Quick sketch & colour

Whenever I doodle for myself, I almost always shortchange myself and run out of room for the feet. Makes me worry a little bit.

Anyhow, here's a gunslinger with some simple wash colour and even simpler gradient background.

King's Watch - Marc Laming art

So a snap of Flash Gordon and Mandrake the Magician going off-roading through some weird alien-esque critter was flopped around Twitter.

I like it! So.. despite the low-res availability,  and after some fiddle-farting around with my browser and Instagram, I managed to get the pic[and permissions] and coloured it in.

From what little I've seen / read of King's Watch, it's pretty good entertainment!
Knowing almost nothing about any of the characters, aside from the 70s?80s? Flash Gordon movie [mostly the Queen theme song] and the ..mid/late 90s? The Phantom movie, I like seeing these guys getting together and doing awesome things.  Jeff Parker and Marc Laming have a good series here.

Part of me visualizes the art credits as being emblazoned like raised ornaments...leaving an imprint on the robo-alien-thing's chassis\chest. And that makes me laugh. ^_^

Batman '66

So, via Greg Pak, by way of Brian Michael Bendis with a source of Alex Chung through the magic of Tumblr, I come across a black and white image of this awesomeness.  Classic 1966 Batman and villains as drawn by Kevin Maguire.

And it's just one of those things I had to colour. From memory, despite the fact the show is/was before my time, but reruns let everything live forever, more or less.

So.. some classic campy Batman, drawn by Kevin Maguire, coloured by me:

My only real concern doing this from memory is the Egg Master [Egg Man?..bald guy by the Joker, played by Vincent Price if I remember right], and the two top-corner villains, along with the prison-striped faceless guy behind the Mad Hatter.

And just because.. I even colour-doodled in Cesar Romero's white-painted mustache on the Joker.

Trying to think of the actors behind the costumes...  Adam West, Burt Ward, Cesar Romero, Frank Gorshin, Julie Newmar \ Ertha Kitt, Vincent Price, Burgess Meredith, ... I can't remember who played King Tut, Mr. Freeze or the Mad Hatter.

Abominable Charles Christopher / Karl Kerschel contest

Karl Kerschel, creator of the entertaining The Abominable Charles Christopher webcomic has a colouring contest going on.

So I tried my hand at it.
I'm never a fan of contests that don't have easily identifiable rules for what would make a winning entry, but then again, this is art, which is always subjective. So there I go.

Here's my colouring over his lineart :

It's been submitted to the facebook page.  I'm not looking so much to win the contest [which hey, would be nice, don't get me wrong], so much as I'm pushing myself to submit things that aren't perfect in my own eyes, because none of my work will ever be perfect to me. I can almost always see something, look back at works, that could be improved. 

Goodbye 2013, Hello 2014

Normally I don't generally care, or celebrate things like the New Year... really, I mean, if not for certain Roman Caesars wanting to be immortal, we'd still have a 10-month calendar.  So it seems to me that the celebrating the change-over of one day into another because of the end of a numerically dated sheetbook seems kind of silly... but hey, any excuse for a booze-up, right? That's what people want, it seems.

so.. last sketch of 2013, first of 2014.. because hey, we have to mark these things down and take note, right? Right. Though a lot of days I wonder why.