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Selena Warm-up

2012-01-16T08:09:00.000-08:00

My warm-up this morning was porn star Selena Star. She's a bigger girl so I'm sure she won't have the acceptance of most but she's hot and REALLY good at what she does. I'm just sayin'...

Spider-man MA #21

2012-01-01T09:18:00.001-08:00

This is the last issue of MA Spidey I'll color because Marvel cancelled the title. It's odd because it's a good selling title but who knows...

Sex Tape

2011-12-31T17:21:00.000-08:00

What's this I hear about Suelyn Medeiros having a sex tape? I haven't seen it yet but I now have something new on my 2012 list of goals. :) For the most part we still say sex tape even though it's more like sex DVD or digital file. You gotta love how popular terminology doesn't like to move with technology. I could have painted a CD in her hand but I think it would look pretty stupid, even though there's no way in hell she'd have a VHS.

I felt like doing a quickie before I go and hang out tonight. This is officially my last drawing in 2011.

Kayzee

2011-12-27T18:40:00.001-08:00

I stumbled upon a pic of Mizz Kayzee earlier. She's kinda hot so I drew her. I put a little more color down because I felt like exercising the chops a little bit. Two posts in one day? What is the world coming to...

Sketch 122711

2011-12-27T08:43:00.001-08:00

This is a page I drew before Christmas but I scanned it in and colored it in Photoshop this morning. I'm back to my random sketches and need to start doing my exercises again. I'm staring to fall into old bad habits.

X-mas Warm-up

2011-12-07T09:14:00.000-08:00

This started off a regular warm-up for the day but then I started adding stuff. I think it felt good because I've been so busy the last two weeks or so. I really haven't drawn much so it felt good to draw something totally senseless again.

Kat

2011-11-25T20:27:00.001-08:00

This is a quick sketch before bed, actress Kat Dennings. I wasn't familiar with Kat before a couple of days ago. Once I saw her boobs I had to draw her face. That just sounds wrong...

Fat She-Hulk

2011-11-18T06:20:00.001-08:00

This was my warm-up from yesterday. I was in another fat mood, She-Hulk just happened to be the victim of my wrath.

Amy Childs warm up

2011-11-13T07:59:00.001-08:00

I started off wanting to caricature someone and push my exaggeration a little bit. I came across photos of Amy Childs and had to draw her this morning. I failed at my "exaggeration", gave her bigger boobs, and now I'm off to color Spider-man.

Winter 2011

2011-11-07T18:40:00.000-08:00

Today I think the temperature was around the low 60's all day. That may not mean much in some places but in Phoenix that is freezing for a lot of people. I figured all the hoochies and regular folk (ok, maybe not the hoochies) would cover up more but what I saw is A LOT of girls in spandex. Women at the grocery store, the bank, jogging, everywhere. It was beautiful! LOL So I had to, you know, draw something.

Dirty Diana

2011-11-05T21:29:00.001-07:00

My wife asked me to search the net to find out when season 2 of The Voice was going to start. I decided to look up Season 3 of V and found out that it was cancelled. :( I'm so bummed, I loved my lizard women.

Ghosts

2011-10-26T20:57:00.001-07:00

A quickie before bed. I've been so busy the last few days I just had to draw something.

Gemma Merna Psycho?

2011-10-11T21:37:00.001-07:00

I saw a few pictures of Gemma Merna at some website and the guy blogged about her looking like a psycho. After looking at her pictures I think he was right. She has that, 'screw around on me and I'll cut off your johnson' kinda look.

Done in Photoshop when I clearly should have been working on something productive... LOL

Got MILF

2011-10-01T16:02:00.000-07:00

This was a caricature done for a friend of mine. He wanted me to do this for a birthday present for his friend. The real gal is a total MILF, so this caricature was fitting.

Hitomi's boobs

2011-09-17T12:50:00.001-07:00

I've came to the conclusion that if I stare at Hitomi Tanaka's boobs long enough I have to draw them.

Lauratex warm-up

2011-09-15T16:44:00.000-07:00

My warm-up sketch this morning is DJWill's character Lauratex. I didn't really know her story or whatever so I wasn't sure how to pose her. I saw several samples of people who drew her and they made her a little more anime looking. I figured I'd just do the same o same o and make her sexy. In that outfit it's safe to say she's no accountant.

Head Compilation

2011-09-09T10:19:00.000-07:00

I haven't had much time to do anything this week since I started teaching this semester, but I did decide to compile some of the various heads I've drawn this week. Caricature season is about to start soon and I've been trying to play with facial expressions a little bit.

