Doodle United: EIO tour shirt

Again, for Doodle United:  Farm Animals... since I got done early with the CD cover, I decided to adopt the phrase, "If it's worth doing, then it's worth OVERdoing."

So I made an accompanying Tour Shirt design. The best part was discovering all the really strange and funny town names that the US has. I kept the really suggestive ones off the list. The 13 year old in my head had a blast with this.

Doodle United: Farm Animals

for the Doodle United topic of Farm Animals... I decided to continue on with parody submissions. This time, a fictional farm animal-hairband live CD cover. The band, EIO.  It's a week early, but this was just too fun to wait... strike while the iron is hot.

Doodle United: The Amphibians

Having seen several "artistic adaptations" of classic comic book covers... this topic really lent itself to such a treatment...

Freely and openly building an homage to the great John Buscema, whom I could only hope to clean his brushes... I took The Avengers 57 cover and adapted it into :  The Amphibians.

Doodle United Topic: Your Zodiac Sign: Gemini

ok, so I admit this one is a stretch... but I had a really tough time conforming to the decorative art styles of Celestial Seasons or Crabtree and Evelyn.  I admire those illustrations very much, but it ain't me. And to make matters worse, I am a gemini... the twins. Twins??? What do I do with that? So I kept coming back to a battle between the Marvel comics Alpha Flight twins Northstar and Aurora meeting up with Jan and Jayce the Wonder Twins.  But it still was not to my liking until I thought... Teen Titans GO!  The little Chibi based animated cartoon. So cute. So I did a mash up of Chibi and Bill Watterson of the Twins of the DC and Marvel U.  It was fun.  My apologies to Bill Watterson.

Doodle United: The Lost City of Atlantis

Doodle United, This week's topic, The Lost City of Atlantis. I really wanted to really do a cartoon featuring Aquaman. Now I have that opportunity. It was fun.

red door studio drawing session June7th 2014

red door drawing group back again... interesting costuming. a fun session as all are.

Doodle United topic: Aesop's Fables The Bat, the Birds, and the Beasts.

This week's topic for Doodle United is Aesop's Fables... the fable I chose to illustrate is......

The Bat, The Birds, and The Beasts.
A great conflict was about to come off between the Birds and the Beasts. When the two armies were collected together the Bat hesitated which to join. The Birds that passed his perch said:

"Come with us"; but he said: "I am a Beast."

Later on, some Beasts who were passing underneath him looked up and said:

"Come with us"; but he said: "I am a Bird."

Luckily at the last moment peace was made, and no battle took place, so the Bat came to the Birds and wished to join in the rejoicings, but they all turned
against him and he had to fly away. He then went to the Beasts, but soon had to beat a retreat, or else they would have torn him to pieces.

"Ah," said the Bat, "I see now,

Moral of Aesops Fable: "He that is neither one thing nor the other has no friends."

Doodle United: Fairies vs. Goblins

For the Doodle United page. 05/18/2014 -the topic:  Fairies vs. Goblins.  The directions... Draw a or some fairies, and or some Goblins.... The web page leads will tally up the totals to see who is more popular to draw for this group.  Ugly is much easier than pretty... I chose goblins.   Go and check out the results, probably late Monday the 19th. https://www.facebook.com/DoodleUnited

Doodle United: Characters and their Pets

For Doodle United: Characters and their pets... Late 1980's and early 1990's Pro Wrestler- Jake the Snake Roberts.This was a challenge from a subject matter perspective. Several characters came to mind and fell short when it came to putting image to paper. Sometimes it's good to have to rethink.

Doodle United- Comic Book Hero Name Generator

Doodle United topic:  Superhero name generator.  There is a site that provides fun superhero names. http://fantasynamegenerators.com/hero_names.php#.U0tUm8ejP4g  The assignment was to pick a name from the list and design your own superhero. With my childhood love of comics, I had to try to build a golden age (1940's) style comic cover with all the fun that they provided. I looked to the old Fawcett, Charleston, and early DC comics for inspiration.

The Brain that Wouldn't Die... my nose itches

B- Movie Monsters concept for a drawing group called Doodle United. I am proud to be invited to this group.

Camel Rock 3

After quite a hiatus, I took up the suggestion by a friend and started a scratchboard series of my travels. This is Camel Rock, somewhere between Albuquerque and Santa Fe, New Mexico. No pressure, no expectations... just exploration.

Dog Chooses Holiday Card Concepts

doodling around for the Holidays. Probably won't be the card for this year, but still it was fun to get the pen out.

self portraits in honor of self portrait day.

I missed Self Portrait day (November 1).. I didn't know about it, so this weekend I did a couple of very small self portraits. Fun Stuff.

Holiday Card 2013... maybe

Starting to keep ahead of challenges... A proposal for this year's Holiday Card. This one is a collaboration of my concept and my late beloved wife Lee Ann's textile designs.  I hope that this would excite her... I am sure that she would have a lot to say Art Direction wise, and that would be more than welcomed.  -miss you my love... so much.

Monsters Nesting Dolls

I bought a set of nesting doll blanks. For almost a year I had no idea what to do with them until my dear friend Kevin Buntin suggested Classic Movie Monsters. Well.... I can't pass that idea up. So I spent the last month picking at these guys on and off. Just finished the last one on the last full week of August. I'm happy with them. I highly recommend doing something like this. It is well worth the effort.

Captive

Portfolio piece- worked this up as a wraparound design. I think it works quite nicely.

sketch dump 2013, the first in a long time

Crypticon 2, first night... an absolute heavenly opportunity for people watching and tiny little sketches/ doodles.

The Jersey Devil

A slight, ok a major over hall on the take of the Jersey Devil.

Zabu and Red Wing

Zabu and Red Wing from the Pet Avengers.