Today’s fan art doodle is for Rick & Morty. Originally a parody of Doc and Marty from Back to the Future, this show has some wild scifi stories and the animation when the action heats up is great.
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Daily Doodle – 11/18/14 – Gravity Falls
Gravity Falls has quickly become one of my favorite TV shows. It’s cute while at the same time being genuinely entertaining and intriguing. Again unfinished as my hand cramped up enough from doing the outlines so I’m saving the rest of it for a later date. Might try going over this again with a different brush as the variable width I was using doesn’t match with the lines on the show. Perhaps I’ll even try it in Harmony and see if I’m more satisfied there.
Daily Doodle – 11/17/14 – Wreck-It Ralph
This week’s doodle theme is fan art. I don’t really do much fan art. Probably because it reminds me of when I was a younger artist either tracing or copying and I got worried it’d be a crutch. Making fan art can be fun and I’ve seen some people who are great at taking existing characters and providing their own spin on them. Though I’m a little obsessive about staying on model, I’d like to try my hand at making little tributes to stuff I enjoy.
First on the list is Wreck-It Ralph which is a really cute little film. I think people tend to be harder on it because they were hoping for the video game equivalent of Who Framed Roger Rabbit? instead of taking the movie on it’s own. This one isn’t finished yet as most of the lines are done but shading/rendering (color?) hasn’t happened yet. My hand hurts too much so I’m sharing what I have right now.
Daily Doodle – 11/16/14 – Magical Kaiju Girls
Returning to the idea of kaiju I figured I’d mash it up with the concept of magic girls to make “Magical Kaiju Girls” that get their powers from different monsters. No clue if this has been done before or who I might be enraging with it. It’s an interesting enough idea I figure somebody’s got to have come up with it by now.
Daily Doodle – 11/15/14 – Space Western
Today’s doodle is a variation on a painting I started a few years back. “Space Western” is a bit more common of a concept these days. There’s just something about the idea of a helmet cracking in space that’s terrifying and makes you realize why the giant fish bowl design is impractical yet so fun to draw.
Daily Doodle – 11/14/14 – Robot Dragons
When I think “Robot Dragons,” I picture the different type of dragons I know of. There’s the stereotypical medieval dragon, the asian serpentine kind you see in parades and art a lot, and then I tried combining elements that are dragon-ish like bat wings and a cobra’s head. At this point it gets more cyborg than robot, unless that head is mechanical. It’s an interesting idea engineering a creature. I saw a special where they discussed devolving birds into dinosaurs versus crossbreeding other animals. Then I think of the times in film and literature where other things are viewed as dragons like construction equipment while demolishing a home. Like anything else, the design comes down to the story behind the dragon. Who made it? Is it advanced or primitive? Aggressive or friendly? These are things to consider when brainstorming.
Daily Doodle – 11/13/14 – Animals in Power Suits
Today’s concept was “Animals in Power Suits.” It’s no Brute Force, but what is? I probably should have tried a sea creature to continue varying up the designs. Of course, if it requires a tank to survive then that complicates fitting it into a suit to control in the first place. That’d just be another design element to work around.
Daily Doodle – 11/12/14 – Mech
Today’s concept was “Unlikely Mech Pilot,” so I figured the family dog would make an amusing choice.
Daily Doodle – 11/11/14 – Victorian Wrestling Squad
Today’s doodle is based on the concept Victorian Wrestling Squad. It came from a brainstorming session where I tried meshing opposing ideas. About the only other thing I would have done with this one would be to try a luchador or two. I could probably spend forever just coming up with weird facial hair designs for this.
Daily Doodle – 11/10/14 – Kaiju
This week I’ve put together a list of concepts to work on. The goal was originally ideation and seeing how many versions I could put together for each one. However it seems I’m a little more interested in rendering full drawings. Today’s concept was kaiju monsters. I hit a bit of a stumbling block like I did with my gremlins sketches in that, when I base a creature on something, I tend to want to draw that thing instead of scribbling around and being inventive with it. Still, just rendering larger versions of real things yields some pretty monstrous results.