Doctor Nightmare

Dr. Nightmare

Doctor Nightmare: a principal character in Jon David Guerra’s Nightmare Pro Wrestling.  Experiment: fan-art process.  Ref: JD’s NPW.  Plan: sketch originals, variations, finish with my style. Showing: roughs, and inks (click for all).  Tools: cheap pen brush, PITT pens half through.  Take: Good brush pen practice time. Rare to get time to do this. Very gratefully for my art time.

<== I liked the roster image for Doctor Nightmare. Strange body. I tried to get acquainted with the arms. He owns NPW. Lives in a castle on top of a giant tortoise.

==> A couple of poses from Jon’s panels. A walking sketch on the right. I liked the pose below it, but messed with textures, etc.

<== Classic pose I had to try. Long-bendy arms throwing me a curve, as well as the chunky hands.

==> Working larger, portrait my style, for the castle.

I thank Jon and Nicole for their Texas hospitality, and letting me play with these. Thank you Nightmare Pro Wrestling.

Click here to see everything. Thank you for dropping by. Hope we entertained. Have a great art time.

Prehistoric Love – Illustration Friday

I call this “Prehistoric Love”. Which is my offering for Illustration Friday’s topic “Prehistoric”. I had a pencil rough of two love struck moon-gazing dinosaur toons, so I went to it with ink and pen brush.

I know. Aw, cute. Thanks for dropping by, and have a great art time!

Scared Dragon Experiment

AHHH!!! Ugly, isn’t it? In the sense that’s it bad, but its so bad, I like it.

I’ve been off art-wise for these last couple of weeks, and its something you just have to push through. So I took something I played with during art time with my daughter, and turned it into a horrendous experiment. An art sin, I dare say. Oh well, that’s what the lab is for, to learn from the good and the bad. And this was bad!

Early last week, I cut a couple of pieces of watercolor paper for my daughter and me to play. Since I was on a dragon kick, I penciled in a rough dragon face, cartoon-like, and I inked it. I wasn’t going for anything in particular. Sorry I didn’t save process stages, but this was just fun time. So after inking, I used watercolor pencils while watching “Land of the Lost” (a comedy with cool dinosaur fun). It looked uglier than it was, so I let it sit for some time. This morning, still feeling off on the art front, I decided to just get busy and see what happened. I grabbed that piece, and went at it with sharpies! Black background with just a thin white outline. Nah! More messing with was in order. I used colored sharpies to outline, color, and fill in the rest. Incredibly enough, the color made it pop enough for me to like its ugliness. So there you have it. An ugly, mutant art experiment, including watercolor paper, watercolor pencils, black ink, and colored sharpies. The black background was key for it to pop up, but the colors brought it home. You can’t deny colors have power, even if its still dark. I like the initial scared look, and the bad linework. I learned that not all disasters are worth throwing away, and that you can learn a lot from them.

Hope you like it! Thanks for visiting the lab, and have a great art time, no matter what!

Star Gazing – Illustration Friday

Submission for Illustration Friday’s topic: Star Gazing.  The images I could come up with invariably involved someone laying on a field at night, or peeking through a telescope, looking up at the stars. So I thought I could have the stars actually gazing back.  This weekly Illustration Friday topic thing has become a little tradition for me now. It now seems that I’ve taken this scheduled event as an opportunity to exercise creativity on the fly. Most of the time I wait until the day before the deadline to start.  Having little time motivates me to come up with something clever, instead of working on something for days, and getting too “precious” with it, or spending time exploring the digital tools instead of learning to draw and paint.  I want to get to the point where I can produce something worthwhile quickly.  Keeping it simple has forces one to concentrate on the idea more than on the technique. It doesn’t allow much time to explore and learn digital art skills, but its an excellent mental exercise. I don’t want the tools to interfere with my learning process at this stage. Thanks for dropping by, and have a great art time!