Tumbl With Me

Lately I've been slacking on this blog...I guess that's really not a secret. I need to get back into updating this one more frequently, especially considering that this is pretty much the only blog that I try to maintain on a pretty decent schedule. But...I do have another blog...on Tumblr. You can check that one out, because I update that one rather frequently....and artwork generally gets posted on there like within an hour after I'm finished. And I post sketches on there some times...which I never do pretty much elsewhere.

Okay, now that the wall of text is over...on to the pictures! First, I finished that Cleopatra sketch that I posted in my previous entry...now with colors!


And my favorite Transformer, Soundwave. I never really noticed this until I was drawing it, but Soundwave's head is pretty much the Decepticon logo...

I guess I'm getting better at these Transformer pictures...which is making me to seriously reconsider redrawing all of the older ones I've done.

And my favorite meteorologist...Ororo Munroe aka Storm of the X-Men.


So, then I was thinking, that there is a serious lack of good African American super heroes/heroines in comics in general. I mean, aside from a select few, the rest are pretty crap...and have ridiculous stereotypes. So, to fix that, I decided to re-imagine some super heroes as being African American. And the first was Batgirl:


And then I thought...why just stop at super heroes...why not just do other pop culture things like cartoons as well...and then this Scooby Doo picture came out. Its still unfinished, but I thought that I'd post it regardless:


And the others; Rogue, Wonder Woman, and Black Canary:




And I still have stuff thats sitting on my hard drive and sketch pad. I'm loving this sudden rush of creativity. And follow me on Tumblr and leave messages...and I'll be sure to return the favor!!

*EDIT* I can't believe that I forgot to post my African American Power Puff Girls piece!!!


Without Wax,

M.I.A. Art Dump 2

I think getting a new sketch book has really helped me to be more creative and just sketch out stuff...which eventually will be colored. So, I'm getting in sketching and coloring practice all in one!

I wanted to do something that was more illustrative than normal and makes use of negative space, so I drew Jean Gray as the Dark Phoenix. I made the background red so that it would double as the red in her suit.

I think that I'm going to do more similar to this one.

This next one was a sketch that I posted last time but decided to finish it with colors.


This next one was taken from a lyric in Fabolous's song "You Be Killin' Em". Its Harley Quinn giving the Joker that iPhone 4...FaceTime! Videochattin' it up with Mr. J:


And this last one is some fanart of DragonBall Z. I'm not going to lie, I used to be such a stan for this show...that is until I realized that most of the episodes are just long drawn out soliloquies. But anyways, here's Buu of DBZ.


And I still have more sketches to ink and several ideas to get down. Just trying to keep that pencil busy and riding that creativity wave.


Without Wax,

M.I.A. Art Dump

I haven't been updating my art blog as much as I should...which is bad on my part. But just because I haven't been updating here doesn't mean that my pencil has been stationary....actually its just the opposite. So, I decided to gather all of what I've been sketching lately, and dump it all here! Image overload:

Here is Sakura from Street Fighter. I originally colored her in her original color scheme, but I prefer her alternate more:


Here is a sketch of Cleopatra of Egypt. I need to take time out to ink and color this one...but it might take a while.


Here is another sketch that I inked and colored. Whenever I'm at a loss and need something to sketch, women always seem to come out...not that I'm complaining.


Like I said...whenever I'm at a loss...


And I NEVER thought in a million years that I would draw Nicki Minaj...but here you go. This was based off of her "Do The Creep" sketch on Saturday Night Live.


Another random sketch...an octopus in a cup. Yeah, like I said...random.



And last, but definitely not least...a guest strip that I did for Jeff Scheutze of the webcomic JefBot. If you don't understand it, its based off of Super Mario Bros. 2 and the movie Inception. Super Mario 2 was all a dream...and he's dreaming of Mario having a dream...hence...well...nevermind.



Hopefully next time, I won't stay away for so long from my blog.

Without Wax,