Fan Art Friday! - Bruce Wayne

So i saw Dark Knight Rising, and i really enjoyed it. I like Christopher Nolan, i like Christian Bale, but until this one, i hadn't really been able to buy him as Bruce Wayne (and definitely not as Batman). I know, i know. But that's how i felt.

But it clicked for me on #3, and i'm so glad. So i sketched this.

The film tied all the trilogy together, and i don't think i could have ended it better. Good old Nolan and his awesome endings. I was struck by a particular scene that you may recognize when you see the film where Bruce has his hood off but is still in the cave, consumed with the weight of his calling. There's so much i could say about the character of Batman.

Quick Sketch: Persian Immortal

I'm going to start doing "Fan-art Fridays" soon, because they're going to push me in some new ways and i'm excited for it. But for now i'll throw up this sketch i did last night while sitting in institute. I feel pretty good about it.

I feel pretty good about how easily you can throw down tones with these markers. I inherited a mug-full of grey shades from someone and i'm hoping to put them to use.
Persians are neat. This won't be the last immortal i do a drawing of in my days, because they had such awesome outfits and this hardly does it justice.

Yes i know about the "broken ankle", and i don't care. I did it in 25 minutes!

Alien Sketch

I drew this guy up in church the other day.

I really hate aliens. A lot. But i think this guy is a good dude.

Fan Art: Dune - Paul Atreides

I'm planning to do a full treatment of my own spin on Dune, and really nail it and do it right. But for now I had to just sketch this out and especially do some color- the color of the Spice-eyes is really a focus. I have a lot of things i want to change about this rendition of Paul already, but i figured after drumming up about 30 different iterations of him over many sketchbooks, i would just commit one i was trying a new drafting technique with to color and see what i learn. I already feel he looks too old (like, 31 instead of 17 or so). I need to reduce his chin. It juts. Oh, how it juts. He's supposed to be dried, chapped, and emaciated though, and prematurely aged from a hard desert life and all that. It was a fun tango.

Frank Herbert released Dune in 1965 and changed science fiction forever. His world is so vague, hardly described at all, yet so specifically unique. Slow-motion knife fights, God-worms worshipped by Bedouin-type people who've lived on a waterless sand world for millennia, super-trained people with mental and vocal and physical power that just barely surpasses the feasible. It was so richly done. Most of my favorite science fiction authors claim Herbert among their inspirations.

If you have not read this book, go and read it this spring. It is awesome.

Paul is such a fascinating character, i had to draw him, and will probably take a few more attempts. He's so heroic and terrifying at the same time, you're not sure if it's a good thing for him to triumph by the end. That ominous future lies before him. I love the characters' world of deadly, soulless efficiency, and the consequences and emptiness they feel as a result of it.

Sword Lass

It's been ages since i've posted here. I've been involved in some cool work opportunities for a while now, but i thought i'd take a little break and put something i sketched up the other day on here.

So much of the stuff i post or throw colors on tends to be really pop-ish and silly. But i don't feel bad this time. It's nice to use some really saturated, iconic colors.

Sketchbook Quickie - Disconnected, Fashionable People with Vacant Expressions

Here are some cool guy drawings of some cool guys.

Gorgonopsid

If you know me at all, you know that I cannot seem to break my fixation on animals, including extinct animals. Anyway here's another one. I am learning some new coloring techniques, since i need some desperately. But i didn't use them this time.
I set it a bit low, in a little more gator-like squat. It's wrong, cynodonts and gorgonopsids are more straight-legged like modern quadrapedal mammals. But i wanted the eery reptilian movement of our mammalian's ancestry to show through.