Category: Art: Inking

2018 Monster Month: Blue Frankie

I hate to disappoint, but I decided that this year I won’t be doing my usual Monster Month series through the month of October. Typically I post a new monster drawing each weekday during this month, but things have been just a little too busy with some freelance projects, and being full-time on a new series for Warner Bros. based on Dr. Seuss’ Green Eggs & Ham book. (Oh yeah, I haven’t really announced that in a big way yet. So, guess what I’ve been working on lately?)

ANYway… I may post the occasional monster here and there this month, but it won’t be an onslaught this year. That being said, let’s kick off October 1st with a new version of my favorite creature that goes bump in the night, Dr. Frankenstein’s monster!

 

Dr. Frankenstein was talented medically, but he sure didn’t know the first thing about orthodontia.
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Sam Elliott

Doodled up a little bit of cowboy actor Sam Elliott. You’ve seen him in Tombstone, The Big Lebowski, Netflix’s The Ranch, and even as a voice of a T-Rex in The Good Dinosaur that was really a cowboy role. He’s just such a fun actor to see on the screen no matter what he’s in.

I haven’t met Mr. Elliott, but hope to in the near future – he’s just about the only member of the original Mission:Impossible TV cast I have not met yet, and I’m a HUGE fan of that old show.

He also has the best mustache in the business. (Tom Selleck is a close second.)

 

It’s the hat, but even more, it’s the mustache.
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Bunny and Bear

Had some time between storyboards the other day to just let my mind and hand wander. This was the result.

 

Yes, it was a hot, muggy wind, but the bunny thought it was just an affect of summer. The fish knew otherwise.
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Jack Out of the Box

I’m still playing around with some digital brushes in Photoshop, and recently worked up this painted sketch with a gouache look.

It’s kind of fun trying to play around with broad strokes and tones rather than the endless noodling I do when I paint traditionally. Also, painting digitally allows me create subtle color builds MUCH easier than when trying to paint traditionally. However, at the end of the project, there is no original painting. It only exists in the ether.

For this drawing, I reached back into my brain thinking of the style of great European comic book characters such as the original Smurfs and Asterix for inspiration. I always LOVED that kind of art style, which seemed to be seldom utilized by American cartoonists.

Jack is a super tiny Englishman being confronted by the giant who really is the victim of a home invasion when you think about it. You’d be upset, too, if some punk kid slid under your door to eat your food and steal your golden goose all from right under your nose. Fe to the Fi to the Fo to the Fum.

 

Looks like the giant don’t know Jack.
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Cat and Mouse

I had a few minutes to doodle something the other day, and returned to the topic of cats. Then the few minutes turned into another few when it felt like the little guy (and his even littler buddy) should be in color.

 

Friends support each other.

 

A little ol’ digital gouache painting, all in Photoshop. Having fun with the Kyle brushes.

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Drawn & Quoted: Mob Mentality

“Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.“

– Paulo Coelho (1947 – present)

 

Nothing worse than a hitman with unfulfilled dreams and aspirations. Makes you bad at your job.

 

I don’t know. Sometimes it is just fun to pair an inspirational quote with an image that one might not initially think should go together. Or maybe they DO go together!

Perhaps the average hitman has dreams of being at the top of his game, right? Or maybe he has an unfulfilled aspiration to leave his dirty work behind and become a primo ballerino. Who knows?

Whatever YOU choose in life, knock ’em dead! (Figuratively speaking if you are not a hitman.)

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I’m Batman

Every now and then I get a little time where I can experiment. Still playing with some new brushes (to me) in Photoshop, working in a rough painting style. It’s kind of fun blocking in colors to get the feeling and action across instead of the detailed noodling I’m used to doing.

Also, I’m Batman.

Things that go bump in the night.
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Light the Birthday Candle!

Last week an old friend of mine from college shot me an e-mail surprising me with the news that she was in town with her family, so we made plans for me to show the six of them around the Warner Bros. studio where I now work.

The night before, her husband let me know that the day we’d be together was her birthday! So, with not much warning, I made this card for her the night before. After 26 years, it was a sweet reunion.

Dragons never seem to have to search for a match to light a birthday candle.

 

Good thing he has his own wings, because TSA would never let him board a plane.
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