Happy 4th :)

Hahaha :D !  Happy 4th all!

  from http://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/dynamics/2011/07/page/4/

ZBrush Head by Josh Purple

This kinda' sucks :) (well... not just kinda' :D ), but it's a Sunday night, so I thought I'd post up my draft / learning work with a ZBrush head (indeed, I'm a complete newbie with ZBrush).  Hopefully I'll be able to post-up some decent progress/improvement in the next few months (years, ...decades :)  ).

original work.

munster

Monsters: Gojira, by Josh Lynch

Almost everyone has done a Godzilla at this point right? He's just so damn fun to draw.

Monster; "Samurai Umber Hulk Mind Flayer," by Josh Purple

The Samurai  Umber Hulk Mind Flayer :) .   The perfect monster bad guy for Zatoichi to defeat (since Zato is blind, he would be immune to the Umber Hulk's four eyes).  Lots of good brain eating scenes would be a must.

*full image size = size created at in photoshop.

Monsters: Werewolf by Mark Hurst

So just did a quick sketch. I've never been big on horror movies or anything like that but the classic monster movies were always interesting to me. Mainly the Universal Monsters, and specifically the Wolf Man because it was more of a curse then it was just him being this so called Monster.

Monster: Spaceman Spiff and The Hounds of Planet X by Mike McMahon

my little homage to Bill Waterson

Monsters In the Art: Thomas Kinkade Versus the Creature From the Deep by Josh Lynch

Sorry this is late.  Thomas Kinkade paintings could have been sooooo much more interesting.

Orignal Work: As yet untitled project about wizards by Nathan Anderson

Original Work: the Wild West Was Here, by Josh Lynch

This is a smattering of pages from book two of the the creator owned comic I do with fellow AF hood Justin Zyduck.

Original Work: Nevic - "Outnumbered" by Mike McMahon

I created Nevic years ago back in college and his larger story has changed and evolved over the years, but finally found the right one and had a first issue self-published last year. Still working on the long overdue second issue. I've done a few short stories with him as well.

Featured in the drawing is Desi Lennox, Tal Nevic, and Kron

Original Work: still untitled werewolf comic by Eric Schuster

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Aquaman #4 by Rich Flood

Reinterpretation of 1994's legendary Aquaman #4 by Martin Egeland.

 Peep it up over at the thoroughly awesome coveredblog where its in good company

Original Work: "Dudes," by joshpurple

No doubt, this is my most original work, style, concept, etc.  Since before I can remember ( like.. ~ 3 or 4 years old?), this is me creating art; pen, pencil, crayon, on paper, etc. doodling creatures/characters quickly.  Hopefully, if you can see this at full scale, -it's pretty much the scale at which I draw these characters out.  I would LOVE to doodle out pages and pages and pages of characters like this, all connecting along 8.5" x 11" sheets of paper.  I've attempted to do comics, cartoons, children's books, posters, t-shirts, etc. with my characters (even a company once, "Dudes by Josh"), all resulted in complete failure :D .   

Cover Redo: Fantastic Four #12 by Eric Schuster

Silly Hulk, you're too big to hide.  The original:

Monsters in the Art: Godzilla vs Rembrandt by Eric Schuster

Apologies.

Cover Redo: 'The Rocketeer - Movie Adaptation' by Mike McMahon

Cover Redo: Thor #168 by Mark Hurst

So, I just finished reading a book about Jack Kirby so with that still fresh in my mind I decided to do a Kirby cover. I came across Thor #168 where he is chasing down Galactus, who stops him and begins telling his origin. I thought it was pretty interesting so I started to sketch only to find out that the design I was doing was similar to the continuation of the story in Thor #169. So enjoy of the variations I did with this (all have minor changes that you probably can't tell). Here are the covers for 168 &169.

Cover Redo: Thor 142, by Josh Lynch

Original sketch here
Colored sketch here

Westerns - Dean Martin from Rio Bravo

 Dean Martin, takin it easy and singing "My Rifle, My Pony, and Me." I really love this song.

Monsters in the Artwork: The Great Wave off Kanagawa vs The Rancor by Mike McMahon

I pretty much rushed this, but you'll get the idea, but as soon as I saw "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" by Hokusai, I immediately saw the idea of a Rancor going up against it

Monsters in the artwork: "Godzilla The Starry Night," by Josh Purple

Fast, fun, and after having a great time at SpringCon, -I was inspired by Eric Schuster :) (the wiki of all things 'zilla!).
Reference from this Godzilla here;

So I had fun with this, and I got to watch Creature From The Black Lagoon again. So this is a painting I found I'm not sure who the artist is, which is bad on my part. Enjoy.

good guy wear black

Westerns: "Cowboy & Dragon" by Josh Purple

Quick, rough draft / sketch.  Just seemed like a nice fit :) .

Monsters in the artwork: "Red Studio Green Monster" by Nathan Anderson

"Red Studio"  is basically my favorite painting every time I have to chose a painting for something I chose this painting -nate

Westerns: Firefly by Mike McMahon

When it comes to space westerns, in my opinion, Firefly is king. I thought it'd be fun to do a short story from one of my all time favorite shows. It's the first time I've ever written or drawn something of it and with any luck, I was able to get the spirit of the show and the characters.

The pages are very sketchy so that I could post 'em in time, but I think there's enough there for the story to make sense. Hopefully down the road I'll be able to ink it and put more detail into it and make it look better over all.

Westerns: Bravestarr by Rich Flood

Man with No Name by Mark Hurst

So when I think western I think Clint Eastwood, as I'm sure many do. Just trying some different things in Photoshop.

Westerns: the Wild West Was Here page

Great theme Kyle.  I LOVE westerns.  Since Kyle suggested Wyatt Earp or space western I figured I had to post a page from my book the Wild West Was Here, which is both about Wyatt Earp and space.  Cheating you say? Yes, this an old drawing.  However it does fit the criteria and as soon as I find the time I plan on coming back to draw the next book.

Westerns: The Good

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is by far my favorite Western of all time. Click here to view original sketch.

Mortal Kombat Vs. McDonaldland: Hamburglar Vs. Baraka