Tron - rh

10 - TRON

Tenth anniversary drawing.   Yah!

I was at a comedy club on the weekend and saw a cartoony poster of a character holding up a sign.  I was going to ape it but in the end defaulted to my 'comic book' style.  The pose is still similar though.

It's an ok drawing but the angle of the hips and shoulders were suppose to contrast more and mirror the angle of the disc she is holding.  That's not apparent when I look at the drawing ... and I drew it!  The rough sketch of this piece has a lot more POP to it but with a lot of my 'finished' pieces, it got lost in transition.  Something else to work on definitely.

Robot - rh

Ash- Robot

9 - Humanoid Robot

This is more of a concept than anything else.  It actually looks quite cheesy with the text and such.

Metropolis was a movie I saw when I was a kid and it freaked me out.  The female robot in it was both frightening and sexy.  She's really the only part of the movie that I remember.  It could have been a raucous comedy for all I know.

This piece is one of the quicker drawings I've done on this blog.  The proportions are way off and when I get lazy, I tend to draw lines with no rhyme or reason which accounts for all the squiggly 'metallic' effect.  Horrible.

I'd actually like to finesse the concept into a more finished piece but I doubt I will.  It's a lot of work and would take more time than I have these days.  Best to just close your eyes and imagine the dystopia of the not too distant future.  Vive la Revolution!

8 - Frazetta Tribute (cleaned up)

Here's a cleaned up Frazetta tribute.  I tried replacing the tigers in the original pic with my cats but I realized I really can't draw felines.  I'll have to work on that.

Frazetta, like many young nerdlings, was a huge artistic hero of mine when I was younger.  I had a small print of his of a woman riding a lizard but it's long gone.  I couldn't even find it online since the man has done so much work over the years.

I thought this would be a fun piece to do but it ended up being an exercise in frustration.  It's hard to work off of someone so talented.  In the end, I took my original sketch (below) and overlayed it with my own style in the finished piece.  I still haven't looked at the original since last week for fear of seeing all the mistakes I made.

Tribute to a master

Okay, so again I'm late posting, but for good reason other than trying to find employment, practise.  Plain and simple.

I hated when this subject ( Frank Frazetta ) was chosen as my strong suit isn't the human body, and we all know each wonderful piece he created had a figure in it.  So, to stay true to what he did, the body, I drew and drew until I was happy with the result, and here it is.  This, unlike the other images I said I would repost, will be cleaned up and posted again as I'm very satisfied with what I came up with.

My character is to appear cocky, hence the pose.  Leaning against a large boulder, spear in hand, and a smirk on his face.

At first, the heads on the sticks in the background were to contain more detail, eyes, mouth, etc. but I've opted to go for skulls which I will introduce in the clean version.

This was a great learning experience as it pushed me to draw outside of my comfort level.

Bill