Scarecrow!

I love drawing this guy. 

Tried a little different technique for this one.

I used wash pencil, watercolor, copic markers, & acrylic paint ... With a little ink....

5.5x8.5 inches.

Field Surgeon 2 part puzzle for the Civil War Chronicles trading card set.

Surgeon

Another 2 part puzzle card for "the civil war chronicles " trading card set by cult stuff. created with copic markers, watercolor & acrylic

Robert E. Lee & Ulysses S. Grant two card puzzles for the Civil War Chronicles trading card set

Robert E. Lee

Ulysses S. Grant

For this set we were asked to make 50% of the cards we contributed into 2 piece puzzle cards (two cards that make up one picture). So here are two of my puzzles.

The first is of Robert E. Lee - I was less than thrilled about how this turned out, he looks a bit cartoonish.

The second is Ulysses S. Grant - I liked this one.

Both were done with copics, watercolors & acrylic.

mondays suck.....bye.

Sherman & Jackson - Artwork for the "Civil War Chronicles" trading card set

General Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson - Confederate Army

General William Tecumseh Sherman - Union Army

A couple more of my Civil war sketch cards.

copic markers - watercolor - acrylic

Civil War Artwork for the Trading Card set by Cult Stuff

General Gordon Granger - Union

General Richard L.T. Beale - Confederacy

A couple more Civil War Cards for Cult stuff's "Civil War Chronicles" trading card set.

Watercolor/ copic markers /colored pencil / and acrylic paint

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Civil war chronicles sketch cards for cult stuff.

General Daniel Butterfield - union

General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard - confederate

A couple more of my sketchcards for the civil war chronicles trading card set by cult stuff.

Copic markers, watercolor, acrylic paint & colored pencil.

The Happy Soldier sketch- 5x7

"The Happy Soldier" Another Sketch done on Tan Toned paper.... I really like drawing on this stuff, really makes your sketches pop.

5x7- pencil, ink, marker, gouache, and colored pencil.

The Jackal Goblin

The Jackal Goblin is one of the most feared predators known to all living things. Although Named after a jackal they are actually the evolutionary end result of cross breeding between a particular genus of goblin, and that of a baboon. The Joining of these two species resulted in the cunning & vileness of goblins with the agility & ability to reason from their simian side. You will only see the crown of bones protruding from the head of males in the species.

Although they are a relatively small creature (only a bit larger than that of a chimpanzee) it does not limit their ability to be one of the most dangerous and irritatingly difficult creatures you will ever face. The main difference you will notice from that of a regular goblin is their reluctance to face you head on in open battle, instead they resort to guerilla tactics ( hit, run, hide), very seldom leaving the security of the tree tops. Brandishing primitive bows with poison tipped arrows they can topple foes within seconds.

You will never find a Jackal Goblin alone unless sick or dying. These highly social creatures live in small pack communities within the trees, making them extremely lethal in larger groups. Often times you will hear the screams and yelps of warring packs above (usually over territory or prey). Although the sights and sounds of such battles can be terrifying, it is actually what keeps the jackal goblin populations at bay. Whole forests have been burned down, just do bring the creatures out in the open, in the hopes of exterminating them.

The most notable characteristic of the Jackal Goblins ( and where I suspect the name comes from) are the cackling cries made when agitated or excited. When these shrills of simulated laughter & panic fill the air, you best flee, unless you are prepared to lose a few men to the impending onslaught that approaches.

Yes, I made that up....Yes, Im a geek....No, I dont care.

So did I mentioned that I loved Tan toned paper?

5x7 Done with pencil, marker, ballpoint pen, gouache, and some colored pencil, on tan toned paper.

Random creature sketch

I was going to post another war of the worlds sketch card, but I wanted to take a break from posting those to show some of my random sketches. I've recently been experimenting with tan toned paper, and i have to say that I love it. so I'll be posting some of those drawings over the next few days.

Here we have a 5x7 random monster, done with pencil, copics,ink, colored pencil, a ball point pen & a little gouache.

Boba Fett

Another new piece that will be showing/on sale at VAP Vaporizor shop's Grand opening on friday. The artwork is 100% start wars themed, which is cool. I've done several new pieces just for the shop & will also have several of my older pieces, such as the ones shown below.

"The Furry Native" piece & the "Greedo " piece, both framed 4x6's , and both done in watercolor will also be on display for purchase.





Its the Grand opening so come on by & check it out, there will be food trucks & hopefully a beer or two....



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....Now to go paint.

Superman Sketch card process pics

Superman process pics.

1) pencils

2) Pre-inks

3)skin tones in watercolor, also started the suit

4)blue's in his suit, done in watercolor.

