Rocky Mountain Con 2014 - Abominable Snowman

Here's an exclusive print for the 2014 Rocky Mountain Con.

Abominable Snowman depicted in the ever popular Adventure Time animated style.  The background is a fully vectored illustration--what the what?!?

Interested in getting one for your collection? Just contact me and we'll get you hooked up!

Were-Tigress!

Howabout a were-tigress?

Super Saiyan Gohan

Gohan hitting Super Saiyan.

Went with a bit of Sean Galloway and Genndy Tartakovsky stylistic approach...hope to have this one inked and colored once I get my computer back from the hard drive repairs.  Y'all okay with an iPad photo?

Big Sister

I went with the vicious antagonist from the second game, the horrific Big Sister. Dang, is she creepy and tough as nails.

Rocko's Modern Life - SketchCard Triptych

Sketchcard triptych.  Heffer was supposed to be on the right, but I didn't draw everyone in the correct scale so...yeah...

Marker, colored pencils, & Sharpie.

Vertigo

I wanted to do an uncommon female villain so I went with Vertigo from the Marauders.

Inked at ComicFest 2013.  Good to see all the Timberline representation at the convention.  There's so many of us there--it's like legion or something.

Green Mystic Ranger

Green Mystic Ranger from Power Rangers Mystic Force.  His powers stem from the forest (get it? Haha!) Mystic Force's Super Sentai counterpart was the 29th of the epic series called Mahou Sentai Magiranger.

It's not necessarily according to the topic's instructions, but I thought it would be cool to pull a mask on/off piece.

Blue pencil, ink, and Prismacolor on sketch card bristol.

Hunting Perps

I'm experimenting with a new acrylic painting technique with this one. Hope to have that painting posted soon.  Really was tempted to do Dark Judge Joker from the Dredd/Batman crossover, but it didn't lend itself too well to the painting experiment.

Lily Munster

Topic @ Timberlinedraw.blogspot.com - The Munsters

I went with Lily.

It's practice for a new project I'm working on with Dan Barnes and Dead Bride Comics

Boogie Fever...Hypno-Hustler

You know Wikipedia is a helluva thing...I just looked up "List of Spider-Man Villains" and it gave me just that.  I found the Hypno-Hustler and was sold instantly.  Went with a bit of Jim "Dragon" Kelly as some reference/inspiration.  Simple cel-shade coloring in Photoshop. HUSTLAH. Word.

Mysterion Rises - Part 1

Here's the first portion of my entry...unfortunately, I was sidetracked this week with some family issues...I hope to get the rest of it completed...

It's ABOMINABLE Time!

Now I'm not a huge fan of Adventure Time, but I do enjoy it. Part of me just can't get behind some of the story elements, but I respect it stylistically and see where it fits in the grand scheme of American animation. So I figured that I'd try my hand at emulating the style. The catch for me was then attempting to take a classic character, The Abominable Snowman from the Christmas Classic claymation Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and draw him as he'd appear in Adventure Time. I feel like it was successful and I hope to take this piece to completion.

//Destroyer Duck

While it seems like everyone else went with some more recognizable characters, I went with Destroyer Duck...King Kirby did the art for this book that was written by Steve Gerber who, at the time, was going through copyright issues with Marvel over another fowl-mouthed character Howard the Duck...I realize that if that explosion is actually behind him, the right side should have the thicker border of ink...and I'm sad that I couldn't figure out a way to throw the "Kirby Krackle" in there somehow...

//Strange Occupation

Oddly enough, no one else picked this guy?  I struggled with the background.  I wanted to impress upon the fact that this guy is larger than life and has this intensity about him.

//2100

I took a different approach--instead opting to go with the Lone Wolf 2100 version of this classic storyline. A mix of sci-fi and samurai storytelling, this version of Lone Wolf features a female "cub" named Daisy and her protector Itto who holds a fascinating secret. Francisco Ruiz Velasco did a fantastic job of bringing this futuristic, but horribly ruined world to life. If you haven't read this series, I'd look it up in TPB format and highly recommend it.

This piece pretty much just fell out of my head and onto the page through my pencil.  I did it in blue pencil again, but tweaked it to the red in Photoshop.  There's some discrepancies with it, but overall I think it's a successful piece.

//Two-Face

Here's my piece for Batman.  Initially, I'd wanted to go with Commissioner Gordon, but I had recently seen the two-part Two-Face origin episode from Batman: The Animated Series and just had to go with this.  I'm thinking of enlarging this and transferring to a large canvas for a traditional oil painting (but that probably will never happen--haha).

//Tony the Tiger - Final with Process

Final Pencils

Final Inks

Colors

This is the first of what I hope to be a full on project that will eventually culminate into an arcade game.  

Pencils were taken into Photoshop, converted to cyan for inking.  I printed off that cyan copy, inked it, and then re-scanned the piece.  Once scanned, I clean up any stray pencil lines and brought it into Illustrator and further cleaned up using the Live Trace feature.  I did this to give a better, more organic feel to the inks as my inking tends to lose some of the organic-ness of the pencil drawing.  Then it was brought back into Photoshop for a traditional coloring.  While the subject matter usually has a cel-shaded coloring applied to it, I chose to go with a more "traditional" coloring style as it is the desired look for the overall project.

Any critiques are greatly encouraged!