Anthony Bachman Illustrator

145 - Petey the Ptetraventurer

2012-02-12T23:59:00.000-07:00

Whole lots of other stuff going on but I'm sneaking in another PencilJack weekly sketch group piece right before the end of the weekend. Meet Petey the Ptetraventurer, king of the winged adventure, flying into trouble and fun all day!
Sadly Whitney Houston died this weekend but we were lucky enough to have an amazing tribute song by Jennifer Hudson on the Grammys, I almost teared up. What I find the saddest though is that I think I felt worse when Whitney Houston seemed to through away her career and talent chasing drugs, after that it seems this end was almost inevitable. Another great loss.
Well, have a great week people.

144 - Final look at a couple final projects

2012-01-29T21:50:00.000-07:00

Realized I never posted my finished Copic sketch of Tony Chu from Chew and the final version of the name plate/logo for Miss Amy Ankrom/Sisneros. So here we have them.

This was the 4th and final pass on my Tony Chu sketch, loving my new Copics.

The Ankrom logo was designed from the insert color photo of Amy's original art, and lucky for me she said she was happy with the results.

143 - take me to your Taskmaster

2012-01-29T14:25:00.000-07:00

Sunday bloody Sunday. Oh no, wait...it's a lovely day! My boy Marvin and his wife Alicia welcomed a new one into the world today, Ellis Kinney is now a part of the clan. And my favorite little man Wilson now gets to join the world of those who actually have to share. You know it has to be hard at 4 to give up attention and toys, I know I wouldn't like it. Congrats to Marvin, Alicia, and Wilson as Ellis joins in the fun.

Now on to the above drawing. Finished the dang thing last night as I watched the UFC on FOX. One really bad fight, possibly the most uninteresting fight in the last 2 years, and a couple of okay fights that were nothing to write home about. The worst thing was that it seems Chael Sonnen believes he is now in the WWE. The post fight "interview" with Joe Rogan sounded like one of The Rocks old promo spots with the words "Chael Sonnen" inserted everywhere that "The Rock" had been. When you start referring to yourself in the 3rd person and how the guy with the microphone is feeling basking in the glory of your presences it should be after you just did an amazing knockout or out someone into a great submission and got a tap, not after eeking through 3 rounds and "winning" a judges decision. Man I hope this isn't the start of UFC fighters starting to think that they should act like pro-wrestlers. I love my mma, and I love my pro-wrestling but never the twain shall be confused you know.

Oh yeah I was gonna say something about the drawing, ha! Another sketch for the lovely weekly sketch group over at PencilJack. Fine bunch of lads over there. Started this at the Geeks Who Drink over at Brewforia on Monday night and now here we have the end result. I have to say I enjoyed the hell out of this one, think it turned out pretty well.

142 - Beware the Terrafin!

2012-01-28T15:13:00.003-07:00

Quick warm up sketch today before the big work. Decided to do a Terrafin from the new Skylanders game. This game is on it's way to being a really big crack addiction for kids and parents as it has the collection aspect like Pokemon for characters and the amazingly smart ability for all character figures to be played across all 3 major game platforms as well as on the PC. Smart marketing and a fun game per my friend Marvin and his son Wilson's review. So for Mr. Wilson a little Terrafin sketch. This guy is a shark with earth based powers, Land Shark peoples!

"Ding"
"Candy gram mam"

141 - Task Master wip

2012-01-24T20:04:00.000-07:00

Quick pop in to share a little bit of my w.i.p. for this weeks weekly sketch group over at PencilJack. Started this last night at Brewforia with my favorite peoples the members of Jack's Useless Knowledge for our Monday night Geeks Who Drink. Fun was indeed had by all again. Beer, trivia, food, and friends. Good stuff. This sketch might even turn out as good as I hope.

140 - Bad Bad Belle

2012-01-22T22:34:00.001-07:00

We have a double post. It's almost like I'm increasing in speed, crazy stuff, 2 in 1 day wow! Just sneaking in under the wire for the PencilJack weekly sketch group. Quick sketch of a vampiric Belle from Beauty and and the Beast and yes a vampire version of a Disney princess was one of the sketch group choices this week, PencilJack is awesome! If you've never you should go check them out.
So here we have Dark Belle, enjoy.

