Here are the pencils and inks for TRAP JAW, my second Masters of the Unvierse Villain. I realized after the fact, I had his robot arm on the wrong side, so MOTU perfectionists, chill out. It still looks pretty good in my opinion! Hoping to get to my girl, Evil Lyn, next!
Since my foray into 8 year old soccer didnt work- My Sister in Law asked me to make this piece for her friend Kelly who is in a women’s roller derby team in Vero Beach Florida- I thought this turned out great, and was a nice logo for their team. My new creative partner, David Paul, did the custom font and lettering for them. Unlike the kid’s soccer league they wanted it “hardcore”- so this was a perfect project for me to do for them. Check out their team’s website on my “friends” links.
Here is the final inked art- done in one week- and Andrew’s final poster/promo art with Actor Sam Eidson in it. The trailer and website for this movie are in my links section. If it gets made, I get a credit in a film, so look out Hollywood. This job turned out great, and has been a personal and professional catalyst for me as an artist- Thanks Andrew and Katie, I’ll never forget that you gave me a chance and believed in me!
So- I was struggling to do this, and then a wall broke down, and “pow” these pencils came out, and I loved them- the work speaks for itself!
Now at this point, I was still fired up- but, a samurai without direction is nothing but a masterless “Ronin”. So in May 2011, I got an email from Indie GOGO about a fundraiser for the movie about the greatest Dungeon Master of all Time- this made me laugh and I wrote Andrew Matthews & Katie Graham (directors/producers/creators) of this film , Zero Charisma, a note asking If I could help. And Lo and Behold he wrote back and said they very much needed some help with some pen and ink fantasy work for a fundraising packet and poster- and I would have one week to produce a poster based on a sketch idea he had. A real client and a deadline, right up my alley, so I just had to produce- And your humble narrator did produce- so Thanks Andrew and Katie for believing in me and turning me loose. When your film gets financed, I look forward to blowing your mind again. Save me a seat at the premiere.
Here is the concept from Andrew-
My Sister in Law, Rebecca, asked me to make a logo for my niece’s 8 and under soccer team “The Luna Chicks”- because they are crazy girls who are 8- but you get it. Anyway, Rebecca told me I was a great artist and the kids would love it- well I made this and it was too intense for the kids- and they didnt use it. But it was nice to have people asking for work again, and I thought it was a cool logo- even for 8 year old girls.
My next rehab project- BEAST MAN from Masters of the Universe- I eventually will ink this, and will do all the classic, and awesome villains, from this 80’s property- no reference used for this project.
Ken Brown and I made a website called www.bonethefish.com in 2009 to make up for the now gone www.jumptheshark.com website- this was the logo, and one of my first attempts to get back into making up creative unique illustrations- a solid logo, and you can even buy it on a tie, shirt, placemat etc. via the website merchandise section on BTF- check it out! Ken colored this and showered me with praise for getting back into the game- thanks for the encouragement and nice coloring Kenny!
Another photo reference rehab project- liked the hands and feet and overall motion of this drawing.
This was my first pencil piece without using reference- just from scratch after the hiatus. I was pleased with it- especially the hands.