Pencil sketches colored in Photoshop.

Monica Bellucci cool down

2011-09-07T21:42:00.000-07:00

Just a little quickie before bed...

Clean Teeth

2011-09-01T20:17:00.000-07:00

I passed another artist's blog and he did a caricature of Georgia Salpa. When I first saw the thumbnail I thought it was one of the Kardashians or something. Once I googled her...whoa nelly! I guess you can say, I thought she was so hot I had to draw her myself. I may go back in and tweak her face a little to get more of a likeness, but for right now she's a chick who's really into toothpaste.

This truly turned out to be more of an experiment in color than anything. I've been so busy the last couple of weeks it was nice to finally paint something. No phallic symbols here... LOL

Grocery Store MILF

2011-08-15T08:26:00.001-07:00

I went to the grocery store yesterday and this gal bent over in front me. Aside from her being a really hot MILF it's the "way" she bent over. She kept her legs straight and arched her back like it was a Penthouse photo shoot or something. Funny, yet sexy. I have a very busy week planned but I had to get this sketch outta my head.

It's Time for an iPhone

2011-08-13T20:47:00.001-07:00

I rarely ever upgraded my cell phone since I've been working from home namely because I never used it. Since I started doing live caricature last year I talk on my phone WAY more often. I held out till Verizon got iPhones but I still never bought one. Now my old phone is nearly toast and I can't buy one right now. Can you tell frustration is kicking in?

Salma Warm-up

2011-08-09T09:27:00.001-07:00

I purposely used a more recent/age 40+ pic of Salma Hayek. Mostly because with age her boobs just seem to get bigger with time. Don't hate me for using recent photos. :)

Russell Crowe Warm-up

2011-08-06T09:58:00.000-07:00

I had some obstacles with this one but it came out ok.

Spider-man MA #16

2011-08-05T09:45:00.001-07:00

A few Spidey pages... Color by me, pencils Matteo Lolli, inks Terry Pallot.

San Diego Comic-con babes

2011-07-25T09:43:00.001-07:00

You knew this was coming, don't act surprised.

Jessica warm-up

2011-07-16T09:08:00.001-07:00

This morning it was finally time for me to draw Jessica from True Blood. She's one of my favorite characters on the show. Not because she's, well, hot. Or because she's a redhead, but Deborah Ann Woll does an excellent job with her "complicated" character.

Starfire warm-up redesign

2011-07-05T10:02:00.000-07:00

Yes, I'm picking on DC's relaunch once again and I'm doing what DC should have did a long time ago. Instead of coming up with new less skimpy little outfits I'm doing away with all the clothing and giving those teenage boys what they really want. Not to mention instead of coming from planet Tamaran, in my relaunch she's hails from Nudeulous or Stripperter in the Whore Nebula.

Let's face it, Starfire has given more teenage boys wet dreams than Katy Perry.

Amber Rose

2011-07-04T17:15:00.000-07:00

Unless I'm really deadlining I usually take some time off on days I'm really tired. For some strange reason I tried to work today...it didn't happen. Before I quit for the day I did this quick caricature of Amber Rose. I hear there's some naked cell phone picks of her circulating the Internet now.... Nice.

Power Girl Warm-up/redesign

2011-06-18T08:36:00.001-07:00

My warm-up this morning was Power Girl. With DC's relaunch going on I felt like putting my own spin on it. I figured Power Girl is always known for her boobs, but what if she had small-er cans but was known for having a booty like Beyonce or Angel Fershgenet? And of course I'd make her grow up in Oakland or Queens or something like that... :)

Mystique First Class

2011-06-08T07:56:00.000-07:00

I love Rebecca Romijn as Mystique in the X-men movies. You know how I am about my bad girls at this point... Not to mention she's blue, and how hot is that? LOL Well, I saw X-men First Class last night and I have a new blue crush--Jennifer Lawrence. Not only did she do a great job as Mystique but she was hot in blue as well. God bless good casting!

Booty Study

2011-06-07T10:46:00.000-07:00

A buddy of mine showed me a picture of this little tiny petite gal who just happens to have the kind of butt that would make Luke Campbell proud. This is my tribute to her.

Zombies

2011-06-04T08:55:00.000-07:00

I scanned in a quick sketch I did a few days ago.

Quick Heads

2011-06-02T22:27:00.000-07:00

After working all day I felt like doing something before bed.

