Showing posts with label Illustration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Illustration. Show all posts
Friday, December 6, 2013
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
iPad speed-painting on this, the day of your daughter's wedding
While watching "The Godfather" tonight, and enjoying its rich, dark, shadowy cinematography, I ran through a couple of quick iPad paintings using Procreate. It was interesting seeing just how much of the frame was filled with pure black, and how the rest of the color scheme mainly consisted of red and gold.
Saturday, May 4, 2013
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Captain America, robo-dinosaur champion.
Sort of a request painting here, a friend of mine described something as "almost as cool as Captain America riding a cyborg T-Rex through the battlefield", so here it is.
Considering superheroes and dinosaurs are two of the most fun things in the universe to draw, I really ought to draw them more than I currently do...
Considering superheroes and dinosaurs are two of the most fun things in the universe to draw, I really ought to draw them more than I currently do...
Monday, April 8, 2013
Boston Red Sox Opening Day
Just a quickie little iPad mini sketch for Baseball’s opening day at Fenway Park.
Perhaps a little more ominous than it ought to be, and it was tough to work out the batter’s pose.
Pretty messy, but hopefully amusing.
Perhaps a little more ominous than it ought to be, and it was tough to work out the batter’s pose.
Pretty messy, but hopefully amusing.
Sunday, April 7, 2013
The Man of Steel & The Dark Knight
And now some superhero drawings, first tackling the most iconic of all — the Man of Steel, Superman. I tried to go for a slightly more flat and graphic look than I usually do.
Of all the superheroes, Superman is throne that perhaps works best as a cultural icon than a character, functioning for us the way that Achilles functioned for ancient Greeks. He represents what is essentially the purest form of virtue: when given unlimited power, would one still strive to be a moral person? It’s a philosophical issue that goes all the way back to Plato, describing the Ring of Gyges (a ring that turns the wearer invisible, perhaps an influence on Tolkien). Superman is how most of us WISH we would act if given limitless power.
As a character, and perhaps I just haven’t read enough of his stories, he doesn’t have many personality flaws, and his weakness, Kryptonite, is so singular that the only tension he can have is how someone will sneak a bit of Kryptonite into Clark Kent’s morning coffee. I'd think that this would make him rather dramatically inert, but the character has been with us for so many decades that I think it's more a case where his character serves the same narrative function as the lead character to "The Shawshank Redemltion" or "Forrest Gump", wherein the protagonists themselves don't change, but the effects f their presence or actions changes those arid them.
The second image is a quicker sketch of Batman, the dark flip side of Superman's cultural function (Superman is gifted with supernatural powers, Batman is merely wealthy and disciplined, Superman is motivated by high-minded ideals, while Batman is motivated by vengeance and a loathing for criminals). I don't think the Batman sketch is terribly successful, but it was fun enough that I'm going to try another crack at the character...
Of all the superheroes, Superman is throne that perhaps works best as a cultural icon than a character, functioning for us the way that Achilles functioned for ancient Greeks. He represents what is essentially the purest form of virtue: when given unlimited power, would one still strive to be a moral person? It’s a philosophical issue that goes all the way back to Plato, describing the Ring of Gyges (a ring that turns the wearer invisible, perhaps an influence on Tolkien). Superman is how most of us WISH we would act if given limitless power.
As a character, and perhaps I just haven’t read enough of his stories, he doesn’t have many personality flaws, and his weakness, Kryptonite, is so singular that the only tension he can have is how someone will sneak a bit of Kryptonite into Clark Kent’s morning coffee. I'd think that this would make him rather dramatically inert, but the character has been with us for so many decades that I think it's more a case where his character serves the same narrative function as the lead character to "The Shawshank Redemltion" or "Forrest Gump", wherein the protagonists themselves don't change, but the effects f their presence or actions changes those arid them.
The second image is a quicker sketch of Batman, the dark flip side of Superman's cultural function (Superman is gifted with supernatural powers, Batman is merely wealthy and disciplined, Superman is motivated by high-minded ideals, while Batman is motivated by vengeance and a loathing for criminals). I don't think the Batman sketch is terribly successful, but it was fun enough that I'm going to try another crack at the character...
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