Pascal Sexy Time!

Pascal is a character from the upcoming movie "Tangled". He's a chameleon and Rapunzel's best friend (when you live in a tower, your choice of friends is limited to who can crawl up high enough to hang out with you).

Recently, Disney artist Jin Kim posted a drawing of Pascal smoking on his blog. Then I was going through my old Photoshop files and found this drawing I did of Pascal that I had totally forgotten about. I don't know what it is for, exactly....some of the Production Assistants at work asked me to do it as part of an in-house video and all they told me was that he needed to be "sexy". I never saw the video, though.....so I don't know the context....



I can't say that I ever thought about how to draw a sexy chameleon before, but a challenge is always good for keeping the mind limber.

Pascal is copyright Disney and "Tangled" opens November 24th in the US.

Apollo Creed

This week's piece is one of the great unsung heroes of the Rocky Movies..Apollo Creed!
Aside from the fact that he was a great supporting character and mentor..Apollo Creed was just bad-ass...So I decided to do something of him standing in the ring...nothing too out of the ordinary.

1. I decided that this time around to try drawing this one traditionally and then inking it.
It took a couple of tries..because each time I wasn't happy with the result.
I love the dynamic lines that sometimes happen spontaneously when sketching..and I felt like I was losing that when I would try and apply inks digitally. So getting the drawing to look the way that I want is a work in progress. However I finally got it the way that I wanted it to look. It's all about experimenting of course. (below)

2. I then scanned the drawing and found that there was a lot of grain and artifacting that would get picked up in the scan...so next time I need to find a way to clean up the drawing before I scan it. Below I start to apply the values to the background and the apply the tone to the ring and the background in Painter by creating a new layer and setting it to "Multiply"...and then taking the opacity down so that itit would not completely blot out the drawing. (below)

3.  Last I apply the lighting and the tone to Apollo himself which takes the longest time.
As the final step I apply some bulb flashes the the crowd, and then also add some lights to the ceiling.
Voila! the Master of Disaster! The King of Sting!