Phoenix Con Pics

2011-05-31T10:13:00.000-07:00

This Leia had like the biggest boobs of any Slave Leia I've ever seen!!

These zombies rocked! I saw some little kid [zombie] who took a pic with them later and it looked like a whole dead zombie family.

Her costume was really nice.

I see the middle and left babes at San Diego Con sometimes. They're still just as hot, so uh, you know....

I was annoyed that this pic came out blurry. The two Power Girls were a teens wet dream and with a Super Girl in the pic, you can't go wrong. But my flash never opened so my camera never focused. I took three pics and I didn't want to bug them again once I realized what the problem was. Oh well, here they are in their DD glory.

Post Con Warm-up

2011-05-31T10:01:00.000-07:00

Now that Phoenix Comic-con is over, I feel like things are somewhat back to normal. Last week was crazy preparing for it but I had a lot of fun being at a con in my own hometown. Plus it was great seeing how much larger and shinier the con was. I think it could easily grow into one of the top 5 cons in the country over the next few years.

Anna Song warm-up

2011-05-24T09:13:00.000-07:00

One of the few cases where I actually still need to make her boobs bigger...

Warm-up to warm-up

2011-05-07T10:17:00.001-07:00

I've had to do a crazy amount of work in the last two weeks. I've upheld my discipline of drawing or painting something everyday, that is until these last two weeks. And right now I feel so unmotivated to draw or do anything. Behold, the power of drawing everyday. This little sketch is nothing, but at least it's something to get me going.

Liz Update

2011-04-16T11:40:00.000-07:00

I normally don't go thru my warm-up sketches again but after posting this pic on the ISCA site, Emily Anthony gave me a little feedback. I figured if she took the time to give me a little critique I should revisit this. I think the few changes make her look a lot better.

Tattoo Sue

2011-04-12T20:37:00.000-07:00

This was the last gal in Keith's Line up. I mainly wanted to do the four chicks and the Panda (yes, I said Panda). I wanted to make Sue hot enough so no guy would want to kick her out of bed, yet she has to look like she can kick you out of bed. Literally.

Here's Keith's description:

Y’know those dreams where you make out with a bodybuilding tattooed chick who likes smashing stuff with baseball bats? Uh yeah, me neither.

Liz

2011-04-11T21:02:00.000-07:00

Over the last couple of weeks I kept seeing Elizabeth Taylor caricatures all over the place. Just recently I learned she passed away. This weekend I came across some good older pics of her so I figured I'd draw her in my downtime. I wasn't much of a fan of her work but when Elizabeth Taylor was younger she was friggin' hot! Here's to you, baby!

Honey Potts

2011-04-06T18:35:00.001-07:00

Because Honey was a former librarian, I couldn't help but to put glasses on her. Not the kind that assist her in shooting better or night vision, the kind that look good in plaid skirts. LOL

Here's Keith's description: Used to be the secretary. She was a terrible secretary; luckily she is an awesome fighting machine. Blonde, adorable, loves guns and pink.

Raven Von Darke

2011-04-05T08:52:00.000-07:00

Here's Raven's info: "The hot chick of Asian/Indian/African descent. A stealth assassin. Master of blades, daughter of royalty, dark past of darkness."

Ginger Design

2011-04-04T17:29:00.000-07:00

Keith McCleary started a pitch and ultimately couldn't use it. Once I found out the main characters were a bunch of hot chicks I owed it to myself to design them. It's a funny little concept and I'd love to something more with it. Keith may come off as serious if you were to meet him at a con but his sense of humor is HILARIOUS. I enjoy working with him, especially on stuff like this... :D

EDIT: Keith added the description of her on my facebook page, so I figured I'd add it here too.

"The hot redhead. The leader. A Macguyver type. Can speak every language. Ever. Master of disguise and every disguise is sexy."

Supernatural warm-up

2011-04-03T10:24:00.000-07:00

I've wanted to do a sketch of Sam and Dean forever but I've never gotten around to it. I'm sure you're thinking, "because they don't have boobs." No, I actually love these two characters but it's more so laziness. When I do quick sketches I usually don't make time for two people but on weekends if I'm not too busy I live a little.

