He's a Happy Bat!

Yay! Batman gots himself a milk shake!

And why not, here's the color version, which you can see here too!

enjoy!

"It's not a doll, It's an ACTION FIGURE" Show

I was asked to participate in the upcoming show, "It's not a doll, It's an ACTION FIGURE", by our good friend and show curator A. Pants. It's starting tomorrow! Here's the skinny...

"Artwork and photography focusing on the love of the action figure!" At the Bear and Bird Gallery, in sunny Lauderhill, Florida! Running June 19 through July 31, 2010.

Here's my contribution...



The One Case
Digital Print and Water Color, Hand Colored
June 2010

"One Case to Rule Them All. One Case to Find Them.
One Case to Bring Them All and In The Darkness Bind Them."

Read more about it at nerdsquared and make sure to visit the gallery and flickr pool.

Lazy Artist

I admit I have been an extremely lazy artist when it comes to my Sketch Blog. It has been a year since I posted anything. In my defense I've been busy with work (doing art) and my studio at home is a wreck, overran with toys.

To further the point I had started a mural on the wall of my work office during my lunch breaks. It was meant to be just a line drawing, as you can see it still needs to be completed. I even had people here that would come in and try to follow my pencils on the wall and help paint during their lunch break, but they gave up as I was taking lunch to work on work.

I always meant for this blog to be a sketch book online of things that were going through my head, drawings that I just wanted to do for fun. So hang in there as I get the sketches organized and make some time to do some more.

Aquaman

As a thank you to a friend for a really generous act, I came up with a colored sketch of his favorite character. I knew I had a limited time to get this done, so I took it straight from my really, really rough thumbnails straight to Illustrator. I then did all my adjustments and tweaks in the computer, instead of flushing out more "finished" sketches by hand.

I thought it would be nice to show the thumbnails next to the finished piece. To see more of Aquaman visit the Aquaman Shrine here, and to see what spurred this sketch visit here.

Playing with Colors

This one is taking a little bit of time, I have been working on it when I need a break, 5 minutes here and there, maybe over lunch. Gives me some time to think about options since it's not a deadline piece, more of a fun one.

Progress with Basset

Here's a progress shot showing the buildup of the illustration.

Pose with Basset

Your standard Justice League heroine pose with a basset. I will be cleaning this up soon, maybe trying a no black outline approach.

International Space Walk

This is a doodle I did several years ago. It is of my son and apparently former Soviet President Gorbachev on a joint space walk. I'm not sure why.

Part of this was later used for a graphic for a CD label.

Ameri-Girl Sketch

A little sketch to try out a few things. It's based on a character called American Dream from Marvel Comics. I always thought it would be nice to take the "Batgirl" treatment and apply to other characters.