A very Happy Transformers Birthday to: Autobot Mike "Strafe" Armstrong. A.K.A. the best brother and pal a guy could have. Here is one of Mikes favorites Technobot Strafe!!! Continuing my never eneding quest to see what all my favorite Transformers (that havn't gotten the animated treatment) characters look like in animated form. See you at the party tonight bro!!!
So... this week at work Virginia started this art swap coolness... we all draw little little pieces of art and swap 'em. As a person who usually hoards his art originals in boxes in the basement... it's been new to me to give originals away. I've found I really love it... especially when I get work back from some of my favorite artists... who happen to be the same artists I work with. Woo Hoo!
Ozma is dead.The Emerald City lies in a fractured ruin.A shadow rises from darkest Munchkin land.The Lollipop Guild, in their greed and arrogance, has unleashed an unspeakable evil upon all OZ.Three former foes and their armies hope to stop the Doom of all things.But, it is a fools hope.
This summer a major motion picture event. (Cause they don’t make minor motion picture events.)
Dorthy, Tick Tock, Jack, The FREAKING Wicked Witch of the West, The Scarecrow and To To Jr. ... make a journey way super duper far beyond all imagining.
OZ-some!!!
Starts Friday!
Here's some sketches from the old Sketchbook. This idea hit me while doodling in a Mc Donalds playland. I know what the evil thing is... I've got the story all worked out... it'd be fun to do a short comic about it.
I'm still learning the masterful Avalanche methods of digi-painting. So it is with apologies to the honorable Sam Nielson that I steel his lighting scheme. A poor imitation I know. But hopefully I'll continue to improve. I just love that Teela painting soooo much. ;0) Once again super thanks to Seb and Ben!!!
Transformers Animated Gears!!! ~ In my never ending quest to get all the Tranformers that don't already have an animated desighn, animatedly designed... I present Gears!!! The grumpy-est Autobot this side of Huffer. Now I just need to add Black Costume Spider-Man and a webbed wrapped Megatron and POW we'd have the comic book cover for Transformers 3.
Finally!!! ... the fully painted and operational Mer-Man of Masters of the Universe Fame. I did that initial sketch a while ago... then a gray scale... and now!!! woo hoo... done. I sorta, kinda borrowed the lighting scheme from the popular Todd Harris piece... hey, steal from the best right? :) A very big thank you to Sebastian and Ben for invaluable critiques and suggestions and pure awesomeness.
The Last Magi will die tonight! What great secrets will he take with him to the grave? Can we survive without his protection? Does he flap those eyebrows to fly?
My first life drawing from life in like, four years (embarrassed) ... It was a lot of fun... I think I'll do more :)
Another Value study... I'm going to start color painting these soon. Starla is a comic for Flight 6 or possibly explorer. Another transformer!!!??? This time it's Cosmos the entrepid space explorer!