Now that they're out the way, I feel like drawing my favorite demon Meg, and the little girl who played Lilith. If you're familiar with the show... :D

Sophia Warm-up

2011-03-29T13:46:00.000-07:00

I had a thing for Sophia Vergara since I was a teen I think. Back in the days I used to watch Univision all the damn time and ever since I saw the show she hosted I was hooked. This took a little longer because I just couldn't get a face I was happy with. She's kinda a cross between Sophia Vergara and a really hot Brazilian tranny. Oh well. I just gave her big boobs and had to start my work for the day.

Hitomi Tanaka Warm-up

2011-03-20T11:46:00.000-07:00

Many artists in the ISCA have been doing caricatures of the Japanese in response to their natural disaster. Out of all the Japanese in the world, this morning I chose Japanese porn star Hitomi Tanaka. I swear her natural boobs on her tiny frame are about as astounding as the Egyptian pyramids.

I drew one pic in pencil and then scanned it into Photoshop. I ultimately hated it so much I just redid the whole thing Photoshop.

2011-03-17T15:37:00.000-07:00

Some scribbles from the mall this past week.

It's Monday...

2011-03-07T09:49:00.001-08:00

A few heads to warm-up this morning, done using ref. Pencil sketches colored in Photoshop.

Agent Evans warm-up

2011-03-06T09:53:00.000-08:00

Today's warm-up is Erica Evans (Elizabeth Mitchell) from the TV show V. As you know I love evil sinister chicks which is why I draw Morena Baccarin's character so often. If you watch V you know old Erica here has started to cross over to the dark side--which is totally hot! Especially when her boobies bounce around in those blue & grey tight shirts... LOL

I was shooting for more of a watercolor kinda look to this one. All done in Photoshop.

Jules

2011-03-03T08:29:00.000-08:00

When I read Jules Price's book a few months ago I couldn't help but to notice she was unbelievably hot! This is my warm-up sketch today but I don't know if I did her any justice.

Isabelle

2011-03-02T17:51:00.000-08:00

A gentlemen asked me to draw his significant other a couple of months back so I made her my warm-up sketch today.

Spiderman MA #11

2011-02-24T07:50:00.000-08:00

I don't think I've ever colored the Lizard before and this one was fun to do. Something about coloring a green, drooling, loud mouth just takes me back to the high school days... This was colored by me, penciled by Roberto Di Salvo, not sure on the inks.

I posted this passage on my Deviant Art account about my color choices for these pages:

One of the countless things I learned from Todd McFarlane was his talent wasn't making anatomically correct people and objects, his talent was making them cool. McFarlane was genius for making the lamest characters and props interesting as hell, if not down right cool. Some times you need to do something scale and risk to being boring and sometimes you have to go outside the box.

If you look at the Spider-man #11 pages I uploaded, they are kinda similar. I wanted to try a hazy muted kinda day but the problem is Marvel likes their Marvel Adventures line to be pretty bright and punchy, so what to do? I went ahead and made the background hazy and used atmospheric perspective to seal the deal but I used "lighting" to bring the foreground forward. So for example, the only way to get color like this in a real photograph would be to use a flash or lights on an overcast day.

So had I wanted to color this "realistic" I would have made the foreground much darker and muted like everything else. Follow the rules of realism, then break them when you want to try to do something cool.

Morning Sketches

2011-02-21T08:36:00.000-08:00

Doodles from this morning.

Katy Perry

2011-02-11T13:54:00.001-08:00

I've been dying to do this pic ever since I learned Katy Perry's boobs were bouncing around all over Sesame Street. I lost the likeness in Katy's face but since this was just a warm-up I totally went limp and didn't fix it. I figure you get the idea. ....Elmo's a pervert.

Poor Planning

2011-02-03T08:23:00.001-08:00

I did this sketch for a friend of mine after she joked about working out while giving her child a bath. Even though this is a quick “sketch” I proceeded on this drawing even though I shouldn’t have, or at least should have went in a different direction. I was the victim of poor planning.

My original idea was to draw a little boy in the bathtub and show mom working out, doing her taxes, and maybe one other bathroom task. For some reason I could not get it to work to save my life. Either I couldn’t get an angle/perspective that I liked or it just wasn’t telling the story—kinda like now.

I used call sketching sketching but sometimes I refer to it as problem solving, and maybe sometimes you should too. Why do some artists draw thumbnail sketches first? It is because they can see various ways to solve the problem and learn from each one. I’m not saying you can’t change along the way, but the more coherent picture you have in your head the better your end drawing will be.

I wouldn’t ordinarily post something like this but I figure it may help someone learn from my mistakes.

