Today's sketch: Marie's ship?

Not really her main ship, more like a little runabout she takes down to the planet's surface, or a fighter craft. I wanted it to sort of echo some elements from a carriage so I put nautilus like "spokes" in the intakes and little steps down the back. I suppose it's a bit conspicuous for a bandit, might have to re-think that, LOL.
Sorry about the photo, I haven't yet joined the super awesome phone club, so you get this blurry cam pic.

Marie Antoinette: Spaaaace Captaiiiin!

I found this really neat auto-generator thing that takes historical figures and pairs them with random titles. When I saw the words "Marie Antoinette: Space Captain" I really wanted to draw that! I'm thinking she robs from the rich and gives to the poor like Robin Hood, to make up for the whole "let them eat cake" thing in her past life. Considering her past, she's a little paranoid and is sporting an iron collar, and she keeps the key on a chain in her pocket. You know, you can never be too careful, even if there are no such thing as guillotines in space, what with there being no gravity and all :P
I think I might re-draw this one with some anatomy reference in front of me. I posted this 'un cause I'm thinking it's time for me to just start getting stuff out of my head onto paper. You never know if something is a sucky idea or not until you actually try to realize it. A lot of the time I am guilty of coddling ideas like a spoiled poodle. I just sit it on a pillow and idealize it. Gotta take that hound for a walk or it's going to get demanding and yappy!

Girana!

Was talking with my friend Jeff about the stupidest pitch for a "syfy" channel monster movie. I say Girhana should be thier next feature. Think about it. Jaws of a piranha, with the reach of a giraffe? SCARY!

Here's D!

I suppose it's obvious it had to be a dragon, heh. I tried to deviate from the dragon clutching a tresurechest thing...I thought about it for a bit and imagined a pudgy little accountant greedily counting his treasure. Donno why he's pink ...just seemed to fit :D

Squishy Little Dictator

I think this may qualify for the weirdest thing I have ever painted! A lot of what you see here is the result of a really odd dream. As I was painting and pondering the dream, (I'll skip over the potentially embarrassing Freudian interpretations:) I decided to sketch this little beastie as "the heart." It's like a squishy little dictator...or a delicate monarch who unquestionably wins the fight vs common sense. How can our strongest part also be our weakest?

Cleese-ey?

Finally got that new wireless Wacom, it's dreamy!

Here's something I did to take the tablet for a spin this weekend. I recently decided to sit down and watch the color theory DVD's a friend of mine gave me a long time ago. I don't know why it took me so long, after watching them, I can clearly see a lot of mistakes I was making in my "underpainting" technique that I was stumbling through by trial and error. I'm still not at the spot where I automagically know the perfect colors to use, but I think I'm taking steps to get closer. Practice practice practice!
In case you can't tell, it's supposed to be a caricature of John Cleese. In looking up reference I found that he's really, really serious in almost all his photos...thus the puppy-dog sadface. Maybe I should just tell everyone it's Poe. :P
Likeness and proportions. Tricky stuff. I suppose that is next on my list, LOL.

C!

And the alphabet continues! Her is my painting for "C." I'm branching out from fairytales to include fables...mostly just because I really wanted to draw a chicken :) This evolved from a sketch I did on one of my lunchtime walks. I'm practicing the same technique as with the beanstalk. I started with a sketch, then painted greyscale, then colored over it. It's amazing how satisfying it is to finally put that little white dot on the eye. PING! haha...:)