Red cankerous Creeper

Late night here at the computer... Quick break from my project to post this up.
It was a quickie pen jot from my morning subway commute..
Hope you all had a good halloween celebration..

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Happy Halloween...

Here's a Vampyre head I scribbled and stuck onto some bat wings... I Imagine that he's transforming so that he can get a Snickers bar or possibly a Kit Kat. Maybe some Reese's cups or candy corn... Love the candy corn...

Hope your all having a safe an happy Hallows eve and as always I hope you dig.
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three witch scribbles...

Yep, I had these few witch ladies floating around on my sketchpad... Figured I'd share them with you. I'm warming up for an evening of some freelance work after a long days spent banking some sleep for this upcoming week...

Hop you dig,
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PUMPKIN FUN...

A Motley assortment of quick Ideas...

MR.T PUMPKIN!! (I'd probably carve this myself If I was carving this year..)

I received a call from my father and my brother this week regarding Halloween pumpkin designs... Sadly, I've not carved one in some years (just not practical here in my NY abode), but I'm always thinking about it around this time o' year... I sent them about a dozen rough designs... Here are a few that I though were pretty solid..

Hope you dig..
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StrangeSnouty Bat.,,

Here's a bat with a rather odd Snout... Figured I'd put some spumco style colors on him, just to play around a bit...

Hope you dig...
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CHILLED MODOK BRAINS....

UM, The title really does say everything about this... Hope you catch the subtext... I was watching a movie when the idea hit me... Please enjoy some Halloween treats and be safe...

Much love and as always I hope you dig,
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SHE'S a WITCH!!...

And in spite of her loosely drawn visage I think she's kind of a cutie.... I imagine she's probably hexing someone in this image... Perhaps I'll have a chance to post up some more witch scribbles here today..

Hope you dig.., Stay spooky..
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Demon Summoner..

This guy in the red robes is a dark summoner of demons, he wears a glowing crown of magic obsidian... I imagine he's conjuring up some nasty stuff for Halloween.

Hope you dig,
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MONSTER PLANT!!

With Halloween approaching and some monstrous deadlines looming over me... I'm gonna post this here monster Plant image I whipped up... Find myself applying color to Photoshop path selections lately. If you like it please drop Audrey 3 here a line...
Um, I might have to draw a caricature of Ellen Greene one of these days.
FEED ME SEYMORE
I may have to watch this again soon...

Hope you dig...
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Sultry RED!

With a wacky weird head...and some giant earrings... Yep, that's how I roll...
Just another wacky looking face from my stack of recently scanned images... Looking forward to sharing more with you all here in the weeks to come...

Hope you dig her.
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Lumpy Spectral Head..

In the process of doing some novice ghost hunting in my sketchpad I ran into this weird oblong shaped fellow. I believe him to be a ghost of some sort. He tells me that he enjoys taco's and that he will continue to haunt my sketchpad until he is given Tacos...

Hope you dig.
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Green Creeper..

With Halloween approaching It's time for creepy things. This guy is indeed a creepy fellow. He keeps a flock of cats in his house for company... But, he has a diet of toe jam and earwax.

Hope you dig,
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Greyhound...

I just wrapped up dinner and am about to get back on task. For now here is a running greyhound dog. He's in a big hurry.

I hope you dig.
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Pomp...

Here's a sketch of some fellow with lots of pomp in his hair.

Hope you dig.
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Generic Blue dog and bone...

Yep... This blue dog is named "Phtahlo". Like most Blue Cartoon type dogs he enjoys solving a good mystery.. In this image here he's found a bone, next he'll be hunting for a place to bury it. Finally he'll probably hunt down his person, so that he can get some food..

Hope you dig.
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Giraffe...

I'm wrapping up for the day here at the office... Still tinkering with Illustrator... This is another illustrator/photoshop hybrid image. Have a lot to learn yet about texture applications and stuff in illustrator yet... I'll keep on working at it though, and try not to get too discouraged when it's being difficult.

Hope you dig.
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Triceradon

Meet Triceradon, a dinosaur who was truly before his time... Believe it or not he was naturally radioactive... which gave him a bioluminescent quality, which wound up being very useful in dark swamps were this dino would often hide in order to avoid big predators. Furthermore his glow attracted giant Prehistoric swamp insects which were in fact a mainstay of the Triceradon's diet...