Fat Rat Warm-up

2011-01-27T08:57:00.000-08:00

Someone on Deviant Art liked my last rat sketch and suggested I do this shower scene. So this was today's warm-up.

Dolly Parton

2011-01-19T11:06:00.001-08:00

Today's sketch topic at the ISCA forum is Dolly Parton. This just goes to show that I don't draw all women with big boobs, some women have them before I get there...

Wifey

2011-01-18T21:16:00.000-08:00

My wife and I recently got into the card biz and I thought it would be cool to use our caricature instead of a photo. The problem, I did a caricature of me months ago so I had to do one of her. I know I continue to sell out and not push my painting skills but how I justified laziness this time was wanting to match my half-assed attemp on my face. This morning I was pumped! I just saw the amazing caricatures over at Marcus Sakoda's blog and I said I was going to attack it! But now I'm tired and needed to get it done tonight. Oh well, there will be more.

Face Whore

2011-01-17T21:17:00.000-08:00

All of these faces have something in common, they all came from a porno. Remember back in the days when I used to watch porn to do anatomy studies? Well, because of caricature I swear all I look at is faces now. I am now officially a face whore. It's totally weird, I know. The first two girls came out of a different movie and the rest came out of another. Pretty funny.

I drew these heads yesterday and decided to put color on them tonight before bed.

Christina Hendricks

2011-01-11T21:43:00.001-08:00

What can I say about Christina Hendricks from Mad Men? OMG! This is a woman that can fill a bikini! I've watched a few episodes of Mad Men but none of them had her in them so I don't if she's a good actress or not. I just know as long as she keeps her figure, it doesn't matter.

Anna, but Red

2011-01-10T21:56:00.000-08:00

This is my third pic of V's Anna, what's up with that? Well, I'll quit painting Anna when she quits being hot. I think you all know by now I love evil bitches and Anna is about as evil as they come. Morena Baccarin does an awesome job playing the character, now if only we could get her in a thong...

Artist Tips

2011-01-07T08:17:00.000-08:00

I do a lot of reading and studying to ultimately be a better artist and a better person. To really utilize what I study I feel you should apply it immediately and teach it to someone. Well, applying it immediately has been the easy part, teaching it, not so much. One of my new goals for this year is to share more of the techniques or principles that I use with others.

I use a quote by Stephen Covey that governs everything I draw and/or color. "The most important thing, is keeping the most important thing, the most important thing." That may sound silly to some but what it means for me is to make sure the eye goes to where you want it to go. The people in the background or a glass on a table probably should not be as well lit as the main characters unless it is pertinent to the story.

Nicki Manaj warm-up

2011-01-06T09:16:00.001-08:00

The only thing I really knew Nicki Manaj for was screwing up a perfectly good Ludacris song, that is until the new Trey Songz video came out. Holy frickin' moly she's hot in that video! Though plenty of credit goes to the technical crew because it is a beautiful well shot video. But I have to admit, Nicki has a hot bod.

Egg man

2011-01-04T17:58:00.001-08:00

I did this sketch for jamesimpaladaeggman over at deviantart.com. I think I told him I would have this done around Turkey Day so yeah...it took longer than I thought. I put a little bit more into the color and lines than my regular "sketch" work because it took so long.

New Year's Caricature

2011-01-03T20:39:00.000-08:00

You know how I said I wasn't going to post my live caricatures here, that I was going to post them on my other site? Well I guess the caveat is, unless there's T&A involved. I didn't "work" an event, I just drew a few caricatures at a friend's house on New Year's Eve. This is actually a caricature of my wife and her friend. What makes this funny is my wife's friend (the brunette) is WAY conservative and does things like wear underwear, so that's what makes this a little over the top.

I drew it with Copics but I scanned it in and colored it in Photoshop.

Big Love: Barb

2011-01-01T20:31:00.000-08:00

My cool-down sketch tonight (and my first sketch of 2011) is wife number one Barb. Barb is an emotional mess but like the other two, she's hella entertaining.

Big Love: Margene

2010-12-31T18:50:00.000-08:00

Ah, for my next cool-down sketch another Big Love wife. Did I mention how much I love this show? Ha, ha. Margene is another one of my favorites, she has a naiveté that is cute and sometimes funny--but she knows what she wants. Did I mention she's practically a nympho?

All digital, done in Photoshop. It's funny, I'm coloring this one artist right now who is very realistic and I colored this the same way. I kinda missed on the likeness but I think I namely missed because I didn't exaggerate much.

