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Sketchercise: Films of Wes Anderson

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

(Bad Route by Jason Kottke, featured in the film The Royal Tenenbaums.)

Do you sit at home, alone, night after night just toiling away on portraits of Bill Murray, Owen Wilson and Jason Schwartzman that the world may never see? Well, then today is your lucky Sketchercise! The theme for this round is The Films of Wes Anderson. Participants should put on their very best crested blazers, wetsuits or red Adidas jogging suits and set about drawing their favorite characters or scenes from any existing Wes Anderson movie. Although, actually if you drew an image from a non-existent Wes Anderson movie, that might be damned impressive. Below is a helpful list of from which to draw inspiration from:

Bottle Rocket

Rushmore

The Royal Tenenbaums

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

The Darjeeling Limited (including Hotel Chevalier)

The Fantastic Mr. Fox

That’s it! Good luck out there my Lawn Wranglers!

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Sketchercise #3 – Hellboy Universe: Professor Trevor Bruttenholm

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

My first take on this theme was Lobster Johnson, but I struggled with his goggles on separate occasions. That slowed my progress to a halt. So the other night I was considering other options, when the good Professor jumped out at me!

I wasn’t sure how to illustrate his white hair & beard using just black & white so I just outlined it! I had a happy accident while inking the outline. My Prismacolor .01 pen tip split which gave me some really cool textures. I couldn’t have done that with a normal pen if I tried!
Prismacolor & Copic pens on a comic backing board…

(Original artwork available for trade or purchase)

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Sketchercise: Evil Ex Kenny Powers

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010

Admittedly, I saw a really great drawing of Kenny that Brandon had done and I just wanted a shot sketching out this living legend my own self. Besides, I’m sure a down and out Ramona would be powerless against the advances of an even downer and outer, recently fired Kenny Powers in a sordid little sports bar someplace. So 8th Evil Ex Kenny Powers, let’s go!

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Hellboy Sketchercise: The Baba Yaga!

Monday, August 9th, 2010

This week’s Sketchercise is The Hellboy Universe and the character I’ve sketched up is The Baba Yaga, a scary old Slavic hag who rides around in a mortar counting dead people’s fingers and eatin’ toddlers. She’s a hoot and a half. I actually wasn’t that familiar with her but fortunately Brandon forwarded me this link where you can read her particular Hellboy encounter in full:  http://www.darkhorse.com/Features/Animations/12/Hellboy-The-Baba-Yaga

I drooded this one here with a Japanese nib (Nikko 357) and a pot of ink on Bristol. Used markers for all that blackground.

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Sketchercise #3 – the Hellboy Universe

Friday, August 6th, 2010

What a great Sketch Charlotte meeting last night! I’ve been coming for over 2 years and I’ve never seen that many people…we had 15 show up! I have to admit I didn’t even know a good 5-6 people at the table. The drawing and conversation was so good I didn’t get a chance to get up and meet everyone. And the table set up didn’t really allow for it anyway. :(

Onto Sketchercise! #3 is my week and I’ve decided to choose anything and everything from any of the Hellboy and BPRD books! Have at it gang!

Here’s a little something to kick off the topic, a piece I did from last year’s sketchbook…Abe Sapien!

And yes, Tee, I’ll be doing a new sketch for this topic! ;)

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Sketchercise: Lee Harvey Jughead

Monday, July 26th, 2010

So this week’s Sketchercise was a scene with three characters from Archie comics: Jughead, Betty and Mr. Weatherbee. I immediately scanned my brainpan for the most fun image I could plug these three into and what came out the other side was…. the assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald!  I’ll admit my brain is, well, it’s not the healthiest organ around. But anyway, this was really fun and I think the 60’s connection between the characters and the imagery kind of marries up. I tried to spice this one up in Photoshop a bit to give it a newspaper feel. Hopefully I didn’t totally ruin it. Apologies to children and history buffs the world over.

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Sketchercise 2 theme

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

Allright, gang. I gotta admit I enjoyed the groans I heard from one end of the table last night when I announced this week’s Sketchercise theme. Yes, you heard right. Draw three characters in one setting from the Riverdale gang: Mr. Weatherbee, Betty and Jughead. The rest is up to you. Have fun!!! :)

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Sketchercise- Bloom County By Way of Peanuts

Monday, July 19th, 2010

Bloom County had an enormous effect on me as a young dude. I used to cut the dailies out of the Concord Tribune and paste them into spiral notebooks where I would practice drawing Bill the Cat in the margins. I might have been the only 11-year old in my school who knew who Caspar Weinberger was. I like to think reading this strip contributed a lot to my skewed sense of humor and general skepticism of authority.

Here I’ve drawn Binkley and Opus as Schroeder and Snoopy, banging out some cacophony on piano. It ain’t Billy and the Boingers but I suppose it’ll do.

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Sketchercise: Favorite Comic Strip Character: Calvin & Hobbes

Saturday, July 17th, 2010

Continuing on with the SKETCHERCSE theme sketch project: the first topic is favorite comic strip character. I did this the very day after we came up with the idea a few weeks ago…my favorite, Calvin & Hobbes! (apologies to Mr Watterson of course!) I usually finish things off with ink, but I really enjoyed knocking this one out with an old beat up school pencil during my lunch break. Maybe it’ll see inks at some point…

Now that I have a son the strip is about to take on a whole new meaning for me! It’s a weird position to be in, because just a few short years ago I still read it from the Calvin “perspective.” Now I look for how his parents respond to his adventures and brace myself for what’s surely coming down the pike!

I get the daily strip in my inbox via ucomics.com and I have just about all the paperback collections. I recently picked up the absolute collection for my “library.” As soon as Jonathan is ready he will inherit them and hopefully they’ll entertain and inspire him as much as they did me!

And here’s the inked version brought to you by none other than Sketch Charlotte’s own Eraklis Petmezas!

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Sketchercise! – Huey and Riley Freeman

Friday, July 16th, 2010

This week’s Sketchercise directed us to draw our favorite comic strip character. I was positive I’d get beaten to the punch on Calvin and Hobbes (and I did…post it Brandon!), so I decided to go with my other favorite strip, Boondocks. A lot of people might know these guys from the cartoon, but the strip was great as well!

And before anyone says anything, yes I know that Riley doesn’t have the cornrows in the comic strip. Shut up. Heh.

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