Star Wars Holocron Sketch Cards

 

These are most of the cards that I did for the Star Wars Holocron set released by Topps yesterday. I will post my Artist Proofs soon. My focus on this set were from the last season of The Clone Wars and the 1st season of The Mandalorian. 

A Michigan To Texas Birthday Wish 2020

 

Each year, my friend Sandra down in Texas gets internet pics posted for her birthday and hopefully, she still gets a bunch of them. This year's pic is from this past October when I went for an open air helicopter ride. One can see my knee as we did a steep left bank, and that scene is a pretty good fall sky in Michigan.

Happy Birthday, Sandra!

Merry Christmas!

 

Patton M.O.D.O.K.

 

As much as I'm looking forward to watching the animated M.O.D.O.K., I have to say that I was a bit disappointed that we will not see Patton Oswalt's face as the A.I.M. super villain. 

Morganton Alarmed!

 

I have a lot to catch up on in regards to work done these past few months. Some I can't show as of yet, but some I can, so here is the 3rd drawing in a series of work being done in the mentorship program with Giuseppe Castellano through The Illustration Dept. These scenes are my adaptations of the Jules Verne book Master of the World. There's more to come from this series, as well as another that we are working on involving moments in history.

Robur And The Escape To The Eyrie

 

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I'm somewhat behind on posting the work that I have been doing amidst my 6 month mentorship program with Giuseppe Castellano, as I have been gratefully busy as of late. This is the second drawing done involving scenes from the Jules Verne book, Master of the World. It has been challenging to not only compose these scenes, but to design the characters, the vehicle, the settings, etc. Guiseppe is one hell of an art director and his insights have been a boon for me. If you are not familiar with Guiseppe and the Illustration Dept., one would do well to check out the forum, the classes, the bookshop and the podcast.

Yves Tanguy Sketch

 

I've been super busy as of late and will have much to show, hopefully soon. In the meantime, I couldn't resist doing a sketch of my 2nd favorite surrealist, Yves Tanguy. Dali, owed a lot of his early ideas to this guy, this Tanguy. His wife, Kay Sage, was quite a surrealist painter, as well. Maybe better. Further examinations of her works are a definite must. 

Inktober Day 31: Crawl

The last one. I promise. The word? Crawl.

 

Inktober Day 30: Ominous

 

Monoliths suddenly appearing are always Ominous, which is the official word prompt for today.

Inktober Day 29: Shoes

 

Today's word prompt is: Shoes. So, you get the best shoes.

Inktober Day 28: Float

 

Today's official word prompt, which is 'Float,' brought to mind a six grade musical number that we would sing at times. It went something like this:

Gobs and gobs of grimy, greasy gopher guts

Mutilated monkey meat

Prehistoric piggy feet

French fried eyeballs

swimming in a bowl of blood

And you forgot your spoooooon...

But, we have straaaaaws...

The things I remember. This eyeball isn't French-fried, though.

Inktober Day 27: Music

 

Rattle them bones! Today's official word prompt is: Music. 

Inktober Day 26: Hide

 

Dude Skin Rug? Does one put something like this in front of a fireplace or keep hidden in a dungeon? What would Marie Kondo think? 

Today's official word prompt is: Hide.

Inktober Day 25: Buddy

 

Today's official word is: Buddy. So, maybe not so much of a buddy... You know how it all turned out if you've seen the movie How To get Ahead In Advertising. So, 'Buddy' might be a very loose definition here.

Inktober Day 24: Dig

 

Today's word prompt is: Dig. Gravediggers dig.

Inktober Day 23: Rip

 

Today's official word prompt is: Rip. Instead of some poor doofus being torn in half, I thought a cool tombstone with a doofus on it might be more entertaining. 

Inktober Day 22: Chef

 

Today's word prompt is: Chef. I had thought maybe a zombie chef, but how could I pass up a muppet? 

Inktober Day 21: Sleep

 

Today's official word prompt is: Sleep. Sleep tight and don't let the shadowy imps creepily watching you bite. 

Inktober Day 20: Coral

Today's official word prompt is: Coral. 

 

Inktober Day 19: Dizzy

 

Today's official word prompt is: Dizzy. I think that this one came up a couple of years ago and was going to go with the same image... one of Dizzy Gillespie. But, I didn't want to repeat, so went with a tilt-o-whirl type thing. Dizzy.

Inktober Day 18: Trap

 

Today's official word prompt is: Trap. Those little imps, they just can't resist a jar of skittles...

Inktober Day 17: Storm

 

Today's official word prompt is: Storm. I thought of using the Marvel character, but two days in a row? Naw. 

Inktober Day 16: Rocket

 

Today's word prompt is 'Rocket.' I was going to go with some poor schmuck standing absentmindedly under a rocket at the time of launch, but decided that an angry Raccoon would be much more fun to draw. I'm sure many came to the same conclusion.

