Thursday, September 1, 2011

"I'm Batman!"


I(!)... am not Batman....

But this is drawing of Batman.

It's not the same.

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Zombie Revue



Drew a Johnny Cash Zombie. Took me a little time to do, but I'm really pretty proud of it. I've been on a Zombie kick lately (along with other horror-centric monsters) and doing this was bangin' around my noodle for a while. I think I might want to prints of this one, but we'll see.

Sunday, August 7, 2011

Notes



Lately I've been listening to a lot of rootsy folk-punk stuff. Lucero. The Gaslight Anthem. Elliot BROOD. That kind of stuff. A lot of drawings have been really reflective of that kind of stuff.



Lately a lot of my drawing has been some loose doodles from a pocket sketchbook. Sometimes its nice to go with a smaller sketchbook every now and then. The drawings seem to become more of a flood of concepts and ideas. Little things that you can have fun with, and the smaller page size feels less intimidating than a big ol' 14"x17".



Anyway. A lot of loose sketching for now. Trying to make some things happen art-wise soon. Hopefully I'll have more for anyone reading this sooner rather than later.

Oh, and have you seen True Grit yet? You really should

Monday, April 4, 2011

THUNDER & LIGHTNING!


Oh yeah, look who's rocking' the sketch blog! ME!! So this is a beginning of sorts, you see, if you know me, you may know that i am a rather exuberant fan of Thor, both the Marvel comics character and the mythical Norse God. And as excitement builds for the upcoming movie (May 6) so my own exuberance builds. So today's sketch is a first of what I can only think will be many, many daily sketches that are very Thor-themed.(i wanna do a whole week of Thor fighting ridiculous things).

So I hope you're all as excited as I am about all the Asgardian-ness sure to come our way in the coming weeks!

Plus, he's just so damned fun to draw!

Sunday, April 3, 2011

NOT Blowing it (sorta)!




Wow, so I'm only sorta mostly dropping the ball on this whole daily sketchblog thing, BUT(!) I will say that I have been busy doing arty things! I did I drawing for a poster the other day, seen above in both sketch and classy-color form(!) and I gotta lot of stuff in the works! Including a lot of work I'm doing for an art show hosted by my buddy Nate!

In other news, I believe Dave is setting up another blog page specifically devoted to our (ahem) "Daily Sketches" where we will post too. I don't really know how to get there just yet, but keep an eye out and I'll keep you updated. Also, I believe our good friend Andrew will be getting in on the shenanigans with Dave and I, so this other page will be a great one stop shop for some sweet doodle action ("That's what she said""HA!") That said I will also be updating this page as well with my stuff, so if you're a monogamous blogger, you don't have to worry about missing my sweet stuff.

So regarding the art show, I'll give more details later, but if you happen to be in Edmonton on Sat. Apr 16 at about 5ish, come by Brixx Bar and Grill . Subtle, huh.

Also, I just want to say with no small amount of excitement that we only (at time of typing this) 32 days, 1 hour, 39 minutes and 50 seconds away from THOR! And he's already showing up on the Dr. Pepper bottles! Exciting isn't it?!

Anyways, keep your axes sharp
G

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Sketch 4: It's a Wolver-doodle!


So as promised, (and in darn fine time, too) I present a second sketch today and announce that I am all caught up! Dave and I are both huge Marvel zombie's, and we clearly love drawing men in tights, so expect a fair amount of Marvel comic characters in the coming weeks. I'm already getting giddy over upcoming Thor sketches. For now, here's some angry Wolverine awesomeness.

And a huge thanks to my girlfriend for helping customize my page. Ain't she a pip?

Daily Sketchblog, Day 3 (ish)


Hey everyone!

Hope you had a kickin' weekend (that's right, I'm taking 'Kickin'' back). So i know I didn't post yesterday, but I got busy. A friend is in town from Saskatchewan and the Sheena and I were playing host's with the most's. Anyhoo, Dave did not disappoint and posted a Daredevil sketch, and I needed to match. I think I'll try to do another sketch tonight to catch up.

Oh, also, the new Amon Amarth album came out today. Buy it. It's the soundtrack to bludgeoning someone with an axe.

