Wednesday, 8 June 2011

Savage Dragon Day

In celebration of the last TWISTED SAVAGE DRAGON FUNNIES installment, I've decided to draw a couple of SD supporting cast members: Sergeant Marvel and Dart. They have a complicated relationship. Their costumes are awesome. He just shot the God Gun. What else do you really need to know???


Although these characters cover me like a warm blanket of familiarity, the newness of the coloring involved here still freaks me out. It's an ink drawing and most of his costume was hand colored, but everything else was done my Modern Technology. I expect to abuse this forum in order to do more stuff like this.

In addition, and to balance out the thing above, I've included this strip I made in my sketchbook, featuring a few Savage Dragon villains:


Confused? The shark head is talking to the ape, y'see, who has a bowl on his head and it contains Hitler's brain. I then wanted to replace the nazi ape with this other character, Mace, who is gay. I think I may have just written the world's greatest log line.

Thank you, Erik Larsen, for creating this world.

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Tuesday, 7 June 2011

Rusty TinMan

A Zebra G Pen with Higgins ink. The paper in my sketchbook tends to bleed though, so it's a little fuzzy.

Tin Man

I'm working on the computer today so I thought I'd do a quick sketch straight into Photoshop.

Monday, 6 June 2011

Intergalactic Beastie Boys

Aw mom, you're just jealous, It's the Beastie Boys!

Pretty sure today's topic came about due to my propensity around the studio to drop Beastie Boys lyrical references-- references that invariably are wasted, as apparently I'm the only Beastie Boys fan on site.

I still remember Paul's Boutique coming out and being amazed at what I heard ("they're sampling Sgt Pepper's!"). I mean, this from the "Fight for your Right to Party " guys? Too many years later, I'm still a huge fan, and they're like the elder statesmen of hip hop. Since, as mentioned, I'm apparently the only actual fan 'round the studios, I figured I'd draw the actual gentlemen themselves. A quickie 5 minute warm-up pencil sketch, but I like to think I captured a little something of their style.





Music Monday - Beastie Boys

I'm taking a leaf out of Tim's book today and just drawing whatever the hell I feel like and then retroactively sort of attaching it to the topic of the day.

Pens, markers and photoshop...in that order.

Intergalactic

Thursday, 2 June 2011

Wednesday, 1 June 2011

Hera, in a space suit, visits the Milky Way


Did you know that the ancient Greeks credited Hera with creating the Milky Way from an errant stream of breast milk? True, uh, myth. Not sure why the nigh-omnipotent Queen on the Gods would need a spacesuit; maybe, since she is also the goddess of the air she wanted to bring a little of her native atmosphere with her while she visited her old handiwork.

You can read the actual story in my new graphic novel Hera: The Goddess and Her Glory, coming out July 19th everywhere! Subtle plug!

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A.T.H.E.....I mean Hera

Hera in a Space suit



















George O’Connor’s “Hera” Graphic Novel comes out on the 18th and
he wanted all of us to draw her in a space suit! Okay, I was the one
who wanted to.