Big Love: Nicki

2010-12-30T21:05:00.001-08:00

I used to laugh at people who used to say, "keep it" or "keepin' in real". I used to find it a little cliche and maybe even corny until I grew to learn I really do like to keep it real, real as in true. That's why I LOVE most HBO shows. If someone is pissed they cuss, if they have sex it's usually intimate, violence is more real etc. HBO dramas (as well as any cable pay TV) can push the envelope in ways TV dramas cannot. Which brings me to one of my favorite shows; Big Love. It's supposed to start again in January and I'm happy to have it back.

I didn't do much warm-up sketching this morning so I figured I'd do something before bed. This is a quick sketch of Nicki. I found a couple of really cute pics of Chloe Sevigny but I figured to make it Nicki I needed to draw her all pissed off and lookin' like she just got off the compound.

All digital sketch in Photoshop.

Purple Head

2010-12-28T06:54:00.000-08:00

I started off with the intent to draw a zombie. It took me so long to get the head looking half way right I really ran out of time to zombiefy it. I'll probably sit on it for now and break out my zombie pimp hand for tomorrow.

Russ Meyer

2010-12-26T19:33:00.001-08:00

I've been working with Keith on my next book and he mentioned Russ Meyer. So, who the hell is Russ Meyer? A google search later... Where the hell have I been? And I call myself a pinup artist!!??

For those like me who didn't know he started making films in the late '50s. To quote Wiki he made movies, "with a trademark blend of odd humor, huge-breasted starlets and All-American sleaze". Now ask yourself, what's not to love about Russ? LOL! It goes deeper than that because he did it before anyone else did. Read up on him, he has an interesting story and product.

This is a caricature of Tura Satana who stared in one of his movies. All digital, done in Photoshop.

Wonder Woman Movie

2010-12-24T06:48:00.000-08:00

I went to get a sandwhich last night at my local deli and what I found was the next Wonder Woman. She looks more or less like like my sketch here. Truthfully she looked like she could be porn star Aletta Ocean's little sister or something. Blue eyes, the dark hair, glasses, she was perfect. Actually Aletta Ocean would be a good Wonder Woman now that I think about it, but then again, the accent probably wouldn't work for the role. On the flip side, I'm sure she'd be up for nude scenes though. ;)

2010-12-23T19:11:00.000-08:00

I've noticed a lot of things are not only on sale this holiday season, but a lot of places I shop have been e-mailing coupons and all sorts of discounts. I guess times are still pretty tough and competitive for retailers. As I drove home in my car tonight, I started thinking gentlemen's clubs are probably in the same boat, so...

Post Office Booty

2010-12-22T17:02:00.000-08:00

Last Monday I went to the post office and there was this girl with incredibly nice buns who either needed to pee, was really hyper, or had restless leg syndrome. Nonetheless she just shook her hips and moved her ass around the entire time she was at the window. It was nice because she made an otherwise boring visit not so boring. This pic was just me playing with a watercolor brush, she of course was wearing clothes.

Rats...again

2010-12-20T20:01:00.001-08:00

I was too lazy to draw something new tonight so the perfect solution was to color something old. Actually I think I drew this last week but you get the picture. I think I just drew the rats in for the hell of it, they really don't have any kind of storytelling purpose, just fun.

I did it with Prismacolor pencils and colored it in Photoshop.

Color Play

2010-12-18T19:57:00.001-08:00

I just wanted to screw around with color. How these two came about was I was really missing some things on my drawings and I realized my line of action wasn't working. So after a few sketches I came up with these two.

Spider-man MA #8

2010-12-08T06:41:00.000-08:00

This book is always late so I'm usually hesitant to experiment much. Since I saw they were introducing a new character [Cinder] who fought with fire, I knew most of the action scenes would be full of yellow and oranges from the fire. So at the end (since it's night time no less) of the book I went with all these browns and purples. I was VERY paranoid the editors or my AD would hate it and I'd have to do redo everything. Thank god I didn't have to.

Girlies

2010-11-24T09:17:00.001-08:00

I've been drawing but at the same time I'm too lazy to scan. Hmmm....sounds like a conundrum to me. Anyhoow, some sketches from a few days ago, colored in Photoshop.

More Mall Scribbles

2010-11-24T07:25:00.001-08:00

Some mall scribbles from earlier this year. I did the color in Photoshop.

