IMPERATOR FURIOSA

Here is another drawing I did while on Periscope.

I saw the movie Mad Max: Fury Road and man, how cool was Furiosa?! She is definitely one of my favorite characters I have seen in an action film. I have seen so much fan art of her since that movie came out, and I thought I would throw my hat into that ring as well, because she deserves a drawing!

(Click for High Res)

That's it for now. Stay tuned for more work!

-Colin

Weapon XXL

Hey-O

Last post I did was of my fat superhero genre stuff. I like to refer to them as my 'Super-Size' comics. Anyway, I promised I'd do another, and I have in fact done one.

I have been sitting on this one for a few days, and am pretty excited to post it!

Looks like I'm not the only one sitting on something for a while...

Get it...

Cause Deadpool....

He's sitting.

On pancakes.

Whatever.

Hope you like it, and as always, I enjoy comments, and would be interested to hear any requests!

Thanks y'all!

Colin

SUPER Size Me!

Hey-O!

So occasionally I get struck with the desire to draw really obese superheroes. I have done this on multiple occasions, and they are super fun to draw.

See what I did there. 'Super' fun.

Anyway, with the success of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, I made a drawing of Cap and his second unofficial partner, Falcon!

So there ya go. I always say this, but I fully intend on making more of these.

SO if you have a superhero you'd like to see overweight, let me know, and I'll see what I can do!

Until next time!


-Colin

"Don't You Ever Say I Just Walked Away"

I will always love you.


I CAME IN LIKE A WRECKING BALL.

Okay to preface this post, I have a joke with my wife about the Miley Cyrus song "Wrecking Ball."  And on top of that she got me a chat on a wrecking ball shirt for our anniversary.

Well, I thought it was hilarious, but I wanted to put my own spin on it, something that was more faithful to the source material.

THAT BEING SAID.

I laughed a lot while making this little poster/illustration. I tend to crack myself up when I draw, even if the actual drawing isn't funny to other people. I think I was just so mentally tired of working and pressing, I needed an outlet, and a fun drawing.

And somehow this was the drawing I got.

Enjoy.

Guys, my brain is sometimes a weird place. 

Take care everyone!

-Colin

(P.S. If anyone is gonna be at the Cincinnati Comic Con, I may in fact have prints of this for purchasing, because you never know who might want a hairless cat adorning the walls of a living room.)

A Study in Scarlet

Clever name huh?

Sorry to disappoint but this post has nothing to do with Sherlock. Sorry.

But I had some downtime at work today, and I haven't really done much character designing or pin ups lately...

(I have been working on comics and stuff for work, neither of which I can really post publicly, that's why I have been in hiatus so long. Sorry about being AWOL y'all)

I also thought it might be cool to show the process of this image, especially cause I drew this on my cintiq. Having to learn how to work heavily on the computer has been a blessing as well as a hardship. 

A little background, I love G.I. JOE. Anyone who is friends with me knows that this news is no surprise, I have always loved it, and my love for comics has only led me to want to read G.I.Joe comics. The only problem, is I don't think the franchise has ever gotten the artistic talent for the books that it really deserves, and I have always wanted to work on a GI Joe comic.

 So I have been doodling those characters for a long time, and one of my favorites is Scarlet. She is just a really cool character, and I love that when I draw her I can get away from the typical comic girl stereotype where the girls have obscenely large chests and hips and tiny waists that make no physiological sense whatsoever. I get to draw a woman who is a fighter, who is in shape, and could either beat you to a pulp, or sweep you off your feet. That's an awesome character to me. 

So here is the picture!

This is the 'final product' of this couple hour drawing and quick coloring.

So here is the process for you to see how I made this!

 so first I toned the canvas, and drew out my sketch. 

 Once the sketch was done, I lowered the opacity on the sketch and went into the final lines.

 Here is the final lines, with the sketch layer turned off. 'Erased' if you will.

 Here is where I added my local colors, with a pressure opacity brush. (Harder I press, darker color gets for all you non-photoshop people out there.)

 I added a lithe bit of highlighting behind her, just to let there be a little more focused area in the drawing itself.