Inktober Day 15: Outpost

 

Today's official word prompt is 'Outpost.' With a creepy cowpoke thrown in.

Inktober Day 14: Armor

 

Today's official word prompt is 'Armor.' 

Inktober Day 13: Dune

 

I'm sure that everyone will be doing a sandworm for today's official word prompt: Dune. It's all about the spice.

Inktober Day 12: Slippery

 

The word of the day is 'Slippery.' Who hasn't woke up first thing in the morning and slipped on some guts?

Inktober Day 11: Disgusting

 

Today's official word prompt is 'Disgusting.' I'm sure that someone out there will find something delicious in this. 

Inktober Day 10: Hope

 

Today's official word was a tough one: Hope. How can I make this Halloweenish? Infection can be ghoulish, especially if one is part of a particularly dumb administration...

So, there ya go.

Inktober Day 9: Throw

 

Today's official word prompt is 'Throw.' Who better to throw something than the good ole Headless Horseman?

Inktober Day 8: Teeth

 

Today's official word prompt is 'Teeth.' And for those not in the know, this shark is not a figment of my imagination, it actually existed at one time. It was called a helicoprion. Look them up, as they were a wild looking shark.

Inktober Day 7: Fancy

 

Today's official word prompt is 'Fancy.' What could be fancier than a fancy hipster vampire? I know, aren't they all? This one even has skinny jeans and a scarf.

Agent Strock And The Terror

 

(click on image to make bigly)

Here is the finished drawing that was shown last week through my mentorship program with Giuseppe Castellano from The Illustration Dept.

This is a wordless kind of graphic novel type approach to illustrating a book, in this case, I chose Master of the World by Jules Verne.

Inktober day 6: Rodent

 

Today's word prompt is Rodent. So, an R.O.U.S. for your amusement. I hope. I always liked that you could tell that there was a human inside those costumes. 

Inktober Day 5: Blade

 

Today's word is: Blade. I originally thought of something hacking something, but then again, it's his name. It's right there. 

Inktober Day 4: Radio

 

Today's official Inktober word prompt is 'Radio.' Evil radio it is.

Inktober Day 3: Bulky

 

Today's official word prompt for Inktober is 'Bulky.' 

Inktober Day 2: Wisp

Today's official word prompt for Inktober is 'Wisp.'

 

Inktober Day 1: Fish

 

Ok, here we go again. This will be my third go at the Inktober sketch a day challenge and today's official word prompt is Fish. As always I will try to keep them in a creepy Halloween vibe, but some of the words will be somewhat challenging, so we'll see.

Jackie O. Galapagos

 

So, for my next character design, I chose Jackie O. from the recently reread Kurt Vonnegut book, Galapagos.  While not really a character in the book, she is mentioned as one of the celebrities that have booked 'The Cruise of the Century' to the Galapagos Islands in the story. The intended cruise. You'll have to read the book to know more. 

A character by the name of Jesus Ortiz describes my inspiration for Jackie O., or as he puts it, Señora Kennedy:

"But now the truth about one of these supposedly wonderful visitors, *Andrew MacIntosh, had polluted Ortiz's metal picture not only of all the other minor deities, but of Señora Kennedy herself.

So that head-and-shoulders portrait grew fangs like a vampire, and the skin dropped off the face, but the hair stayed on. It was a grinning skull now, wishing nothing but pestilence and death for little Ecuador."

Emma Peel Artist Proof Sketch Cards

Since the passing of Diana Rigg last week, I thought it would be a good time to make my Emma Peel sketch cards available for purchase again. And not at a higher price, either. In fact, I've lowered the price some. These cards were done for two different set, but basically the same company. The first two were through Strictly Ink and the next two after their name change to Unstoppable Cards. Links are below each card.

Emma Peel 1

SOLD

Emma Peel 2 

SOLD

Emma Peel 3 

SOLD

Emma Peel 4

SOLD

Zombuggeez™ Stickers, Part Three

These just arrived Zombuggeez™ stickers are now available on my web site's store. This is the third of six that will be available (even more in the future!). These stickers are done with the same vibes as the old Big Daddy Roth, BK Taylor, Coop, etc monster cars of years past and present. So, check out my site for this one, as well as the others goodies.

Carl Sagan

This post continues coming up with character designs from the books that I'm reading, with none other than Carl Sagan. Now this was a work of non-fiction (The Dragons Of Eden), but I thought what if Carl were to be made into an animated tv show or cartoon of some sort? I know, I know, how could Carl Sagan be any more animated than he already was? Well, here he is doing just that.

Seriously, I think he was very animated, talking with his hands just as much as his words.

Soiled