I found out it was one of my favorite Illustrators/comic book artist, Jeff Smith's birthday today (Feb the 27th)and so I thought it appropriate to post some of the fan art I've been unashamedly doodling in my spare (HA) time.
I think I've said it a few times, but you really have to read BONE. It's one of the most genuine stories you'll get your fists on. And, the art is awesome to boot. You'll laugh, you'll cry, and you'll be left wanting a LOT more even though the book has more than 1300 pages.
I have tried and failed to describe it, so you're just going to have to read it for yourself.
Thorn and Fone Bone are my favorite characters---you can't pick one between them. They're too much a part of each other to pick a favorite from the two.
disclamer....Bone, Thorn, and Fone Bone are Jeff Smith's! Again, HAPPY BIRTHDAY! :D
So, I've been listening to Heather Dale songs alot lately. They not only sound nice, but tell stories! Now, I don't know about you, but those sound-good-and-tell-a-story songs are my favorite. They're fun to listen to when you're doing something mindless and boring. Lately, my favorite of her's has been "Hawthorn Tree."
This stinkin' song has reminded me how much I love Arthurian legends. I have this huge hardback of Tennyson's Idylls of the King (illustrated by one of my favorites of all time--Gustave Dore')
I also had to do a quick google search on Merlin and Vivian. I love how different the story get's each time it's told. (My favorite versions are the ones where she imprisons him to save him. And they love eachother unconditionally. I'm a sap that way.)
(Words in this one are adapted from one of Tennyson's Arthurian poems)
Also, Merlin's being moody.
"Maid as fair as Apple Blossoms"
"My eye's are old, but still can see."
Fun fact: Sanguine pens make almost anything look remotely nice. Also, I experimented and didn't do a pencil sketch underneath the inks on any of these. I just drew these straight ahead, no planning, reference, or anything. Okay, I looked up Apple Blossoms to make sure I got them right. But that's it.
I almost forgot that Merlin was a crazy old bat living in the woods for a loooong time. Which is awesome---You gotta love those crazy mountain men. Apparently, because of this, he's often associated with Apple tree's in the various legends and literature he shows up in. (Apple Trees=Apple Blossoms??) Man, I love Heather Dale and her ability to actually care enough about these fun old stories to actually put little things like that into her rhymns.
Here's my late Christmas Picture! This is Brenda O'Conelly and Carl Wilson, (my characters that I'm very tempted to make a comic about) signing in ASL (American Sign Language) "Merry Christmas" to you! Brenda looks like she's making a gesture to her boobs. Sorry Brenda.
I have so much "other art" to catch up one now that School's out until February! I actually have a whole buch of things to catch up on, not just drawing, so... I will be incredibly busy for... forever.
How was your Christmas? Did you do a slew of fun things? I hope so. Here's to a happy new year!
This is something I did after school last night... It didn't turn out how I wanted it to, but I had to stop working on it after the clock pointed near 3 am. Time sure does fly when you have no idea what you're doing!
These are head studies for clothed figure drawing. I used my sister as a model for all of them, but the assignmnet only called for ONE likeness drawing... So I really pushed the limits of changing her into something totally not her for the other two. The second one I wasn't very fearless, the third one I just said, "what they hey?" and drew her into a pirate. A very ugly man pirate with bad teeth and a lazy tongue.
I don't know what grade I got on these yet. I may take them off of my blog is it's pretty bad...