5)reds & yellows done in marker & watercolor.

6) background, wet on wet, done in watercolor.

7) final details - re-ink with the brush pen adding black where it doesn't seem to be dark enough, highlights with gel-pen & final background details.

Done!

Supergirl sketch card process pics

ok...if you guys looked at any of my other posts you basically get the idea, so I'll keep the explanation short.

1) pencils

2) Pre-inks

3)skin tones in watercolor

4)blue's in her suit, done in watercolor.

5)reds & yellows done in marker & watercolor.

6) background, wet on wet, done in watercolor.

7) final details - re-ink with the brush pen adding black where it doesn't seem to be dark enough, highlights with gel-pen & final background details.

Cheers!

Harley Quinn Sketch card process pics

Morning Everyone! Alright this will be much the same as yesterdays, but people seem to be taking interest, so I'll do a few more & then I'll start posting some of my most recent project work, which is for a war of the worlds sketch card set for cult stuff over in the U.K. Today we have Harley, which is one of the more favored cards I did from this set

Card 1) The first step is rough pencil shapes in a very light pencil,( 2h/3h/4h) and I have excluded this step. The next step is to go over it with detail using a mechanical pencil (no particular brand, just whatevers layin around)which is what you see here. Was debating between a gun & a Hammer, but the gun just seemed to fit better.

Card 2) In this stage I do the pre-Inking. You have to consider what medium your using, so that the coloring stage doesn't make this ink bleed. For instance, watercolors will not make most inks bleed..however alcohol based markers such as copics, or prisma's will, so you'll have to use special liners or carbon ink in order to prevent that. Also one more tip...ERASE very well if using markers...because once you lay the marker down, the pencil will not come off....with watercolors your fine. I used copic Multiliners for this stage.

card 3)Started with the Getting all the colors in with watercolor & bit of marker. The hardest thing for me about watercolor is patience. you have to wait for one layer to dry before you start laying darker tones in. If you don't wait then the color gets muddy & you overwork the paper, so I'll usually work on another part of the card while one section dries. You can see I did the gun in gray marker tones while one of the other parts was drying. Typically I use dark blues as an undertone for gun metal, I didn't want it to blend in with her costume too much, since I used the dark blue there already.

Card 4)doesn't look like I did much here...actually, I think its Identical to the last card....the reason for this is because I did more work on the other cards & since I was scanning them all in at once instead of individually I scanned this one as well....so yeah, basically I did nothing here.

Card 5) On this card, although I only did a few things here, it really starts making the card come together. I colored up the gun with copics, added lipstick with copics & added the yellow in her teeth and eyes also with marker, added some cool grays to her costume. The reds in her costume weren't coming out saturated enough so I went over the watercolor with a lipstick red marker

Card 6)Background watercolors applied here. Used a wet on wet technique with doc martens watercolors in order to get that bleed effect. I wanted you to be able to tell that it was watercolor. ( wet on wet is when you lay down a very watery color, or just water & drop in dabs of another color. Warning paper will bow)I chose these yellows red and browns for the background, which in hind site, I wish I had used cool colors to make the character pop a bit more. I chose various splattering methods to associate the character with chaos.

Card 7) Last card is all the bells & whistles. I will take my brush pen, or a thicker marker and re-ink my outlines so we have a nice thick edge & not a bumpy look. I used textured watercolor paper for this project & it is a pain to draw on with a pen, so I decided to use a brush to do the re-inking in order to smooth the initial inks out. After that we use a white gel pen to add the stitching back in and additional highlights. Since the colors of this characters costume are so closely related to the background colors on the color wheel, it was very Important to have a nice dark outline accompanied with a very clear white outline...otherwise she would've just blended right in.

So there's My Harley....Cheers

Catwomen Sketch card Process Pics/Tutorial

Hello all, hope everyones morning went ok. Today I'm going to begin posting a progression of some of my DC commissioned sketchcards that I had recently posted. The client asked me to catalog progress pics of a few of the characters & I figured, " hey, Might as well do it for all of them". These progression pics are a little all over the place since I had to focus on time saving, so if I did the skin tone for one card, I did the skin tones for all so I didn't have to mix the colors again etc...

Card 1) Typically you'll see a stage before this one with basic shapes, or silhouettes, just to get an idea of where I want to go. I'll usually use a very light pencil (2h/3h/4h)to block everything in, then I go over it with detail using a mechanical pencil (no particular brand, just whatevers layin around)which is what you see here. I actually had started to draw the newer costume catwoman & the client asked me to go with this style instead.