Hope you dig.
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Puff and Stuff!!

I've always called them "Blowfish". I suppose mainly because the face of these fish made me think they were blowing out birthday candles on a cake or something like that... I guess the proper name for the fish species know as Tetraodontidae truly is difficult to nail down...
I was assigned a the job of drawing one a few days back and came to find a bunch of different names for the guy... Everything from Balloon fish, to Porcupinefish to Puffer fish, tons of nicknames... So, since this drawing wasn't used at all I figured I'd color it and share it with you all here at the blog... So that you might all hang out with this globefish, who's name just so happens to be Constance...

Hope you dig.
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Staggosaur

The research of dinosaurs was shocked recently to find that there was an even later period of dinosaurs that possibly had contact with humans...
They found a skeleton deep within the desert and have called it...The Staggosaur(see skilled artists recreation above).
Shockingly the recently exhumed skeleton has a skull that was almost nine inches thick in all directions. with a brain cavity big only enough to house a few pellets of bird shot. It is believed that he might have wandered into the desert in search of water.

Hope you dig.
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Enter the Sandman...

When I was sketching this I had one of the sandmen from LOGAN'S RUN in my mind. Apparently you can buy, an actual blaster that functions like the one in the movie. I'd have one if it wasn't so expensive, but its also really hard to think of things that I can use it for.

Hope you dig,
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Bluefooted Booby...

I think there isn't any greater name for a bird. Though I don't think I'm on model, it was the color treatment that I decided on when I flung the digital color onto it... Fun names deserve fun colors... Heh heh, Booby...

Hope you dig.
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Walking the beat..

Fighting a war on crime he walks the streets. Searching for crime in the seedy underbelly of the big cities underworld. He will not be bought, and he cannot be stopped. Plus he has a cool floating hat, and that just scares crooks more than anything.

Hope you dig.
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SNORGLE!!!

He's a wandering snorgle. Out for a trot in the snarblat fields.. His nose is red because he was sniffing the shazneedle plants... They have sogwingle spines, which infect your snargleblonks.

Hope you dig,
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Toccata & Ewe in D Minor..

I've not messed about much with Adobe Illustrator in a long time... I remember back when I was Teaching Cont. Ed back in Detroit that I'd used some of my comp pay to take a reduced price seat in a 12 session course on the program... I remember getting a handle on some of the aspects and then we got into advanced functions of the Gradient Mesh tool. Then my head just collapsed...
None the less I'm starting to dig back into the program... I'm so comfortable with Photoshop, that its both trying, and rewarding at the same time to branch out... Regardless I've been getting more Illustrator assignments and I need to sharpen my skill set in Vector Graphics...
This sheep is the result of some early tinkering, though I'll admit I did a little stuff in photoshop prior to posting. Mainly, I added come color adjustment and textureing... I'll try to do some more of these in the future so that I can get some more practice in... If you can think of animals for me to tackle please drop me a post in the comments and I'll look into it.

Hope you dig.

Old Underbite...

This is an old fella with an accute underbite... He was very charming back in the day. He'd slick his hair back and charm all the finest young ladies... Nowadays, he watches Matlock and enjoys stewed prunes... Diner dates always happen at five or six in the evening.

Hope you dig.
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Lumpy Noggin

This guy has a very funny looking noggin. Just don't say anything about it to his face... Don't stare either if you can avoid it... He's a nice guy, and rather sensitive about his...

Hope you dig,
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Mr. Chinsworthy...

This guy has a vast jawline... Which isn't a surprise considering he bares the name Chinsworthy... He's wearing a snappy red shirt and a blueish grey suit... I threw some color onto it. I'm pretty happy with the outcome, and I'm looking forward to some more caricature in the coming months...

Hope you dig.
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Falconeer Redux...

I think he looks more goblin like with some green skin action going on... I'll see about scribbling more stuff like this in the future. Figures in costume with animals and props.

Hope you dig.
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Falconeer...

Here's a little goblin with his trained bird. It's a sketch, for now I should have a version with splash of color soon. Stay tuned for more.

Hope you dig.

Bearded Seer...

He is a wise mystic type guy from the east... Perhaps a nomad of some great Desert, who sees the future in smoky candle light, and the shifting sands of an ancient hourglass he travels with. I was enjoying the pencil renderings that day, and decided I'd throw some color at it and share it with you here...

