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Monday, November 28, 2016

It Doesn’t Have To Be a Snowman

Here’s a bunch of Frozen themed convention commissions and sketches.

Wonder Con, Anaheim, CA
2014

Wonder Con, Anaheim, CA
2014

Wonder Con, Anaheim, CA
2014

Wonder Con, Anaheim, CA
2014

Wonder Con, Anaheim, CA
2014

Heroes Convention, Charlotte, NC
2014

Heroes Convention, Charlotte, NC
2014

Long Beach Comic Con, CA
2014

Long Beach Comic Con, CA
2014

Trading Card
2014

Heroes Convention, Charlotte, NC
2014

Trading Card
2014

Trading Card
2014

Trading Card
2015
Disney’s animated feature, Frozen, premiered November 2013. At my first comic convention of 2014, Wonder Con, the Frozen characters proved to be popular commission requests. Sure a large part of that can be attributed to the fact that the city of Anaheim is home to Disneyland Resort and is packed with Disneyphiles. Still, Anna, Elsa and Olaf continued to pop up on my commission request lists for the year.

Thursday, November 24, 2016

Disney’s Beauty and the Beast Turns 25

Water color on water color paper.
21.6 cm x 27.9 cm (8.50 in. x 11.00 in.)

Tuesday, November 22, 2016, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast celebrated the 25th anniversary of its premiere theatrical release.

Monday, November 14, 2016

Gotham Dis-sylum

Disney Gotham
Color pencil and black ink on Bristol Board.
17.8 cm x 12.7 cm (7.00 in. x 5.00 in.)
In this “What Shall I Draw Today?” suggested mash-up of Disney villains and DC Comic’s Gotham tv series, I based the layout on the series’ second season marketing imagery. You’ll note that they’re all bad guys and gals, with no spot for a Jim Gordon or a Bruce Wayne mash-up.

Here’s how I matched the mashes:

Penguin (a.k.a. Oswald Cobblepot) / Ratigan (The Adventures of the Great Mouse Detective) – Both suit wearing heads of criminal organizations who spent a lot of time in bars.

Clayface / King Candy (Wreck It Ralph) – Where Clayface had impersonated Jim Gordon, King Candy was a faced-changed Turbo.

Ivy (a.k.a. Poison Ivy) / The Queen of Hearts (Alice in Wonderland) – While this Ivy had been a chaos figure and not so much of a villain, she at least had an affinity for plants. The Queen has her prized rose garden.

Joker / Judge Doom (Who Framed Roger Rabbit) – While no character to date has technically been named “Joker” on Gotham, Jerome filled the role of an insane anarchist for a while. Judge Doom proved to be a crazy “Toon.” At least some of Joker’s colors could be incorporated on Doom’s costume.

Hugo Strange / Yzma (The Emperor’s New Groove) – Both enjoyed cutting-edge experimentation.

Fish Mooney / The Queen (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs) – Both are strong females who mechanized their rise to positions of power and underwent respective transformation. A tough match with the very subtle detail of two different iris colors.

Azreal / Yokai (Big Hero 6) – Here’s a match based on the basic premise that both wore masks.

Riddler (a.k.a. Edward Nygma) / Mad Hatter (Alice in Wonderland) – Remember that I based all of this on character featured in either season one or two of Gotham, so the “Mad Hatter” introduced in the current, third season did not preclude using Disney’s Hatter in a mash-up. Both are slightly off-normal with penchants for riddles. The Hatter’s coat and hat became good canvases for the Riddler’s greens and question mark motifs.

What matches would you have mashed?
Who would have been a good Jim Gordon? Detective Basil?
Who would have been a good young Bruce Wayne? Christopher Robin?

monstergram7 - September & October 2016



Postings on my my Instagram feed, monstergram7, in the months of September and October were bolstered respectively by the year’s last “What Shall I Draw Today?” session and then by Inktober themed posts doubled by final color versions.

November and December ought to normalize to my 6 post per week pace, hopefully featuring more peeks of the in-production issue #3 of Unstoppable Tuff-Girl.

You can check out monstergram7 here:
https://www.instagram.com/monstergram7/

Sunday, November 13, 2016

Doctor Strange


Conceptual poster design.
Black ink and water color on watercolor paper. 
12.7 cm x 17.8 cm (5.00 in. x 7.00 in.)

Friday, November 11, 2016

monstergram7 Hits 2,000 Followers


Pass around the ice cream!
I’m celebrating surpassing 2,000 followers on my Instagram feed, @monstergram7!

And I'm doing it with this time lapse video of this drawing, as I’ve done with other milestones.


The above piece colored with color pencils, was my second attempt at making the video. Things didn’t proceed perfectly and on my first attempt, as the video recorded in portrait mode, meaning it was turned 90˚. I’m not sure why you can’t edit the orientation in camera.
At any rate, I only colored it tonally in scarlet red pencil.


Thanks for following!




Sunday, November 6, 2016

The Magnificent Seven

conceptual poster.
Black India Ink and water color on water color paper.
17.8 cm x 12.7 cm (7.00 in. x 5.00 in.)
2016