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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.

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.

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!

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.

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."

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."

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

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.

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.

Some scribbles from the mall this past week.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Doodles from this morning.

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.

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.

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

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...