139 - What's your vote for?

2012-01-22T18:42:00.000-07:00

A very simplified idea for the banner contest over at democratikcomics My idea was to kinda show an image in process so you get that wip(work in process) feel, so pencils blue and regular, inks, and then the text done digitally. It seems a bit more disjointed than I had it in my head, but I think it kinda works.

138 - what's on the side? or Hero side view muscle groups

2012-01-19T18:45:00.000-07:00

Back at the Simplified Anatomy for the Comic Book Artist by Christopher Hart. Here we have the Hero muscle groups from the side view. The most important part in the book is showing that the neck does not indeed connect to the back of your arms. There is back muscles and shoulders in the way. No flat backs peoples.

137 - a little logo and screw you SOPA

2012-01-17T22:33:00.001-07:00

Just a little piece of a logo I am finally finishing up for a friend from work. I think it is actually turning out better than I originally thought it would. Maybe I am learning a bit as I go.

Tomorrow is the anti-internets day for everyone to protest SOPA. Certain websites are actually shutting down for the day in protest and I thought I would try to do my own little part. Not posting here would not be much to notice so I am going to try and spend all day tomorrow without accessing the internet at all unless required to at work. Other than that, I'm going dark. No Facebook, no Twitter, no PencilJack, no Ants. Oh my god what am I going to do! Oh, hey...look..a book...

136 - ah CHEW! excuse me...

2012-01-14T20:31:00.002-07:00

3rd step - went over it with my N1 Neutral Gray Copic marker. Those things are fun. Very little bleeding even on cheap sketchbook paper.

135 - What Chew looking at?

2012-01-12T17:56:00.000-07:00

Now the inks! Step by step peoples.

134 - Chew on this!

2012-01-11T18:48:00.000-07:00

Trying to bring out my inner @Rob_guillory with this sketch here of the great detective Tony Chu from the even greater comic book Chew from Image comics. If you haven't read Chew yet you are missing out. Great mix of mystery and humor. I bought the first 4 volumes for the wife for Xmas and she is loving them so far.

I will post the rest of the process as it goes. Planning on inking this one and then maybe trying out the new Copic markers.

133 - simplified male muscle groups

2012-01-10T18:38:00.002-07:00

Moving along through the Christopher Hart book still, Simplified Anatomy for the Comic Book Artist. Simplified muscle groups of the male superhero type from the front. Yep, yep.
I'm still loving working my way through this book while I work on other stuff and I'll be damned if this isn't going to be the book I finally draw all the way through.

Friday the 13th is coming people!

Damn I love Friday the 13ths. I graduated boot camp on a Friday the 13th. Hopefully this one will rock!

132 - the Boys Club

2012-01-09T20:54:00.000-07:00

Today's post is actually an old sketch I've been meaning to work on. I called this the Boys Club. Tried to fill a page with Slashers, some of my favorite guys, and thought it was fairly noticeable that all the great slasher movie killers are guys. One of these days there really needs to be a well written female slasher.

Anywho, this year I have decided to increase my posts. I know the more I draw the better I will get, simple as that. New Years resolutions are usually really hard to keep and that is why I put mine off for a bit this year. Last year was fairly simple. I looked at my blog posts for 2010, 31 total, and set the reasonable goal of posting more in 2011. When I easily met that goal I decided to up it to at least one post a week for the year of 2011. As of the end of the year I had a nice big old stack of 59 posts, goal met.

So where does that put me. I guess simple goal this year will be a minimum of 60 posts. If that proves to easy, might have to raise it again. More drawing, more posts, more chances for people to see what I'm working on and hopefully more people will like what I'm doing.

Happy New Year everyone, now get on it.

131 - that ninja is a basket case!

2012-01-08T21:30:00.000-07:00

Watched Ong Bak 2 and Ong Bak 3 today, Tony Jaa rules and I draw a pilgrim basket hat ninja!

Add in the Broncos winning the Wild Card game and the slow departure of the headache I woke up with and not an all around bad day.

