitive animal army led by a heroic human named King Zandor. Zandor's family consisted of his wife Tara, and his son Dorno. The beasts were as follows:
Igoo the rock ape, Tundro the tremendous (a kind of Rino-saurus) Zok the lazer-ray dragon, and Gloop and Gleep, "the fearless, formless wonders!"
Anyway, above is my version of the shows main critter characters. Above that is the characters as they originally appeared.
C'mon, Hollywood. We need a big-budget Herculoids movie.
And we need it now!!
Here is my piggy contribution...
Now that Holly Hobbie and Friends is on the market, I can display the characters I designed! Here is Cheddar the pig, in full vector glory. Check out Holly Hobbie and Friends for more info or to buy her DVD!
Still figuring out painter, its so damn addictive...like crack...
...went to the market, had roast beef, and went "WEE-WEE-WEE!!!" all the way home!
Anybody remember a toy line from the 1980's produced by Playmates Toys and American Greetings called Barnyard Commandoes? Barnyard Commandoes was the very first toy concept that I did upon graduating art school. And looky here! My first Barnyard Commando drawing in almost 20 years!! Sooooowwweeeeee!!!
J.G.
...and I can not lie!
My contribution to the robot theme is "HUT 2", a robotic halfback inspired by an old episode of "The Jetsons". A few years ago, I used a robot similar to this one in a paper plate design that never saw the light of day.
These are sketches for the sketch-o-rama assignment "robot," done using pencil and a Tombo ink brush. I wanted to keep them loose, fun, and sort of creepy. They are the robot equivelent to a "Mutt & Jeff." Jeff is the taller one. I guess I imagined these things rolling around like those rolly polly beetle bugs, then popping up into a standing/fighting (eating) position. I also imagined their "eyeball on a string" bounces as they slowly and incessantly walk after you. And do look out, they will try to eat you. Not because they are hungry, but because they want your body fat to keep their parts well oiled, and your stomach bile to keep their parts clean. Gross, eh? Enjoy, scary robot lovers.
What's more fun than a giant purple robotic seahorse? hmmm?
My thoughts exactly.
Quickie robot sketch for this week's post. It was fun to mess around with Painter again, i usually start my work in Painter in really rough form and move on to Freehand from there but it was nice to do a a little painted sketch.
Our new Sketch-o-Rama assignment is to draw a robot.This was inked with a ballpoint pen in my brand new sketchbook. Its based on an old robot design from the comic book " Buce and Gar" which I wrote and illustrated in the early 1990's. I also added a bit of backstory and informational readouts just for fun.
J.G.
Phew!
Just finished my page. This took waaaaay long...gotta speed it up next time.
The art is black prisma color pencil on 360 marker paper. The "embellishments" are in Adobe Photoshop. As is the lettering and word balloons. This was actually quite enjoyable. My first "solo" comic page in quite a while...
Should I do color next??
J.G.