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Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Icelandic Berserk



Wacky.

Friday, October 12, 2007

The Mississippi River Witch



Halloween's coming up. Witches, ghosts and goblins will be following you. So get prepared...

Tuesday, October 09, 2007

The King; Legal Ducks

Update: Allow me to introduce... The King: (Through and through inspired by the same-named character in Mark Twain's original story)




And here're the legal eagles ducks:





J. and A. Drake. Lawyers from Duck, Duck & Waterfowl.

Those two drakes are very, very loosely inspired by two real life lawyers. A former elementary school classmate of me and his associate. (Well, they, the real ones, don't look or act like ducks, of course. They just have, hopefully, a good sense of humor. At least in this case...)

Sunday, October 07, 2007

The Dainty Mr. Wolf



He's very ambitious, but a tiny bit too cold-blooded. Anyway, what do you think of my two-handed painting and drawing technique? I could do that while doing a handstand and using my feet to handle the paintbox and...

"Put up evidence or shut up!"

...sorry.

Friday, October 05, 2007

The Nicely Evil Doctor Dish-Soap





Dr. Dish-Soap: We could think of him as the invisible meaning behind... whatever.

Sunday, September 30, 2007

Buck In The Tree





I did (am still doing) a lot of concept work for HF Recalibrated. I titled this piece "Mississippi Afternoon Smoothy". (Dear me, Ryan's dead right. I'm posting like a mad man.)

Saturday, September 29, 2007

Toby Skybuckle



My only worry and ambition.

Fiddlesticks! It's just one of my fave projects... I just glanced through the early concepts sketches. (BTW: This cartoon bird is borrowed from a different project, to be exact)

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Birds In Arms










"Behind what are you hiding, you lazy-bones!"

Well, taken out of the context, they may seem violent. However, they're just fishing for attention... and I'm fishing for characters.

Sunday, September 23, 2007

The Undertaker And Humpty Dumpty, 'Recalibrated'












Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall,
All the King's horses and all the King's men,
Couldn't put Humpty together again.

Well, not here. In Huck Finn's Recalibrated Fantastic Adventures the result of the great fall becomes "the character whitin". (BTW: Originally, I wanted this to take part in the Toby Skybuckle story, but soon it became a stand-alone thing because of its complexity)
Boy, do I post too much? I think I post too much.

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Huckleberry Finn (a bit different), Post No. 100!

Update: Did I said Mark Twain meets Lewis Carroll? I've to add Clive Barker, I guess. At least because of this hare. He is a sort of integrated or mutated version of The White Hare and The March Hare in Huck Finn's recalibrated fantastic adventures:



And here are the previously posted pieces:





Mark Twain meets Lewis Carroll or so. (I did this sheet while I was working on the stage design of a Tom Sawyer musical production, some time ago. Since then, I'm loosely working on the plot and some early designs whenever it's possible)

Friday, September 14, 2007

Bogey Bones, Freestyle Boarder

Update: This is a mere acquaintance of Mr. Bones, Bogey Tyndale. He is a bit slow on the uptake, but that is mainly because he's scatterbrained in the best possible sense.




And the Honorable Mr. B. Bones himself:



I like the background. Praise the Impressionist. (James, I'm using Photoshop and the Impressionist plug-in for the painting look.)

Thursday, September 13, 2007

For Ryan Wood: The Drawing Machine




So, I'm back to the drawing desk. I dedicate this piece to my fellow comrade-at-pencils, the fabulous Ryan Wood. (Thanks, Ryan)

By the by, this thing was inspired by Nic Ramage's Drawing Machine:

Sunday, September 02, 2007

Desk

Update: This one is for Derek.



A mere scribble... (titled "Gangster, forever")

Thursday, August 30, 2007

Socks

Boy, it's cold weather out there.

Monday, August 27, 2007

The Trollthing








Aimless sketching.

Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Scrapyard Stormy Feather





"Excuse me, may I get through?"

Friday, August 17, 2007

Coat of Arms


(Above) The coat of arms of the Dukes of Steiermark (the Austrian state where I'm from) and my very own understanding / interpretation of it. I made this some time ago. Four years?

(Below) Update: And while I am at it, here is another older piece (I showed this twerp a good number of months ago, but he deserves a 2nd work in progress "shot", don't he?):

Sunday, August 12, 2007

Icelandic Sportfisher

*UPDATED (WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 2007)

Update: Another blade out of my Iceland sketch block:






And this is the previously posted Icelandic sportfisher vehicle:







I swear I saw this josser near Borgarnes. Good job I had my pencil camera with me otherwise you wouldn't believe me.