FRANKY STEIN AND A CORPSE BRIDE

DON'T FALL ON ME

It seems like the long train wreck of our economy is finally coming to it's conclusion. We knew it was coming and we knew it was bad, but it was hoped I guess, that the markets would work it all out. Big surprise. Here's your bill.

Pseudo Noir

This design was put together from sketchbook sketches for no particular reason at all.

HOWL

Howl 4

Howl 3

Howl 2

Howl 1

BLAH, BLAH, BLAH...

SOPHIASTRY

Late Night Nonsense

More unexplained phenomenon from the head of lead.

In Space No One Can Hear You Whine

GOONS

Here are some cosmetically challenged gents. Sketched on the side of paying work.

DRAWIN' ME OUT

Word on the street is I've been neglectin' the blog too long.
Been caught up in a complex web of conspiracy to drive me mad.
In other words, I've been busy with freelance.

RARE BIRDS

These were drawn with Prismacolor pencils while I was scanning other art. I wish they had scanned better. I might do them in another medium.

John Carter of Mars

I don't know about you, but I'm really curious to see what Pixar will do with Edgar Rice Burroughs other great adventure hero.
Here are some links:
Wikipedia entry.

Fan Site

A lot of people have attempted to make this movie (even Looney Tunes animator Bob Clampett tried) but for some reason it never happens. Here's an interesting interview with Illustrator/Production Designer William Stout about an ill-fated attempt at making a movie adaptation of the story.

DIGITAL TIDDLYWINKS

PHIL BLANK: INTERSTELLAR ACCOUNTANT

BOLDLY ASSESSING THE ACCUMULATED DEPRECIATION OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL ASSETTS.

ROBOT MENACE

LEAP OF FAITH

A quick sketch done in Painter and Photoshop.
When I was a kid playing pool we'd call this "slop". Slop was a shot that went in but wasn't the actual shot you were trying to make. In art we would call that a "happy accident".

Blackbird sent me here via her blog. The results were predictable.

WEB BLOB

TAXES?

YYYUUP.

SKETCHINESS

CONAN


WOMEN

Spacey

Quickly sketched and poorly proportioned space art.

A NEW CANDIDATE TAKES THE SPOTLIGHT

IT'S A NEW YEAR

yup.

ROUGHS FOR POSSIBLE PAINTINGS

Digital.

Colored pencil.

MUTANTS

Schpluckt.

Stalker.

Ira.

Snoggle.

If I Had a Rocketship...

These are sketches for paintings.
Alien landscapes for adventurers and escapists.
Or snapshots of places I've never been.

Y ROBOT

... just because.

More Digital Painting...

Design

This was made in Illustrator and Photoshop.

Boo.

This is an old sketch that I changed in Photoshop. This is how I should have drawn it the first time.

This is what it looked like originally.

UNCLE CREEPY

Back in the 70's we all had a creepy uncle who would tell us scary stories. He had a cousin named Eerie and they had a gorgeous friend named Vampirella who was really out of this world.
Warren Magazines were a nice step up out of superhero comics and into adolescence. The more mature and risque stories and art provided a great outlet for some of the best comic artist in the business to tell more mature stories. There was a kind of carnival fun quality to them. They didn't take themselves too seriously.

SCARY CRAZY

Space Girl Color Version

RETRO SPACE LADY

IF-BLUES

Blues for Illustration Friday.

MORE SKETCHES

These sketches were done in marker at the same time as the previous sketches. The color was added later. The pictures weren't intended to relate to one another, but, especially now that they're colored, they look almost like a comic page. I've been thinking of a narration to add. I'll post it if it works.

SKETCHES WITH COLOR

I sketched these in marker, then later colored in Painter while I watched an interview with author Richard Matheson online. Matheson's the author of "I Am Legend", "The Incredible Shrinking Man", "Somewhere In Time", some great episodes of the "Twilight Zone", adapted the "Night Stalker" for television and has written many other T.V. shows and books.