So Serious Caricature

2010-11-12T13:10:00.000-08:00

I usually post my live caricature work at my Facebook page now, but since this one has The Joker in it I made an exception. When this lady and her son (total MILF...I know...) came up to me she asked if I could draw her son as the Joker. I thought it came out ok but I decided to take it home and color it in Photoshop.

Framed Ink

2010-11-07T06:33:00.000-08:00

I have followed Marcos Mateu-Mestre's work for several years now but I had no idea he released a book recently called Framed Ink. I stumbled on it at Amazon and bought it. It is an amazing book full of information and great samples. I'd go on and on but CG Channel did a review of it you can check out. Bottom line, if you need a resource for composition or storytelling this book is a must have.

GAGM is for sale online!

2010-11-04T20:28:00.000-07:00

My new sketchbook premiered at Comic-con but now it's finally for sale at Terminal Press.com. It's similar to the last book but it's probably about 10 more pages. Since I worked really hard on anatomy last year it's full of naked chicks and my normal silliness that you'd find here on the blog.

Just Like You

2010-10-25T06:38:00.000-07:00

I swear I've waited about two weeks to do this one. Ever since Christine O'Donnell got flack for admitting to hanging out with witches, I've been wanting to do something stupid like this. I could care less who she hung out with in high school but I had to have fun with this.

Pole Gestures

2010-10-23T09:16:00.000-07:00

I've been going to YouTube lately to caricature and when I typed "fitness programs" this was one of the first that came up. So uh...I gestured.

Channel 3 Interview

2010-10-22T08:53:00.000-07:00

My interview aired last night!

New Wonder Woman

2010-10-18T08:13:00.000-07:00

When I first saw DC was redesigning Wonder Woman's costume I thought they were kidding. I thought no way in hell was DC changing anything (or they'd do it for a book or two and that's about it). Then (and not too long ago) I read again how people were still pissed about her costume changing and I thought, "this is really happening...". Since a lot of people do not like Jim Lee's rendition I figured I'd take a stab at it. Behold, the new Wonder Woman. LOL ...not really.

BBWitch

2010-10-11T07:53:00.000-07:00

I've been doing a lot of studies of plus sized women lately so I'm not surprised this sketch came about. This was a quick warm-up but I wasn't sure what to do with the broom. I feel like I should have swept the back up but I didn't want to put too much emphasis on the weight on the broom. Though I want to convey her being a heavy witch, I still want her to appear, well, hot. The broom seems kinda phallusy but would that be any surprise with my art? :)

Morning heads

2010-10-10T07:58:00.001-07:00

I decided to pull a Pete Emslie this morning and draw some heads using YouTube videos as ref instead of photos.

Bedtime Pumpkin

2010-10-09T20:26:00.001-07:00

Something quick before bed.

Times Square

2010-10-04T13:25:00.000-07:00

My art director just showed me this photo. This cover I colored was being used on the digital display in Times Square [NY]. Talk about your work in lights...how cool!

Bardot Warm-up

2010-09-28T07:12:00.001-07:00

My warm-up today was Brigitte Bardot. I wanted to approach this like Jack Rickard's style-- some of his more simplified Mad cartoon/comic stuff.

CMS Facebook page

2010-09-24T17:44:00.000-07:00

Originally when I started Caricature Me Super (CMS), I didn't want it to have its own website, it made sense to me to have everything go to my adamstreet.net address. That was contingent of course on me remodeling the site with a section specific to caricature. Well, three months later and still no caricature section.

Before I get too many people wanting to see samples and being forced to dig thru my other work I figured I would make a Facebook page dedicated to CMS. I'll still post some here (especially my sketches) but the bulk of my work will be on the CMS Facebook page.

Rat Sketch

2010-09-09T21:15:00.001-07:00

This was my warm-up sketch this morning but I didn't have time to color it earlier so I painted it tonight. I'm not communicating the story of the rat very well here but I ran out of time because I had a heavy workload today.

Finally, Babes

2010-09-06T14:30:00.000-07:00

A couple of weeks ago I realized I haven't uploaded any babe-centric stuff in a while. Between being too lazy to scan and doing a lot of caricaturing I just haven't uploaded much. So finally, an update with boobs.

Influence Map

2010-09-06T12:19:00.001-07:00

I came across a few artists that were doing these influence maps and I thought I would give it a whirl. I mainly did it to reflect on artists that directly influenced my style. There's many I'm probably leaving out (because I find great artists every day) but these guys (and girls) are a list of people who did and still do blow me away. After reading some of Neville Goddard's work on imagination, I realize these are artists that took my imagination to the next level.

