Gorilla Painting

My third painting is complete. As you can see I went with a gorilla/western theme. This time around I took photos throughout the process so that you may enjoy seeing the steps between the blank canvas and the final piece.

Step 1: The idea sketches

I forget the specifics, but a co-worker and I started talking about gorillas and before I knew it I was drawing gorillas all over my sketchbook. I finally got settled on the idea of a cowboy gorilla (going with my animals in people clothes motif). As you can see in this sketch I've already got my colors picked out. I did change the overall look of the gorilla, going for a more simplistic style. When I get my sketches to look the way I want I move on to the canvas.

Step 2: the background

Since I knew I was making the gorilla blue, I wanted to make the background compliment him. I decided to go with a yellow/orange sunset fade.

Then I added a canyon scene, because what is more western than a canyon scene? I used sponges to give it a nice texture.

Step 3: the gorilla

I allowed the background to dry and then added the gorilla. I used a blue color pencil to sketch it out. As you can see I started with the bigger spaces first and then worked my way down to the details. Over the span of two days it took me just a few hours to finish. For the time I took on it I would say I'm happy with the results. 

On to the next painting...

Girl Poses

Practicing my gesture drawings with a little girl character. It's a great way to get the feel for a character and an awesome way to stretch yourself as an artist.

Painting #2: Pig Scout

Painting number 2 is finished (or at least I'm not going to touch it anymore). I feel like I've learned a lot between painting 1 and 2. Needless to say I've got a long way to go but I'm happy with the progression. I would like to give a shout out to the painter who inspires me, Scott Wills. Scott is a background painter for many animated tv shows, including Ren and Stimpy, and Samurai Jack. I feel like calling him good is just too much of an understatement. 

It's on to painting number 3. I think it's going to be a gorilla...a dancing gorilla....a blue dancing gorilla. Yup, that's probably right.

Cat Painting

I've decided to try my hand at painting. This is the first of hopefully many. I don't know a lot about painting in general so this first one was mostly about getting a feel for it. All I can really say is that I'm excited to get started on the next one. I've already decided to keep these paintings to a theme, which will probably be cartoony animals in clothes. Up next: either a gorilla or a pig. I'll take request, but I make no promises.

My Cat: Sprout

I know what your thinking and your right, I haven't posted in a while. Let's just say I've been busy (not that there are many who check this blog out). So here is a picture of my cat Sprout. She has the biggest eyes.
Sometimes I get the feeling that she's trying to hypnotize me. I think she just might be capable. Now if you'll excuse me, I've got some tuna to prepare for my master....er....I mean, cat.

YOLO

They ate my caricature!

I never dreamed I'd see it happen, but I watched as someone ate one of my caricatures. Friends were having a birthday party for their 5 year old and asked if I would draw a caricature of him as Ironman that they would put on his cake. I've heard of these printers that can print out edible prints and thought it would be a lot of fun to do. I've got to say it was pretty cool seeing my artwork on the cake. My favorite part was watching the kids eat the cake. Hearing the birthday boy cheer, "I'm eating my eyes!" and another guest joining in, "I'm eating your foot!" 

Halloween Monsters II

Happy Halloween! Here are a couple more monsters to celebrate.

Halloween Monsters

Just in time for Halloween, here are a couple of monsters for your viewing pleasure. I'm optimistically hoping that I'll have a few more monsters to share before Halloween. If I don't then I was probably eaten by zombies and couldn't get to them.

Dr. Frankenstein and his monster. Remember that, the doctor was named Frankenstein, not the monster. 

The wolfman taking care of an itch.

Bunch of Characters

I've started drawing these "character designs" on 4x6 index cards. There mostly about experimenting with style and creating interesting poses. I also wanted to use some marker I have. I'll probably also start using color pencils and watercolor in the future.

the Amazon

the Cowboy

(recognize the costume? Here's a hint: "Reach for the sky!")

Gangnam Style

the Ninja

the Waitress

Iron Hulk Smash!

This little boy came up to my co-worker at work and asked to be drawn as Iron Man Hulk. That idea got stuck in my head. I love thinking about Tony Stark needing to make an Iron Man suit for the Hulk to help "save the world." How awesome would that be? Seriously, Marvel if you read this post feel free to take the idea and run with it. It's not mine, so I won't even ask for any of the credit. Just make it happen.

Also, I know I could have taken the picture a little further. I too had the idea of Hulk's body being to big for the suit and you can see bits and pieces of him popping out. I was just too lazy to draw such details.

Gnome

Nothing much to say about this. Except that I like gnomes. You can blame David the Gnome for my love of gnomes. That and the fact that their name starts with a silent "g." There is something about that silent "g" that I find hilarious. That is all.

Tigers

The summer is coming to an end and the school year is about to start up again. In honor of this, I decided to draw my school's mascot, the tiger. In a fit of creativity I ended up drawing three different tigers. I'm thinking about using one of them to make a t-shirt. Right now I'm leaning towards the middle one. What do you think?

Summer 2012 Caricatures

With the summer coming to a close ( I know its just the start of August, but I consider the summer to be wrapping up) I thought I'd share a few of the caricatures I drew at the park. I took these photos with my phone so they aren't the best quality.

We have a caricature of Pres. Obama with the American Flag behind him. This guy wanted the Mexican flag.

Harry Potter bodies...Joy.

Usually I don't color the faces green when I do Hulk bodies, but he was a co-worker so I went for it.

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Another co-worker as a female Loki

This was the woman's idea, she wanted them to be fairies in the forest. I tried to keep the guy as manly as I could being a fairy.

This is not a caricature, but something I did because I was bored. Red Skull and Capt. America enjoy a day of roller coasters.

My first ever request for Nightcrawler and I screw up the costume...sigh.

Self caricature 2012

I did a new self caricature for work at an amusement park. I was thinking the other day that when I draw star wars bodies people want to be Jedi. What about Han Solo? So I decided to draw myself as Han with Greedo. Maybe this will create more interest in Han Solo bodies.

Where does soy milk come from?

Dedicated to my brother Matt and his lovely wife Amanda. 

Housing Market

Trying something new here. I've seen it a lot more lately where artist have gotten rid of the black lines and have replaced them with a darker color that matches the color of the item. I thought I'd give it a whirl. It took a while but I think I've learned a few things for next time.

FYI, I drew these gags several months ago and have been sitting on them. Now that it's summer time I've been coloring them and posting them here. They are all animal based as that was the theme I was working on at the time. So expect a lot more of these during the summer.

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