Thought it needed a bit more in the background, but something more graphic. I actually made a solid rectangle behind her, and didn't like it, so I started erasing and the haphazard streaks behind her looked so cool, I kept it. Added her signature color and her name and the drawing was finished!

Well thanks for reading through that crazy long post. Well long for me. And I promise, I will try to be more blogworty in the future, I do draw a lot, and all the time, so I will be sure to try to update a little more often. 

Thanks for reading, have a wonderful day.

-Colin

More Digital Practice

The title says it all. Been trying to practice more digitally. My traditional supplies are running scarce, so I figured now is as good a time than any to practice my digital art. I'm still not as comfortable digitally as I am traditionally, but that at least gives me more motivation to work at it.

Didn't feel like coloring too elaborately.

Well that's it. I am really trying to post a little more regularly, and so far so good (ish.)

Take care blog!

Colin

Gun Totin' Granny

Hey there,

So as I mentioned in the last post, at work we have these times for the designers known as "Draw Time Fun Time", and so I thought I'd post the second one I have done for this round.

This time we were tasked to draw an old lady and her male counterpart, and what will happen next is we will hand the characters off to the writing team here, and they will create a story about them. So its pretty open ended and fun.

So here's what I did.

Again, another fully digital image. I am getting a little more comfortable on the Cintiq, but I will say, it still never feels the same as using good ol' pen and paper. I definitely miss drawing these things traditionally, but unfortunately I do not have a scanner right now, so I am forced to learn and work with other methods. Hope you enjoyed!

Until next time!

-Colin

Draw Time Fun Time

Howdy Y'all,

Yeah, my life has been insane the past few months. I have lots of art that I haven't posted at all, mostly due to not knowing if I could post it or not. Anyway, I have a new job now at a place called 'Epipheo,' which is a super cool place, and is best described as an animation house. I am one of the freelance designers but I'm not going to bore you with what it is I do.

BUT there is a thing we have been doing that has been lovingly dubbed 'Draw Time, Fun Time.' and basically we (the designers) get story prompts from the writers, and make an illustration based off one of the prompts. 

We work on them about 20-30 minutes a day, starting with pencil and paper sketches, then taking them into the computer and finishing them however we want. Now, I'm not a digital artist, I am very much a traditionalist, so this is pretty foreign. But, I thought 'Why not, I need to practice computer skills anyway!'

So here is the illustration I did, my first fully digital illustration ever. So I still have plenty of room to improve, but I thought I'd share. The prompt will be in the illustration description.

"Do you think we can make it? I think so. 

Besides, what other choice do we have?"

So that's it, hope it excites. I know my work digitally isn't nearly as good as my work traditionally. I'm working on that. Anyway, I hope to be able to post more often, key word there is hope. Until next time!

-Colin

Color Preview!

Hey everyone, 

I have been working on some digital coloring this weekend. Just a little break from some pages.

Here is the first pass at the colors for the first issue of "The Golem of South Florida"

Hope you all enjoy!

Yay Color!

So there you have it, some color in my life. Who would've thought, even though ironically, if you know me, you know I am all about obnoxious colors.  Anyway, lots of work ahead of me, but I hope you all like it. Take it easy!

-Colin

Commander Cody Commish..

Well, not exactly a commission, BUT it it more of a request by way of my roommate Nate.

He wanted a picture of Commander Cody, the awesome clone trooper commander who got the order to kill all the jedi. I thought it would be fun to make a little painting of him.

This little guy was fun to do. 

It's not too large, only about 6"x9", 

so a nice little piece to have around.

I won't be able to sell this little guy, because it is already spoken for, but I will make some prints of it, because I would also like to have my own little copy of it. So I do realize that the past two paintings I have made are Star Wars pictures, I promise the next one will be something that is not a Star Wars piece. Catch ya later bloggers!

-Colin

Big Bad Boba!

So here is a fancy thing for y'all,

I did a piece of art, more like a painting. I gessoed a surface, and drew out Boba Fett. 

Boba Fett. 

Cause I love him. 

I then airbrushed the local color, then I cleaned it up with colored pencils. Check him out.

This one used the technique I did for my Cap and Iron Man drawing. 

