Tim W15: Samurai Skatie!

Hey, look, my Roller Derby Queen from week 15! So, I'm playing catch up here, (even late for catch up week) but better late (really late) then never right...guys...hello, is this thing on.

Self-Depreciating Artist joke #137: If you can't make it good, make it big, if you can't make it big, make it red, and it you can't make red, make it yellow.

...and as you can see, yellow it is!

For my hipster-ish looking photo (instagram nerd) of the original line work click here!

Week 15: That deaf dumb and blind girl sure plays a mean pinba...er... Roller Derby

Just don't call her Roller Derby Barbie

 

I had a blast with this one! ... For some reason I had "Pinball Wizard" running through my head whenever I worked on it...

This is all in Illustrator. I used it as an Artclub demo last week and have been working on it bit by bit since then (hence the lateness). Ben Hale took this picture of us when I started.

Art nerds who get to show off are happy art nerds!

BTW... Totally digging the Hubble Space photos right now. I want to put galaxies in everything... including my outfits. The fantastic thing is that all the Hubble photos are free to download and use from the Hubble Website. Awesome! Thanks NASA!

Week 15:(T)Hugs

 

Just enough time for a sketch this week, which is a damned shame because roller girls are sexy. 

Wk 15: The Hillbilly Haymaker

This week's post is a homage to my state of birth and my lovely wife.  She's a skater, a WVU grad and known to throw a sweet set of fives when card playing.  If she were to ever try out the roller derby the Hillbilly Haymaker would be her moniker.  

Drawing is in pencil, color is my first go at Sketchbook Pro on the ipad.   

Wk 15: Roller Derby Queen Brunhilde

Wanted to try some new things this week.  Its been a long time since I'd drawn anything on paper and I really have no experience with brush pens or markers so I gave that a try.  I also wanted to try coloring over grey scale values so I laid the color on top if it in photoshop and did some additional touch ups.  Its a sloppier style than I'm used to, but I was trying to get out of my comfort zone.

See a composite of the different stages over at my personal blog: Still Reaching

WEEK 15: Roller Derby Queen

This weeks' topic comes from the mean rinks and even meaner make-up counters of ROLLER DERBY!! We salute the gorgeous bad asses who dare to strap on skates and throw atomic elbows on a regular basis.