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MISC ARTWORK
Ok, I'm an artistic kinda guy, and figured I'd share some of my stuff with you.. Please enjoy the beginning of my new art gallery. I'm too lazy to do thumbnails. Keep in mind ALL artwork here is copywrited to me.
ANY usage ANYWHERE needs my permission. Capice?
For the benefit of people with slow connects, like myself, all the updates here will now be on thier own page, where they actually should be, anyway.
Update 4/8/00
Tawra-Angela photo manipulation image. If ya don't know what that means, check out the link, and see what it is!
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| This piece is around 10X10, and is an india ink wash. This is from way back in highschool, around 75 or so. Next time I'll have to actually research what a ship's bow looks like! I might color this sometime in photoshop, and that will bring some of the detail out of it. | This is yet another one from high school days, and is bic pen on manila paper. I love the feel that combination gives, and the smooth textured result. Lotsa detail again, and the car was based on the Hannibal 8 from "The Great Race", one of my favorite comedies. |
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| I did this cartoon for a Disney Fort Wilderness Newsletter. Nuttin much more to say then my take on Chip N Dale. |
Yet another of those newsletter cartoons.
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| Another Fort Wilderness cartoon. This is the main entrance of Fort Wilderness, and all the buildings actually there are present! | This the companion to the previous picture, a characture of Pioneer Hall, in Fort Wilderness. My cartoon style really shows well in boith of these pics. |
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| Last of these I can find fer now, and don't ask me why Goofy is encountering monkeys. I just don't recall at all! | One of my sketches from my sketch book, this would be around the time Miami Vice was out. It's "Howard the Duck" decked out for a Miami Vice take-off. I have quite a few of these "Howard the Duck" sketches, in various outfits. |
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| This is one of two cartoons done for a wine company. These were supposed to be used for labels, and reduced and colored accordingly. Since they wouldn't assure payment, I retained the artwork. One in a long line of people trying to take advantage of my talents. And one of the reasons I neer really attempted being a professional artist. | The second of these drawings. They really liked them, and I would have loved to see these done, as they were going to be the basis for metallic labels. Just like a fish, shiney things attract me! ;) Maybe I'll color these one of these days... |
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| This was a sepia indian ink picture I did during a break at Superstar Television, around 94 or so. I'd sketch these, and then ink them during a later break. Have to start doing that again... | This is a second of these SSTV sketches. This one I colored with Prismacolor colored pencils. I used a very light color touch when drawing for real..I didn't have piles of cash when younger, and those damned prismacolors are expensive! My colored pencil set cost about $150! For friggin colored pencils! No telling today how much they'd cost, but I still have most of them from my Cooper Art School Days..good investment, if pricey.. |
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| Watercolor and india ink, rather smallish. This was inspired by some of the caveman cartoon/watercolors done by Frank Frazetta, one of my favorite artists, and influnces. Totally original though..Probably done around the same time as the next picture.. | Hadda finish up this update with a WOW'er. One of my favorite watercolors, it hasn't stood the test of time too well. I really like the female figure here, and the monster was just kinda tossed in there as an afterthought. While scanning, I noticed that skys looked transparent to me then, but smoke didn't! Odd observation..This is from 1980 |
This is a piece I call Banyangirl. I did a trip some years ago to the Ringling Museum, in Sarasota, Fl, and discovered these WONDERFUL old trees called Banyan Trees. They have shoots that lower from their branches, and those tendrils become new trunks. After many years, they look almost like caverns of a sort, and have a very "Arthur Rackham" kinda look. At the Ringling's winter home (a MUST SEE if you're into Art Deco/Art Nouveau artwork or archetechture) they have quite a few of these wonders, PLUS they have statuary and such inside them for you to discover. I went crazy for a while drawing them from photos I took there, and called it my "Banyan Madness". This is a pencil sketch, inked in brown india ink, on tracing paper
This is a Star Wars Homage I did to a gal I was dating waaaay back in high school! They character is Tracey Von Chernhauser, a takeoff on her name. I coulda loved that gal, but man, did she turn out to be an odd duck! That was a bullet I'm lucky I missed, though I persued her on and off quite a few years after high school. This is Acrylics, on canvas board. The spots are from mold and decay after she recovered it from her basement. Sincs he didn't seem too interested in it anymore, I re-took possesion. ;) Actually, after cleaning it up as much as possible, I really liked the spots and effects they added!
Mom will recognize this one. She had it for many years, till again, I snagged it. I did this again way back in Bay High School (1976), and it took what seemed like forever. It was partly inspired by those odd dayglow posters of the mid 70's, and partly inspired by quite a number of fantasy forest type pieces I created (and still create) It's acrylic on hardboard, and then inked in india ink. Hell, I even painted the lit side of each dang grass blade! I re-created this in computer form, and if you check the computer artwork page, you'll find an amiga computer image painted similarly.
Maybe I'll do a 2000 update on it some day, and fix some perspective things on it that have always bugged me. Plus clear up some areas that I wanted detail visable in.
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This is conceptl artwork that was meant to be used for a opening crew T-shirt for the Star Tours attraction at MGM studios,m in Florida. It made approval by Lucasfilms, but never went beyond this stage, as the budget "disappeared" for the opening crew, and time slid by more and more. I reused the basic idea in a later T-shirt bit I did years later.. it's below.
You'll notice the star tours bit right away. Also on this are Indian Jones Epic Stunt, Monster Sound Show, and Superstar Television (both now replaced), The Great Movie Ride, the MGM archway, and in the background, developement for the Tower Of Terror! This is actually a silk screen print the T-shirt manufacturer gave me. The original artwork was destroyed in the production process. The lower "studio" logo was cobbled because of last minute legal rights over the MGM's name and logo usage. Hidden in one of the trees, are my initials! ;)
This is a sketch that I inked on manila paper, of a gal I used to work with at Disneyworld's Fort Wilderness. Her name is Cheryl Hodge.. Hey Hodgee! If ya see this, drop me a line! Talk about a cutey! If she wasn't married, I'd have made her mine by now! LOL!!
Yet another characture of Cheryl..I always thought she looked a bit elfin! Thius was a interesting one to scan.. it's a very light blue sketch on manila paper. When scanned, it comes out as black! after about a hour of fiddling though, it pretty much looks as originally presented.
This is an original computer painting by me. Mainly experimental, I was following some photoshop tips n tricks. came out pretty decent.
Another experimental bit of computer artwork, kind of a throwback to one of my old amiga pictures.
The original artwork is full page 8 1/2 by 11, 360 DPI
My first attempt at computer comic coloring! I attempted contacting the original inker, but his email was a dead link. I purchased a print of the black and white at MEGACON 99 with the intent purpose to see if I had the right stuff.. I'm pretty pleased. I composited a real moon image tinted in the backdrop (originally a bare circle. Only other change I made to the original artwork, was to eliminate a "punch" bruise on elvira's face.. I didn't like it. Period. ;)
Ah, the old Pablos Marcos Tale of the Zombie Marvel books.. still interesting reads, and nice artwork. This is a poster from one of the innards. I had to carefully disassemble the book, scan it in parts, assemble it digitally, and then color it.. OH, and reassemble one of my old freinds. I'm actually thinking of some day attempting coloring a whole story.
This is the artwork for my Famous Covers Dark Phoenix chest emblem.
This is the artwork for my Custom Famous Covers Space Ghost. This is his chest emblem, and power band buttons.
