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Baturday, week 8
Sketch portrait of Jack Nicholson as the Joker, from Tim Burton's 1989 classic film "Batman" which set the standard for super hero movies. I remember seeing this film several times in the theater that summer - it was amazing that Jack Nicholson had signed on to be...
Luke Skywalker
When you illustrate one space twin, you have to paint the other one as well. As a follow-up to the portrait of Leia Organa, I wanted to paint a similarly-style portrait of her brother, Luke Skywalker. This is a portrait of Mark Hamill in his iconic role as the young...
Han Solo
The third in this series of Star Wars portraits focuses on Harrison Ford as the smuggler, scoundrel, and scruffy-looking nerf herder from George Lucas' universe of Star Wars stories. This tryptich completes the trio of original characters introduced to us in the...
Pulp Fiction
Portrait of Uma Thurman as Mia Wallace from Quentin Tarantino's cult classic from 1994, "Pulp Fiction". Once the portrait was completed, the concept was to create a pulp fiction paperback cover. The bold type and weathered look aligns with the pulp theme. I used...
Baturday, week 7
Sketch portrait of Jack Napier, also known as The Joker. This is a non-traditional take on the character and was an experiment for me in some new brushes and techniques for the character.This image above was my original concept for the piece; I did not want it to...
Leia Organa
Portrait of Carrie Fisher in her iconic role as Leia Organa, princess, general, and Jedi, from past 40-plus years of Star Wars stories brought to us by the great mind of George Lucas. I first saw Star Wars in the theater that summer of 1977 - it was a Loews in New...
Captain Marvel
This started out, merely, as an exercise in effects and techniques. As I got further into the ethereal effects of Captain Marvel, I continued working with custom brushes, channel operations, and painting to push the sketch a bit further.As I continued to work on the...
Planet of the Apes
One of the most impactfull movies of my childhood, outside of Star Wars, was Planet of the Apes. It was nothing I had ever seen before and those films led my lifelong fascination and appreciation of science fiction. Watching the films through the lens of 2021 does not...
Baturday sketchcards
Today Hero Complex Gallery is having the opening of their sketch card show. Unfortunately, I missed out the chance to be part of the show, but that won't stop me from participating in the sketch card fun, so today's #Baturday challenge was a couple of sketch cards...
Snake Plissken
Portrait of Disney Legend Kurt Russell as Snake Plissken from John Carpenter's 1981 cult classic "Escape from New York".Alternate fan movie poster for the John Carpenter film, "Escape from New York" created using Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, and Corel...
Morning warmup, Feb 2
Cold morning here in Central Florida - with the wind chill it was about 30-degrees. And with that kind of weather who wouldn't rather be in a pineapple under the sea? Morning warmup (literally) sketch of Spongebob Squarepants; created using Adobe Illustrator, Adobe...
Catwoman, Michelle Pfeiffer
Portrait of Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman from Tim Burton's 1992 Batman sequel, "Batman Returns", which also starred Micheal Keaton as Batman and Danny Devito as the Penguin and Christopher Walken as Max Shrek. Alt-fan movie poster concepts for Catwoman created using:...
Leeloo
Portrait of Milla Jovovich as Leeloo from the sci-fi cult film, "The Fifth Element" starring Bruce Willis and Gary Oldman.First of two alternate movie poster versions for "The Fifth Element"; this version is the traditional portrait layout with a bold and simple title...
Baturday, week 4
Week 4 of 2021 brings us to another #Baturday for Saturday. This is another portrait of Michael Keaton as the caped crusader from Tim Burton's "Batman". Here is a cropped "poster" version of the portrait for some of my social media accounts across the creative...
46
Sketch of Joseph Biden in celebration of his inauguration as the 46th President of the United States of America. At noon today, January 20, 2021, Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. will swear this oath: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the...
Baturday, Samurai
Another Saturday means another #Baturday and today's illustration is the Dark Knight as the Shogun of Gotham City. I have created a few other illustrations of super heroes as Samurai, like Spider-Man Samurai and Deadpool, based on Bandai's line of models and had been...
Cap’s Back
I have made no excuses for my love of the character created by Jack Kirby and Joe Simon; Captain America is one of my favorite super heroes in the comic book universe. Now when Chris Evans was cast, I was entirely sceptical of the choice due to his performance in the...
Mr. Incredible
Most everything I do, begins as a thumbnail in my moleskine sketchbook. This illustration of Bob Parr is derived directly from concept work done by the artists at Disney•Pixar and was merely an exercise in seeing if my current stylistic approach would work on a...
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