Forest Ranger

Here is my latest entry to He-Man.Org's bi-weekly redesign competition. This week the contest called for a redesign on a concept character that never made it off the drawing board at the toy company, referred to only as "Female Forest Figure."

I wanted her emblem to be an owl to link her to the forest and I imagine her as a mysterious and speedy character, origins unknown. Artistically I'm trying to develop a way of stylizaing my Masters of the Universe drawings in a way that would lend itself to model sheets for a cartoon. She could potentially live in the same world as the Sea Hawk I did a couple weeks ago.

The Sea Hawk

Another She-Ra post--this was done for a redesign contest at www.He-Man.org. I wanted to capture the spirit of the original character as well as show him in my style of cartooning. Errol Flynn provided some good inspiration for this.

This is also the first thing I've done in at least a month that started with traditional media (penciled, inked, scanned, then colored). I'd like to find a better way to merge my two ways of working, but it seems that right now I can do some serious cartooning or serious painting, but I don't have the control with my Wacom tablet to be able to do both at the same time.

Catra

This is my interpretation of Catra from the "She-Ra: Princess of Power" universe. When I was a kid, I always thought that the chick that played Cassandra in Wayne's World would be a great casting choice if a live action She-Ra movies was ever made, and I think that ever since then I've had a place in my heart for an Asian Catra. Actually, though, this image is based off of a gorgeous Anna Molinari ad that was so much Catra already, I couldn't resist pushing it a little further (and the moral of the story is that the model in the ad was of Asian decent).

After leaving this piece rest for about a month and returning to it today, I think that I'm finally done with it. I'm not absolutely in love with it, but I really put the finishing touches on it today and don't know that I'd be interested in returning.

Additionally, this piece came before all of the lads that I'd been drawing in early December and was the first time that I made something with Photoshop with the sole intention of making it appear to be a traditional drawing or painting. Revisiting it today made me realize that I've figured a lot out in the past month, so I'm pretty happy about that.

Double Trouble

This is a character study I did for a bi-weekly contest on the www.He-Man.org forums. She was an action figure from the She-Ra toy line in the 80's and was labeled "glamorous double agent" so I ran with that idea. I was imagining WWII spies in sunglasses and trenchcoats when I was working on this.