Halloween 2014 edtion

Not so many this time around, but these were done as warmups the week leading up to Halloween...

so long for now, chum

ritual

mummy

scene from the novel, Ready Player One

concept

a few more recent warm up sketches...

Hear the rime of the ancient mariner...

Modi from Wheatley and Oeming's Hammer of the Gods.
This book was a big inspiration to start Barbarian Lord.

Duncan L'orco from Luca Bellini, Vasco and Andrea Guardino's Take Five

Alaric the Goth...

HELLO

The Green Knight

 

Bill

let's go

aimless

warm ups, work avoidance, and other sketches

This collection of mostly morning warm-ups includes a pair of men named Hans, a pair of Icelandic Saga characters, some film references, comic book guys, some songs I was listening to while sketching and a young lady with a laundry basket over her head.

Only Grettir was fleshed out a bit more from the usual level of sketchiness.

Star Wars

Dan Brereton's Gunwitch

The Night Rider (Mad Max)

King Osric (Conan)

Eloise (Daughter of Candice)

RV (Faith No More)

Flash of the Silverhammer (Bathory)

Bat Man Day 2014

Hans R (The Black Hole)

Fashion

Beowulf

Egil (Egil's Saga)

Hans (Trollhunter)

Grettir (Grettis Saga)

a few more sketches...

More morning warm up sketches....

Robert, from American Movie

Mark and Mike, from American Movie

Behemoth from Master and Margarita

The Polveki, from Peter Bergting's Domovoi

Eve from Dan Brereton's Nocturnals

We want information.

Nod to the old Robin of Sherwood show.

Super Joe!

Lovebirds

 

 

Kim Deal brings the frost

I have no idea.

truth

wait, wait!

Star Wars Day 2014

The last couple of May the Fourths, I tried to come up with a Star Wars related drawing that morning--as a warm up.  This time I left myself more time beforehand to work up something more finished.  The idea behind the image came about with news of the next movie, letting nostalgia and hope seep in again and trying to recall to original feeling of that wide-open sense of adventure.

early sketch  - just Tatooine girl

enter the Dewback

panoramaizing, with finished line and grays

color

Lords of Light!

When asked to contribute an Alex Toth tribute drawing to the site Toth Fans, I thought I might take a shot at a significant influence on my own Barbarian Lord character, Thundarr the Barbarian. 

I liked to watched both He-man and Thundarr as a kid, but when it comes to barbarian authenticity... look, the animated version of He-Man is royalty, a prince of an entire planet no less.  Sure, Skeletor makes things hard from time to time, but when the residents of Snake Mountain are trying to figure out their next move, He-Man has things pretty cushy.

Thundarr was born into a ruined and barbaric nightmare world--there's no escape to the bejeweled parlor to kick back with the finest food and wines of Eternia. 

Thundarr is out there in it, always, with only his savagery, sun-sword and a couple of friends to keep him alive beneath the sickly glow of a broken moon.

Here's to Thundarr, king of 80's animated barbarians.

early sketch

line work and grays

Thundarr

BLOOD FIRE DEATH

Ok.  So those who know me know that Bathory gets a lot of play here in the drawing room.  A LOT.
So when Rachel Kahn invited me to contribute a guest drawing to her fantastic second By Crom! collection: Full Colour Cromulence and have it involve the contributor and their own spirit guide (as opposed to the subject of By Crom!--Rachel and her guide, Conan) the choice came immediately.

Here's the sketch, line work, and color finish of the By Crom! guest drawing.

rough sketch

line work

color

 Also, I hope to secure Rachel's mighty drawing arm for a contribution to the next issue of Barbarian Lord....