So here's a random sketch...

I just haven't been able to keep up the after hours pace....since I go back to work after dinner these days, Boba Fett is mocking me, Cap and Wolvie are asking, 'WTF? Paint me, sucka!'

So I literally dug around my stack of sketches to see what I could post...


My brother and I watched the epic version of Watchmen when he was visiting for Christmas. Since I can't sit still for 3+ hours, I was sketching...and of course I did some Watchmen related stuff...here's a pic of the raft from the Black Freighter.

Boba Fett 04

Here's the colors for Fett...I'm pretty happy (despite yet another terrible scan!) with how it's going, the oversprays have blended pretty nicely...but I had the gray undersuit color mixed a little too thick, the transparency didn't vignette as well on the lower legs - I'll have to put in a lot of pencil work to bring those darks back out.

Boba Fett & Cap/Wolvie 03's

I masked off the background and painted in the white to knock back that gray, so I could hopefully have more saturated colors for the back grounds, and I think it worked! A hazy, hot, blue Tatooine sky for Fett...


...and a warmer 'explosion' toned background for the Cap/Wolvie pic. I'm really happy with the blending of colors against that really strong black that was in the underpainting. You can still see elements of it, but it's not so dominating, bringing the focus back on the characters.

I also put in a bit of halo'ing around the characters in both pieces, hoping to set up an easier transition between foreground and background.

Boba Fett 02

Well, this is coming along nicely. I played around with the texturing technique a bit more. I really diluted the black paint, so it turned into this watery gray, making it so it didn't overpower the blacks in the blending. Then I really took care to do the wet overspray, again with very light paint sprayed over water drops, then blotted with a paper towel. I spent a lot of time on that, to get the weathered and beaten look of his costume.

The next step for this and the W/C image, is that since they're both going to be relatively backlit, I need to mask off the characters, and put white into the backgrounds, before bringing in the color. This is a sad lesson learned with that failed Sky Doll background, so it's kind of a guess to see if this approach works...

Boba Fett 01

Since I'm going to be sharing some colors (greens and grays) with the Cap/Wolvie piece, I needed to get this one started as well, a pic of everyone's favorite Bounty Hunter, Boba Fett.

Who saw that Rocket Firing exclusive figure coming out this year? Badasssssss.

Anyways, here's the pencil transfer to get started.

Grrrr...*Updated

Who else didn't get a Battle Cat yesterday? I got an email this morning saying my order had been canceled - after it NEVER went through! Bummer, man...

*After reading some facebook comments, this isn't a screw you to TF fans, and that I'm switching over to Mattel from Hasbro, FAR FROM IT! It's a screw you to Mattel.

Cap/Wolvie 02

All right, here's the transfer, with the blacks and textures laid in. I decided to go back to a looser style and technique, more along the lines of the Holmes/Watson piece, still the most successful of the bunch.

And honestly, the reason for me to paint...if I wanted ultra clean, I'd just to it digitally. Making paint spatters is fun, and the motivation to do something standing up, and using my arms, rather than sitting behind the computer desk all day.