Lemmy Kilmister paint sketch

49% Motherf**ker, 51% Son of a Bitch. That is the tagline to the documentary Lemmy a film about the life of musician Lemmy Kilmister. It premiered on VH1 Classic this past weekend and I had the chance to watch it a couple times. If you didn't get to see it, you're in luck because it comes out on DVD this Tuesday. Pretty good flick. All of Dave Grohl's scenes were pretty entertaining, and Scott Ian from Anthrax had a pretty funny story about how short Lemmy likes to wear his shorts. I will most likely be watching it again. Anyways, as I was viewing it for the second time, I decided to kick out a paint sketch of the legendary bass player. This is acrylic paint on Canson sketchbook paper.

Godfather Paint Sketch

This was going to be my Friday Night Sketch Challenge, but I think I'm done with those. Setting up the lights and camera is too much hassle for a 10 minute film, plus all the time to upload the films, etc., etc. This is a paint sketch of the character Don Vito Corleone from The Godfather created with acrylics on Canson sketchbook paper. Total time about 2 hours, or two episodes of Freaks and Geeks.

Don Draper Friday Night Sketch Colored

Here is the colored version of last weeks Friday Night Sketch Challenge. Am I crazy, or would a graphic novel version of Mad Men be pretty killer? 

Photoshop Phun

Whenever I leave the house I tend to carry Sharpies on me for two reasons. 1) If I am in a public restroom and I see someone has tagged themselves on the wall as being "number 1", I like to correct that. 2) When it gets late into the evening, my friends let me draw on them. This past Saturday night I gave a villainous mustache and a set of bandoliers with bullets to my friend Mario. As is the norm in this situation a slew of pictures was taken and posted online. I took one of the photos of Mario and found a poster for the film "Machete" on google and Photoshopped the two images together using his nickname, "Blammo," as the film title.

Friday Night Sketch Challenge: Don Draper Mad Men

The subject matter for this weeks F.N.S.C. is Don Draper from the AMC series Mad Men. Usually these are sketched with some sort of backing soundtrack to be used as a timer of sorts. (Also, it's a source of audio entertainment for the people that actually DO watch these.) This week I had a mix of groups; Beck, The Flaming Lips and David Bowie. One of these three must not like their material on youtube because the sound has been disabled.

Anyways, sketch material this week is spraypaint with brush and ink on bristol board.

An American Werewolf in London (revised)

This image was one of my personal favorites, but I felt it was always lacking moxie. When I illustrated and designed this image I was heavily influenced by early 20th century European Art Deco. The wolf, border and text were created in Adobe Illustrator and the blood was created with Sumi ink on bristol board, which was then brought into Photoshop and colored. Since the last time I showed this I made some revisions to the teeth and added the ripped edges and surface scratches.

Pearl Jam in 3-D

I had other duties that prevented me from creating a sketch for my Friday Night Sketch Challenge. (Of course, you can always check out past sketch challenges by looking through my previous blog entries.) Anyways, to make up for the lack of this weeks sketch, I created a 3-D anaglyph using a photo of Pearl Jam by Lance Mercer. From what I have read, this shot was taken during the filming of Pearl Jam's "Even Flow" video and for a long time it has been one of my favorite images of the band. I've been interested in the past of how to properly create artwork for 3-D imagery, and after some trial and error, now I know how to do it. So if you have a pair of classic 3-D glasses with red and cyan lenses lying around, you can enjoy this. If you don't, then you will just have to hear how everyone else with proper eye wear enjoyed it, I guess...