Except instead of acrylic wash, I used an airbrush.

Alrighty there you go! This I will make prints of this and they will be for sale. Let me know if you would like to pick one of these as a great decoration on any wall! Even a bathroom!

Talk to you later bloggers. 

-Colin

The Assemblers!

Howdy blog enthusiasts!

So I have been doing a lot of work for Golem lately, I mean just look at the recent posts...there all Golem things. So as a little refresher I wanted to do something with some good ol' superheroes.

I have wanted to try out a technique that I learned from my esteemed professor and friend Dove McHargue, where you pencil an illustration, texture the board with clear gesso, and then paint on top of it and detail with pencils. So I have been wanting to try it for a long time, and I decided the other day
I would do it dagnabbit!

I was puzzled as to what I should draw for the first test run of this technique, so who did I look to in my hour of need? No other than my man CAPTAIN AMERICA! As most people who know me know I am a gigantic Cap fan, so naturally I would draw him. But I did want to draw the WWII movie version, because I really dug that costume and I thought Chris Evans was awesome. And then of course to compliment the great Cap, I had to have the not-as-good-as-Cap-great-but-still-really-great Iron Man.

The men who lead the Avengers, bicker a lot, and eventually butt heads in the Civil War, I thought it was just a good homage to these great heroes. So here it is, the Cap and Iron Man pin up!

The image gets slightly fuzzier at the bottom. 

Unfortunately this was just a tad bit larger

 than what my scanner could get. 

But you get the idea.

As I said, its acrylic and colored pencil on illustration board. I am pretty happy with the final product, I am looking forward to doing more of these in the future between my comics! Hope you all enjoyed it, let me know what you think, and if anyone would like a print of this, feel free to let me know and I'd be happy to work out a deal with you!

Thanks,

Colin

Slowing Life Down a Little

Hey blogdience,

So it's about that time in the quarter where schoolwork is getting somewhat straining, and motivation hits a wall.

A BIG wall.

But anyway, the best way to get my motivation back, I have to just do something for fun, for myself. But in light of the wonderful Avengers movie, I wanted to do an image as a tribute to the person I thought exceeded all my expectations.

That was Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner and as the Hulk. He was incredible. ( Pun intended ) But in light of it I just did a quick work because in some way I felt like he deserved one.

Just playing around, I used Ruffalo as reference, 

but its clearly not spot on. 

Good enough for a 4 hour drawing.

Anyway, this was fun, and if you REALLY like it you will get in contact with me as make an inquiry about purchasing a print. That would certainly be nice. Anyway, take it easy bloggers!

-Colin

SEVEN DEADLY SINS WRAP UP!

Oh Hai,

Well blogdience, the blood sweat and tears have paid off and I'm happy to show you the final Seven Deadly Sins images. I even present it to you in a hi-res scan, almost like its in HD. Its also being shown in 3d, all you have to do is smash your face through the monitor, (please don't do this, this is a bad attempt at sarcasm and if you take it seriously, its sort of your fault). 

Anyway, I will start off with the eighth picture which is the whole "promo poster" with all of the images merged together, then I will go through them in their color order.

Here is the big ol promo poster. I think it's fun.

Rawr, I'm angry. So wrath-ey.

Lust. I'll be honest,

 I think this one is the prettiest. 

I guess, it's fitting. 

I guess...

Gluttony...fat and jovial. Like Santa.

Greed means Benjamins Everywhere!

Here's Envy, and I also really like this one. 

I'm a fan of the bling.

Super Slothtastic.

Mirror Mirror on the wall, 

who's the most Prideful of them all?

Alright, I hope you all liked them. I worked my butt off, and I hope everyone likes them, they will be hanging in my house when I get back to Savannah. It'll be a good wall decoration. Well I'll talk to you later Blogdience! 

Colin

PROGRESS!!!

Hello my dear blog,

Well, it certainly has been a busy summer.

SO many things have happened!

But mostly this post is to show what progress I have on the seven deadly sins stuff. I have 5 of them done, inked and colored, hot off the press (not really, unless the "press" means my aching hand) and ready for you to view! So without further adieu, here are the images! As always, you can click on them to make them larger! also excuse the quality, I didn't scan them, just took a picture of them, ill do hi-res scans when I have don't all of them. ENJOY!

