2016: Year In Review

Oy vey, 2016.  A particularly challenging year for me personally.  Found myself diving into a heap of projects purely as a matter of survival.  That did give me the ability to put up 35 videos on Youtube(!?).  Hope to continue those as time allows.

Here's to 2017.

SleepyOni: Illustration! - Holiday 2016 Edition

SleepyOni: X-Wing Helmet Part 2

SleepyOni: X-Wing Helmet Part 1 - Construction

Coffee-time doodle

Alrighty then.  Personal awfulness and chaotic stress and panic just built-in to this year. (yay!).  Today: car rear-ended, phone broken, friend's son in the hospital, 2 friends in-process for awful divorces, game night cut short(I'm being a crybaby about that one, I know).

GODDAMMIT.


I, and several people I know, could really use a fucking win.  I am full of complaint; my apologies.

Crap

As some things continue to be awful, at least I can paint awkward fake-retro illustrations!  HUZZAH!

SleepyOni: Books! Faux-Leather, Bat-stamped Notebook

skull

SleepyOni: Devil Puppet! Part 2 - Detailing

SleepyOni: Devil Puppet! Part 1 -Fabrication

Full Moon #46: Bakko Yokaiden Kibakichi 2

 Miki Tanaka as Anju the wolf girl in "Bakko Yokaiden Kibakichi 2", 2004.

Yes, her hair is actually that big.

SleeyOni: Illustration! - Package Design

SleepyOni: Charon's Obol - Part 2

SleepyOni: Charon's Obol - Part One

SleepyOni: Books! - Painted Skull

SleepyOni: Chainmail Dice Bag!

practice

Yup, more practice.

SleepyOni: Charlie The Funland Robot!

Fallout: Australis concept work

My art style has never really qualified as "fast" and/or "loose", but that's what I was trying to channel here.  Maybe 3 or 4 hours total, working as fast I was able.  Plenty that's awful or ineffective, but there are bits of this I quite like.
Fallout: Australis is still a thing in the back of my head...bolstered by Mad Max, it keeps reappearing.  Mad Max, but with ghouls and an invading Imperial Robot Army.   And plasma rifles.

Experiments

I know very little about skintones/color theory, etc. Experimenting to try and figure some things out.

Also a leisurely reprieve whilst trying to recover from a pinched nerve (resulting in shooting pain the length of my dominant arm.

SleepyOni: Illustration - Old School Devil

T-Shirt-stravaganza!

Workin' on some shirts as I get geared up for GenCon 2016. Nerdery ahoy!

SleepyOni: Illustration! Oil Paint and a Skull

  Ha ha ha. I don't know how to use oil paint AT ALL. Never tried it before, so a fact-finding mission was undertaken. Mixed results, but certainly not all bad.

SleepyOni: Illustration! - Mephisto

revamping some stuff

Working on revamping some older things, to put on some tshirts. I'm really weird about how shirts fit me, so once I find something I like I buy several. In this case, black tshirts that i'm stenciling/printing my own art onto. At gencon this year I want to be representing my own peculiar sensibilities, not anyone else's product.

SleepyOni: Skull T-Shirt!

SleepyOni: Books! - Custom Hardcover

SleepyOni: Illustration! Cthulhu Edition

SleepyOni: Jangles The Moon-Monkey

Full-size Jangles prop, anyone?

DIY Travel Notebook

Travel Notebook vid on the Youtube

Fake FF Movie Poster!

A new video up, and some stuff updated in my Etsy shop.

SleepyOni: Illustration!

Preview detail

It's totally a thing to paint Buddy Hackett as The Mole Man, right?  I mean, ALL the kids are doing it.
Detail of a poster illo that gets presented next week, including youtube build video.  Small # of prints made, 11x17, will probably go up on my etsy page next week.
Prints arrived 5 days early(!), so the vid is finished way early.

Notebook build

Youtube: Lon Chaney Illo

Watch a timelapse of me producing an illustration.

https://youtu.be/S4EbQvZU0WE

Or not.  I'm not the boss of you.

Full Moon #45: Teen Wolf

Michael J. Fox in "Teen Wolf", 1985.  

Paperback cover & book. For fun.

