155 - BERNARD in all his Copic glory!

Had to take another pass at my Bernard the World Destroyer, by the awesome Skottie Young, sketch that I was totally happy with and see if I could make it even better with some Copic love. The results are above and I dig it! This one is especially cool to me as the wife just got me some new Copics for our 3rd anniversary! I'm a lucky guy. Have a great weekend people!

154 - Bernard! Destroyer of Worlds!

Bernard! My fun time for tonight was pure inspiration from Skottie Young and his great character from the adventures of BERNARD the world destroyer. I finally remembered to drop a whopping $2 into my Paypal account so that I could grab this fine little digital download from Mr. Skottie Young's digital store. The hard copy version is also available at a bargain for $10. Whichever you get you will be rewarded with a fun story and some great drawings including a cool section filled with fan art from some names you just might recognize.

If you have a moment and need some inspiration head over to Skottie's site by clicking his name above, it's guaranteed to put a smile on your face.

And if by any off chance Skottie ever sees this I hope he likes it. He has been a great inspiration for me for a couple of years now and I just love the stuff this guy does. Plus come on, after a long day of world destroying who wouldn't enjoy a turn on a swing. =-)

78 - what is this THING?

Step 2 done. Went back and made some changes after getting great feedback from the folks over at PencilJack, great forum. Got the digital pencils done and now I am going to print it out again and finish the inking by hand with my new ink brush ala Skottie Young style. I've never done digital pencils before and my inking skills as limited as they were are now also rusty, hopefully this turns out well.

Original drawing done by Steve McNiven.

75 -that Thing you do.

This drawing was originally done by Steve McNiven, all credit where credit is due. I have the image set as my desktop wallpaper at the moment. The original has Sue standing in front of Ben but I wanted to just work on the Thing so sadly no Sue Storm this time.

While looking at the image I started a sketch in Sketchbook Pro 2011, I got the image partially done and converted the image to blue lines in Photoshop and then printed it out and started inking it with a Prismacolor ink brush. I've been wanting to try this technique as I've been watching a lot of the videos that Skottie Young has up in multiple places(check out http://www.skottieyoung.com/ for some great stuff) and his way of working is very different from mine. So mainly it's just for fun.

After I worked on the ink for a bit I decided to add in more pencils and try to do the rest of the image. Added some lines with just pencil and I'm gonna rescan it and add in the rest back in Sketchbook Pro 2011.

I just threw this piece up on http://www.penciljack.com/ to get myself started there. Hoping for some positive art critique and feedback. I am also posting it here for both of my loyal fans, enjoy.