20 Minute Sketches- Coffee Music Girl Concept

Here's some concept art of a Coffee/Music girl that I'm adding to my 20-minute sketch category.
I like the concept of notes playing above her head in the subway.  I may evolve the sketch into something more final. :)
Hope you all enjoy!

Star Trek Vs. Star Wars, Sci-Fi Lady Style!

There's been a lot of Star Trek and Star Wars talk lately, especially with the new Star Trek movie out (which is fantastic!).

One day after a in-depth conversation of the Star Trek and watching Carrie Fischer's video where she announced her possible involvement in the new Star Wars movie, I started doodling and came up with this fun cartoon. Thought I would finish up the line work and color and put it up today. Both  Lieutenant Uhura and Princess Leia are such power house independent women. It only seems right that if two characters where to settle the "What's better - Star Trek or Star Wars?" debate, it would be these two ladies.

Jungle- Safari Girl Exploration

My last post had a few quick concept sketches that got a really nice reaction (thanks all!). The Jungle/Safari Girl was in particularly favorited among the bunch so I thought I would continue to work on her. Looking at Frank Frazetta's artwork and some old Tarzan comics while listening to John Carter in the background, I gave my Jungle Girl a little more time and exploration with inked line work and color.
I think I will continue to further this study but for now please enjoy viewing my process!

10 minute pin-up sketches and typography exploration

In between some very important and fun projects. I wanted to take a few minutes and sketch out some possible future concepts. 

Had a few fun conversations with my brother and his girlfriend about She-Ra and thought I would quickly sketch my own fun cartoon pin-up version of her. 

I've been doing a lot of jungle illustration exploration lately and thought I would do a quick pin-up sketch of an adventure safari girl I had in my head.

And last but not least, I did a little typography exploration with one of my most popular themes- Coffee! I had fun playing around with this one and really enjoy the concept... Perhaps one day I will do a more completed version that fine tunes the typography. 

Doodlin' round...

Just doodling around and came up with this plant girl illustration. :)

15-30 Minute sketches- John Cusack in HighFidelity

Following up on my 15-30 minute warm-up sketches of Django Unchained, is John Cusack from High Fidelity.

One of my favorite movies of all time- I dare say, it may make my top 5. :)

15-30 Minute sketches- Django Unchained and Seven Psychopaths

Recently I started doing 15-30 minute sketches to warm me up for a day of good illustrating!
I decided that I would focus on great performances from movies I enjoy.

Here are the sketches from Week One.
Did some roughs of the characters from the movie Django Unchained.
Here's Sam Jackson as Stephen:

Christoph Waltz as Dr. King Schultz

and Leonardo DiCaprio as Calvin Candie

I also recently watched Seven Psychopaths, and did a quick sketch Sam Rockwell as Billy.

Cat Coffee!

Just a little illustration I drew over the weekend of Autumn the Cat (from the Halloween Legion). Seems she may have the same love of coffee as I do. :)

This time I played around with vector lines before texturizing it to a more neutral color scheme. Enjoy!

JUNGLE TALES OF TARZAN Graphic Novel!

NOW IT CAN BE REVEALED!!

JUNGLE TALES OF TARZAN to be published by Sequential Pulp/Dark Horse Comics. Based on the classic anthology by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

Written by Martin Powell and illustrated by Daren Bader, Pablo Marcos, Terry Beatty, Will Meugniot, Nik Poliwko, Antonio Romero Olmedo, Mark Wheatley, Diana Leto, Steven E. Gordon, Lowell Isaac, Tom Floyd and Jamie Chase.

Tarzan ™ ERB, Inc.

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1950's inspired Betty Cooper

Just for fun, I decided to do a Betty Cooper study. I haven't drawn much of the Archie Gang in a while but I have always loved Archie Comics since I was a kid. Archie, Betty, Veronica, and Jughead were always there for me as a kid and some of the first inspiration for me to start drawing.

If your a fan of my blog, you will know that I work often with Martin Powell. Recently, Martin asked if I would ever consider drawing a Betty and Veronica for fun. Almost instantaneously little hearts swirled around my head at the thought of revisiting Archie and the gang on my sketch pad. I got out all my old comics, had a few giggles, and started doodling this lil' 1950's inspired Betty. 

Just wanted to send out a little thank you to Martin for the inspirational conversation from me and, none other than, Betty Cooper!