Hope you dig,
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The more then Average Bear...

Get yourselves a Pic-A-Nic Basket and get lost before Ranger Smith finds out... It was a fun little image to draw out and throw some color onto... After having drawn it am sure there are some design flaws in the characters, but I don't always reach for a model sheet when I'm just knocking out some fun drawings...

Hope you dig.
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BRIGHTLY COLORED FELTY FACE..

I scoped out the Jim Henson Exhibit at the MOMI (Museum of the Moving Image in Queens last weekend... It really was pretty slick to see all of the sketches boards and Puppets on display, for an up close and personal viewing... I found this image floating on an old page of scanned drawings and realized I don't always have enough HAPPY DRAWINGS. SO I colored this one up with a Muppets color pallet in mind and am sharing it with you now...
Take it easy.
HOPE YOU DIG.

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Faces forward

A page of fiddle faddle. Drawn with my beloved Pentel sign pen. Gotta keep the posts rolling right along, Home stretch...

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Weapon of Choice!

Another day, another sketch... Taking aim on a new drawings in the weeks to come. Projects galore... Wish me luck with them, and I'll keep on posting.

Hope you dig,
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Grinning Sinner...

He's a relatively nice guy on the outside. But, be warned he's particularly evil on the inside. Evil, is good at masking itself sometimes.

Hope you dig,
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Craggy ol' dude...

Here's a dude with an old craggy face...

Hope you dig..
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Craggy Profile.

Here's A face with plenty of crigs and crags. I really love to do drawings that have messed up features and lots of deformation... Been drawing lots of weird old dudes lately, perhaps because I myself am becoming a weird old dude..

Hope you dig.
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Local Yokal!

Here's a hill county sort of fellow. He makes Moonshine and has a great collection of straw hats. I have fun with faces like this one, and drawing them with the Pentel Sign pen is very comfortable for me. Which reminds me... I've gotta buy some more of those pens...

Hope you dig,
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UP LATE...

So, I'm up late again...
Here's a sketch before I off to bed...

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OCTOBER, Time to KICK ASS.

I imagine that I was thinking of Dennis the Menace when I drew this but I guess I wound up thinking Frankenstein when I slapped the ol' color onto it... Seemed appropriate for the month of October. Got a few projects on deck and I'll keep sharing here on the blog. I've got about a hundred more posts to knock out before years end, wish me luck.

Hope you dig,
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Iconoclastic Dead sketch...

I've already shown a few other images that sprang from early work on my Iconoclastic dead show work. This sketch was another particular favorite of mine in the early stages, and I Imagine that I'll come back to this image in the future. Really enjoying keyhole compositions and the style of Mucha images overall.

Hope you dig..
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Dia De Los MUCHA!!

This will be up on the wall tonight at THE ICONOCLASTIC DEAD SHOW in Mexico City...!! It traveled quickly, and made it past customs!! I'm exceedingly happy that I was given a chance to participate with all the other great artists contributing to this tribute to our hero's by fashioning a Dia De Los Muertos themed image.
I've had Art Nouveau on the brain since a very early age... In fact the bathroom in my childhood home had (and still has) this fantastic Nouveau print wallpaper in it. Even before, I knew his name I KNEW I loved the work of ALPHONSE MUCHA. Something about the Graceful shapes, the colors, the LINEWORK!... I've been a fan since child hood and don't see that changing any time soon. For my image I tried for a Mucha inspired composition with a keyhole framing element. I'm incorporating autumn leaves, and bone motifs to, lend to a lot of the natural content that you'd find in Mucha's work. But, also I see an odd similarity in brilliant colors of the old dead leaves verses the faded hues of dried bones. In the process of making the final image I played with lots of designs and found that as I do more of these gallery shows, I have a cleaner though process about executing the artwork. Plus, I get new and creative ways to work through design issues and brainstorm. On the whole I'm proud of the final artwork, but also the workflow that led to its completion.
It was a really fun image to work on and I look forward to trying more of these in the future...
I'll close by thanking, Chogrin for bringing me onto the show. Gracias also to the Guru gallery and German for being very friendly in welcoming me. I hope this leads to more great shows in the future. I'll also thank my model Dayna for putting up with my shooting of some helpful photo reference.

Lastly, I'll thank Alphonse Mucha for being a constant source of inspiration and beauty for me to draw on and appreciate...

Hope you dig.
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