Domino, ready for action!

Okay as for the title. Back when I was young and we used to pretend to be X-men characters one of my best friends would sometimes play as Domino, and for whatever reason she would always say "Domino, ready for action!" and flip her hair. It's usually the first thing I think of in association with this character.

Well anyways so in the vein of hour sketches and in combination with watching the first couple episodes of Wolverine and the X-men I decided to draw Domino...

Now Domino holds a very special place for me. Because as a child the Marvel Masterpiece '93 Domino was the 2nd comic card I ever owned, Wasp being the first. But I have stared at that card more times than almost any other, and I was so in love with it that I tried to copy the drawing several times as a child. So I think you can say it had a great deal of influence on my current artist status...

Well anyways. She's often looked over, and yes even forgotten by me. Until the people behind the Wolverine & the X-men cartoon decided to put her in the Brotherhood. ??? Well I'm not sure where they are going with that, I guess she is a mercenary after all. But I was just elated to see her with a rather big role! And she looks badass! Fuck yeah! Anyways, her costume is kind of a combination from what I remembered from the cartoon and her old costume from that card... And the guns are wonky I know. But hey it was done in an hour and I didn't get a reference like I should have...

show sketches...

So I've started work at an animation studio, and the people there are just amazing artists. It's actually really depressing and inspiring all at the same time. They constantly draw, I mean all the time and they are sketching people all the time... Me being a bit rusty on the art side tried to doodle a bit to get back in the habit of it, and in sketching in general.

I wanted to work on the cartooning and caricatures like they do, but I think first I needed to work on just making a person look like the people I'm drawing... So these are some random little doodles I've been piling up in my sketchbook... that I thought I'd put up. Sorry they are so terrible, but I feel bad not putting up work as often as the rest of the world.



These are just some doodles I've done of characters from some shows I watch. the ones of Six & Tigh, from BSG, and the Claire ones all had references. Kate & Daniel of lost were done from memory and maybe one or two peeks at them.

quick sketch for ben...

ben caught me on facebook and told me to draw him phoenix in one hour... actually he said "the most badass phoenix ever." unfortunately I don't think I made the most "badass" one. but I tried my best in the time allotted. so here it is..



I also wasn't sure whether he meant the comic character or the bird, but since he didn't say "A phoenix" I went with comics...

The stuff dreams are made of...

So I finished another digital piece. Probably the last one before my vacation/move out. Mainly because I'm really busy packing and spending time with all my friends here in Austin. I really like how this turned out, it's nice to do some illustration again, after all the animating I've been working on. It's inspired by a nightmare I had on right before Halloween... I tried to get it done to have it up for Halloween but got caught up working on costumes and such instead. But anyways here it is... and uh, Happy Halloween.

better late than never, right?

So many many months ago, Christmas of '07 to be exact. A friend of mine asked me for a picture of his favorite character, Morpheus from Vertigo's Sandman, as a X-mas gift. Well with the loss of my dog, work and then the animation collaborations with his roommate I never got around to completing that image... until now. So nearly one year later I finally got him his gift. Hoorah! I feel sort of bad, but he didn't mind me constantly pushing it aside for other projects. I also featured it on my illustration page. I'm quite happy with how it turned out...

The Legend.

Did a digital sketch/illustration today, well started it yesterday and finished today. It's Sarah Connor from Terminator 2. I seriously love Terminator, and she definitely is an idol of mine. She's just one of the most kick ass female characters ever created, and her transformation from the first film to the second is just astounding. Mad props to Linda Hamilton, and of course James Cameron for creating such a fantastic series.

It doesn't feel pity or remorse...

So my computer just crashed the other day. Well I wasn't home at the time, I had to hear about it over the phone. But sure enough when I got home to inspect it it was dead. Well not dead, my smaller boot drive works fine, but my storage drive, the one that holds basically everything, has called it quits. Taking basically everything with it, I've tried using a program to salvage anything, but it doesn't look like much can be saved.

I am beyond frustration now. Not to mention the loss of so many things all at once has me a bit out of it as well... I'm just completely stoic now. I realize what a loss it is, yet the only thing I'm grieving at present is my inability to finish watching Lost.