Friday, October 16, 2009

Twas the sketch dump before all hallow's

First off is my kittens with their barfing Jackolantern. Wanted to capture them before they started to leave the nest. Next, just some of some characters I haven't drawn in a while. First my very first characters the tall boy Andrew I always used to cut his head off on purpose because in scale he was taller then the rest. I also didn't have face for him,but now he has a face and was shrunk down to normal size by the wizard on the right. Third is a vampire that has been bitten without consent by some he trusted. Woot going to see a My Fair Lady at the Opera House tonight, it's one of my most favorite plays and Eliza has been a dream role of mine, because of the challenge of both accents and the singing. Although George Bernard Shaw wasn't to have them giving his Pygmaleon a happy ending. He actually wrote an essay epilogue about where the characters ended up and why it needed to be that way. Well in his original Eliza and Freddy got married and opened her Flower shop, but freddy ran off after an Heiress, couldn't stomach not having money. Higgins comes to gloat over her every once in awhile at the shop.




Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Patron St. of Holiday Spirits



Old work, but I revisted in order to put it into my online galleries, first was to just pump up the color and fix the angle of the bottle, maybe after I get some critique, I know how to finish it. But St. Sparrow is a parody of St. Nick, I started off with a badly spoofed parody of the poem "A visit from St. Nick"..wouldn't it be neat to have a guy give adults a treat to good grownups . So I made him a patron st. of Alcohol, my own version of Bacchus. Oh and this also parodies the vintage Coca-cola Illustrations done by Haddon Sunblom. It helped shaped our modern image of St. NIck along with Thomas Nast's Illustrations of the poem. I still love to read it with my friends every Christmas.

This is the exact painting I parodied it from: I is Santa raiding ur fridge!






FInished St. Sparrow Concept: Still needs alittle work hope to find the orignal PSD to work from somewhere.






Unearthly Challenge Progress v2

The first two are Razvan's critiques and paintovers to help me out with angle and perspective.The next drawings are my version 2 of my theatre more Globe Theatre like (elizabethan theater) than ampitheater. Glass lanterns or now maybe glowing stones for the night lights. The point of contention now is the rotunda/cupula or dome wether it should be stained glass or clear. I'm still not sure if this quite the loo k I want since I usually go with my first choices(a bad habit I know), but I'm still exploring my options. Red moon, regular night with full moon. Corridor and house view of stage through columns..loose sketches nothing well painted yet.