Happy Birthday-Flintstones and Peanuts

Happy Birthday to the Flintstones (50th Anniversary) and Peanuts (60th Anniversary)!

YABBA-DABBA-Good Grief!

NMB: The Balloons

There shall be more over on the NeedsMoreBlue blog. Keep your eyes open!

Mystery Inc and Scooby Doo watercolor pt1

I've been working off and on for the last few weeks on a watercolor. But it isn't just any watercolor... it is of Scooby Doo and the rest of the Mystery Inc. gang!!! -or at least my take on them :)

I started by just doing a quick sketch study of the characters and their position in the classic opening of Scooby Doo, Where Are You. After that, I spent countless evil hours searching the web for the right photo references, because you see, I wanted to paint them in a slightly more "realistic" style (for lack of a better word.) I found Daphne and Velma's counterparts in Alfred Hitchcock movie posters and stills. I used some photos of an old TV comedian and some friends for the foundation of Shaggy and Fred. And I then used photos of great Danes for Scooby. I tried to use the references as a jumping of point in my search for the perfect image in between the original characters and reality.

I believe I then added the inks with a size B and size S PITT artist pen from Faber Castell. I love inking, and using the pens this time really helped me make sure to keep every little detail I wanted from the sketch.

I will try to have more of the process up soon. Right now I'm just about finished adding all the watercolors and background, I just need to get it all on my computer.

I hope you like it so far!

Thanks taking a look and God bless ya!

Fall Bugs for NMB blog

I'm still really excited about the stuff we are doing over on the NEEDS MORE BLUE Blog! I know I haven't posted much on here lately, but its because I am still finishing up a watercolor that I am working on and any time I do get, I have been using to make stuff for NMB. Don't worry, I should be putting more stuff up on here soon!

Special Bonus:
Here are some of the rough sketches I did for this week's NMB theme: Fall Bugs.
You can see the finished, colored drawing here.

I used the book The History of Animation: Enchanted Drawings for reference because it has great character designs of Bugs Bunny from the 1940's and 50's. Get it? I used a play on words! :P








Thanks for checking in! God Bless!

Needs More Blue Treehouses

I'm really excited about the new NEEDS MORE BLUE blog project that some artist friends and I are doing! This week was Cory's choice, and of course he made a great pick: Treehouses!
Just click HERE to see my contribution for this week. I hope you enjoy!
Thanks for stopping by and God Bless!

Space comic: 2

I did this one on a bit larger scale (about 14x4.5) and therefore, I had to scan it in pieces. I then took the pieces on my computer and combined them in PS. Hope yall like it! Thanks for lookin' in! God Bless.

New Space Comic Strip pt2 (old color)

Here is the same strip again. I just thought I would give a go at trying to make it look a little like an old sunday strip in the paper or an old adventure comic. I just used some photoshop tricks (a little benday dot action) that Evan "Doc" Shaner was nice enough to share with me via e-mail. Muchas Gracias, Sir!

I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. I never really intended for this one to be colored, but I kinda like the finished product. Thanks for stoppin over and God Bless!

New Space Comic Strip

Here is a comic I threw together a few days ago. I had been sketchin' a handful of characters for a while and decided to go ahead with the first one. I am not really sure what to call it yet, or what the names of the characters are. Thanks for looking! Hopefully there are more on the way! God bless!

Queen Amidala/Nefertiti

Just finished this lil' piece the other day. It is part of a Star Wars themed thing I thought up that deals with some ancient art. I thought it would be cool if the scenes and characters from "a long time ago..." were depicted in ancient styles. I'm not sure how many more are coming, but I'm pretty happy with how this one turned out.



Here is the original, an ancient sculpture of the famous Queen of Egypt, Nefertiti. What better piece to get inspiration from when trying to depict Queen Amidala from the Star Wars prequel trilogy? I looked at the original and compared it to a picture in profile of Natalie Portman as Amidala. I then sketched it out in my sketch book, used my ink pen, and took a photo. All that was left was to DIGITALLY COLOR! whew...


I attempted to make it look like some archaeological log page... or something like that. Anywho, that's the final image. At least I think it is haha, Thanks for stopping by. God bless!

A is for Abominable Snowman

Lately, just for kicks and some practice, I've been doing a little work on a series of ink drawings that I color in Photoshop. Here is the first completed one:

Here is a scan of the original ink drawing. I believe I used a size 1 and size 4 brush and a Faber Castell PITT pen for touch ups.

Thanks again for stoppin' in to check on the latest stuff. God bless ya and have a great rest of the day!