Frankenberry

Frankenberry

This was a commission of sorts.  It's a long, convoluted story, involving the purchase of the "King Shark" painting, that leading to a commission, which in turn lead to this commission (of sorts).  As the "31 Days of HELL-O-Ween" just concluded, I thought it would be amusing to paint a picture of the Boris Karloff Frankenstein hot pink and label him Franenberry, and then added the usual accoutrements of the various pressure gauges and Steam Punk-ish goggles.  Ta-da!

I've been meaning to do some more work with Frankenberry and update the Monster Cereal drawings I did a while ago.  Heck, I even thought about doing a 5-10 page comic of a "Monster Squad" style mash-up with the Monster Cereal characters... and may still in the near future.  Keep coming back to find out!

As for the actual commission which started this whole thing off, I'm not sure if I'll be posting it next week, or in March, during March M.O.D.O.K. Madness, since it involves M.O.D.O.K.  Maybe both!  Again, keep coming back and watch this space!  (Quiet, Admiral Ackbar, it's NOT a trap!)

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STEP ONE:  Here are the pencils, scribbled out on 6" x 9" Canson (#140) watercolor paper.

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STEP TWO:  This is the first pass with acrylic paint.  I decided to keep it as monochromatic as possible by using only Quinacridone Magenta and Titanium White.  One problem was that Quinacridone Magenta is semi-opaque at best, and I had been a little heavy-handed with my pencils--using a regular, 2B lead.  If I had been thinking ahead, I probably should have used either a red lead or some other reddish colored pencil/watercolor pencil I had laying around.  It took a lot more work to cover some of those pencil lines.  Then again, a few of them sort of add to the drawing, so who knows?

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STEP THREE:  And here's the finished painting.  I avoided adding Carbon Black into the painting, as I sort of liked the effect of it looking like a Magenta plate from a printing press.  It does make it a bit more challenging to have the darkest value in the painting be about a 70% black in value, but it also made it stand out a bit more for adjusting the gamut of values of the painting.

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This was done with acrylic paint on 6" x 9" Canson XL (#140) watercolor paper.

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Sheena - Queen of the Jungle

Sheena - Queen of the Jungle

Hey, it's been a while!  A cross between being super-busy with non-art-related things, and just feeling that minor existential crisis of not knowing what to do next mixed with everything I was working on just felt like it wasn't going anywhere.  So, lots and lots of projects started and abandoned (some of which I will probably pick up again).  Of course, not being able to get anything finished also added to that feeling of just not knowing what to do next.  Ugh...  Heisenberg would be proud that I was simultaneously busy as heck and getting nothing done at the same time!

But, one foot in front of the other, it's time to get back in that saddle again, sally forth, and all that other B.S.

This time it is a commission of sorts for Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.

One of the mildly amusing things about this drawing is that while I didn't have a photo reference, by the end it looked a heck of a lot like one of the regular models we used at the Figure Drawing Sessions I used to run before COVID (alas, she moved to another state and we are still waiting to see when/if we will have Figure Drawing again).

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Done with Colored Pencil on 8-1/2" x 11" toned cardstock.

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