Cats in the shade

I just finished another personal portfolio pic, and I'm now supposed to write a tutorial on it, for GOmotion magazine.
I'll tell you when the issue where it'll be included is available. Meanwhile, here's the picture:




And also, since this is the sketch blog, a compilation of WIP shots:

Siege - pin-up

Trying to take the Siege universe one step further. Created a few more characters. I'm quite happy with the Empress, she's a very important character.

The Hotel Clerk

This is a fairly quick painting for which I was inspired by a long walk at 5 a.m. last saturday. I went out again last night to photograph the area and then painted this. Hopefully there will be more.

Havana Blues poster

Done for a Cuban music party coming up this month:

Siege General

I did this from some concepts I'd created for a wargame at my old company, which never got used:

Faxanadu

I came down with a retro NES fever, today is Faxanadu, one of the games I played the most as a kid.

Metroid

Been wanting to draw her forever, but this is the first time anything decent came out.

Kids

Done for a simple flash game my friend is building:

40's-based sci-fi quickie (or not that quick)

Killer Android

Another experiment, new take on a character of another personal project:

Jeepers Creepers

Done for the weekly activity at cloudnine. The theme is "3 colors".

BOO!

2 quick ones for the Draw My Character thread at Cloudnine:

Billy Brown

This is from last night, done from Buffalo 66. I was excited about it at first but in the end I was disappointed. NEXT TIME! I could try again, since it's probably my favourite movie.

Soul Brothers of Kung-Fu

Bukowski on Hollywood

"There's nothing, there's nobody there, I mean...

there's no place to film anymore.

I get the feeling the world is more and more drying up.
I don't know where the whores are going,
I don't know where the black pimps are going
and I don't know where the music is going."

Dolemite

From the blaxploitation masterpiece Dolemite:

Inland Empire

Blah blah, Inland Empire:

Dust Devil

Same Same, but today it's Dust Devil:

Singapore Sling

Here's one more, made from Singapore Sling, one of the sickest, most twisted movies I've ever seen. Still beautiful.

Chinatown speedpainting

I drew these after watching the movie Chinatown. Loved it.
Hadn't done anything like this in a while...

Mo' Naked Doodles

Finally got around to scan some stuff from one of the last sessions:

Andy

Done for the "draw my character" activty at cloudnine forums.
The original character is done by Jiaxing Rong, here's his sketch:
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y20/photoshopmonkey2/andyfreeze.jpg

And his website, btw:
http://www.jrtistic.com/

Dark alley from the mind

Pencil sketch, an then fine pen and sloppy cheap watercolors

A selection from the last 2 sessions

Pile o'houses

From a web picture of Kowloon

Don't walk.

Playing with the pens, in today's spare time:

+ 2 Figures

Phone pole spiders

Outside sketching

I loved the line drawing i had, but then i had to ruin it by being completely careless with the watercolor. Hope to do some better ones soon.

more nudes

Sorry for the crappy quality of most of these, but they 're photos, since the pages were too big for the scanner.