Following your heroes - Imitation for inspiration

I'd been looking at a way to kickstart my drawing again as i've felt like i'd been slacking. It's not often that i try to draw like other artists that i really like but it struck me the other day what would my character 'Rally Mark' look like if i was able to ask another artist to draw him for me?

With this thought in mind (and little financial backing to pursue asking real artists to do their take on 'Rally Mark') i decided to have a go at other peoples styles myself. First up is the remarkable Dan Hipp (mrhipp.blogspot.com) of 'Amazing Joy Buzzards' & 'Gyakushu' fame.

Dan Hipp has been doing some rad drawings of late on his blog and amazingly can use the colour pink to make his drawings look really, really cool! Anyway here's my attempt at his style.

Cheers,
Rob

Dennis Hopper

I hadn't even realised he had died but i've always thought that Dennis Hopper was a great actor.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment_and_arts/10223051.stm

Rally Mark fun

Just a couple more ideas playing around with body shapes and wokring on my anatomy skills with my character Rally Mark.

Why is he jumping off a cliff? I have no idea either it's just the way it came out :)

Enjoy.

Rob

More sketches

I've been working on a few more sketches lately and here's the results.

My character 'Rally Mark' and two more head sketches of Quesada & Palmiotti's 'Ash'.

Cheers,

Rob

(see i am still working on 'Rally Mark')