having fun

Sketching in painter

Panthro

HAhahaha I think I like this one more than the finished version

Iron man Painting

I gotta admit, after seeing the Iron man movie I was definitly influenced to attempt one of the hardest things to do in any media... METAL!!! hehehe...  I had to do my own version of Mr. Invincible himself... I'll be honest I'm not sure if I like this one or not But hey I had fun and I guess that's all that matters. I look at it as it being  my own personal practice session... as my instructor says I'll bring it up a notch on the next one, HEY 

at least I'm not just painting heads any more:)

This is the shot of my original color choices from Painter before I decided to brighten it up a bit in Photoshop. I thought I would upload it since I worked on it and thought someone might like to see it.

Mr. Invincible Himself

2. I ran a plastic filter over this one and it gives it a little more shine... But I think Im starting to lean towards image one

3. okay I know the top one looks a lot like this bottom one  BUT they are different... I ran a watercolor filter over this version. And yeah I know it's subtle changes  to number 2 and 3 but I get to be fickled and ... ( in the tune of its my party ) its my blog and I can have fun if I want to. 

Iron Man Sketch

This is my sketch for the next painting I'm working on so here is a sneak peek.

~D~

Hero and the Beast

playing around with Wolverine

Here is a close up of the painted head

This is just a snippet of the image I'm working  ( so yes there is more to this piece than just a head hahaha ). On the last two pieces I started I didn't finish them ( yet... Maybe I'll go back to them) . The goal on this one is to do a bust shot I'll explain further my idea of the sketch when I upload the painting. I was remembering my comic days and started drawing this image then I realized I only needed the skeleton for the painting and I guess I was also curious to see if I added more detail if this would help my painting any... I guess it might the more you have the less you have to think of oh well on to painting. Honestly I think I really wanted to draw but got bored to quickly.

Wonder Woman

I've been wanting to do Wonder Woman for some time now I probably could have pushed this the colors in this piece some more but sometimes less is more I guess. I remember on the old Wonder Woman TV show the wipes for the the show were the stars  and this image I wanted to do an homage to the show and the comic thus the stars and the comic like layout, a little Linda Carter in the eyes a little shout out  to the comic version ( in style ) and the show and hopefully I got the right mix, hey... I like the amalgam. I had to repaint the face about 10 times !!!! but once I finally got what I was looking for I was able to move on to the other stuff. I was also stressing  about how to do her lasso  then it hit me do it in Photoshop ... uh ... not telling you HOW I did it unless you really want to know hehehehe.  ( 95 % of this image was done in Painter and the other 5 % in Photoshop).

Space Ghost

Okay here it is .... I've always wanted to do Space Ghost and he was one of my favorite Saturday morning line up heroes, so hey I threw it out there and gave it a shot .... AND YEAH I Know this is not the traditional Space Ghost but I saw another artist do his take on SG and liked it so much it inspired me to do this version. Im not as happy with it as I thought I would be, I'm still attempting to learn how to paint the human form BUT HEY I'M HAVING FUN WHILE I'M LEARNING I'll keep working at it. Ha ! They normally look pretty good small but these are probably better viewed enlarged. well on to the next one.

Someone ask to see a closer version of the head? Here it is ... I did a version where light was reflecting onto the black but I think I like the stark black better for some reason, It reminds me more of Space Ghost. but I thought I'd put both up.

HEROES (painted)

Jedi Assassin

Gatick Geed'Gak

Having worked on the Star Wars team At Hasbro I remembered seeing this Praying Mantis creature and when giving the challenge to create a Jedi Assassin I thought of this character and thought it might be cool to come up with my own version of an alien from that race... I didn't realize the original villain was female which made it even cooler when I found out the creature I was creating was also. the challenge was to create a star wars character it must be original, FEMALE, and a Jedi Assassin I got excited thinking I was going to get a chance to do a Jedi.... well ANYWAY... I thought praying mantis are mean little ( and Looking) creatures so I thought Gatick Geed'Gak... hired Assassin but make her really big ... She's run into Jedi before and lost a part of her right wing to a formidable advisory, the Jedi that did it??? not as lucky , it only persisted to really tick her off and she is one Yam'rii you don't want to tick off. Although I did not draw her weapons she wears energized gauntlets capable of reflecting a light saber, but her true ability exist in her blinding speed and size this is what makes her a worthy opponent , be sure you don't lose , because you may become dinner for Gadtick.

~The original character~

Kitik Keed'kak

was a female Yam'rii, also known as Huk from the planet Huk. She had a bad temper and could be made angry very easily. She was amazingly strong given her tiny frame and was known for her stealthiness. Keed'kak was also very good with technology. Her diet consisted of meat and eggs.

She was in Chalmun's Cantina, and followed Sai'torr Kal Fas outside, hoping she would lead her to her nest. Keed'kak was friends with Swilla Corey.

The Rhino

These figure paintings work better than the heads for you Mr. jereboam jump HEHEHE.

IN A FLASH!!! ( NOT )

MAN  I didn't realize this stuff could be this draining when you are not feeling well, I'm trying to get out of the timidity  of doing the human form, the guys in my link make this stuff look like a walk in the park... MAN!!! okay .... need some rest now wouuuugghhhhh!!!!

Ugo Girl Randy and Me

Wasn't feeling to well but I still wanted to paint something so I grabbed a piece from Randy Green and painted it in painter.

SHE SUCH A BULLY!!!!!

A painting i did over Joe Mad

I painted this image and I wanted to see a water color filter on it. I have  a regular one if anyone wants to see it. hehehe okay Michael here you go hahaha

water color approach

another quickie.

was just playing around on another head the pencils are by the late great Mike Wieringo and the paint is mine.. I just wanted to see what it would look like if I painted over someone else's work

10 min Kabuki

I got frustrated with the body painting I was working on and decided to pull a way and do something else to get me back in the right mode ...did a quick 5 min (below) and this 10 min piece. Actually it really kinda scary ... I WASN'T TRYING ON THIS ONE I was deliberately not trying to follow a structure and WAS GOING FOR SPEED they came out better than the body I was working on ... WAY better in fact, don't know what my block is. MAN I HATE THAT!!!!

sumari guy like...person

Just wanted to do another fast and dirty painterly type sketch.

Another Stab at bizzaro

Here is a close up of the headand a Knee to head shot

Moto Racing

the last one I did just seemed to sloppy... I slowed down and had some fun on this one

Nascar Paint Sketch

I've seen some people doing these quick color swatch things so I thought I'd play around with the technique. my brush didn't do quite what I was expecting it to do but hey I'll try it again .

Bizarro

I'm still working on that full body thing ... Nothing I'm ready or comfortable showing or uploading yet. Aghhhhhh man this stuff is harder than it looks... wow the guys in my links make this stuff look like child's play. this is where comic anatomy just kinda goes out the window and you're better off drawing from life instead of out of your head. 

The Green Goliath

This was inspired by a really cool sculpt and I thought Id add my own little thing to it, this is a much better approach than the one below MAN WHAT WAS I THINKING!!!!

Silver Surfer Painter Style

HAHAHA here you go mike the star field you requested I even made sure there were a couple of planets in the shot