174 - My favorite Martian, my 2nd favorite Marvin

Always fun to be had with the weekly sketch group over at PencilJack. Had the option of drawing my favorite alien as one of the choices this week. There was only one choice. My favorite Martian and he's my 2nd favorite Marvin. Enjoy.

170 - May the 4th be with you!

Little ink sketch for a happy Star Wars day!

169 - weird boy and the little robot

Sketchy little things I made during the work meeting the other day. Swear I was paying attention just letting my mind focus as I multi-tasked. I have NO IDEA where these little guys came from. But I like them.

157 - Hong Kong Phooey

A little Hong Kong Phooey action for the PencilJack weekly sketch group thing. Always a fun spot to find tons of talented peoples and bajillions of cool images.

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. =-)

135 - What Chew looking at?

Now the inks! Step by step peoples.

131 - that ninja is a basket case!

Watched Ong Bak 2 and Ong Bak 3 today, Tony Jaa rules and I draw a pilgrim basket hat ninja!

Add in the Broncos winning the Wild Card game and the slow departure of the headache I woke up with and not an all around bad day.

To bad tomorrow's Monday.

128 - getting all merciless

PencilJack weekly sketch group again and again. Flash Gordon characters were up this week and I went all merciless, straight Ming the Merciless. Penciled and inked with brush pen.

110 - Wabbit Hunting Fudd Style

A fun little doodle for the PencilJack Weekly Sketch Group # 217. One of the options this week was Elmer Fudd - Full Metal Jacket, one of the funnest ideas I have ever heard of. Did me a quick little Wabbit Killer and here we go. Love it.

108 - inking it up Aqua Leung style

Had a great little bit of fun putting some brush inks down on a great sketch by Loston Wallace of Paul Maybury's Aqua Leung. You can check both of these guys out at their websites linked on their names or head on over to the awesomeness that is PencilJack were they both give out great advice and great art.

106 - There can be only one Kurgan

A little bit of ink brush work this week for the PencilJack weekly sketch group. I actually started the thing with the pencils and really didn't like what I came out with so I put a layer of ink down and ended up with a much better image. For those not initiated to the movie The Highlander this here is the Kurgan, made famous by Clancy Brown actor extraordinaire. The Kurgan was a great villain, if you have never seen the original Highlander go check it out as it is worth watching for Clancy Browns performance alone.  

98 - NOT Thanos!

Darkseid indeed! For the epic 200th version of the Weekly Sketch Group over at PencilJack. One of the choices for the week were the Jack "The King" Kirby Fourth World characters, pure greatness. Tried to channel my inner Kirby and get a little Darkseid going, don't call him Thanos fools!
Actually did 3 stages on this one, tossed down some blue lines, added solid pencils and then went over it all with some pens. Enjoy.

88 - who nose?

Who knows? The nose knows for sure. At least I think so...
Anywho back to it with my progress through the great Christopher Harts book Simplied Anatomy for the Comic Book Artist, still traveling through its pages and getting my more prolific side moving. Also had a bit of extra fun with this one as I inked 2 of the heads with my 2 new brushes, ordered me a Copic Drawing Pen and a Copic Multiliner. As you can see I've only done a few lines with each so far but they both work nicely so far.

And on a love for NetFlix note - I am a little over half way through the 3rd season of Buffy and my love for all things Whedon is growing daily.

80 - and another Thing

And the second pass, did a few touch ups on some of the line work and added in a bit hatching. Not sure if I like this one or the last one better.

79 - as Things go by

And here we have the first pass of scanning in the inks and cleaning things up a bit in Photoshop. Probably going to do another pass with the lines and touch up a few spots. Just really liked how this came out and felt like sharing. Hope y'all enjoy.

And just food for thought - I was thinking tonight about a Drink and Draw night here in Boise, I wonder if anyone would be interested?

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.