Warm ups!

Two rough, warm up sketches of my beautiful girlfriend, Tracey!

The Drowning of Ophelia

(Orignally posted on Sunday, November 8, 2009)
Drowned Ophelia from Brutal Legend.

What an awesome character from an awesome game.

I drew this about a month ago, but never colored it. I tried something a little bit different by basically using the airbrush tool for her skin instead of just using flat shades and gradients. Slowly, but surely, i'm trying to import new things into my art, to get out of my "comfort zone" hopefully. Who knows...maybe there might even be backgrounds in my drawings in the near future? lol

(Actually, this drawing did have a background planned, but i admit it. I got lazy AND my hand started giving me issues a little bit. One thing I have a BIG problem with is finishing a drawing all in one sitting. I know that I probably shouldn't, but i just get all wrapped up in it and excited to be producing a new piece, especially since they have been few and far between lately)

Renet is why i'm here today....well sort of.

Years ago, back in 1989, i had never read a comic book. Never even picked one up at that. My older brother read them when i was little, but i was never really interested in actually collecting them. I think the old 80's cartoons like Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends and Super Friends kind of spoiled me, as i felt that all comics should be like that.....and they weren't. Late that year, i started getting into the phenomenon that was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I remember in the fall of '89, i traveled to my first comic shop, just out of curiosity and saw something that truly caught my eye: the original Eastman and Laird Ninja Turtles comics that were in black and white. I was just completely off struck by what i saw: They all wore red headbands, cursed, killed, had tiny tails, and didn't eat pizza! There was no Krang, Bebop, Rocksteady, crazy mutant monsters, Foot Solider robots, or crazy aliens from Dimension X. Plus, the book was bloody as all hell, for its time. Needless to say, i was hooked.

These comics were the books that opened the door to me for reading other titles. Without them, i would have never started reading Marvel or DC books (or collecting for that matter). One character, specifically, that i've always wanted to draw from that series was Renet, the time travelling apprentice from TMNT #8. Though she has only been in a handful of issues, i have always loved her design and character. I was completely stoked when i saw that she was included in the 2003 TMNT cartoon revamp years back.

Well, here's my take on her! Enjoy!

A plethora of sketches!

Evil-Lyn

Two-Face

Elektra from The Teen Force
(gotta love old Hanna-Barbera)

Count Chocula

Let the obscureness continue!

More sketch card requests!

By extra special request, Penfold from Danger Mouse!

An obscure one...this one is of The Wicked Queen from Michael Jackson's Captain EO. Most people i know don't have a clue who this is, but hopefully, Disney will take care of that by putting Captain EO back in their theme parks this year. I know that Disneyland is already jumping on it. Now it's time for everyone else to get on that Captain EO bus and bring back that masterpiece (i'm looking at you, Epcot! I'd even take Hollywood Studios!)

Next is Evil-Lyn from the live action 1980's Masters of the Universe movie. Most people don't remember this movie staring Dolph Lundgren and a young Courtney Cox (and for good reason...it really wasn't that good at all!) The only good thing about it was that Meg Foster looked pretty badass as Evil-Lyn. I plan on doing an sketch card of Evil-Lyn from the original He-Man/Masters of the Universe in the near future though.

Finally, it's Catra from She-Ra, Princess of Power! I've ALWAYS wanted to draw her because i felt she was a pretty bad ass character. Pretty much anyone involved with The Evil Horde on that show were awesome villains. For this one though, i changed Catra's features a little bit and made them less angular and "pointy". She almost has an Angelina Jolie/Megan Fox look to her now, because i made her features a bit more full.

Queen of the Fairies!

The Sorceress

"In the year twoooo thooousaaand.............and ten"

I just wanted to give a special thanks to those out there that continue to support me and my art. It's probably the one thing that I'm most grateful for in life, so a million thanks go out to each and every one of you! I really appreciate it and here's to making 2010 a stellar year!

Medusa

Ah ha! I fooled ya! There's one more sketch card for 2009. This one is of the magnificent Medusa from the Inhumans:

Last of the 2009 Sketch cards

Clockwise from the top left: A Na'Vi from Avatar, Bucky as Captain America, Invincible and Mystique.

Iron Man 2 Sketchcards!

My sketch card contributions to the Iron Man 2 card set coming out in 2010. Haven't posted these anywhere but here!

New Year's Wolvie

A sketch i did of Wolverine for a friend's New Year's Eve get together. Everyone brings in something that they have made (i.e a drawing, sculpture, painting, etc) and they trade with one another. Overall, i think it's an ok sketch. I mean, there are errors all over the place in it, but it's not too bad right? lol

Ruby: Old vs New!

