Tokyo drift

I know I was pretty stoked when I herd this weeks pic of Tokyo. I guess Tokyo just makes me think of all the Japanese things I love, so my entry this week is just a small tribute to all of the great things that have influenced my work. I dedicated my weekly sketch jam to this weeks theme. I wish I could put all of the things that I love from Japan on one sheet but I’d be drawing till next month! So I picked a couple of my faves.

Godzilla needs no introduction.

Kay on the power bike from AKIRA.

The original Gundam RX-78-2.

Deunan  Knute who might be considered a complete badass if she wasn’t already partners with the most badass cyborg ever Briareos.

Last and certainly not least Ryu from street fighter.

I look at this page and it just makes me think about all ton of other fantastic things that come out of that place.

~Don

Neo Tokyo...

The first thing I thought of when I saw this topic was Godzilla. The second thing I thought of was Akira. I guess that says volumes about my geekiness when the first two things I think of a country are a giant lizard that destroys it and cartoon/comic.

I went with Akira, Tetsuo to be more precise because I have never drawn anything from Akira before and I thought it would be fun. It was lol but that mutant arm was killer.

Kittylady....

I did Catwoman for this weeks pick. I’ve never drawn her before so that was fun. Well I guess this is more my version of her on the tumbler, none of it is accurate to the movie as I didn’t want to hunt down a pic and just draw that. Still after watching all of those movies I felt there were some interesting sort of homage moments to AKIRA in certain scenes. Kind of bizarre but it’s not the first time the bat has done it. Hell if you want a real weird tie in Katsuhiro Otomo has even done a short black and white Batman story for DC. Anyhow, after Kevin and I saw the Movie on Sunday he was saying the only reason why I liked Catwoman was because they had her on the tumbler…gotta say it was a good call on Nolan’s part in my book! LOL

Anyhow I think I’m going to frame the line art for this one and do it up for the charity auction coming up. Bring on the BATS folks!!!! :D

~Don