I can finally post this painting now that I have given it to my friend George at Hypno Comics as a thank-you for his generosity and all around coolitude.
I put more hours in this thing than I care to admit but it feels great to be moving paint around again. Right moving on now.
4 x 4 inches, acrylic on wood panel.
So far I’ve only be able to create an ink drawing every other day so I think I will stick to that rhytym rather than play catch-up. So here are my first 3. I hope to do lots of experimenting to find what suits me best as I don’t really ink stuff that often.
Neo from the Matrix as a cartoon character. Ink w/brush. #inktober
Skull, Ballpiont pen #inktober
Birdman, ink experiment with different inks and tools. #inktober
I pretty much blew it for Inktober got too busy with work and family but here is one more I didn’t have time to post:
Man on the street, experimental ink on bristol board.
I’m working up an idea for a DareDevil portrait for my friend George as a thank you for his generosity. I haven’t decided if this will be finished in acrylics or oils yet.
DD preliminary drawing
Added the background graphic. I need to fix the horns when I transfer the sketch:
almost ready to paint
I got some good feedback so I tried one more sketch to fix some rough spots such as the slightly elongated head.
final sketch?
Okay one more, now I think I’m ready to paint. Funny how the simplest drawings give you the most trouble.
ready to get paintin’
The transfer drawing for a painting I am working on for an upcoming comic convention.
Transfer drawing
UPDATE: I’ve been having trouble finding the time to get back to this so I thought I’d show a little preview:
the process so far
Well apologies first, I had a very bad cold and cough the last 4 weeks really slowing me down so I kinda rushed this one to make it into a group show based on the four basic elements. This is not my best work but not my worst either, The Koko the clown character has always been a favorite of mine and I thought if I ever painted him it would have to be at least as weird as the old cartoons, so there ya go. I hope I can revisit this later and paint it up right.
final painting
Here is the initial sketch:
rough sketch
I finished my Frog Prince digital painting today. Pretty cut and dried. I inked one of the sketches from my May 1st. post in Manga Studio 4 and painted it in Photoshop CS3. I then added him to the logotype, created in illustrator and rendered in Photoshop.
Froglodyte
Final Art for Storytime
Lately I have really missed painting. I wanted to feel the fun and sense of accomplishment of moving the paint around to form an image with textures and colors that were pleasing to my eye and hopefully someone else’s too. So I took up the challenge of painting a portrait for the Head & Shoulders group show for this coming First Friday arts celebration. Nothing big mind you (seriously this piece is the size of a business card) just something I could do for the sheer fun of it. So I grabbed this image I sketched last November and took a stab at it.
MIB new recruit
What do y’all think, should I keep painting or stick to the pencil?
Last night I sat down to create a drawing for the upcoming art show at the Stoneworks gallery in Ventura for the First Friday event. The theme this time is “Beard and Mustache”. I don’t know why but as much as I wanted to do a really special piece I just didn’t have it in me. I have been very blue and scattered these past months especially since my move but I did manage to scratch this out of my pencil:
God + man
I didn’t know what to think of this doodle but I felt it wasn’t working so I “dropped the needle” on my web browser bookmarks for inspiration and opened up this page: http://grillomation.blogspot.com/
Paydirt! what cool and amazing drawings by Oscar Grillo -so I grabbed my fountain pens and just started drawing for the joy of it and let my mind wander. Here is what poured out of my pen. I hope this is the beginning of my getting back into my own skin again. I hope you like ’em as much as I did doodlin’ ’em.
That's Mr. Satyr please
Hey Laaydeee
King Leer
Bird's gotta swim, Fish gotta fry
Catstronaught
Wandered back to the "Stache"
So I didn’t get a piece for the show but I think I am finally shaking off the funk.
