Man, it's been a dry summer here on the sketchblog. The primary reason for that is a very large project I've been working on in fits and starts for a few months now. I don't want to spoil it until I'm ready to unveil the final art, because it's pretty awesome. (or at least, I hope it will be!) Most of my drawing time has been taken up with that, and as a result, I haven't had much of interest that I could show here.

Until now!

I took some time away from my massive project of mind-blowing awesomeness to do this much smaller project of mind-blowing awesomeness for my sister's birthday. If you know the movie I'm paying tribute to here, then you get why this was an incredibly fun piece to work on. If you are sitting there going "what the hell is The Last Dragon?" then get thee to thy Netflix queue posthaste. You won't regret it.

Generally speaking I have to wait my son goes to sleep before I can get a few hours of quality drawing time in, so this was done over the course of about 2 weeks, getting in time on it when I could. I had the final art printed at 11x14" and framed it. My sister loved it. 

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This would have been more relevant if I'd posted it a month and a half ago when the episodes they filmed in Utah actually aired. What are ya gonna do? 

I'm pretty pleased with how this one turned out. I will admit that I drew and redrew Matt Smith's face about a dozen times before I liked it. That dude is tough to draw. I'm particularly proud of Rory here. Even in a cartoon nobody listens to the guy!

The characters were drawn using Sketchbook pro, then imported into Photoshop where I inked it and did the color and the background. Enjoy!

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Here's the finished version of my Alien piece. I altered a few of the shadows since the last pass and obviously added color. I'm fairly pleased with how this turned out. 

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Here's a second look at 2 of the Farscape characters I've been working on. I finished D'argo and made several tweaks to both figures, formost of which was making Scorpy's gun more accurate to the pistols they used on the show. Enjoy!

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Drawn and colored in Sketchbook pro and Photoshop CS5 on the Wacom Cintiq 21x.