"Hey Tom. Why?"
Cee-Lo Green as The Penguin. No need to thank me, Hollywood, just wire me my fee.
Here's a page I did while I was watching Ratatouille. I would like to be able to draw like Pixar's various character designers and story artists because they are psycho art junkie geniuses. Included is a Hellboy drawing I am actually happy with!
Above is a somewhat rubbish set of sketches what I did when I was watching the film Six String Samurai. The sketches are rubbish because after 15 minutes I was enraptured utterly by the wonderful film, sent to me by Mister Peter White for my birthday. However, I later went back to Six String Samurai to bring you this...
Phwoar. Eh? Phwoar.
Then I went off the rails and drew a laughing skull and two members of the Fantastic Four. Best Thing Yet! And that's all you get because I'm just not very excited about the rest of the contents of my sketchbook.
Up first is Ben Grimm once more, saying 'shorts', although it looks like it should be 'shirts'. Ah well. Also his chest is brought to you today by P Mondrian.
Eric Powell's The Goon, so surprised in the second half of the drawing that his hat has disappeared! Oh my! And since I felt I was developing something of a theme:
Some tuff guise! You'll notice an uninked Hellboy in the middle there, which is because it's rubbish and I didn't want to. I am, however, very proud of the right-hand Hulk. He's class.
Here we go. Ever seen This Island Earth? Well, there's your man with the big head and that, accompanied by arbitrary Stan Lee quotation. And because I thought things were going a bit dude-centric all of a sudden:
Lauren Bacall, ladies and gentlemen, with a lame joke stuck on as an excuse for drawing a fit woman out of the 40s and getting all fancy with the hair there.
Some satirical whatsit about the post-Iggy-Pop ideal male form. You see these sods, stalking about on their freaky stilt legs and you think 'what the hell is holding them up'? Eat parody, you emo junkies.
Couple of Things and a Pavarotti for good measure. The Things were interpretations (if you can call them that) of some of the sketches in this gallery, which proves two things: 1) if you want to get some juice out of a comic artist, ask them to draw The Thing, and 2) Frank Cho likes drawing buck nekkid chicks.
Some peoples in and around Costa coffee, and of course Gino. Anybody in doubt of who Gino is should hit up the relevant coffee shop chain and behold the shrines to his visage. Oddly, the drawing I'm happiest with here is the mumbling old man at the top left, who is entirely of my own invention. There's just something about him. Also Freakazoid is there.
I tried to do justice to the show's willingness to break boundaries, its capacity for discussions of any topic and music of any genre, and its unspoken love for pirates. But it probably just comes off as advocating music piracy. Ah well.