While messing around today on Deviantart, i started going through some of my old drawings. Man, some of these things are pretty painful to look at now! I seriously wanted claw my eyes out on some of these things! As a test to see how much i've grown as an artist, I attempted to redraw a few of my drawings. This is the first, based on a old drawing of my "mascot", Ruby Chaos, from June of 2006:

The full sized version of the old drawing can be viewed here:

http://bestnameever.deviantart.com/art/RubyGlow-35193448

I have a few more in the works (plus i plan on adding a background to this one). So far, it's been a pretty fun experience redoing some of these old pics. I might just have to start doing this every couple of years...

3 out of 10?!?!? Really?!

A while back, i posted this blog entry:

10 characters that I want to draw before the end of the year:
1. Storm (classic design)
2. Invisible Woman
3. Phoenix (or Dark Phoenix)
4. Ulala (from Space Channel 5)
5. Black Canary
6. Gum (from Jet Set Radio)
7. Brandy and/or Jen (from Liberty Meadows)
8. Empowered
9. Sister Grimm (from Runaways)
10. Catwoman

Out of that entire list, I only managed to draw about three of those characters, being Catwoman, Ulala, and Phoenix (well, Invisible Woman could be in there. I mean, I could just say that a normal, white piece of paper counts as a drawing of her using her powers...ok I'll stop). Talk about slacking! So, with the new year approaching, I think it's time to make a new list of characters that I PLAN on drawing for the year of 2010:

1. Atom Eve (from Invincible
2. Elastic-Girl (from The Incredibles)
3. Brandy or Jen (from Liberty Meadows)
4. Molly or Sister Grimm (from Runaways)
5. Bayonetta (that one is going to be tooooooooough!)
6. Felicia (from Darkstalkers)
7. Storm (Classic Design)
8 Loki (in female form, just because I haven't done a full body version yet)
9. The Baroness
10. Dejah Thoris

Here's to hoping that by this time next year, i'll have at least 7 of these done.

Penny Heart

Pixar = Death?!

So, at lunch today, i pixed up the Pixarpedia from the local bookstore. It's a pretty awesome book, filled with pictures and biographies of all of Pixar's films and shorts. Not only that, but it has a listing for pretty much EVERY character that has ever appeared in these films, no matter how important or non-important they are. Want to find out what all the little robots were called in Wall-E? This thing has it. Ever wanted to learn info about the various heroes in the Incredibles that were briefly mentioned? This book covers all of that! If you haven't checked it out, you should definitely take a look at it. To keep in the spirit of Pixar, i sketched up a couple of Pixar-related cards for fun:

The cast of Monsters Inc.

Syndrome from The Incredibles

And last, but not least (and completely off topic)...

Death (from DC/Vertigo's Sandman)

BelleChere!

Well, it's 2010 now and what's a better way to start the new year off right then by showcasing another fantastic and creative mind in the comic world. This month, it's the lovely and award-winning BelleChere. Probably one of the sweetest and most gifted cosplayers that i've ever had the chance to meet. I'm still in awe of her Dawn costume that won the Dawn Look-Alike Contest in 2008!

Check out her amazing work here:

www.myspace.com/delpharia

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/pages/BelleChere/224399206129?ref=nf

www.formspring.me/BelleChere

www.flickr.com/BelleChere

It's Leopard

A drawing that was done in between sketching Iron Man 2 sketchcards.

Dr. Sketchys 12-2-09

Sketch from the Dr. Sketchys event!

Lydia

Lydia from Beetlejuice

I tried to make her a bit older (like she was in the film) instead of having her as a kid (like she was in the cartoon series). I also tried to make her look a little bit more like Winona Ryder because...well....that's who played her in the movie.

Zombie Hot!

TNA Wrestling Knockout Daffney!

www.miracole.com

Have you seen the awesome costumes of Miracole yet?! If doesn't matter if your answer is yes or no, head on over to www.miracole.com and see some of her outstanding work. I was lucky enough to see her in her Baroness costume at Dragon*Con this year and its a sight to behold! Completely spot on with the character (but then again, all of her costumes are!)

Check out these sites to get a taste of her wonderful work:

www.miracole.com

http://www.myspace.com/miracole_whip

BrutalLegend.net

My Eddie Riggs sketchcard and Drowned Ophelia drawing are now up on the Brutal Legend fansite! Check it out!

http://www.brutallegend.net/fan-art/

Sketchcards like crazy!

A compilation of all of the sketch cards that I have done recently, plus a few new ones thrown in there for good measure. Can you name all of the characters?!?!

Decapitaaaaaaaaaaaatiooooooon!

Eddie Riggs from Brutal Legend! How awesome is this game! I haven't had this much fun with a game in a looooooooong time. Great characters, great storytelling, an incredible soundtrack and a overall fun experience that is second to none! If you haven't tried it out yet, do what you have to do to play it (well....keep it within the law ;-)

It's so chilly down below...

Hell has officially frozen over. I have a Twitter account:

http://twitter.com/bigchrisgallery

The King of all Wild Things

Just in time for the movie!

One of my favorite children's books of all time.

Ack! Ack! Ack! Ack!

