Bret Michaels - Sketch Monday

Bret Michaels

Saw Bret Michaels (Poison front man and Celebrity Apprentice/Rock of Love) on Oprah today talking about his brain hemorage and by all accounts he's licky to be alive.

I'm not afraid to say i thought Poison was cool in their heyday back in '87 - guess it shows my age - but hey they were a fun, freaky rock n' roll band at the time and they have some good tunes like "Every Rose has it's Thorn", "Your Mama don't Dance", "Fallen Angel", "Ride the Wind" and "Something to Believe In".

So i did a couple of pen sketches while i was listening to them talk and this is how they turned out. I was going for the caricature look and especially with his headband and jooby lips it's not too hard what to pick to exaggerate on him. :)

Enjoy!
Rob

Friday Lunchtime Sketching

Some Friday Sketch fun:

Paige Hareb, an awesome Kiwi surfer riding high in international competitions, go Paige!!

And a cow-girl. Love the hats but never really got the hang of drawing them so i thought i'd give it another go.

Enjoy!
Rob

Put a Cake on you head John!

I've recently been doing birthday cards for my extended family and here's my latest piece, aptly titled "Put a Cake on your head John!". With inspiration being taken from an event early in John's childhood and surrounded by the plethora of things he likes now.

Needless to say he had a good laugh at it and certainly enjoyed it. I really enjoyed making it especially the texturing in the background as i haven't had as much fun playing with different filters and settings in Photoshop in a while.

Enjoy!
Rob

P.S. No AJB for Christmas this year, maybe we'll see the boys back in 2011.

Amazing Joy Buzzards - Stevo

I've been wanting to do some Amazing Joy Buzzards sketches for a while now and this one popped into my head recently. This fella's name is Stevo and he's the bad-ass sword weilding, bass playing, martial arts expert, some also say he may be half Yeti!

Amazing Joy Buzzards is an awesome Rock n' Roll advetnure comic book about a band that battle supernatural forces along with their mythical Mexican wrestler El Champeon. AJB is created by the masterminds Mark Andrew Smith and Dan Hipp (http://www.mrhipp.blogspot.com/)

I'm hoping the new volume Amazing Joy Buzzardss : Monster Love might be out before Christmas but we'll just have to wait and see!

Let me know what you think.

Rob

Nightmares Competition

I just entered a competition to try and win a sketch by the creator of Lilo & Stitch and to enter you had to create a drawing of something related to nigthmares and so i came up with this:

Not that anything like this has ever happened but i am positive it'd give me nightmares :)


The link to the contest is here if you want to have a go or can watch it and vote i'd greatly appreciate it (especially seeing as it'll screen probably while i'm asleep).

http://www.sketchoholic.com/Talent/member/my_contest_items.php?ContestID=565

The most talented Chris Sanders nightmare prize sketch is here:
http://alohalilo.deviantart.com/art/Nightmare-contest-drawing-175522035?q=&qo=

and his DeviantARt site (if the link above doesn't work is here:
http://alohalilo.deviantart.com/

Happy Nightmares!
ROb.

Gir & Cowwy?

A friend of mine who lives in Australia celerated his birthday recently and i wanted to send him somethign fun. Knowing he likes the Invader Zim show and Gir and also cows i decided to do a bit of a mashup and created Gir & Cowwy (it's usually Gir & Piggy you see) :)

It was a lot of fun and Mark really liked it too!

Enjoy,

Rob

Wonder Woman

I've never really drawn Wonder Woman before but here are a couple of different attempts:

A slightly cartoony Wonder Woman,

A slim wavy haired Wonder Woman,

A curly haired version and

you might be able to make out a Squee (crazy cartoony) version too.

I had a bit of fun with this though not overly happy with proportions the end result is fairly satisfying.

Happy Friday the Thirteenth!

Rob