Week 4: Nemo's Nautical Nuclear Nautilus

Apologies for the delay. I had what I thought was and would be a rad idea, and something different for me, but the siren lead me off course and into the maelstrom of failure/ botched attempts.
So, as penance for my delay, I donated 24 dollars to the Red-Cross. (24 for 24 hours). Not only that, but if anyone does want this puppy, I'll donate the sale to the red-cross. Win win.



The downside of the delay, was that I saw Casey's work. The Squid of ages was prominent in his work, and I wanted to avoid that, less they look too similar. Yes, the subject is Jules Vern's "Nautilus" of Captain Nemo's creation, but there has to be some difference.
I had a blast making a quick version of Nemo's lackeys. It looks almost like the start of a recruitment poster.

"Captain Nemo wants YOU for his submariner antidisestablishmentary army!"

Ok, the slogan needs work.
Enjoy.

here's the botched attempt. When I massacred the face, I called it quits.








So, the first "melt down" was mine. Casey, pressures off ya.

Week 4 - Casey's Nautilus (aka Mr. Squid's Wild Ride)

It's kinda buried under a big mess of tentacles but if you look real close you'll see one of the greatest ships of all time - the Nautilus from "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea." Naturally I went with the version from the old Disney movie which is awesome in all its bubble-windowed, saw bladed and riveted glory.

Week 3 - Casey's Bear Man

So we decided to take it outta the 80's this week and do something a little more topical (rest assured we'll get back to reliving our Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bomb addled youths soon enough) and what better subject to tackle than the guy who stole the show in my favorite scene of my favorite movie last year - Bear Man from "True Grit." Not only is he a bad-ass grizzled mountain man with a serious set of whiskers but he also wears a giant bear skin AND he's a dentist. It really doesn't get any cooler than that.

I went for a little different approach this week; a little looser and finished it off with some watercolors. Came out pretty snazzy I think.

Week 3: You are not LeBoeuf. "True Grit" bear man

You are not LeBoeuf.


Undoubtedly the best dentist in the West, the "bear man" from True Grit.
Trying to keep the drawings looser and fret & stress less about them, here's a fun character from one of my favorite macabre comedies.



(and a dapper frontiersman with a penchant for fine hats)

*note: need to fix my scanner. The white pages come off a bit more blue tinted.

Week 2 - Casey's Trap Jaw

I gotta say, Zach set the bar pretty high this week with his awesomely whacked out version of TJ. My hat is off to you my friend! The best part about tackling Trap Jaw was doing some research and reminding myself of just how much I freakin' loved He-Man as a kid and ESPECIALLY those mini-comics that came with the action figures. I tracked down a few issues and was pretty blown away by how awesome they still are, thanks in no small part to some great artwork by Mark Texeira doing his best Barry Windsor-Smith/Frazetta and succeeding quite well - though you can certainly spot traces of how his style would later develop into its own cool thing. Anyway, here's a battle wounded Trap Jaw shambling around in front of old Castle Grayskull and waving around a pneumatic hook. GRRRR!!!

Week 2: Trapjaw.

This week, we chose to do one something dear to us.
An unsung hero.
Always struggling to change the world, yet seldom recognized.
We saw him, yet never appreciated.
Now, we salute the hero of Eternia; Trapjaw.


I wanted to still use ink, but went with an old (and now broken) quill pen. See if you can spot where it broke! Trapjaw's amazingly 80's colors are still present and I wanted him to look at least half as menacing as he deserves to. Not just some buffoon in a green loincloth.

Like last week, I abandoned some first drafts. I'll post those under here later. With those drafts, I'm just overworking the subject. The above and final is what just jumped out at at the page and defiled it in the name of Skeletor and his nefarious legions.

Enjoy.

Week 1: Casey's Garthim

And so it begins! The first Tag Team Tuesday. I had a blast drawing this Garthim and of course you can never go wrong with Fizzgig or in this case a rabid flock of Fizzgigs. Vicious little dudes.

Week 1: Garthim Soldiers (ala: Dark Crystal.)

The First week of Tag Team Tuesdays!

With Casey's suggestion, we started out with a pretty rad, and fairly obscure subject; the GARTHIM SOLDIER! Known from 'The Dark Crystal' this behemoth beetle was the brute force behind the Skeksis.
I always wanted to see more of these guys, and thought they were just amazing. When sketching out ideas, I got to thinking: "what's better than the Garthim? A f*cking Skeksis riding a Garthim! With that bad ass sword too!" (clearly, I was listening to some pretty bad metal).

After 5 passes at it, here's the result and the FIRST contribution to TAG TEAM TUESDAYS!






I call it: "hide yo Gelflings, hide yo podlings, cause we're draining yo essence up in here."

The original is for sale at a steal of a price: 25.00 USD (plus shipping) @ etsy