Tuff-Girl vs Thunderkill

Digital composite with ink on bristol board.

Tuff-Girl takes on Thunderkill in this piece to commemorate my appearance in this year’s Charlotte, NC based Heroes Con. The image and style is an homage to the fantasy and comic work of artist Frank Frazetta. Here the hero is in a desert setting facing this strange adversary that I currently refer to as “Thunderkill.” Thunderkill is part man and part bison, seemingly covered in mushrooms and fungi. He’s also wielding a hatchet.

To promote my Unstoppable Tuff-Girl comics, I have been creating art for mini prints for every comic book convention at which I have a table. Admittedly, there have been a few cons in which I got too busy to do so.

Draft - Scarlet red pencil on Bristol Board.
27.9 cm x 43.2 cm (11.00 in x 17.00 in).

Further inspired by Frazetta, Tuff-Girl’s clothes have been shredded, no doubt by encounters with Thunderkill leading to this moment. I could not escape, nor did I really want to, having the whole scene strongly echoing Captain Kirk’s well-known hand-to-hand conflict with the Gorn from the Star Trek 1967 episode “Arena.”

You can see in the pencil draft, changing silhouettes of the distant rock formations, as well as the abandoned dust cloud.

Inked - Black India ink and scarlet red pencil
on Bristol Board. 

These images aren’t considered cannon to the Tuff-Girl mythology, even though any of them may yet serve as inspiration for future stories. Thunderkill hasn’t appeared in any of the books (yet). He has however can be seen in part in a previous commemorative image. Take that as you will.

A last bit of minutiae – some of the Frazetta-isms that he puts into his paintings aside from his fantastical cool palette, led me to incorporate a few curls in the rocks’s shading which intern led me to form some of those into seahorse shapes. Seahorses are a motif that I put into every Little Tuffy and the TufGurlz” comics and is kind of that comic’s logo. Seahorses are pretty intricate shapes and I doubt that I can hide them in all ongoing images, but you know that I will if I can.

PRELIMINARY SKETCHES & THUMBNAIL DRAWINGS

Ink and color pencil on paper.
22.23 cm x 15.24 cm (8.75 in. x 6.00 in.)

Ink on paper.
22.23 cm x 15.24 cm (8.75 in. x 6.00 in.)

What I Drew Sunday – June 24th - Top 3

I drew 12 pieces during Sunday’s 8-hour Disney Day session of What Shall I Draw Today?

Here are the top 3 liked ones:

#1 – Beauty and the Beast: suggestion by @eddysbrothersgf

Amongst three Beauty and the Beast suggestion, I chose the one without specific storytelling probably because it gave me the freedom to draw this scene based on the exchange in the 2017 live action version where Beast presents and gifts the library to Belle. I obviously am using the character designs from the 1991 animated version. An abbreviated version of the scene is featured in the live action version’s final trailer, and may explain it’s persistence in my mind. 

I like how the newer film has the Prince/Beast be educated and literate. This 1) contrasts with Gaston and 2) gives him something to share with Belle.

The layout is the reverse of the wide shots seen in the film by having Belle closer to the camera/audience. The layout also is meant to evoke a typical panel from a comic book book or newspaper comic strip. Here, the characters fill most of the rectangle with background elements minimized and/or generalized. 

#2 – Kim Possible, Ron  Stoppable and Rufus against Dr. Drakken and Shego: suggestion by @akoymdf

Kim Possible (2002-2077) still has its fans. I wasn’t watching a lot of the Disney Channel during its original run, so the action is not based on anything direct from the series. I did find in an image search a poster with Kim and Ron dropping via parachutes. I took that idea substituting a ladder from an out of frame helicopter. The submarine gives Shego and Dr. Drakken something on which to stand. The ocean then by extension is a labor saving blank area that can be accentuated with distant islands and volcano.

The submarine is inspired by details of captain Nemo’s Nautilus from Disney’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. In my mind, it came from the same shipyard as the Nautilus built from plans stolen from Nemo.

#3 – Pooh Bear: suggestion by @sdogg52

Winnie the Pooh is as simple a sketch as I do on a collector card. Pre-Toy Story by nearly 30 years, the original shorts mixed in aspects of the toy-nature of most of the Hundred Acre Woods’ inhabitants. To wit, in Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (1966), Pooh splits a seam during his stoutness exercise routine. “Oh, stuff and fluff” indeed. It’s difficult to do anything more charming than that.

And here are the rest.

Princess Eilonwy (The Black Cauldron)

Plus size Princess Jasmine (Aladdin)

Plus size Princess Aurora (Sleeping Beauty)

Scar (The Lion King)

Scrooge McDuck

Ursula (The Little Mermaid)

Captain Hook (Peter Pan)

Kuzco & Pacha (The Emperor’s New Groove)

Roger Rabbit & Jessica Rabbit (Who Framed Roger Rabbit)

All these are going into the collection of original art for sale that I carry to comic book conventions.

All art - Black ink and color pencil on Bristol Board.

Beauty and the Beast - 12.70 cm x 17.78 cm (5.00 in. x 7.00 in.).

Kim Possible - 17.78 cm x 12.70 cm (7.00 in. x 5.00 in.).

Winnie the Pooh - 6.35 cm x 8.89 cm (2.50 in. x 3.50 in.).

Please check out my Instagram feed for these and more @monstergram7.

What Shall I Draw June 24th?

Returning from an enjoyable Heroes Convention in Charlotte, I find the bitter-sweet situation of my stock of original art collector cards being rather low. Let’s see if I can’t replenish it a bit by having another themed edition of What Shall I Draw Today? This time the theme is Disney.

What Shall I Draw Today?

Sunday, June 24th, 2018

Eastern Daylight Savings Time:  12pm noon - 8 pm

Pacific Daylight Savings Time:  9am - 5 pm

Post your Disney-themed suggestions at any of the following places where to see the above prompting image:

Blog: monotonae.blogspot.com (here in the comments)

Instagram: @monstergram7

Facebook: @I'm a Fan of Bryan Mon

Click the above WSIDT tab for answers to FAQ’s.

All suggestions not drawn including the non-Disney-themed ones will go in the pen of ideas which may be picked and drawn between the June 24th session and the next session due in July.

Cogsworth
Black ink and color pencil on Bristol Board.
6.35 cm x 8.89 cm (2.50 in. x 3.50 in.).

Heroes Convention 2018

Monster Enterprises presents

Bryan Mon (Disney)

returning to

Heroes Convention, Charlotte

Artist Alley:  table AA-707

Charlotte Convention Center

501 S. College St.

Charlotte, NC 28202

June 15-17, 2018

Other plans will be keeping Merrill Hagan (writer) from appearing this year.

#heroescon

UPDATE [June 11th, 2018]

L B C N U!