To bad tomorrow's Monday.

130 - just a little someTHING different

2012-01-07T18:24:00.002-07:00

Ben Grimm for the win suckers! Just a little something for the PencilJack Weekly Sketch Group. The real fun of this one was using the Copic multiliners and the Copic color markers I got for Xmas for the first time. How can you not love Ben Grimm, the Ever-Loving Blue Eyed Thing, rocking the sweater he got for Xmas.

129 - Krillin it in 2012

2012-01-03T18:54:00.000-07:00

A little later than never here as DBZ characters were actually up for the PencilJack Weekly Sketch Group for last week. I need to plan my sketching time better, work on keeping the world from getting in the way. A new year, a new goal. Here...we....go

128 - getting all merciless

2011-11-30T14:48:00.001-07:00

PencilJack weekly sketch group again and again. Flash Gordon characters were up this week and I went all merciless, straight Ming the Merciless. Penciled and inked with brush pen.

127 - Orko or Who's your wizard?

2011-11-21T23:27:00.001-07:00

ORKO!

Everyone's favorite epic fail wizard for these weeks PencilJack weekly sketch group. I always dug this little guy, of all of Prince Adams friends Orko made for some of my favorite moments or the course of He-Man. Great little guy.

126 - MM head sketch

2011-11-20T18:32:00.001-07:00

Weird little head sketch for the PencilJack weekly sketch group. One option was musician and I thought a little crazy guy eye makeup Marilyn Manson might be fun to sketch. There we go.

125 - Sweet ride Kaneda

2011-11-13T21:27:00.001-07:00

A quick little try out of my awesome new toy, Corel Painter 12. Don't let anyone tel you that those "retweet for a chance to win" tweets are a scam. Well some are, but not all. BIG THANKS go out to @corelsoftware. I re-tweeted one of their tweets and was chosen as the big winner, this Saturday a FULL copy of Corel Painter 12 showed up at my door. It's awesome so far and I can't wait to spend some real time with it learning all the changes and advancements.

So we have a Kaneda's bike from Akira, one of my favorite vehicles of all time for the PencilJack weekly sketch group. Enjoy.

124 - Heavy times....R.I.P.

2011-11-09T07:38:00.002-07:00

A quick sketch at dinner last night. Heavy D was pure cool, R.I.P.

123 - Roundhouse to the backside!

2011-11-07T20:34:00.000-07:00

Don't know why but I got stoked as soon as I saw the topic for the PencilJack Weekly Sketch Group this week. Weird being as that I'm not a huge DC or Legion of Super-Heroes fan. But I got to say this image popped in my mind and it had to be drawn, just had to be. Nice to have that feeling, it's been missed around here for quite some time. Get your kicks fools!
Oh and that is Karate Kid from the Legion putting foot to ass to Bouncing Boy and over on the side is Invisible Kid yelling Round House!

122 - By the Hoary Hosts of What? Things get a little Strange

2011-11-06T23:38:00.000-07:00

Things get a little bit strange. Stephen Strange. Master of the Mystic Arts Dr. Stephen Strange for a fact.
Another sketch for the PencilJack Weekly Sketch Group.

121 - and that's how M.O.D.O.K. saved Halloween Charlie Brown

2011-10-30T10:58:00.000-06:00

Last night was a blast, went to a really fun costume party that I originally wasn't really excited about. I sadly just hadn't been feeling the Halloween spirit this year and didn't even want to go out. I was stuck reusing an old costume of mine only because I hadn't gotten on the ball and planned to do something cool, totally my fault. But as it was yesterday afternoon I was not looking forward to the night.

Then everything changed. By friend Marvin called and asked if we were going and if I could help with something. He had decided to go as Drunk Hulk and had talked over different ideas with his pregnant wife Alicia, and they had hit on the idea of turning their unborn into M.O.D.O.K. for the party. I loved it, thought it would be a blast, and suddenly had a burst of energy and a much better attitude. A little bit of grease paint, a black shirt with a hole cut in it, and the arms and legs torn off of a doll and sprayed purple and here we have it - my favorite all time unborn baby costume - MODOK!

Have a Happy Halloween!