Color Work

Working out color for the last sketch posted.

Moar Sketch

Here's another take on the cosplay concept.  It's a sort of mashup of a bunch of refs into one little package.  And for the nerd impared out there (which can't be many because, well, you're reading an digital art blog) I've listed all of the things I'd like to paint into it.

Luigi, Chun Li, Samus, Pokemon, Cammie, Lara Croft, Zelda - I'm pretty much ripping it all.  

I guess you could kind of say like a DJ would do with music, I'd like to do with these characters.

Commence the music.

Those are all game references, but I had to fight to keep a star wars bit out of this.  Oooh - maybe she could be holding a black and red umbrella over her shoulder to mix in a tad of resident evil.

Hopefully I'll find time, of which there is little presently, to fill out the rest of the piece.

As always, your comments are welcome and very much appreciated.

be seeing you,
&Rew.

Cosplay "Pin-up" - Rainbow Dash? Bravest Warriors Beth? Samus? Wat!

So I have this dream of mine...

I want to make a giant pinup banner to hang when I do the next Seattle Comic Con next year.

When I say giant, I mean, really quite large... like, taller than my house large.  Like... 30 feet tall giant.


Chances of this happening are slim but just like I always say "You make don't of the shots that you don't take."

So I'm planning for this.

The sketch has to be really tall because it can't be wide - booths aren't that wide, so I probably have ~5-10' to work with and the thinner and taller the better.  It can't be too lude, so I'll be somewhat tame.

What I'm thinking is that it'll look like a giant version of one of my cartoon girls standing right in the con.  Should be really cool to take pictures of.

Here are some sketches.

Rainbow Dash, Samus, Samus Cosplaying as Chun Li, Samus as Sailor Moon.   Then I did some other randoms - Velma, Beth from Bravest Warriors both regular style and as Slave Leia from the Butter Lettuce episode.

I'm not in love with any of these, although I like Samus as Sailor Moon and also Rainbow Dash is kinda too cool for School.

Do let me know if any of these tickle your fancy, or any other part of your mind or body.

cheers,
&Rew.

Nintendo based Stacking Dolls (Metroid)

Metryoshka Dolls, if you will

Metroid inspired artwork for an upcoming show at the Bottleneck Gallery.  We've got lil zero suit Samus, the power suit, and the Metroid ship - IDK what she's claled.

I also tacked super mario brothers and zelda as a set of stacking dolls.  I'll post them up once the show goes live or the gallery pops the pics up with links to purchase if you're interested.

be seeing you,
&Rew.

Samus is the MAN! Errrr, wait wait.

No lair is complete without it's own mother-f_cking-brain. Can you dig it?

Samus rocking the classic sizzle.  If she knew me, she'd totally wanna mate.  Er date... er... whatever.

Samus again, in her zero suit.  Ya - totally painted on. Yes, I did paint ANOTHER CAMEL TOE. So sue me.
(Don't sue me).

Oh what a surprise.  I've painted Metroid again.  How many more times mu st I brave the classics? How many innocent pixels must die to satiate my hunger for Samusy spandex suits and little hidden energy tanks?  Hint : It's billions.

&.

2 things

Thing 1.

I've decided to give away the Samus prototype in order to promote my blog. I'm not good at marketing my art, just at making it, so I don't really know how to do this.

I imagine a drawing is cool, random, and fun. So here's how it goes: If you retweet this tweet, I'll put you in a drawing to give away my only Samus prototype:
http://twitter.com/#!/artist_andrew/status/115240107186978817
(I hope that link works)
Maybe that spreads the word about my art and you might win a free small sculpt. It's about 1/3 the size of the final and has been glued together from some breaks, but it's still pretty cool.

Follow me on twitter so you can be up on all the new art or you can follow the blog. All equate to the same wacky artness.

Oh yah, and while you're hanging out here, feel free to order the Samus Color Wheel print.

Thing 2. I made some Team Fortress silhouettes in the background there today. Being crafty for no reason. It's just fun.

Now I've got to get back to my paintings, so that I can do another AD4AD sometime soon.

be seeing you,
&Rew.

Metroid Color Wheel Print available

You may remember this image a little while back, well I'm going to do prints of it to help finance building the mother brain sculpt.

It's key moments from the original Metroid on NES, wrapped around a color wheel with a Metroid in the middle.

Prints are 12x16 (a standard frame size) on watercolor paper. They're signed and numbered and will be hand embellished. That's a fancy way of saying that they'll all have hand drawn art on them. I'm cutting the edition at 20, so that's all there will ever be. $30 gets you a print shipped.



If you're interested click the link:

Make Samus proud and buy a print.

cheers,
&Rew.

Metroid's Samus figure

I finished the Samus sculpture! Woot woot. It took forever and got in the way of a whole barrel of life, but was worth it.

Here are some pics recently snapped up:










I'm calling it "The Hunter" and it's going in the Gallery 1988 video game inspired show.

More photos can be found on my Tumblr, here:
http://theforgottenkingdoms.com/

There's a very high likelihood that I'll be creating a mother brain once I'm done with a few paintings that are in progress, if I can afford her and I don't go nuts.

be seeing you,
&.

Metroid's Samus Aran Pin Up Art

Submitted for your pleasure - the finished version of the Samus Aran art.



You may notice that she's got the color scheme from the original Metroid (not the zero suit). Although the zero suit was an obvious choice, I like to call back to the most retro of retros. Gas tank is an "E-tank", The "Bailey" on the side refers to a code from the NES original metroid "Justin Bailey" Which isn't a name but a description, but I won't get into that now. Narpas Sword is also printed on the side.

There's a super missile there popping up next to Samus and she's hugging on to a Metroid, of course.

I will make a postcard of this one at some point, although the whole point of these was to find a design for the front cover of the Postcard book - which doesn't seem to be happening, especially with the new Chell Portal 2 art I"ll be doing.

You will have to bear with me though, it will be done dammit, but every other illustration just adds something cool to the book. It's not a loss but a gain.

cheers,
&Rew.

Sexy Samus Aran from Metroid

I finished the backside today. Here's a large version and an in context version. The roller derby girl thing is still present and I used the hairpin from Metroid other M. That metroid is borderline nonsensical the way I just kinda threw parts around, but it works.

Sexy Samus Aran is sporting shorts that are about 3 sizes too small, just as you would expect. I don't usually get complaints though, so I'll carry on making my video game girls retardedly under dressed and pouty lipped.

The final painting is pretttty much done, but I've got to do some last minute touches and then I'll post it up.

be seeing you,
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