Pirates Caricatured

I watched Pirates of the Caribbean last night and decided to caricature my favorite characters.

Ragetti and Pintel

Barbossa

Will Turner

Joshamee Gibbs

and Captain Jack Sparrow, of course.

Sadly that is all but I cant wait to do more.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Ok its not Thanksgiving yet, but tis the season blah blah blah...

All my past colored pencil birds have been relatively small pieces. my biggest is 12.5"x16" so I wanted to do a bigger piece for a change. This piece is 19"x25" almost double of anything I have done yet. A bigger canvas means that I can put more detail into the piece but it also means that It will be more work. This piece took four days, I usually try to finish a piece in a day but I think that since I walked away from it and came back several times I was able to enhance it, I will try to do this more in the future.

Original sketch with pencil on Newsprint. All my past Colored Pencil Birds (im just gonna say CPBs now...) have been directly from a single reference picture, like my eagle 'Freedom' I found the original on a cover of National Geographic and then free-hand sketched a slightly larger version on newsprint before transferring that to black paper. But this one is my first piece to be a completely original piece, I used four pictures of turkeys to reference the anatomy but everything about it is 100% original. Im really amazed by how terrible this sketch looks compared to the final, several of my other CPBs looked almost just as good when in the sketch stage but all the same there you go.

I had a hard time transferring the original sketch to the black paper since the carbon copy paper I use comes up black, and on black paper that is tough to see. In the end I had to just re-sketch with a pencil on the black paper.

Here is a Close up of the tail feathers.

Close up of the Head, I love the texture I was able to get on neck

And here is the final, I am looking to start selling some prints and originals, If you know anyone who is interested let me know.

I love how the main colors on a turkey our our nations colors, Red, White, and Blue and the rest is brown like a flagpole (maybe im thinking too much...)

Is there a bird you would like me to do? leave me a comment saying what you want to see.

Simple Super-Villians

Clayface vs. the Dynamic Duo

Half-baked Bizarro, That's how he's always been...

Henry Jones Sr.

I was watching Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade the other night with my siblings and decided to caricature good 'ol Sean Connery. I'd like to do more sketches of movie characters like this. Give me some time...

Out of Blackness...

It's a ninja, duh!

I wanted to practice comic book style shading and found this outlined sketch, so I decided to shade it.

'Courageous'

My mom has always loved roosters. She had two reasons.

1. They call early in the morning and she always likes to be up early. (Although if you have ever talked to someone who has a rooster they will tell you that the rooster just crows when it feels like
2. It is a reminder to my mom of Peter's denial of Jesus. It reminds her to stand up for truth even at one's own cost.

"Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous! Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go." (Joshua 1:9 NASB)

This was one of my fastest pieces. original sketch to final 2 hours

Anyway. Here is the final.

By the way that white mass below and right of his eye is not a growth, it is his earlobe. af first I was unsure.

Speak Friend and Enter

A few months ago when I was away, my mom painted one of the walls in my bedroom to be a chalkboard. Since then I have doodled on it but never really done any art on it. Then it hit me, the perfect illustration for chalk. A to scale rendition of the Door into Moria.

Each WIP picture is the result of about an hour or two's work.

 First I set up a grid so as to get the proportions right. each square is 1' squared the ending drawing was 6'x8' I did want to actually sketch part of the picture so I put in the rune at the bottom.

I put in the middle hammer and star first because they had very distinct places on the grid
The arch was pretty easy I knew bassed off of the refrence photo that the arch had a radius of 2' so I attached the chalk to a 2' piece of string to make the perfect arch. same with the outer arch just 8 inches added to the length of the string. Finally I put in the runes in the upper corners.

This was a pretty easy hour, I just put in the crown, stars and circle at the top of the arch.

I put in the columns and started the trees. This part was kinda hard because there was a lot of gestimation on where the branches were. some where close enough to spots on the grid that I fudged them a little. I also discovered that the rune I put in with the grid at the bottom was to small so I erased it but didn't get around to fixing it this pass.

 I finished the trees and apparently forgot about the Rune at the bottom again.

The final pass was by far the hardest, but also funnest. I had to insert the runes in the arch. I started at either end and worked to the middle to make sure that it would fit. And I finally put in that bottom rune, odd that what I ment to do first ended up being last.

The Final with the handsome artist for scale. Photo credit younger brother Joseph

The door is very fitting on this wall since the laundry room is on the other side, and we often refer to that as the Black Chasm! If I could change one thing I would paint the outlet black. 

Melon!
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