Also also... I spelled 'bludgeoning' correctly on the first try. Go me.

Friday, March 25, 2011

Daily Sketchblog, Day 2


Day 2 is a success, I haven't bailed on this yet! I know it's past my 11:00 posting deadline, but I honestly had this bad boy done before 10. I just had to finish it at the pub and I couldn't scan or post it from there.

Anyway, for todays entry, Dave suggested we do a Zombie/Viking theme. Needless to say I was all up in that bitch! Hope you like.

G

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Me vs. The Sketchblog vs. Dave


Evening, Internet!

So lately a friend of mine I work with, Babyface Dave, were lamenting our desires to sketch more, and even actually maintain, our sketchblogs. But with life being what it is and both of us having full time jobs which are sadly not related our chosen fields (Dave being an animator, myself being a graphic designer/illustrator) we find ourselves more quality doodle time. So we decided that we should challenge each other into doing a sketch everyday and post it before 11:00 pm every night.

Finally! A foe thats not quite as colossal as the Leviathan that is PROCRASTINATION (please say in a deep, dramatic tone for effect)!!! I mean, I'm sure I could oust Dave at being the more dedicated sketcher!

So with that in mind I present my first entry into the for-real-this-time-I-promise-to-be-good-and-draw-everyday SKETCHBLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOGGGG!!!!! The best thing about a bad movie, the most-underused Villian of ever, the meanest Sith this side of Omicron-Persei 8, DAAAAAARRRTTTHHH MAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUULLLLLL!

I look forward to screwing this sketchblog thing up.

Oh, and in the interest of fairness and friendly competition (You suck, Dave!) here's Dave's blog http://davidmeredith7.blogspot.com/

Sunday, February 27, 2011

Save Yourself, I'll hold Them Back

Sweet marie I'm just terrible at this blog thing. Worst part is, it is something I really am wanting to do! So to start, I've been working at pretty steadily at my day job, and it's not really allowing me the time or energy to do my art and comic stuff, that said I have been doing a fair amount of quality sketching lately. Also, with my scanner being not-at-all great, I've found myself taking a lot of pictures of my sketches on my iPhone using the Instagram app. If you use Instagram, my tag is poprockets, come follow me, we'll go for a ride. So expect less actual scans of my work, and more captured images. A lot of this is because I work on an 11" x 14" sketchbook, and my scanner ain't so big. Alas....



So this guy is one centered around one of two pretty solid ideas I have for comics. Both I think could really work well, i just have to sit down and write some stuff, develop actual plots and pitches and the like. I don't want to get into the specifics of the ideas (because you might steal them) but both are a science fiction-y. The character above is one of the protagonists in a story involving espionage, secret science societies and rayguns. The other book (main character pictured below) is more of a adventure science fiction complete with crazy aliens and jet packs. I kind of imagine it as a space Hellboy in terms of how picture its vibe.



Then just a few additional sketches



Including a quick David Bowie sketch mostly because I've been listening to a lot Bowie lately. And I don't wanna hear anything about it!



In other news I bought a rad little Raygun statue thats part of a rad steampunk style series. I don't think either my wallet nor my girlfriend is happy that I might have to start collecting these things. Here's a picture of my newly acquired death-dealer, The Thresher Mk. II Ionizer



Well I think that's about for now, at least if you're talking about me and silly art things. If you want topics about real things, I recommend you follow my girlfriends blog http://inthewarbetween.blogspot.com/. She's way smarter than I am.

Read comics. Watch the Venture Brothers

Oh, fun fact! Did you know that Mark twain and Nikola Tesla were good friends in real life? Crazy.

And find me on Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/poprocketcomics

Monday, January 10, 2011

Me vs. The Sketchblog!




Happy New year everyone! Hope everyone had a fantastic holiday! So I fell behind in uploading some of me sketches over the season, so I'm making up for it by loading a few of them today, as well as a sketch of Bruce Springsteen I did. Hope you all like them, and even though I'm not one for New Years Resolutions, I do mean to just rock the shit of this blog in '11! Are you excited? Cause I sure as shit am!