H.R. Giger-ish

The artist H. R. Giger is dead at age 74. He designed the "Alien" from the movie Alien among many other things. I drew an Aliens mini series for Dark Horse back in the 90's, and I don't want to draw that creature again (it was exhausting)! I'm not really sure how to pay tribute to him in our weekly sketch, but as he created many odd creatures I decided to do the same. Here's an odd creature feeding on another odd creature.

Mad Men

We thought we'd just follow in the foot steps of last week, and let Television dictate our theme again. As Mad Men premiered this week, the theme is...Mad Men. The MAD MAN I decided to draw is The Hound from Game of Thrones. I read (some of) the books before the show aired but once it aired I noticed the "hound" like helmet that the Hound wore. I remember it wobbling a bit and looking like a awkward prop to get to work correctly. I never did see that helmet much after that one time that I can remember. Below is my version of his helmet and what he may look like.

Game of Thrones

I hated my quick sketch I did yesterday, so I did another last night. It's compulsive sometimes...
Daenerys Targaryen:

Game of Thrones

The new season of Game of Thrones aired the other night so we may as well be shameless and hop on the band wagon. I've already read the books so I hope you all enjoy the massive amount of deaths to come this season. Or I could be lying! Anyway, here's Daenerys and one of her dragons.

Shake Something Loose?

Simon suggested that as the topic for today. Just so happens I was working on some new techniques with all the pirate reference I have left over from that long ago Treasure Island job. This is not a quick sketch but something I did late last night. This is the famous scene where Israel Hands tries to stab Jim Hawkings, or "shake Jim loose" from the crows nest.

ONE LINE, ONE WORLD

Frederik Pohl, 1919-2013

As he lived to 93, there were many pictures of him on line to use as reference. I decided on this older version of him for no other reason than I liked the photograph. You can read many well written thoughts on his passing else where like TOR for one. I'll just draw this quick sketch...

A space woman?

Not a warm up. Just trying out pen nibs. Very slow going with pens.
I think it's brushes for me. Until I cave in and get a Cintiq some day.

Two for Tuesday!

Two what, I don't know. But they warmed up my drawing hand as always...

Royal Baby

Warming up with a silly drawing and some silly...okay, bad jokes about a royal baby that may be "crowning" at this this very moment. I only regret that I couldn't come up with more than three bad jokes.

Lazy Days of Summer warm up...

Post vacation warm up

No Mandela or new baby images for me. Just warming up the brush hand with silly sketches.

Dear God It's Tuesday

God of Tuesday

The Boy Pope, Elephant and Chicken meet for breakfast.

Yay, it's Friday and...raining all day...

Here's a fish creature:

Paper cut out sketching just because...

Space Girl

What's a Wednesday without a space girl?

Tuesday Toons

Warming up my hands so I can do work for children.

R.I.P. Ray Harryhausen

Before there was CG, there was Ray Harryhausen. He animated many "monster" or sci-fi creatures who populated the scary movies of my childhood, but the scene that stuck in my head the most over the years was the skeleton fight scene from Jason and the Argonauts.
A movie can mesmerize, but that scene TRIPLE mesmerized me (If there is such a term).
 You can see a clip here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF_Fi7x93PY
And here's my sketch inspired by said scene:

Jesus Vs. Satan in video games

This seems a very popular topic on Drawbridge as Natalie's version of this gets
many MANY hits. There is no topic today, so I did this. Drew it yesterday and
inked it this morn to get my hands going. This is Jesus taking aim at Satan who
is far off camera eating lunch at one of those little bagel shops. He's actually
eating a cinnamon raisin bagel.That's how you know he's evil.