September 29th, 2010 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
This week’s sketch is of a rather obscure subject. I was catching up on some Netflix movies in the home theater the other day and I watched “28 Weeks Later”, the not so great sequel to the pretty good “28 Days Later” apocalyptic horror film. The character of Tammy was played by a young English actress with the unusual name of Imogen Poots. She had a very haunting look with heavy eyelashes/eyeliner and icy turquoise eyes, a strongly angular face shape with a distinctive nose and bruised looking lips. Quite an arresting look that inspired me to draw her. Anyway, I did this one partly… READ MORE
September 22nd, 2010 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
In honor of my Minnesota Twins clinching the American League Central Division championship last night, this week’s sketch is of one of the main reasons why they were able to do it. Slugger Jim Thome was long coveted by the Twins even as he spent most of his career playing for other teams in our division, but they eventually signed him and he’s been a godsend. 25 home runs in a part time DH role while bringing great leadership and enthusiasm as well as total class into the clubhouse. Congrats Thome and the Twins! READ MORE
September 15th, 2010 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Here’s something completely different. In the last 6 months I’ve been asked to do quite a bit of illustration for animation… stuff like iPad Apps, movie character design, character design for advertising and now of course the stuff for the MAD Show. The thing is I have never done anything like that before, and am flying mostly blind when it comes to doing things like turnarounds, style sheets… basically all the fundamentals that make animation character design work. So, I am taking my pal Steve Silver‘s highly recommended on-line “Character Design” course through Schoolism.com. Steve is one of the best animation character designers working today,… READ MORE
September 8th, 2010 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Super busy right now, but here is a quick profile study of “House” star Hugh Laurie done with a brush pen and some digital gray washes… This guy has got a great face to caricature. READ MORE
September 1st, 2010 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
This week’s sketch is one for a quick job I’m doing of Nevada senator Harry Reid. Click the image for a closer look… READ MORE
August 18th, 2010 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
This week’s sketch: pop star Katy Perry. A lot of people seem to dislike her, thinking she’s extremely vulgar and overtly sexual… but I think she’s doing all that over the top stuff with tongue firmly in cheek (insert “tongue firmly in somewhere joke here”). She’s intentionally being a parody of the Britney Spears/Christina Aguilera school of candy-like sex doll pop singers. READ MORE
August 4th, 2010 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Click for a closer look… This week’s sketch is a cop out… sorry. This was a pencil rough for a recent poster illustration of a goofy halloween party scene. I’ll post the final art sometime soon. READ MORE
July 28th, 2010 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
This week’s sketch is of comedienne Stephanie Coutney AKA the goofy but still oddly attractive Flo from the Progressive commercials. READ MORE
