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.

Z Brush Poison Ivy fan art piece Work in Progress.

This piece I've been working on for a while using a combination of z spheres, shapes, duplicates and extractions though Edgar is a more complete piece he was far easier to make (not so many parts) not true of this one which is, part character design portfolio piece, part fan art piece, part pin up piece and is the work in progress result of much trial and error and the fact Z Brush has an autosave ability that is truly a life saving thing of brilliance :)

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. 

  

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

Frankenstein's Bride

Happy Halloween! From beautiful, warm, sunny, daylight-savings-having Sydney. As much as I love this holiday much like Christmas it never quite gelled with the seasons we have in the land down under. Simply put, it's too hot here to be singing about snow. Halloween is at best celebrated tentatively here but it is still a fun time of year, any excuse for cosplay am I right? 

The Bride of Frankenstein something I drew last year is not only this month's Pop Culture Pin Up Princess but my homage to the females of the horror genre.

The Missing Miss September

Hot for teacher

The hunt for Miss October

From the Sketch Book Sessions it's the MissingPop Culture Pin Up Princess. A tribute to not only Cat Woman, but somebody that I used to know.

Oh Daenery Girl Miss August

Meet Miss August Daenerys Targaryen, from the show Game of Thrones (something else I never get around to actually watching, but hey) this one is more an honourable mention from the Sketch book sessions rather than a completed piece as this month has been somewhat chaotic. Stylistically I was going for something reminiscent of Paul Kidby on the part of the dragon in particular.

Miss July 1 Broke Girl

Though I'm not one for prime time sitcoms I did need a proper Miss July 2012 so I decided on the lovely Kat Dennings who plays Max from the show 2 Broke Girls.

The Sketchbook Sessions Pin up Miss July

Loosely based on somebody that I used to know...

Chun Li caricature 2010

Chun Li from Street Fighter the noo Miss Joon as Pop Culture Pin-Up Princess, this piece is yes a couple of years old but it's the most complete and cute, plus I love it.  

As the only female character in the original game she occupied a very special place amongst the all male cast she doesn't feel out of place or there as politically correct window dressing she is a power character in her own right and her unique of traditional Chinese dress wrestling boots accessorising with spiked tires bracelets and white jellyfish, Princess Leia, Brain Slug hair ties.

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!

Amelia Gamble SBS Sketchbook Sessions Ed Dyer PCPP

Meet Miss May, Amelia Gamble a tribute to all the girls I've loved before- well, up until 2009. As a Pop Culture Pin Up Princess it's really an "in name only" title as she is an original creation and a way of honouring my exes; weird though that may sound I really have no animosity towards any of them, which can either be attributed to either my ability to move on after a break up or theirs.
It's also a nice example of my early stuff, the anatomy is a little off, though the head is supposed to be that big and the original sketch has not been worked on since.

Through out the rest of May and June I will be bringing out more of my old stuff. 

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.