AH THE 90'S!!!! PART DEUX.....

Continuing on in the saga of my early attempts at drewing. I started to get annoyed at the way the industry was looking, as well as my own stuff. I felt that the clones, and even the people that originated the 'look' were getting too 'samey'. As with a lot of things I've gotten into, I started late on a few things. I didn't really start reading comics until 7th or 8th grade, which would have been around '87 I believe and even then it was limited to what was being passed around amongst friends. Mostly GI Joe, X-men, Spidey, Supes, and what not. The mainstream stuff. When I got into things a few years from then, that's when the clones started, as I posted before. Long ramble short, I got bored of comic book art. I had been big on reading fantasy, and yes I was a D & D geek, wasn't everyone at some point? Huh??? haha....Anywho's, I got into wanting to do more work like that, fantasy illustration. Unfortunately I don't have much of anything that I started to do with that work. Lost it along the way I must have. So here's the last of my early 90's work and the stuff I do have concerning my foray into fantasy work. Tomorrow or Weds. I'll post again with more stuff to cringe and chuckle at.


This was something I had wanted to develop and it didn't make it past here. Kind of a futuristic-sci-fi crime thing really. I had drawn more pics of the main character, the guy in the trench coat, but didn't feel comfortable enough with the rest of the characters. It was the days of large, reflective metal shoulder pads and I just lost the desire to develop that look further haha.



Here's the start of my fantasy stuff. Still too comic-booky, but I really liked working with this character. I just started working on other stuff at the time and never got back to him or my ideas, maybe I will when I start up again, only I'll lose the face mask, as I had this whole idea of him being able to see thru it and blah blah blah, it was lame no matter how I tried to justify it. I tried to ink the top piece with pen and ink, kinda got annoyed by it, then I was trying to putz around with splatter effects a little. Didn't succeed though.

This one here came out SOOOOO good and along the lines of what I had in mind, only I never finished it and the right arm was just way too long!! The dragon-man behind him was too comic booky, but I still liked it. I'd love to just finish it, but everything I add might not work, so it might get re-done as well.

My first attempt at a dragon. I liked this one a lot too, but lost interest in doing all the scales and detail. There's more to the picture, like a half torso on the right side and more to the skull pile on the left but it didn't all fit on the scanner. But I got the good parts anyways. Again though you can see that I still had a long ways to go with this stuff.

Finally, here's a demon I was working on. I screwed up the head, which is why it's not scanned, so I didn't bother to finish it. Even if it's not 100% dead on, I still like the anatomy on this. That and the hands. His legs needed to be twisted a bit as well and they came up a bit short.

Well that's it for this installment, catch me here same bat time, same bat channel! Peas out!

Mike