Well, the old drawing hand has it's good days and it's bad days. Luckily, today was a decent one and I was able to get a sketch card done to help get back into the swing of things. This one is of Lisa Marie as the Martian Woman from the cult movie (and hopefully, one day, a classic) Mars Attacks. I know there's a lot of people out there that really didn't "get" or like the movie, but, for me, it's one of my all time favorites. Truly hilarious and just all out mayhem! Not only that, but it had a GREAT cast!

The Martian Woman had to be one of the coolest costumes I had ever seen, at the time, and it still holds up pretty well today. Oh, how I would kill to see someone cosplay as this. That's a true challenge right there, especially if they try to get her "walk" down.

On a side note, last weekend was 24 Hour Comic Day. My hats off to those that participated because you all are greater men and women than me. I'll be honest, I just don't have the discipline for it. When I draw, it's pretty much in spurts. I'll go for about 4 hours and then just stop for the rest of the day. To do it for 24 hours straight (and to be awake, for that matter) is just astounding and damn near impossible for me lol. It also requires a sheer amount of talent that I just don't have, so to those that actually did it last weekend, you all deserve a pat on the back and a "job well done" chant. One of these days, i'd like to try one out, but I think that i'm going to have to work my way up to it and go on a strict training regimen (similar to the movie "Rocky").

Loki!

The new and improved Loki.

Man, do i love this character as a female. It just added an entirely new element of evil to him (or her, as the case may be now). The character design is flawless! It's going to be a sad day when Marvel gives her up and returns Loki to his previous form.

Vampirella

You know something? I have never drawn Vampirella. I've never even sketched her....ever! So, i felt, with it basically being October now, that it was time to give it a shot! Not only that, but this is the first completed drawing that i've done since my hand injury. It took a little while, but it's something right?

On a side note, my art page on Facebook has magically disappeared! I don't seem to be the only victim, as quite a few other pages that i'm a fan of are missing as well! What the @#@#

(EDIT: Apparently, my art page is back now. Facebook is quite the moody little thing)

Dragon*Con 2009 pics!

Pics from this year's Dragon*Con!

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Big-Chris-Gallery/67637414072#/album.php?aid=148628&id=67637414072&ref=mf

Lucky there's a Family Guy.

More oldies!

This were supposed to go in this year's sketchbook as well, but i didn't have room for it. I tried drawing specific cartoon characters in my own style just to see how they would turn out. I wasn't too happy with the results, but i guess its a good start to trying something different for a change...

Hand Update: The hand is doing a bit better. I still hurts like crazy when I life or do anything that applies any real pressure to it BUT i'm actually able to start sketching now. I can't draw over long periods of time just yet, but i am making progress here!

Thanks to everyone out there who showed concern about it! I really appreciate it :-)

The Mistress of UltraPrison

Third on the list is a lesser known character from Adult Swim's Superjail, the Mistress of UltraPrison. I admit, i'm not specifically a fan of SuperJail, but thought that she would be an awesome character to at least sketch out. That rough sketch turned into the rough drawing that you see right here. I did this months ago, around the same time the Eris and Lindsay drawings. Originally, for my sketchbook this year, i was going to have a least two pages of miscellaneous Cartoon Network characters in a model sheet type of drawing. That never panned out (due to my slowness), so half of the drawings are still sitting here in my computer just waiting to be colored.

Ms. Selina Kyle

Next up is Ms. Selina Kyle, a.k.a. Catwoman. I swear, i must have at least 5 unfinished Catwoman pieces floating around here at my desk, but this had to be my favorite (hence why it's colored now. lol).

Marvel Girl

So, while the old hand is healing up, i thought i should start coloring the numerous amount of drawings that i have laying around and scanned into my computer. First up is the uncanny Marvel Girl herself, Jean Grey. This has to be one of my all time favorite costumes in comics. I mean if you think about it, Jean Grey has had a few of the coolest costumes in comics, especially this one and her Phoenix/Dark Phoenix costume. It's too bad that she has died more times in comics than there are Police Academy movies. Hopefully, Marvel will bring her back into mainstream comics again in the near future.

On a side note, did anyone pick up the X-men Legacy Annual that came out this past week? I have to say that Rogue's new costume is a definite A+ in my book! Maybe i just have a thing for scarves. I will say that when my hand heals up, that it will most defintely have to be put into a drawing!

Injury! Injury!

My apologies for the lack of updates lately. A few weeks ago, i was helping a friend move and had a little accident. During the move, a couch was dropped and landed on my left hand...my drawing hand at that! Hoping that it wasn't fractured or broken, i went to get an x-ray last Thursday. Turns out that nothing is broken or fractured, but the bones and muscles in my hand are just bruised really bad. My entire hand just feels stiff, sore, and achy, like its aged 20 years right before my eyes. It's getting better but it just feels like it's taking forever! lol It hurts to draw right now, so i'm just taking it easy. It sucks though, because after going to Dragon*Con this year, i have a severe itch to draw like crazy (as well as projects to finish).