I take several daily skullbrain mini-vacations from my cubicle hell... I relish them, and I don't need them endangered by a pussy-ass Vartghosten (I'm pretty sure that's not German for “Fartghost”) catching the eye of any especially corporately-minded co-workers who might be, shall we say, unimpressed by such.
Thanks, Ben... don't I know it... 'sfucking brutal, and I've been at it too long... just like Elvis in Joan Rivers, I'm tryin' to get out... tryin' to get out...
Lately I've been drawing this robot character on some punk gig posters... sort of a traditional looking late 70's/80s style robot. I added some medieval elements and named it "Fighting Dragon". Today I'm gonna work on drawing the back side and other detailed elements, like the folding dragon wings etc. Basically it will have a minor transforming function- lay it on it's stomach and the back side becomes the top. Pilot cockpit on the back of the head, wings fold back for supersonic flight, legs twist around to form a tail, fists rotate to add stabilizer fins..... fun to draw!
I've been entertaining myself by doing something I always wanted to try, Herge / Tintin style art. I started by copying original book covers and adding my characters, last night I made one that was all my own design. Fun to draw, even more fun & easy to color since he used all the flat areas of color.
Wow Jeff ! I would venture that this may be your best work yet, so, so good. You know i actually went through your stuff to see if you had used the Hergé font somewhere in the past, before going ahead and using it on the header i posted above. So this is the first time you use the actual Tin Tin lettering ? The titles rock so much too ! Interesting circling back of things, as it was you who first suggested that a simple goofy sketch I had posted on flickr should become a toy. Thanks Jeff Lamm !
Didn't notice that it was the Tintin font on the Moloch header until you pointed it out, Ben- ha, what timing you guys have!!! How perfect!
These are all gorgeous Jeff. Your skills at matching them and combining them with your own art is just amazing. These easily fit in with the best of the Hergé tributes I have ever seen. I am not sure how it works with MG swimming, but Le Trésor de Rackham le Rouge was always one of my favourite covers, I can already picture the cockpit aspect.... you know, since obviously you must be totally empty of ideas to work on.
Thanks guys! Yeah Zapp, I love your art ! Lots of talent around here. Highly creative people. I think I may do about 2 more of these images, I like Red Rackham's Treasure also, probably the best cover of them all. I wanna get a tattoo of the fish on there sometime. I'll probably end up making them a set of postcards. Silk screen posters would be awesome but they would end up being expensive with all the colors involved. Thanks again for the encouragement people!
