Underworld

Another quickie illustration for SciFiNow Magazine; deadline was pretty fast as I'm going away this week. This one was for the new Underworld: Awakening film that's coming out, so it depicts Kate Beckinsale!

I'll be honest, this was frustrating as hell because Kate Beckinsale appears to look somewhat different in nearly every scene or photo of the Underworld movies. Seriously.  Super challenging; I sketched her face out about 6 times until remotely coming close to a likeness.  Half the time her eyes are an icy blue when she goes all-Vampire-crazy, the other half is her natural eye color, so it really changed her face for me!!

Moving On

New illustration done for the next issue of SciFi Now Magazine. The article talks about actor Daniel Radcliffe finally leaving behind his long-running role of Harry Potter, and moving on to new, exciting films and plays like How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, and Equus, of course. This was a really fun job, I'm a huge Daniel Radcliffe fan!

Airplane-Sketches

I recently went on a trip to China and always take a sketchbook for the plane-rides. I apologize for the awful photo-quality. My scanner's been broken for forever and I haven't gotten around to buying a new one, so it's point 'n shoot for now!


I watched a ton of Mad Men before leaving for the trip. I was never good at caricatures so I figured I'd get some practice in. Growing up, people that found out I liked to draw usually asked me to draw them and then the pressure was on. I guess this is just my rendition of Peggy Olsen, Donald Draper, Betty Draper and... Pete Campbell? (And hey, Batman Beyond's Terry McGinnis snuck in there again)

Ghosts & Plane Wrecks

New illustration for Rhode Island Monthly Magazine.

The article was about a man who collected parts from planes that crashed locally, starting in 1944, and the ghostly experiences that occurred after he'd begun to rebuild the vintage planes.

Sketches:

Friendly Doodles

I think over 10 years ago, I did a sketch for a friend of a character he made up, I then sent the sketch to him via snail-mail and he recently informed me he's held on to it ever since. That really touched me! I decided to give his character a bit of a re-vamp (I have an extremely vague idea of what the original sketch looks like as I was what, 15 years old?), and tried to do some action poses. I-am-super-rusty.

Fairy Eater

New Legend of Zelda piece to commemorate the 25th year anniversary this year! FINALLY got it done before the year's end too!

The first few Legend of Zelda games didn't have the whole spiritual 'fairy flies around Link, sparkle sparkle' animations. I used to wonder what the heck he did with those fairies to restore his health since he'd touch them and they'd just... disappear. (Legend of Neil depicts Link-Neil having sex with the fairies, but I didn't agree as it wasn't an instantaneous disappearance). But this is what my innocent-child-mind thought:

"Full Health Restore"
13" x 19"

This will be featured in Gallery1988's Video Game Show - invite below:

Do it, Samus!

New Metroid piece for the Geekart.net show called "8-Bit Champions" which will be in Paris, France:

September 15th
LA FLAQ GALLERY
36 rue Quincampoix
75005 Paris

Metroid holds a bit of a special place for me. I distinctly remember sitting in my basement as a kid, and watching my older brother play it (majority of original NES games are memories of watching him play it before I actually got my hands on experiencing the game for myself). Right after he'd just beaten the last level, Metroid reveals in the ending that --(ZOMG SPOILER?!?) Samus is actually a female under all that androgynous space-suit looking armor. That really got me, mainly because all of the games I'd been playing up until that point always starred a male character (Super Mario, Legend of Zelda, Mega Man etc.). And this female heroine was extremely awesome!

I tweaked Samus's armor some because it was looking a bit outdated (according to the original NES covers and manual booklets that came with the game).

Stay

My submission for last Friday's IllustrationFriday! topic - stay ...That is too late because they've moved onto a new topic. Darn. Oh well. Here it is and maybe I'll create/update more work more frequently:

Rut!

I've been in a real rut lately for personal illustrations. I want to blame the full-time job on sucking the life out of me these past few weeks. Whenever I get into these moods, I really should head over to Illustration Friday! and take a peek at their great topics.

Here's some filler - old quickie-sketches from work.

Technology meets Fantasy:


Discovery:
Awkward Moment:

Vengeance:
And the good 'old Zombie Apocalypse:


Hopefully more updates sooner!

Poison Ivy

One of my favorite Batman villains of all time is Poison Ivy; especially from the 90s Batman: The Animated Series cartoon. This was a request from a friend, "Just draw Batman." So... this is what I came up with.


Wowee, two posts in one week, this is INSANE.