Made a little paperback and cover in the Choose-Your-Own-Adventure style.  100 pages, filled up with scans of a bunch of stuff from my sketchbooks as well as more recent digital work.  Printed out masters of the interior pages at home, then copied those double-sided pages at the local copy place, with decidedly mixed results.  Oh well.  Original cover painting & layout, printed onto cardstock and the whole thing perfect-bound and trimmed.  4.25 x 6.75", roughly.
...and a build video on youtube on the SleepyOni channel.

 https://youtu.be/ykJu1HKP_K0

Youtube? Youtube.

I'm putting some stuff on Youtube under SleepyOni.  Playing around with video as distraction from real-world shit.


https://youtu.be/ZW67y9_I7fs

How I make sketchbooks.

Reprieve

Ernest Borgnine in "The Devil's Rain", 1975.  Consider this a temporary Full Moon Reprieve. Because, you know, Easter's coming up.

skulls

I was going through my last couple sketch-and-note-books, and realized that I, ummm, I draw a lot of skulls.   Weird.

Full Moon #44: El Charro De Las Calaveras

Wolfguy from "El Charro De Las Calaveras", 1965. 

Full Moon #43: Idle Roomers

Wolfman from "Idle Roomers", 1944.  AKA The Three Stooges Meet The Wolfman.

Full Moon #42: Frankenstein, El Vampiro Y Compania

Wolfman from "Frankenstein, El Vampiro Y Compania", 1962.
Holds a special place in my heart due to the wolfman mask being constructed out of cardboard and cotton balls.  No actual attempt at makeup was made for this film, and I find that kind of endearing.

practice

practice continues.  trying different tools than I normally use in Sketchbook Pro.  From ref.

practice

late-night  lightning round, from ref.

Full Moon #41: House Of Frankenstein

Lon Chaney Jr.(yes, one more time) in "House Of Frankenstein", 1944.

Kinda got lost in the weeds on this one.

Sketchbookin'

Was doodlin' some pulp-cover titles in my sketchbook and then this happened.  please to excuse the spine-fold in the middle.

Full Moon #40: Kibakichi

Ryûji Harada in "Kibakichi: Bakko-yokaiden", 2004.


Wandering werewolf samurai in feudal Japan.

Full Moon #39: Ginger Snaps

Katharine Isabelle in "Ginger Snaps", 2000.

Full Moon #38: Waxwork

Werewolf from "Waxwork", 1988.

One of the more idiosyncratic designs, certainly.

Full Moon #37: Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man

Lon Chaney Jr.(again) in "Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man", 1943.

Full Moon #36: Dog Soldiers

Wolfman from "Dog Soldiers", 2002.

Full Moon #35: El Santo Y Blue Demon Contra Dracula Y El Hombre Lobo

Yet another El Hombre Lobo, this time from "El Santo Y Blue Demon Contra Dracula Y El Hombre Lobo", 1973. 
Notable for the sparse chest hair and yellow satin shirt.

Full Moon #34: Nature Of The Beast

Wolfman Rich from "Nature Of The Beast", 2007.  TV-movie, apparently.

Full Moon #33:Stephen King's It

Teenage Wolfman from "Stephen King's It", 1990.

This tv miniseries had the additional problem of at least 2 different creature builds for their wolfman.  One close-up(animatronic, if I remember right), and one full-head makeup for the long and medium shots.  The actual makeup was great(may have just been a static full-head mask), but I wasn't able to get a decent shot of it.  The illo is based on the close-up head...which bears a peculiar resemblance to Willem Dafoe(?) 

Full Moon #32: El Santo Y Blue Demon Contra Los Monstruos

El Hombre Lobo from "El Santo Y Blue Demon Contra Los Monstruos", 1969. 
The film also features one of the most awkwardly dodgy cyclops i've seen in some time.

Full Moon #31: Mad Monster Party

Wolf Man from "Mad Monster Party", 1967.

Goofin' off

So, I finished another paying gig a week or two ago.  October-January was INSANE for me, and my recharge plan is essentially "Play Fallout 4 until collapse.  Wake up and repeat."  It's worked, kinda.

These two are both quick(ish), messy sketches from ref photo's.  Drawn whilst watching the new X-Files & hanging out with my family.  Seems that I'm always jumping between work methods; whole bunch of digital, go straight to pencil/pen/whatever.  Too much drawing, go make something in the workshop.  Too many handmade books, go write something.
I'm pretty lucky that I have the space/time/ability to jump between some fairly disparate stuff, as the mood hits.  One more, that is not 40s/50s:

Also building a Fallout 4-related item.  Will update after I get some problems solved.