My first one was "SLOTH"

I made the edges messy like I didn't care...

get it...cause I was lazy...

perhaps...slothful? 

yeah, you get it..moving on.

Number two was "GREED"

Oh hey, it looks like a dollar, imagine that.

Rounding off third is "GLUTTONY"

There isn't really a clever joke in here. 

I mean, it's self explanatory.

This eerie piece is "PRIDE"

This one may be my favorite,

 probably because I think it has the 

deepest meaning out of all of them.

And lastly for now is "WRATH"

My inspiration...a stubbed toe. 

I certainly hope you enjoyed these. I am having a good time working on them, even if my hand sorta feels like its going to fall off soon. Oh well, it's such a labor of love! 

Talk to you later blogdience!

Colin

Fantasy!!

Hello there web-world!


Oh hello blog-world! So much has happened since we last met, and by so much, I mean not really anything different from the norm. I am however closer to the end of the quarter, which is happy news, except for that whole stressful finals thing, I could go without that.

 Anyway, an update on fun art. I did some illustrations for class, one was supposed to be a fantasy illustration, and another one an illustration of what was happening in the real world. We had to use colored pencil and watercolor. And we weren't allowed to use ink, for outlining or anything. I wasn't so much a huge fan of this to be honest. But anyway, I did it. And am done with it. Finally. Enjoy!

So its a kid playing in a box. Who didn't do that

I mean really?! This was the second one I worked on, 

I don't like it as much as the first one. 

This is the second one. 

Obviously I spent a bit more time on this one.

 I like it a lot more.

Anyway, I hope you like dem illustrations! Im certainly glad I'm done with them, cause now its time to move on with my life and go on to my final! hooray!

Until next time my fair blog,

Colin

STAR WARS IS MAH FAVORITE!

Hello fellow interneters,

Okay so, if you recall I had a Star Wars themed poster in the works for submission to SDCC. If not, then refer to previous post, and read that, then come back to this one....

All done with that one? 

Okay, now we can continue...

Like I stated earlier I was making a Star Wars poster, and I posted the final inks to it, and said there was a colored version on the way. Well internet, today is the day I post the colors to that poster! I know, let the rejoicing continue as you scroll to Star Wars goodie-ness!

Just a simple farmer...

Now in TECHNICOLOR!

Well then, I hope that this picture fits y'alls fancy. I know I certainly had a lot of fun working on it, and I am very happy with the final product! Have a nice day and I will talk to you some other time that is not now internet!

Yours Truly,

a very sleepy Polar bear. 

Time for an Art Dump!!!

dear interwebs,

I know it has been a while since I last posted, and for that I am truly sorry. In an act of apology I will go on ahead and just dump some artwork onto my blog. A lot of it is old, but that's okay, it need to be shown on the internets. Here you go!!

hey look its a robot bee...i wish this was SCAD's mascot, it would be soo much cooler.

everybody's favorite half ork Ragmar, becoming a shish kabob

oh look, its fine art...

Boba Fett you sly dog you...

double page spread from my sketchbook

a sketchbook drawing

Alien vs. Predator vs. Robocop vs. Terminator

I like to call this one the "Hellfire Harpie"

Abernathy the Velociraptor..

Storyboard set layout in 1 Point perspective

Storyboard set layout in 2 point perspective

Storyboard set layout in 3 point perspective

Storyboard Beatboard 6

Storyboard beatboard 5

Storyboard beatboard 4

Storyboard beatbord 3

Storyboard beatboard 2

Storyboard beatboard 1

Well there is some artworks for y'all. The top is stuff that was done last year, the stuff toward the bottom of the post are the newer pieces of art. The greyscale storyboards were done for my Drawing for Stroyboarding class, they aren't normal storyboards by any means, they were developed over weeks as story highlights rather than actual storyboards. Just wanted to say that as a head's up, since I have talked to people about them and there has been some confusion over it. 

Well I do hope you all enjoyed the artwork, feel free to comment or even request art, never done that before, that should be interesting! 

Adios!