Another commission for a client- this one is from the 1986 Sci Fi film- THE FLY which had some great practical special effects with the transformation of the main character into a fly-human hybrid, the “Brundlefly”.  So for this project, I wanted to highlight the creature which plays to my inking skills to really make the grotesque come to life, and I wanted to show the iconic teleportation pod.

From a composition & lighting viewpoint, I wanted to back light the creature and make some large dark areas of solid black, so you can see my backlit lighting layout in the blank spaces coming out of the right side of the  Brundlefly and the left side is just a small lit outline.

So without further fanfare- here are my finished pencils for “THE FLY”

“Greetings from The Humungus! The Lord Humungus! The Warrior of the Wasteland! The Ayatollah of Rock and Rolla!”

Another great commission for a client- MAD MAX 2- THE ROAD WARRIOR!  I was told to make a pinup based on this movie using any elements from the film I felt would work- So I made a list of my favorites- and came up with  Lord Humungus, Wez, Toadie and the Vehicles that Humungus drives around with the two hostages tied to the front.  After playing with the composition a bit, I used the same tilted background with the vehicle to show that off with Humungus and Wez paired up in the foreground.  I really liked how it turned out and I really am excited to ink this project soon!

I was recently alerted that my buddy Elijah needed some very serious surgery that required him to be life-flighted to Geisinger at Danville! When I asked his family if there was anything I could do to help, they told me he wanted me to draw one of the characters from “Kick Ass”. I really wanted to lift his spirits with the artwork he wanted, and it was cool to see his reaction when he got his commission last weekend.

Here is the artwork and handing it off to Elijah!

Mission Accomplished!

This is the final pencils for my Immortan Joe pinup commission that I am working on.  Since the visual excitement from this character comes from his face, I really decided to make that the focus of the composition.  Also I rotated the horizon line  to force some motion into the artwork by making you tilt your head a bit as a viewer.  Since the Mad Max films are always about the cars, I wanted to get Joe’s car the “Gigahorse” to fill in the background. It made for a really fun image to fill the space in the top third of the composition.

Sinbad fighting a Sea Monster and a Zombie foot soldier… good stuff, loved the massive scale on Sinbad.

Plastic Man’s Daughters, Cowboy Bebop and 1950’s Nuclear Holocaust…