"I Swear! I Put Right Into R2's Data Bank. Didn't I?"

 

Never been much of a Dr. Who guy, which means I put a twist on the subject. Do the Dalek's look like trumped up R2 units? 

Apologies to the good Doctor's fans. : )

Me as Tin Tin

I drew Tin Tin as a self-portrait because when I had short hair I kinda looked like him. Definitely had the little whip of hair. So I added glasses and my new beard, but now it just looks kinda creepy. heh!

I remember discovering the Tin Tin books back in Middle School. I think the first book I saw was even in french. I couldn't read it, but the story telling captured me! I searched them out at the library and the adventure and action and childlike wonder still gets me today.

And, of course, because I can't get away from my love of the look, a half-tone version:

Swamp Thing (Not Quite Done) (But Now It is.)

EDIT

Added some water and a little more detail around the shadows and such. Done for now.

...but I needed to post SOMEthing.....Must confess: I never really got into swamp thing. Prolly just never really got into at the right time. But as a kid, I dug the movie. And we had one of those weird playdoh-like action figures where you could rip his arm off and stick it back. (Except when it got too full of carpet junk and animal hair!)

I Yam Wut I Yam

Oh my, did I watch a lot of Popeye as a kid! And, Oh, Boy! Did I wait for something awesome to happen every time I ate some nasty ol' spinach. I think my problem was that mom never gave us frozen spinach. I don't think Popeye's powers come from the fresh stuff.

Road Runner

I'm still learnin' meself some digital inking. And as a line snob, these lines are not what I'd like, but I did have fun with the background. Which, to be honest, is some of my favorite pieces of animation ephemera from 50's and 60's animation and the Chuck Jones directed backgrounds of Warner Bros.' Road Runner era where among the best. They influence me more than I think I even realize on a daily basis. All animation, really. So this is a send up to my childhood and all that is great about geeking out about something. Next time I'll do a better job on the lines!

The Smurfs

I loved The Smurfs as a kid. I listened to too many Post-Modern art history diatribes on how the entire world of Peyo was anti-Semitic so I kinda forgot how much magic and imagination there was in their world.

Now my kids want to see the new movie.......

Young Yeshua and Miriam

Pretty quick sketch this busy, busy week. Drew this is a soft cover, thin Moleskine notebook that I only use Brush Pen with. Straight drawing, no pencils. Usually the drawings are done whilst waiting for food or watching soccer practice or talking with people. This was drawn while watching my daughter roll around the Roller Dome for the first time with friends and no help.

When it came to the subject I like to consider the man, and in this case the boy before he became the man. We need to know more the childhoods of people sometimes. What kind of trouble did he get into running around between the huts with young Miriam, to be called Mary? Is that a hammer or sling?

I Am

"And therefore as a stranger give it welcome.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." - Hamlet (act 1 scene 5)

For a while now, the subject of this challenge has been a favorite source to pool doodles from. While at one time these drawings were more satirical (fat Jesus, zombie messiah, etc) in the last year they have taken more of a intricate and visually confusing tone.

The pattern in this character's body was inspired by some of the data that has come out of the physics experiments that are seeking to discover the origin of everything.

I used a red ballpoint pen on moleskin paper.

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Columbo Contemplates His Lost Keys

Gotta admit: I don't know much about this guy other than a few episodes I watched on a little RCA TV with one of those UHF/VHF dials and rabbit ears at my Grandma's. I'd prolly like it, the character is interesting visually, but, you know how these things go....

Brush pen, with some PS toning. I left the scanned sketchbook rings in homage to the whole P.I. thing. It might be cheesy, though....?

Sketch Challenge: Columbo

Peter Falk played the role of his life as Columbo. The show is formulaic and the legality of Columbo's method is questionable at best, but I love the show. It's a reverse murder show. We see the murder, means, and motive in the first 15 minutes, then we get to watch Lt. Columbo slowly unravel the twisted web of violence. It challenges the comic book storyteller in me. How could you do a Columbo comic in 22 pages, and have Columbo show up on the 3rd page? Murder montage? I'll give it a try sometime, I'm sure.

Some trivia for you, just to get to watch an episode sometime if you haven't (it is streaming on Netflix after all). Peter Falk's performance was unique to him. His good natured politeness and bumbling were what he used to get to his suspects, unnerving them to the point that they'd crack. To get the best out of his guest star murderers, or perhaps just to be a jerk, Falk would ad lib and talk over the guest's performance to get them to actually dislike having scenes with him. So, when you have Leonard Nemoy yelling at Columbo on screen, he probably is actually frustrated with Falk.

More trivia, which explains the dead Batman in the background. Adam West's Batman show went from 1966 to 1968. Columbo one month before Batman's last episode aired. The world's greatest detective passed the torch to the world's most annoying.

(artist Kyle Latino has a blog at www.ktino.com, follow him on twitter @kylelatino)

Greedo's Last Bad Choice

Almost missed this one with all the busy-ness of this week! Glad I didn't! Using the time my wife is taking a nice long Mother's Day shower to post this up.

You know, after all these years of being a Star Wars nerd, I've never really considered wether or not Han actually shot first. I was always just into the whole unpredictable cowboy/rebel thing of Han's and thought it was cooler than whiny Luke. Does it matter? Probably not. Not sure I would have waited either.

Plus, Han was more funny.

Sketch Challenge: Greedo

You know, Greedo, like any bounty hunter that shows up in Star Wars, is talked about a lot by fans. Like, he was the baddest dude ever, and only the great Han Solo could kill him. I always thought of him as a screw up who was always going to get shot while trying to act tougher than he was. But still, he is one of the many memorable and well designed characters that made Star Wars seem so alive, when I was a kid.

(artist Kyle Latino has a blog at www.ktino.com, follow him on twitter @kylelatino)