First Convention of 2021: Back to the old Drawing Board

It was a decent hiatus, but it's even better to be back. My bookings are all ready to go and I'm going to be drawing live again for events at upcoming dates and locations around the country.

 

Domino's Best: A Fan Art

 Domino from X-Men, I still am not entirely sure what her powers are, but her costume is pretty cool, drew this one back in 2019 before the lock-down.

Sarah Kerrigan Sculpt

Back doing clay sculpture, I had an up until now an unused massive cut and pasting board (a relic from a bygone era used in magazine and newspaper production before computers put it out of work.)

It's now occupied with all my old sculpting and moulding gear taken out of storage and dusted off. I decided to create something new. So I decided to make a 3D pin up of Sarah Kerrigan from Starcraft 2.

A collection of my action figures.

I had the paint brushes stuck there as a mock up for the addition of the wing blades which I'll be including later on.

Supanova Sydney 2014 and an assortment of other gigs.

Naturally my chance to sit back and just blog does occasionally get hampered by me simply being out and about doing stuff, so it's great to get some photos while on the road.

Let it grow, Poison Ivy/Frozen fan art piece

It's probably not all that hard to see where the inspiration came from for this one, that's right, Batman!

I've been drawing a lot lately, it's weird when you get into a rhythm and ideas just keep coming, this one is kind of the organic process pretty much how I work. It's also one of the reasons I'm grateful to have a phone that I can put notes in, it's like being bombarded all the time from within.

Since everyone and their dog has had a shot at the classic Frozen song  'Let it go' (aka this generation's Hakuna Matata) I figured why not, in my typically fashionably late fashion do my own version. As I'm not much for singing I felt drawing something would probably be more appropriate.

Morrigan Bewitched a fan art

Every minute of every day inspiration can and often simply lunges from out of nowhere; usually in the form of a day dream or even as I'm trying to drift off to sleep (which is even worse).

So up until the time I had a phone on which I could keep and record notes this quite often resulted in some kind of panicked search for a pen and a scrap of paper.

I'm a big fan of fighting games, I'm not terribly good at playing them though the "Angry Button Mash Combo" and the "Rage Quit" are some of my specialities. If you've ever played one of these games you know exactly what I mean, one minute you're using muscle memory and reflexes to play then all of a sudden BOOM! Calculous Pop Quiz!     

Darkstalkers is one of those fighting games that is pretty close to having it all, take some awesome anime re-imaginings of classic monsters and have them duke it out Street Fighter style. Like the accidentally discovered recipe for chocolate chip cookies, there's a justified sublime genius to it. 

Dr Pam in colour WIP

Here's a coloured version of the Z Brush sculpt, soon to be detailed and posed. Though she's a scientist the 1950's rockabilly horn rimmed sunnies were a gotta have; the final version will probably not include it.   

2011 WIP 2014

It's weird sometimes how something like a sketch can go into the "To-Do" pile and nothing will happen for nearly 3 years. This would be one of those examples, I draw, a lot and from time to time I'll make something I'm proud of, makes me laugh or strangely and monumentally indifferent about. When I saw the original date I made this sketch I was instantly reminded that I had big plans for the piece and that I can barely remember 2011. I guess time flies when your concept of it never matches quite what you experience.

Happy New Year 2014!

That being said as the title, yes I'm aware that the shelf life of saying "Happy New Year" to strangers and loved ones expires faster than fries after going cold and being temporally resuscitated in the microwave. I felt I needed to write more this year too, and keep my resolutions modest achievable and above all not some bucket of approval chum for my compliment fishing trip. So I decided to kick off the new year with an idea I hit upon in 2012 called the Pin Up Pop Culture Princesses (Pop Culture Pin Up Princesses as they were originally billed) I figured it's high time I brought back an old favourite.

I'm training myself to draw more dynamic poses, animate more and sign "2014" as the year, baby steps. 

Cammy, is a gorgeous and thoughtfully designed fighter from the Street Fighter franchise (a game I've loved watching my arse get kicked at, by far better players since I was a kid). The deal with Cammy is multi layered, she's got camouflage gear and paint on (get it? Cammy-flauge lol) she also brings a little bit of balance to an otherwise totally male dominated game series; with this pose I was going for kind of a dynamic version compared to some of my other pin ups which seem a tad static, sedentary she's more like a dancer and I'll be posting a finished coloured version at some later date. 

  

V for Vanessa fan art

V for Vanessa

From the sketch book sessions, I had the concept floating around for a while but basically a series of female versions of classic superheroes. So I began here.

I Forgot I made these...!

Not to put too finer point on it but I'm somewhat prolific, and no this isn't me blowing my own trumpet here just saying that in the high energy of a gig the flow of the park and the other stuff I draw there are some that simply never get the attention they deserve.

I taught myself how to draw "old school" which is on paper and with a pencil, I do have an ipad convenient though it is can not quite match the feel and texture of traditional drawing. That being said some of the pieces I do for practice, to emulate a style I admire or just for me don't make it on top the blog much less online at all mostly because I run out of time- think of it like:

  Sketch Book Sessions "The Forgotten Pages"

For starters if you've been following my posts, at least the ones from last year you'd have noticed my Pin Up drawings- and you've also probably noticed the lack of the girly drawings in the closing months of 2012. So I dug around in my collection of originals and found some sketches.

My tribute to one of my favourite artists Chris Wahl

Katy Perry caricature

Sesame's Treat ;)

I think when we all first saw this we thought, wow, Elmo really has not only completely taken over Sesame St, but invaded the collective subconscious of the pop culture zeitgeist... Ok perhaps I'm reading too much into it. Elmo is EVERYWHERE! Like some dehorned fuzzy incubus he went from cute side character to the main focus through which stories involving a pet goldfish and counting were told. 

Oh and beyond that introduction it's Pop Culture Pin Up Princess time!!! It's winter here at the moment so I figured since I'm doing much more studio work I'd include this Katy Perry caricature from her appearance on Saturday Night Live! So not a moment too soon here's Miss June!

Morrigan Pop Culture Pin-Up Princess April 2012

My pop culture pin-up princess for April meet Morrigan, unofficial representative mascot for the Darkstalkers fighting game franchise from Capcom. I love the Darkstalkers series which I find far more interesting and immersive than the Street Fighter games so for this fan art piece I decided on a comic book art style beginning with a basic pencil under sketch followed by inking with brush tip marker and finally colouring and composing digitally. The pose was something I'd wanted to do for a while obviously I wanted to go for seductive and yet relaxed but at the same time I wanted to draw upside down. 

Some of my source material ^_^

Cherry Darling CHEZZA!!!

Proudly presenting pop culture pin-up princess meet Miss March!!! (I love alliteration)

Rose McGowan in her role as Cherry Darling from the movie GRINDHOUSE, how can you not love a go-go dancer with a prosthetic leg made out of a machine gun with a grenade launcher attachment!

Tattoo Page Miss January 2012 by Ed Dyer

January's Pin Up and first one of the year, inspired of course by Betty Page, tattoos and the colour red. For those who are regular visitors to my blog or just stumbled upon this pet project/labour of love/gallery of miscellaneous have probably noticed I frequently post my latest caricature drawings from Luna Park but I enjoy throwing in something different and not directly related. Hope you like it.