Week 6: The Crow..final

I wanted to experiment with this one...especially after picking fellow monster, Craigs brain during Art Club. This is pen and ink, masking fluid, ink washes and a bit of white acrylic and white paint marker. The background however was an experiment. Craig had mentioned working with bleach..so I did attempt it here. I had splashed and brushed the bleach on..but it did not seem to have any affect on the inks. That was until I took a sanding block to it....this was the end result.
I chose a background story for the character. After seeing numerous times in the news of young kids getting killed for sports jackets and tennis shoes. So I combined that premise of story along with my love for Forrest Whitaker in Ghost Dog. If you head to my blog...http://www.chelzostudios.com/..you can check the sketches.

Wk7: You got your chocolate and my peanut butter!

Just so happens that this week's topic coincides with a commission I just finished. A couple friends of mine are getting married and approached me with this amazing amalgam of ideas that represents the both of them. Sweetums with Chewbacca's bandoleer on and Red Fraggle wearing Gryffindor house robes. Of course! I love that I have friends that think like this!
The technique used here was oil pastel, colored pencil, ink and acrylic on vellum. Drawing on the front side of the vellum, purpley-red oil pastel under painting on the back with whites erased out. Then flipped back over to the front for all the colored pencil, ink and acrylic. There's a little more to it if you guys have any questions I'd be happy to share. But there ya go, Red Fraggle, student at Hogwarts in love with Sweetums the co pilot of the Millennium Falcon . Makes sense to me!

Tim W7: The grass is always greener!

Some people say that it is not easy being green, nobody knows this better than Kermit the Frog.

Inky lines are over  here, check em' out: timswitalski.blogspot.com

Week 7: The Muppets!

(Please read in your best Kermit the Frog voice)

It's time to play the music,
It's time to light the lights,
It's time to (draw) the Muppets (from) the Muppet Show (or movies, or any other Muppet  thing you want) tonight!

That's right! It's finally here, the week you all have been waiting for Muppet Week! Yay!!! Time to draw any and all Muppet related art that your little heart desires. So...

lets get things started
Why don't you get things started
It's time to get things started
On the most sensational inspirational celebrational Muppetational RBMC week ever!

The Crow

I've always loved crows...always. Then came this comic..The Crow, which eventually lead me to doing some background stuff on how the animal is viewed in other cultures...legends and religions. That being said I went on Mr. O'Barrs premise and envisioned the character as a instrument of vengeance. But alas..I ran short of time this week with finishing a commission..(Which can be viewed on my blog...end of shameless plug..starting Tuesday...okay now end of shameless plug.) So here's a sneak peek at my piece...I'm looking to experiment with a couple of things on this one..so for now you'll just have to be satisfied with a small clipping of it. How can I know when this happens, you ask? Subscribe to our blog here at RBMC. Simple.

Week 6: My Valentine Has Hollow Eyes (kinda)

Ever wonder how artists work, do you get excited to learn about the process behind all the masterpieces you see week after week here at the RBMC?!  Well then fine sir, or madam have I got a treat in store for you! 

You see, I'm building a new wheelhouse and figuring out this little known industry standard of a program called "Adobe Illustrator".  Now once or twice, I've hit some buttons and swore some words at this fantastic program to make pictures, but I've never really tried to learn it, to understand it's  native language. 

And you know what pals?  It's hard.  It's harder and more complicated than a fella like me expected it to be when I decided to buckle down an learn for this weeks piece.  

But my loss is your win, friends, and you get to see my original pencil art complete with crow overlay from my sketchbook and drafting tape to hold together two pieces of bristol board because I drew too big.  Boy howdy, are you lucky!

In the meantime, why don't you click on that little box to the side that says "followers" and saunter on back next week to see if I've figured out this pesky program.  

 

 

Thanks for stopping, and I'll keep pluggin away in the meantime.

Week 6: Kid Crow

.... cause every super hero needs a child side-kick, right?

Week 6: Vengeance With An Ax

Just a quickie this week.

To me, the most interesting thing about the Crow is that its a spirit that embodies a person to exact revenge and that the deceased person's occupation/lifestyle informs how they look.  Admittedly, most of my knowledge of the Crow comes from the movie, so I started there and tried to go as far in the other direction as I could.  Getting away from more gaunt, rock star look, I tried to find a bulkier build and more "blue collar" profession to start with.  I leaned towards a lumber jack because I still thought that would be scary as shit coming at you through the city or forest.

When I started with the rest of the Rust Belt Monster Collective, I knew that I wanted to strengthen my digital work flow as well as try as many different "looks" and techiques as I could.  I tweaked my Cintiq settings to try and get more of a sloppy, brushed look and kept the clean-up to a minimum.  I knew from the beginning that I would stay black and white, but added the halftone values later to try and give it a more "indie" vibe.

See some of the process over at my blog: still-reaching.blogspot.com
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