Purple People Eater

I like to sketch on my iPad in bed at night. It's fun and relaxing. Right now I'm doodling a lot of cartoony characters. I have a new project in the pipe that is very different from my other stuff.

I decided to do my version of the purple people eater. I know, I know! In the song the purple people eater isn't necessarily purple. He just eats purple people. However, you are what you eat, so... maybe he IS purple.

Two Scoops - Robert Rodriguez

It's been a while since I've posted. I just found out recently that one of my monster designs was chosen for Robert Rodriguez's short film "Two Scoops".  Admittedly, I should have known weeks ago when they sent me a legal disclaimer, but due to the wording I thought I was just in the running.... either I was in denial, or I'm just a little slow. Probably the latter. :)

Imagine the sheer BLISS when I saw my monster come to life. It's a concept artist's dream!!

You can check it out here.
http://keepmoving.blackberry.com/desktop/en/us/ambassador/robert-rodriguez.html

I've always been a huge fan of Robert Rodriquez and his work. I used to live next to the old airport where he films a lot of his movies. If I ever run into Robert I'll definitely buy him a beer!

Project Green Screen - Robert Rodriguez

So I just found out about Robert Rodriquez's project called Green Screen. It's a really neat idea having fans contribute content to the finished product.

http://keepmoving.blackberry.com/desktop/en/us/ambassador/robert-rodriguez.html#get-involved

Of course when I found out he wanted people submitting monster designs, I had to jump on that.
Here's some of the pics I uploaded. I probably won't hear anything back, but it was fun to participate.

Panel 2

So here's panel 2 of page 1. I would have put them both together, but I took the pic with my phone and it looks terrible. My brother got an 11X17 scanner recently and I think it's time I did the same :)

I'm back!

Sorry gang. I was out for bereavement last week. Back to life, back to re... ok, no 80's song lyrics.

I jumped back on the grind stone and started drawing issue #3. I'm listing a sneak peak of the pencils below. If you haven't read the second issue it's not going to make any sense.

Enjoy.

I think I'm just going to power through and do #3 and #4 back to back, then color everything in Photoshop afterwards. We'll see how that works out.

Dreams

One of the things I got into for a while was writing down my dreams. I'm not going to say your dreams are an untapped reservoir of potential, but they are definitely a good place to pull out some wacky ideas.

Several years ago I dreamed I had an alien organism on my back trying to control me, like the movie the Puppet Masters. I also recently noticed it had a really close similarity to the harness creatures on Falling Skies. It's not the first time I've dreamed about something that I see later on, but that's another post all to itself.

Anyway, I jotted it down in my sketchbook the next day. If I had dreams like this every night I'd probably start keeping a visual dream journal more often.

Sketch - Glob Monster

I spent all night submitting Black Hole Cafe to Comixology Submit, so I didn't have time for a full post. So here's a pic of a glob monster I did on my iPad. :)