These are in no particular order.

1. Jason Chan turned me on to Bouguereau. He talked about his flesh tones and many other elements to his work and I fell in love with his paintings.

2. I wanted to do more painting and fine artsy stuff in comics but I thought it would never fly...then I saw Alex Ross' work. Nuff said.

3. I prefer more of Joe Chiodo's more exaggerated pinup stuff but his draftmanship and mastery of color is insane.

4. Designers usually blow me away but Ryan Church is in a class by himself.

5. Hyung Tae Kim paintings are stunning. He's a designer but his finished illustrations are sick!

6. I always thought Adam Hughes' work was brilliant but when I saw how he could fuse his sense of humor with art my work was changed forever.

7. Years ago I used to call Linda Bergvist my favorite 'digital' painter and soon I realized media didn't matter. She was one of my favorite painters--period!

8. Like Ross, Ignacio Noe does beautiful comics. Most of his stuff was watercolor then he moved on to digital but it is all amazing work.

9. You can see some of the Dean Yeagle in a lot of what I do. Whether it's cute, funny, or downright sexy Dean is the man!

10. Don Flowers' work is priceless.

11. There's nothing you can't learn from Frank Frazetta. It doesn't matter if it's pen and ink, an oil painting, or a pencil sketch, Frazetta was a living legend in my lifetime.

12. To this day I still don't know how Craig Mullins does it. No matter what the media is, his genius comes thru.

13. Mort Drucker is well...Mort Drucker.

14. J Scott Campbell is the person who steered me towards studying animation. His work was always an inspiration to me but he also helped open my eyes to other artists in and around animation.

15. To this day I still draw my noses kinda like John Byrne. I can honestly say I got into comics because of him.

16. Bruce Timm is "one of those". He can go cartoon, realistic, 'comicy', black and white, color...it doesn't matter. He will pull off what you wish you could do--and with minimal lines usually.

17. Barbucci blew me away with Sky Doll but I have to give some credit to Canepa as well because the color palette in Sky Doll was genius. Nonetheless I did and continue to learn a lot from Barbucci.

18. There are lots of illustrators from the last 100 years that I love but Robert McGinnis has a special place in my heart and style.

19. When I was a youngster Boris Vallejo was the first painter I really gravitated to. His female subjects were beautiful and brilliantly painted.

Caricatures from this weekend

2010-08-30T09:23:00.000-07:00

I also did a reunion this weekend but I was so busy I didn't take a single picture. Usually I just forget the damn camera...

Spider-man MA #5 Review

2010-08-27T17:04:00.001-07:00

Ray Tate over at Comics Bulletin gave Spider-man a nice review. He even said a nice thing or two about my color. How nice...

Montana

2010-08-13T23:11:00.000-07:00

It's late and I should have turned my computer off two hours ago. So what do I do, a sketch of Lawrence Fishburn's daughter. Is your daughter doing a porno really that bad? LOL The funny thing is when I first heard of this story they said Fish's daughter made a "sex tape". No, Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee had a sex tape, Montana is MAKING PORNO. Big difference. And she's actually pretty good at her new job...that's what I hear anyway. Ahem....

Another Walt Quote

2010-08-12T16:35:00.000-07:00

I had to break out some of my Walt Stanchfield notes and I came across this quote.

"Reading and observing are two emancipators of the dormant areas of the mind."

This really hit me because I've been spending my last two weekends caricaturing at the mall. Even though I'm not doing my life studies or sketches or anything while I'm there, I'm soaking up everything around me--how clothes fit, stance, body language, etc. So even though I'm not drawing I've been feeling like I'm learning something.

Caricature Me...Me

2010-08-11T14:04:00.001-07:00

I have business cards, but I want some that are specific to Caricature Me Super (my caricature biz). A lot of caricature artists use their own caricatures on their website, marketing materials, etc. and I thought it would be a good idea too. Originally I wanted to go all Jason Seiler on this pic but I ran out of time. So I may start messing around with the file later and spruce it up some. But in the mean time, here I am.

Sketched with a black Prismacolor pencil, colored in Photoshop.

Chubby Ms M

2010-08-01T20:58:00.000-07:00

At first I was going to ad a little background and just draw her with tattered clothes (to show she was in combat) but I decided it would sell the idea better if she hauled a bad guy in with her. Plus it shows she couldn't wait until after she dropped off the thug. When superheroes need chocolate, apparently they want it ASAP. ...talk about comfort food.