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.

2015: Year In Review

Had a couple low-productivity months over the summer, but I think I did pretty OK this year.  25 paying bits of illustration.  Again, not livable money...but way more than the 4 I did the year before.
Actually turned in the last paid piece of 2015 about 15 minutes before I started typing this.  December was kinda rough, and it will continue right through into January.

I have barely played Fallout 4.  I have not yet seen The Force Awakens(!)  Haven't really hung out with my family in weeks.  Ah, the freelancer's carefree life.

Learned a whole bunch about the new Sketchbook Pro...enough that my most recent batch were done entirely in that software...no photoshop or artrage required.  Learned a whole lot about painting hair.  Taught myself rudimentary bookbinding, and proceeded to hand-make about 2 dozen sketchbooks.  wrote 100+ pages of a CYOA-style experiment.  Also, my long-term project involving werewolves continues as time permits.  Finally finished my blade runner pistol, and then had the photo re-tweeted by Adam Savage (again, '!').
  Lots of anxiety and stress, but less pain.  More therapy.  We'll see how 2016 goes.

Happy New Year

More books...

So the way my brain functions, after learning how to roughly construct a sketchbook I launched immediately into making covers wholly of my own design.  Which led to this:

...because I can't stop my brain.  This then turned into THIS-

-so now there's a limited run of 7 copies(+ my initial, slightly misprinted prototype).  3 are already spoken for, but that leaves 4 of them to sell on Etsy(maybe).  240-page blank sketch- or notebooks.  I like the idea of doing small, limited runs of these.  We'll see.  Also mocked up a different style of faux-retro cover:

  I keep thinking that someday my brain will learn how to quiet down, but apparently that day is not today.

Happy Halloween

Quick(-ish) piece done this evening.  After spending the last month working on game maps, really needed to get back to something more figure-oriented.