Card 2) In this stage I do the pre-Inking. You have to consider what medium your using, so that the coloring stage doesn't make this ink bleed. For instance, watercolors will not make most inks bleed..however alcohol based markers such as copics, or prisma's will, so you'll have to use special liners or carbon ink in order to prevent that. Also one more tip...ERASE very well if using markers...because once you lay the marker down, the pencil will not come off....with watercolors your fine.

card 3)Started with the skin tone in watercolor...not much else here. You can see that I got a bit sloppy but thats ok...watercolor is fairly forgiving, the use of a little water will lift off most of the color.

Card 4)Started inking the suit with copics. I like to use a dark blue as an undertone to black so thats what I did here, not really caring about the stitches, because we'll highlight those at the end.

Card 5) Jumped quite ahead here, added the blacks, with my copic sketch brush tip. Also added the lip color & the yellow around the eye sockets.The last thing you'll notice is that I've decided the background color would be a pinkish red color, so I started to add some of those colors to the outer edges of the suit to show reflections of the background.

Card 6)Ok..here I really piled on the watercolors for the background. used a wet on wet technique with doc martens watercolors in order to get that bleed effect. I wanted you to be able to tell that it was watercolor. ( wet on wet is when you lay down a very watery color, or just water & drop in dabs of another color. Warning paper will bow)

Card 7) Last card is all the bells & whistles. I will take my brush pen, or a thicker marker and re-ink my outlines so we have a nice thick edge & not a bumpy look. I used textured watercolor paper for this project & it is a pain to draw on with a pen, so I decided to use a brush to do the re-inking in order to smooth the initial inks out. After that we use a white gel pen to add the stitching back in and additional highlights. I also used the gel pen to correct the bleed I got in the moon & add in all the stars. Lastly I did a white outline around her in order to separate her from the background, since she is dark and so is the background.

That's is that. Hope this helps anyone out there, If it does, then I will post more process posts on some of my future projects.

Vampirella / Vampi-Daughter sketch card commission

Last Of my recent commissions was this one. I called it Vampi-daughter. A client who wishes to remain nameless has a dughter who loves Vampirella. So he decided to have me draw his daughter as Vampirella. Which is all fine & good, but I had somewhat of a dilemma. What's the first thing you think about when you imagine Vampirella.....the costume right? Here's a pic so you get the idea.

It would seem a bit strange to me, to clothe a young child in this manner. Although the style that this drawing was done in is very cartooney, I'm still basing on a real person, who happens to be a child...so it felt weird. None the less it still needed to be done, so I had to find a way around it. After a few thumbnails done in pencil we went back & forth until we decided on a caricature & pose. This is how it turned out. The client loved it & he even had me design their family christmas card. I'll post that one later. Done in watercolor & marker.

Supergirl

Hope Everyone had a great weekend!nOK...last one of this 10 card dc set that I did as a commission is supergirl. Another one done in watercolor & some copic markers. I'm going to post some progress pics of the cards as the customer had a request to see them. I don't usually do stuff like that, so I figured I'd just scan them all in as I went.

Its a bird, its a plane, its SUPERMAN!!!!

Would'nt be a proper set of DC characters without superman. so here's my cutesy rendition of him. Done in sketch card size for a client. Watercolor & copic markers. I kinda like how this one turned out as well.

Poison Ivy Sketch Card Commission

Well...you know the story already, but I'll repeat it anyway. Sketch card commission as part of a batman/dc themed series requested by my buddy chad. Super cool guy to work with. This one is of the lovely poison ivy done in that cutesy style I do.

Funny story how I started to do characters in this manner. I usually like the darker stuff, demons, blood & gore. Well I had a shop owner tell me that i would have to draw cuter stuff in order for him to carry my art...I of course thought it was lame..but I came up with this style. It took me a long time to get used to & even though its less detailed Its actually harder for me to do at times, but people tend to like it.

This one was done in watercolor & copic marker.

The Penguin sketch card commission

Another Batman themed sketch card that was commissioned. This one is of the Penguin....kinda cute....kinda creepy. I will always remember the way the penguin looked on the old school T.V. show with adam west, but I really loved the way Tim Burton envisioned him so I tried to merge the two styles here.

Created with Doc Martins Watercolors & Copic markers, as well as a gel pen. I think I should have chosen some different colors on the background to add more contrast between it & the character, but I wanted to use all of those browns & greens in order for your brain to associate it with sludge & toxic waste.

Mr. J...Joker sketch card commission

Just wouldn't feel right with out a joker in there somewhere, so here ya go. Joker sketch card commission. watercolor on watercolor card stock, also used a couple of markers & a gel pen.