Nothing fancy this week. Just working on the design of a mix cd. Here are the illustrations without the typographic elements.
I volunteered to do some pro bono illustration work for Hyphen Magazine, so I will probably have some of that process stuff up next week…. Wait, no. Next week is Tet, so I’ll have that image up. Anyhow, see you next week.
This week’s X-man.
A special request from my sister, Jes.
Hopefully, I’ll have more stuff, besides X-men to show you!
Love,
Tyler
Here’s the my wrap-up of fan art January, my favorite scene in Lord of the Rings, the fall and redemption of Boromir:
I’m pretty happy with the drawing itself, though I didn’t have the time to fully color it. I might end up going back and giving it the full treatment sometime down the road.
Anyhow, I’m going to be trying to really buckle down and focus on finishing the last chapter of Americus, so I might not be posting weekly in February. I’m going to try to stay on it, and post as often as I can, but finishing this book is really priority number one.
To wrap up my contribution to Fan Art Apocalypse 2010, I’m wandering outside of Doctor Who the show and casting my metaphorical fishing pole into the larger Doc Who universe (I can’t bring myself to say “Who-niverse”. Nrrd Fail). This week I reeled in Captain John Hart, a character who makes a few appearances in the Doctor Who spinoff show Torchwood. He is a former partner/lover/fighter/i-don’t-even-know-her of last Wednesday’s subject, Jack Harkness.
I, however, like to call him “Captain Crunch”:
I can’t really explain the above, other than it’s a reference to an in-joke that maybe two people besides myself will understand. This image isn’t really representative of the character, but the concept amused me, so quirkiness won the day.
That’s right: this moi.
Didn’t really get any thing done except this little jewel:
and even this is poorly executed. Meh. Sorry Jeremy.
Here’s the thing though. I’ve really enjoyed how these fan art pieces have helped me work faster and more playfully as well as experiment with coloring techniques so I’ve decided to keep doing them. So, I’ve started a new project today: X-man A Week! Will be taking requests. And Jeremy I’ll do another Longshot and Dazzler for ya down the road.
Love,
Ty
Ha! So Tyler and Jason both stepped up their game this week and I stepped mine down. I think I’m starting to burn out a little bit with all the drawing I’ve been doing the last couple of weeks. Anyhow, this is for the Hav.
It’s where Aragorn uses one of the Palantir to show Sauron that he is the heir of Isildur and sort of trick him into marshaling his forces to attack before they’re ready to draw attention away from Frodo and Sam.
I’ll make it up to everyone next week.
This week I thought I’d pay homage to one of my favorite Doctor Who scenes featuring the character Captain Jack Harkness. It’s hard to explain the scene without getting too much into set up and back story, so I’ll just say it shows off the Captain’s resourcefulness when stuck in a situation with only the bare essentials:
Just don’t ask him where he was hiding that Compact Laser Delux™. You really don’t want to know.
Emma Frost:
looks kinda like Shirley Manson to me…
And Kurt Wagner aka Nightcrawler:
Many thanks to Jake for fixing Emma’s face, and reminding me that Nightcrawler’s Bamf! is always pink… -10 geek points for me, +10 for Jake.
I’m taking requests for next week!
Love,
Tyler
It’s everyone’s favorite, Tom Bombadil!
I will admit to some serious nerd fail here: It’s supposed to be the scene at the Barrow Downs where the Barrow Wight attacks the hobbits and they sing his name and he comes to rescue them. I didn’t go back or read it, I just sort of drew what I remembered, even though I know it’s wrong [and the fact it looks like they're dead. Did they get put to sleep or something, I can't remember. Also doesn't he carry like a leaf plate of lotuses or something?].
Anyhow, next week’s LotR fan art piece is dedicated to the Hav, but I still have one more to do to wrap up the month. I’m open to suggestions if anyone has any.
I didn’t plan to keep drawing Doctor Who for Fan Art January. However, my old buddy Tony suggested, nay, demanded that I draw the fourth incarnation of The Doctor. And when a Darn Good Fella™ such as Tony demands such a thing, who am I to say no?
Also, after finishing last week’s drawings, I had the urge to draw The Doctor’s ship, the TARDIS. I also included his pet robo-dog , K-9, ’cause he’s so dang cool:
I didn’t have time to color this week, and to be honest, I’m not too happy with how this scanned. I’ll probably try to spiffy it up at a later date. In the meantime, Tyler, Jonathan and I have all made secret pacts to draw certain characters before the month is out, so stay tuned!
