Something steamy

Posted on May 18, 2012 by doodlehoose
Steam Punk

Steam Robot / Punk Girl

Last week I cheated a little and used something from the old work files.  It was fresh, but certainly not “Baked Fresh” fresh, more like 3 Day Old fresh.

So this week I wanted to do something more.  Here’s a Steam Robot with a Punk rider.  I attached a sketch of the robot (done after this piece) and a finished drawing with color stages.  Hopefully the small pics are big enough to be seen.

This one had nothing to do with anything, but it was in my head.  I didn’t get it the way I wanted it, but it’s close and I might revisit it – do a little more color tweaking.

Sketch

Full sketch and detail of Steam Robot

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Avengers

Posted on May 14, 2012 by doodlehoose
Earth's mightiest heroes pose for a snapshot

Hulk Pose

Avengers was great. I really enjoyed it. I hope that the sequals and spinoffs live up to the fun of the first one and this is my snapshot of Hulk asking for an Avengers 2.

Black and White is all right

Color Me Heroic

 

This week’s post is a great example of success mingling with failure. I like the piece as a whole, but wasn’t able to achieve what I wanted. I feel like the inking could be stronger and I wanted to color it on the computer, but didn’t have time so I printed it and used markers, colored pencils and crayons with less success than I would hope for. I included the black and white so that if you want to print it and do a better job coloring it you can.

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Kill Bill just because

Posted on May 6, 2012 by doodlehoose

The Bride in repose

Gogo scores first blood

Poised for battle

Not much to say this week. Just felt like a kill bill week

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Pocket portrait and a little more Blade Runner

Posted on April 30, 2012 by doodlehoose

This week’s doodles are something I drew as a warmup and another doodle from Blade Runner.

Pocket Portrait

The first one is what I call a pocket self-portrait using pen and markers. Take whatever is in your pocket, arrange it and draw it. If you’re willing to expend energy to carry it, then it will tell us something about you. What does mine tell you?

I just wanted to see if I could play

The second one is Rachel at Deckard’s house after playing a bit on the piano. Rachel is a replicant that has only recently discovered that her memories come from someone else. That she is a fabrication of a man who made her to be his servant. She plays the piano to see if she can really play or if it’s only a memory that never happened. If you haven’t seen Blade Runner, and you like sci-fi at all- then you should stop reading this and go see Blade Runner.

These are pretty quick because I was sick this weekend and didn’t have any time for digital work. All the same I hope you enjoy them and have a great week. I’m going to go take a nap and try to recover some more.

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Buggy Holly

Posted on April 27, 2012 by doodlehoose
He's a cricket

Buggy Holly and the Crickets

This one was inspired by a typo.

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It’s too bad…

Posted on April 23, 2012 by doodlehoose

 

"It's too bad she won't live. But then again, who does?"

This week’s doodle is a scene from one of my favorite movies of all time. It asks the question, “What makes us human?” and begs the question, “Can we lose that?” The caption comes from one of the last lines in the movie and refers to the woman Rachel, but it can apply to a lot more.

I’ve also included another Roscoe illustration. This project is moving slowly, and if you are one to pray and have room on your list, please add my artist’s block to that. I’m trying to get the black and white drawings for the whole story done before coloring and I’ve only completed one more illustration since last week. Not the pace I had hoped for.

Big Dreams

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Old Man

Posted on April 20, 2012 by doodlehoose
Old Man Progress

Old Man Progress

Just decided to draw this old man, then decided to show the progress.

First scanned, set as Grayscale and adjusted contrast.  Then one layer of base color.  Add a layer of highlight and shadow.  Then a final layer of black & white extreme contrast, with the layer set to Soft Light.  That’s how I got there.

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Something new and something old

Posted on April 16, 2012 by doodlehoose

Heath Huston and his best friend Annie

This week’s doodles are something I’ve done before and you may be tired of- Heath Huston- and something new that I am working on- Roscoe. Roscoe is just a teaser of something more to come.

Heath is in the style of one Bruce Timm. Roscoe is just the beginning and we’ll see if we can get him in color later.

Roscoe

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So Many Hooses

Posted on April 13, 2012 by doodlehoose
Human's Is Meat

Yummy

Here’s one that was drawn by Hoose 1, colored by Hoose 2, features Hoose 3, and was conceptualized by Hoose 4.  So many Hooses.

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