More Sketching...the fine details..and some other stuff...

Got some nice detail work in on the Elder Wolf's face. This is really turning out nice. Also thickened some lines to add depth.









Also got some rough, quick pencil sketches in. The first is an older piece of Iron Maiden's Eddie that I tweaked a bit...



Then a really rough rough Freddy Krueger. Might want to draw this with more detail down the road.

New Sketch Dump...The Elder

A few close-up pencil shots...





Various stages of inking...













Getting there...more detail to come...

Olympus Has Fallen (2013)

The Best DIE HARD movie of 2013...



I got a chance to check this out over the weekend and figured it deserved a mention here. A gigantic cast of well known actors - Ashley Judd, Aaron Eckhart, Robert Forster (love that guy), Morgan Freeman, Dylan McDermott, Angela Bassett, Cole Hauser, Rick Yune (Die Another Day) and King Leonidas..uh Gerard Butler. This isn't the most original modern day action movie ever but it is incredibly fun and has some epic battle scenes, esp in the first 40 minutes with the Assault on the White House grounds. There is a great opening scene with a hijacked C-130 gunship and some F-22 Raptors chasing after it. A ground assault with suicide bombers, RPGs and a crapload of .50 cal machine guns and explosions. Eckhart reminds me a lot of Harrison Ford's President from Air Force One. The supporting cast is great and Rick Yune (somewhat) reprises his James Bond role as a "bad guy" Korean terrorist. Butler is the typical tortured Secret Service guy who has fallen from grace and is thrust into the spotlight a la John McClane. Obligatory from-behind-main-character Poster shot above...





The plot centers around an effort to get the secret codes to a Top Secret US Government protocol called "Cerberus" and lay waste to our country. (Isn't the bad top-secret plan always called 'Cerberus' these days? haha!) Most of it is a big ridiculous - honestly, the White House is the most highly guarded building on the planet - but its not exactly Shakespeare either. It's not supposed to be. It's machine gun porn, a lot of sh*t-talking and high stakes consequences in a big action movie.



FOUR out of a possible FIVE Khans.

NEW COMICS...11.14.13...

It's Walking Dead TPB time again...Volume 19 - March to War!



ST: Khan #2 Photo Variant.



And this...just because Cumberbatch is the man!



Trying out a new series - like I need to be doing that - Dark Horse Presents Grindhouse 1 and 2 - Bee Vixens from Mars!

Sketches...one finished and one started...

Got a quickie in the last 2 days. I have always loved the band Sepultura. Their logo is very interesting with all of its tribal influence and visual quality. So I drew it.

Some in progress shots...I went crazy with this one, incorporating shapes and random images into the shape of the S - to make it my own.









After inking the lines, I went in with a bit of detail..mostly coloring in some black areas.





The final piece. Had fun with this one!



The original logo for reference.



Annnndd...the next piece on the table...whatever could this be?

NEW COMICS - THOR by Walter Simonson Volume 1 - TPB

Recommended by a friend, I picked up Volume One of the Marvel Collection of Walter Simonson's run on Thor. Beginning with issue #337 (1983) a strange alien known as Beta Ray Bill (is he a hillbilly?) steals Thor's Hammer and suit. Strange. Who is this guy and what's up with that ridiculous name?



The original cover to 337.

Sketches - Random stuff and updates...11.11.13

I've been reading a lot of Swamp Thing lately - it's one of my favorite books all-time. I wanted to get some Swampie pics down..these are really rough, but a nice collection of different looks.





The oldest looking one.



Happy...



My own version - no reference used here



Modern look - lots of twigs



This one came out looking very monkey like for some reason...oh well, it still looks like Swampie in some fashion.



This is one of the best in my opinion...and its about an inch tall...HA! Teeny Swampie!



And now, a new project I'm working on....still in pencil now. More on this later...

Outdoor Project - 5 x 4 deck...11.9.13...FINISHED.

Since this was an off week for USC, I used this weekend to get a much needed deck built on the back quarter of the house. Finished a 5 x 4 foot platform constructed with 2x8x10...2x4x10...and 2x6x10s.

Dirt cleared and flattened, ready to begin.



Of course I have a wash room drainage tube that runs right along where I needed to build. Fit new frame boards and notched around securely.



The basic square frame.



Center 2x4...bracketed on both sides in order to miss the drain tube then extended to the front of the frame, fastened with screws.



Full frame with center 2 x 4 fastened.



Right side block used to keep it same distance from house brick wall.



Left side stick in ground through cinder block support, then outer left frame corner fastened with screws. Solid shape.



Full frame supported, ready for decking boards - 2x6 cut to 4 feet wide.



Decking boards spaced/placed.



Full Deck.



Straight ahead view. Boards in and outer edge added flush to the board ends.



Closeup decking boards....6 screws each - 2 x 2 x 2.