Hulk faces

After doing this Hulk pin-up, I got quite a few comments saying it didn't quite look like the Hulk. I'm not that familiar with the character, so I guess I gave him too human of a face. I'm going to redo the face on my initial pin-up at some point, but here's some practice sketches I did today of the Hulk to try to get his facial structure down:

Hulk!!

I did this for a two-man Hulk draw-off on Penciljack. Click to make big.

Strip Jam: Me and the Major

My eighteenth panel (and 119th panel overall) for the Neverending Strip Jam at Penciljack.

25 Million Years after our story begins, Master Yoda and R2D2 have found the Ministry's suitcase, and opened it to find the souls of Sam, Sammy, Joker-Snake, The Major, and Yoshi. Just then the rotting, soulless body of the Major showed up, grabbed his own soul, and popped it in his mouth.

And before anyone asks, "Me and the Major" is a Belle & Sebastian song.

Texting this from my phone. Just want to make sure it works.

Character Sketches - April 21

Karl Savage asked where the Sayid drawing I did was, so here it is, along with a Wolverine sketch. Both of these are from months ago, but I never scanned them in for whatever reason.



And here's today's sketch. Over the past few weeks I've been making my way through Carl Sagan's "Cosmos" series on Hulu, which is a science program from the early 80s made to introduce and explain complicated science ideas to laypeople in a way they can understand. I'm a big fan of Sagan, going back to the first time I saw the movie "Contact" in high school, and then went back and read his novel it was based on. I loved the movie but the book is a hundred times better. I then started reading his other books like "Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark" and "Billions and Billions," the former of which started me on my journey into skepticism. I consider Carl Sagan a personal hero of mine, and it's a shame he's no longer with us.

More of these album covers

More of these and these. Done by taking a random article on Wikipedia for the band name, a random quote for the album title, and a random Flikr image for the album artwork. The original photographer is credited where I remembered to save the link.



I tried to do some aging on this one. If you look at the original photo, it's in color and looks new, but I looked up some tutorials on aging photos.
Photo by margolove


If I ever start a rock band, I'm going to call them The Virtuality Continuum.
Photo by Fort Photo


Photo by Tuffer (belgian edition)



Tried my best at doing a logo. Turtle Soup is Florida ska.



I tried doing a hip-hop album. Cheated because it was "Nebuchadnezzar II" but I dropped the "II" and the "r."
Photo by maurizio carucci


Photo by Diddis







Another pass at doing a hip-hop album.
Photo by PHOTOcLiiCK

More album covers

More fake album covers, done by combining a random Wikipedia article for the band name, the last four words of a random quote for the title, and a random Flikr image for the art. Here are the last ones I did, and here are some more.


Photo by Cinnamon

Sri Yerramilli Narayanamurthy is an American-born Indian man who does folk-country.




Photo by jurvetson

Reston Manitoba is an alternative band from Knoxville.




Photo by froodmat

Pseudofeces is a late '90s hard rock band.




Al Watan is actually Al-Watan, a newspaper in Saudi Arabia. But I dropped the hyphen and made it some dude's name. I think he does smooth jazz.

Photo by Olivier Maurin




Carlos Salazar is an 80s new wave band.

Photo by Atilla1000




Photo by Jaki Good

Churchill is 90s Britpop.

Wasting time

There's a fun game on Penciljack where you come up with a CD cover, band name, and album title. You just go to a random page on Wikipedia to get your band name, the last four words of the last quote on a page of random quotations, and the third picture on a page of random Flickr images. But recently someone had the bright idea to actually go into Photoshop and design the CD covers. Here are my attempts.


Tuzki is a European instrumental folk group.

John Marshall High School is a late 90's alt-pop band. I also used another quote on the same page for a song title.

I cheated a bit here because the Wikipedia page was for Ohs, a cereal, but I made them The Oh!s, who I've decided are a 2000s garage rock band.

Phalcoboenus is a folky alt-rock band.

Smarty is a Scottish girl who does pop music.

Leaf Blower is a Damon Albarn side project.

Kvíslavatn is an Icelandic pop group that sings in English and clearly loves Wes Anderson movies.

Cheated a bit, but "Plays - Cynical But Hopeful" didn't sound as good. Jonathan Webster Cornett is a one-hit wonder from the 80s.

COCONUT98 is a 90s pop-punk band.

I could go the obvious route and say Plaxton is an emo band, but I'm going to say they're a house electronica band.
And here's the last one, because I really don't think I could do one funnier than this:


EDIT: I've done some more.

Strip Jam: MF Doom

This is my fifteenth panel (and 102nd panel overall) for the Never-ending Penciljack Strip Jam.

Character Sketches - March 19

So these Daily Character Sketches aren't exactly daily anymore. I underestimated the amount of time it would take to do a sketch like this every day. So I'm going to try for two or three sketches a week now, and do Loomis sketches the rest of the week.

In honor of this week's final episode of what is, in my opinion, the best science fiction show of all time, I've drawn Kara "Starbuck" Thrace of Battlestar Galactica.

Titus Colored

Color version of the Bruce Timm-style Titus sketch I did.

Bruce Timm-style Titus

This is Titus, the main character of the comic I'm doing right now. I decided to do this in a Bruce Timm/animated DCU style. After finishing it I realized it's not really that different from my normal style.

Loomis Sketches - March 13

Let's Go to Utah

This is a pin-up for the trade paperback of Dave Chisholm's "Let's Go To Utah" comic. If you've never read it, I suggest going to his DA page and reading through the story, it's pretty great. I've seen someone describe it as a Coen Brothers movie in comic format and that's pretty apt.

Loomis Sketches - March 5

Loomis Sketches - Feb. 27

Penciljack Strip Jam Recap

This is a recap of the Neverending Penciljack Strip Jam. Read it from the beginning here.

Daily Character Sketches - Feb. 19

A bit of Wolverine for you. I decided to go with the Jim Lee costume since that's the Wolverine I grew up with, but with the John Cassiday boots, because let's be honest, the giant wings on those boots in the 90s were ridiculous.

I respond to the Blasphemy Challenge

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Daily Character Sketches - Feb. 17

Now that I've finished the Bridgman book, I'm going to be doing a sketch of one of my favorite characters every day. Today's sketch is Lord Voldemort from the Harry Potter series, although this sketch is based more upon Ralph Fiennes' portrayal from the last couple movies.



If you have any suggestions for characters (either of the people that read this blog), leave 'em in the comments section.