Space Jam: Resurrecting Way-Back-Wednesday

 One of my all time favourite sports movies is Space Jam. The Looney Tunes were everywhere back during the 90's, some weird and some downright bizarre, yet valiant efforts, were made to make these characters cool. 

Michael Jordan was coming to the end of his career as a baseball player (a sport which though he was passionate about did not excel), and subsequently signed up to play the real life "straight man" alongside Bugs Bunny to herald his triumphant return to professional basketball...

the 90's era sports movie to end all 90's era sports movies...

I was still in high school when this came out, and while I never liked basketball... I did like this

These guys went through something of a Renaissance during the 1990's

...and some not so memorable experimentations...

...to wind up back to basics (with some caveats to appease modern audiences)

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.

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. 

  

Daryl Dixon caricature

I finally got around to watching The Walking Dead, nothing like the captive audience of a nonstop flight from Sydney to L.A.

During my first long haul flight and international trip I had to figure out a way to keep myself entertained so I ended up watching the entire 2nd season of The Walking Dead, an awesome show with a self explanatory title. As I tried to make myself as comfortable as possible (being a little over 6  foot is not easy) I settled into a compelling show about what best to do during a zombie apocalypse (turns out arguing and splitting up is never a great option) and one character stood out for me, being motorcycle riding, crossbow toting redneck survivalist Daryl Dixon, played by Norman Reedus.

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.

Sopranos Work in Progress

After a while everything becomes a caricature to a caricaturist, it's how the world becomes when seen through that lens. 

Here's a teaser of my latest fan art project, like with a great deal of the pieces I get inspired by I've never actually sat through an entire episode of the show. But I do like the characters particularly in this poster. 

Superman from the Sketchbook Sessions 2011

It's been a while since I posted as this week has been punctuated with building a new studio, it's amazing how much stuff you actually have until you begin to move it around, the late George Carlin put it perfectly as: "a house is just a place to keep your stuff while you go out and buy more stuff".

In this piece I wanted Supes emerging from a smoking crater scratched up and powdered with debris after being unceremoniously hurled into a condemned building from a great height, Clint Eastwood inspired the expression.

More to come soon once the studio is up and running along with footage new concept work and the Pop Culture Pin Up Princess Miss August! 

Kung Fu Panda, The Sketch Book Sessions

Po and the cast from Kung Fu Panda, live from the Sketch book sessions.  

TEERECKS

Currently I'm working on a series of dinosaur based cartoons as nice little portfolio stuffers for potential up coming work, well that's the rationale behind just wanting to draw dinosaurs again because after the age of about 12 finding an excuse actually becomes more of a challenge. I was initially inspired by googling The Art of Crash a series of concept sketches on collector cards that came out with the tie in for the original Jurassic Park movie. Most of these cards where just stills from the movie but the art cards were something else. I was 10 when the first movie came out and at the time it solidified an at times on again off again love of dinosaurs.

Every once in a while you'd come across a card like this amongst film stills of Sam Neil, Jeff Goldblum and Laura Dern, it was, to my 10 year old self epic! To this day, it still is.

Bunyip Hunter 2012