Summer

People here at Drawbridge feel they need
a break for the summer("people" being everyone but me).

Thus, we will only do one theme sketch a week on Wednesdays until
the Fall.

But I'll be posting warm ups and work in progress
over at my place when I can.

Plus, I don't have to create a theme to fit my
sketches! Today's sketch is...a sketch!

Chupacabra - The Goat Sucker

I'm channeling my inner Steve Ellis today. It all got very painterly. So this is a pencil sketch, photographed then painted over in good old Photoshop.

As of today DrawBridge is going weekly for the next couple of months. It's summertime and I know that we would all rather be locked in our gloomy studios working, than outside soaking up the sunshine or drawing just for the fun of it.
See you next Wednesday.

Chupacabra

Cartoon poison Ivy pern mobile

Someone searched these key words last week and found Draw Bridge.
Thus,Simon and George though it should be today's theme.
What is up with them and their wacky theme ideas???!

Lisa Natoli - La ragazza di volo

When Grant Morrison eventually ascends to godhood then comes back down to Earth and gives us all superpowers, I hope that Lisa gets big, beautiful, butterfly wings. Happy Birthday Lisa.

Happy Birthday, Lisa!

Lisa Natoli's Birthday!

Sunday is her birthday so I am told.
Lisa is a dancer and Aerialist who does some amazing
things on silks very high above the safety of a nice firm floor.
She creates butterflies in my stomach.
But in a good way!

I turned her into "Manga Lisa Dancer" who uses her silks to
fight robot clowns from the circus of robot crime.



See her work here:
http://www.lisasbrightideas.com/

Happy Birthday, LISA!

Every time I see Lisa Natoli defying the laws of Gravity and God through her aerialist performances I am in awe. I can type away at describing what Lisa does, but see for yourself at her site LISA'S BRIGHT IDEAS. She performs regularly, so keep your eye out for it.

KAY

Made it with just a few minutes to spare! This is Kay from Akira, by the way, and I really should've drawn her holding a knife or a spoon or something a little less detailed. Anyway, I kept ink away from this one, just to see how neat I could keep the pencil marks. I made up for it with the color.

TETSUOOOOOO!

Akira ( and Katsuhiro Otomo ) taught me many things, possibly the most important of all those things was the value of stillness and calm.

I saw the movie in 1989, on a flakey NTSC VHS tape I got from a friend ( thanks Kiyo ). I think I watched it 5 times, then bought the soundtrack album ( brilliant!) and then all the albums by Geino Yamashirogumi. I have yet to see the movie in English, or even with subtitles. It doesn't need them.

AKIRA

Aquaman - Supercavitation

So I was giving some thought to how Aquaman must move through the water. If he's swimming superfast underwater there are various friction effects that start to really make a difference to how things work, specifically Supercavitation which allows objects to move at extreme speeds through fluids by building a bubble of gas around themselves. In the case of Aquaman the gas would be steam caused by friction with the water. There are various naval torpedo systems in use that take advantage of this effect and scientists are theorising that a missile could  achieve supersonic speed underwater. Of course something moving at that speed would be utterly devastating to anything anywhere near its flightpath...but never mind about that.

Aquaman is a character who really would have benefitted from being written and drawn by Jack Kirby.

Aquaman

Or, pandering to Mike Cavallaro.
I know nothing about Aquaman except that
you can cut off his hand and he'll
keep growing it back!

The fifth of July

Jekyll and Hyde