DRIVE Fan Art

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Ink and watercolor on watercolor paper, Digital

Another character with a distinctive jacket since I've been thinking about distinctive jackets lately. I saw DRIVE for the first time recently and it blew me away for serious. Wish I had drawn the car bigger, but I thought it wouldn't be recognizable since a lot of it would have been cropped off. Originally I was going to use the actual colors of the movie but I just liked the watercolors so much I stuck with it. Here's the original:

A REAL HUMAN BEING, AND A REAL HUMAN HERO

Shank

Watercolor, Acrylic on Watercolor paper

Here is a poorly lit but slightly retouched image of my contribution to the latest Weavver Gallery show, "Pairings".  Below are some detail shots because why not. There's a noticeable shift in color around the breast area/body of lamb on the first two images but not in the third image. That's because I can't properly light an image for shit and that's why I'm not a photographer (yet).

AKIRA Fan Art

Ink, Watercolor, Digital

Shamefully I still haven't read Akira (only watched the film version), but Otomo Katsuhiro has been on my mind lately so here's Kaneda. Also I wanted to draw someone with a distinctive jacket.

Here's the paper version:

TETSUOOOO!!!

Patina

Patina, mixed media on watercolor paper, some Photoshop

This was a piece I contributed to the Weavver Gallery for the last Fullerton Art Walk. There are a number of things I would change if I could.

A lot of inking practice

Hit go for go!

July Illustrations

Here's what I spent the weekend doing.

Red Veins

Peacock Princess

Untitled

Mild adjustments with Photoshop and I'm working on getting a big ol' awesome scanner

The Apple Pie Cover (Moebius homage)

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There's a meme among the Moebius fan community in which artists "cover" the third page of Moebius' "The Apple Pie". It started after Paul Pope (one of my favs) did his version of that panel. This is my cover of that same panel, which I submitted to the Moebius fan appreciation blog.

Moebius is pretty fantastic living legend and it's a shame more people don't know about him. In fact I only learned about him a few months ago and have fallen in love since. Heck, I even bought his French exhibition book for a large sum of money (not as much on that website luckily, though I did buy it from Stuart Ng's store in person).

Pet Snail

I'm not too fond of the composition, but I think I got pretty close with the colors I was looking for. Mixed media on water color paper.

Kitsune

Ink and color pencil on watercolor paper

Old woman with bags

This was based on an old Vietnamese woman I would see standing in a parking lot at one in the morning . Her back was hunched and she had several bags with her--more than I believed she could carry. I always feel saddened at the thought of her.

I went a little crazy with the inks

Some more inking

More practice with inks. I'm getting there..