TTT 26 - Casey's Daario Naharis

Work in progress - need to slap some (garish) color on this dude.

Need to post my Reed siblings too...

Casey - Coldhands

Hey dude, got a spare set of mittens?

Casey - TTT 23: Gregor Clegane

Well this certainly can't end well, now can it?

TTT 22 - Daenerys Targaryen (and Drogon)

Zach's the one who got me started on 'A Song of Ice and Fire' and he really created a monster. I was just going to watch the series but he told me to read the books first - about a hundred pages into 'Game of Thrones' I was completely and totally hooked. A few weeks of OCD marathon reading sessions later and I'd read up through 'A Dance of Dragons.' For those of you who haven't dove in yet; seriously, wow, I really can't oversell this series - it's far more intelligent, nuanced and expansive than I could have possibly imagined. I finally got around to watching the show and it's a blast but I'm gonna echo Zach's advice and suggest that if you haven't done so already (and have a few thousand hours to kill), you check out the books first.

I think we're gonna try doing a series with the next few posts, first up is Daenerys Targaryen.

Awww, ain't that cute? Drogon likes to snuggle. 

TTT: 21 - President Taft

Election Day! And in honor of that event, we're doing Presidents this week.

Ahh, William Howard Taft, where do I begin? The walrus mustache? The 300 lb, 6'2" frame? The episode where said girthy physique got stuck in a bathtub on his inauguration day and had to be dislodged by four (underpaid) attendants - yes, let's go with that.

Other Taft related factoids to impress your friends and neighbors:

- Didja know that after his presidency, Taft served as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court from 1921 to 1930.

- Anders Zorn painted Taft's official presidential portrait. Don't know who Zorn is or anything about his exquisite use of a limited palette? You're missing out, go read up over here - BAM. Also, HERE!

- The Secret Service's codename for him was "Pruney."

- After the aforementioned "bathtub incident", Taft had a special bathtub made up that was large enough to fit four normal sized men OR one awesome sized President Taft.

TTT: 20 - Were-Dog

Happy Halloween! Being that our dogs are always a favorite topic over in these parts, we figured we'd work'em in to our first post in a little while. Behold, the werewolf-ized version of Charlie!

Week 17 - Casey's Prof Minerva McGonagall

If Prof McGonagall were to tool around in a flying car, I'm 100% sure it'd be a Morgan 3 wheeler. I mean, c'mon, look at that thing!

 

Week 16 - Casey's Jack Torrance

Maybe it was the recent AV Club feature on "The Overlook" (hello road trip!) or maybe it's just the fact that I've watched this movie more times than I can count, either way this week the inspiration hit for The Shining's very own Jack Torrance. I can only hope I did full justice to his greasy comb-over.

Week 15 - Casey's Simian Astronaut

Well, Japanese macaque astronaut to be precise.

I can't claim to have the cool backstory that Lopez did in his post. I'm a simple man, I like monkeys and I like clunky old space-suits. Chocolate, meet peanut butter.  Enjoy!

Week 14 - Sketch Safari - Cafe de Leche

I've been meaning to do some more outdoor sketching and so we're using this week's TTT to do just that. Zach and I set up shop over at Cafe de Leche and did some doodling. This first pic is the view at the corner of York (obviously) and Ave 50.

 

Oh yeah and then somebody left their dog outside while they ran in for a coffee. Some cool little Pitt mix, a total goofball.

Week 11 - Casey's Slimer

Well clearly Zach and I were on the same wavelength this week. Slimer = dumping food into his mouth. Great minds....

I'm fully in the "gross old Slimer" camp, y'know the one from the movie, not the cutesy one from the show. That said, the cartoon was awesome and the later years Slimer did bring us one great thing - Ecto Cooler. According to the box, 10% actual ectoplasm. Yum.

Let the neon colors begin...

Week 10 - Casey's Jetta - B&W

And here's a look at the ink drawing before the paint job.

Week 10 - Casey's Jetta

And here's phase two of our back-to-back beasts week: Zach's radar eared sidekick, Jetta. Here Jetter is hanging out in front of her pad modeling the latest in fetch technology (the squeek-o ball 5000). What, might you ask is Jetta looking at with such keen interest? Why a fence of seven feet in height that she plans on leaping in a single effortless ka-boing. Seriously, dog's an escape artist. No Joke.

This week, I decided to kick it old school with some watercolors. Digital is nice and all but nothing's more fun than making a big old mess and not having an 'undo' key to cover your ass.

Week 9 - Casey's Charlie - Line Art

... And here's the non-Photoshopped pen drawing from my illustration last week.

Week 9 - Casey's Charlie

This week we decided to take a break from the pop culture (specifically the psychotic, cartoonish pop culture villains) and do something a little closer to our hearts; our awesome dogs. This week we're drawing my beast, Charlie. Next week we'll tackle Zach's fetch monster, Jetta.

Here's Charlie doing what he does best, riding shotgun. And looking pretty dignified if I may say so myself. I kinda wanted to try something a little cleaner this week and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. Though, I'm thinking I might go back to the ink drawing and give it a watercolor pass. Stay tuned....

BTW - Lemme just use this opportunity to put in a plug for the good folks at the Glendale Humane Society. My girlfriend and I adopted Charlie from them a couple years back and they were really great. Can you believe such an awesome dog would be at a pound? Well believe it folks and there's plenty more great dogs out there looking for a good home.

B&W Bill

I've been meaning to throw up some roughs & WIP stuff (for those of you interested in that kinda jazz). So to kick things off, here's Bill in all his crow quill glory. No digital paint to fancy it up or fix my rough line work here folks.

Week 5 - Casey's Hamburglar

And... here we go, my Tuesday-ish take on the Hamburglar (and Mayor McCheese thrown in for good measure). I fiddled around on this one for a little too long before settling on a concept; believe it or not this was the least violent of the various takes I noodled around on. Gotta say though, this was by far the most fun I've had thus for on TTT. I could sit around drawing bullet riddled hamburgers all day. Enjoy!

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.