Chamber of Secrets - Ron Weasley

Continuing with the brilliant characters from J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets," we have the one and only, Ronald Bilius Weasley!

This was a real fun one to draw, even though I had to have gone through about a million rough drafts. Albeit entertaining, drawing a person vomiting can be a little difficult. 

This is from the scene where Ron is hit with an aptly named Slug-Vomiting Charm, which (in my version at least) causes him to hork up very muppety looking slugs.

Hork... That's a fun word.

Hork.

H is for Halloween

I'll get back to the Harry Potter stuff next week.

This being the week of All Hallow's Eve, or Halloween to all you sellouts, I thought I'd share this piece I made for a friend of mine.

He's a school teacher collecting alphabet art for his classroom (A is for Aquaman etc.) and requested I make him one for Halloween. Here's what I came up with.

For the little trick-or-treaters, I decided to use some original characters that have been bouncing around in my head for a couple of years but never really made their way to paper. I'll introduce you to them as I develop them more later on.

Hopefully my friend liked this, as I hope you do too. Happy Halloween!

Chamber of Secrets - Harry Potter

At one point, I thought it would be fun to draw a bunch of characters from "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone." The idea was to draw these, and then, after a year, I would draw characters from the next book in the Harry Potter series. Over time, I could look back at all of the Harry Potter characters and see how my drawings (hopefully) improved from year to year with the same characters.

I started this little "project" back in 2010, and here we are nearing the end of 2012... so I didn't exactly stay on target with the once a year idea. Surprise. But it's still something I think would be fun.

So finally, here's my take on the characters from "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets!" Heading up the lineup is, of course, the titular boy who lived, Harry.

I plan on doing 8 of these and then, like with Sorcerer's Stone, design disc labels for the audio book.

Stay tuned. More to come.

...Boober

Yep. :P

The Olympian Ideal

I am by NO MEANS a sports fan... and yet, I absolutely love the Olympics. I think it's mainly because each event (that I enjoy) only lasts a couple of minutes. Unlike mainstream sports, I am able to emotionally vest myself in an athlete's story, take a couple of minutes to watch them succeed or fail, and then say "Yay Olympics!" After about two weeks of this, I'm good... and will be for another four years.

Here's my boy, George... (not my Boy George) depicting the embodiment of the Olympic dream.

And Dooooooooon't You For-GET It!

I thought I'd do some more Hanna-Barbera characters in the same style as before. Here's the great Quick Draw McGraw with his faithful sidekick Baba Looey. Hanna-Barbera seemed to have some sort of thing for short and smart sidekicks.

Baba Looey & Quick Draw McGraw

The textures I used are all from cgtextures.com. They're completely free so check them out if that's your sort of thing.

Look Ma! A Fwaggle!!

There's not much to say about this one. It's Red Fraggle from "Fraggle Rock."

You're probably wondering why there's all that space to the right of her. Maybe there's supposed to be a giant Doozer tower there... or wise but sassy Trash Heap. Maybe it's a palette for an unexplored facet of your whimsical imagination. As for me, it's where my Desktop icons go.

Dance your cares away, kids.

The Cult Classic!

So just in case there's not already enough evidence on this blog of all the pointless things I like to do with my free time, this should do quite nicely. I grew up loving me some Disney Afternoon.

There's an episode of Chip n Dale's Rescue Rangers that has permenately lodged itself into my memory due to a catchy commercial jingle featured in the episode. It's titled "The Case of the Cola Cult" and features a group of mice that worship a soda-pop commercial. I thought it would be fun to design a poster for that soda. Here it is.



And in case you have no idea what I'm talking about, here's the scene from the episode that will probably be stuck in my head for the rest of time.

Obscure, right?!?

A Frog and his Banjo

Kermit the Frog is incredibly difficult to draw. At least for me, that is. Like most of the Muppets, most of their emotion comes from the performance of the puppeteers. When drawing a still form of the characters, I find you have to figure out what features of theirs you can change and exaggerate without taking away what makes them... THEM. I guess the same goes for drawing caricatures of real people as well.

With Kermit, it's his eyes. They give me the hardest time. You can't really change them in any way, or he ceases to look like Kermit. But when I draw them, he always comes across so stiff and lifeless. So I try to exaggerate the rest of him as much as I can.

I scribbled through several attempts until I made this one. It's not perfect, but I'm pretty pleased with it overall. And after the frustration of drawing him, it was a lot of fun to color.