What I Drew Sunday, August 29th - Top 3

During last Sunday’s science-fiction themed “What Shall I Draw Today?” I managed to create 6 sketches based on other folk’s suggestions.

Here are the top 3 liked pieces from Sunday:

#1 - The Jetsons Watching an Encounter Between the Enterprise and the Millennium Falcon: a mashup of suggestion by @akomdf and @nikkistar5394

Two suggestions with only Han Solo’s Millennium Falcon in common: 1) The Jetsons watching the millennium falcon fly by; and 2) The Enterprise and Falcon meeting in space.

The logistics of the elements are the automobile sized Jetson’s saucer, the 2-train cars long Millennium Falcon and the 3-city blocks long Enterprise of the 2009 Star Trek movie. As a character artist by profession, I leaned into featuring the space-age family as the foreground focus. Then the two large ships pushed to the far background and even then cheating the size relationship. 

An initial pass I tried the trailing zoom lines of the Falcon between the Jetsons and the viewer while trying a fish-eye effect to have show the Falcon’s tail trusters in the distance. That wasn’t working to keep the Jetsons’s saucer as large as I had wanted. 

The other element (as I do) was introducing a story to it all in the form of dialog. I though that perhaps Elroy could be excited about the speeding ships. But then per the family comedy structure of the cartoon, it’s always George’s flustered father reaction that pays off best.

The Doctor’s TARDIS is added for extra spice.

The star field is created here and on two other pieces, by first indenting star shapes in the Bristol board (on a small stack of paper of cushioning) with a white pencil. Then space field is colored by a rubbing effect with the side of the pencils. In the past, I’ve used opaque white paint over colored sky field.

#2 - Space Ace and Kimberly: suggestion by @tom_graham_jr

The suggestion was more broad as “Something from Don Bluth’s Space Ace!” However, it seemed that I should really just draw the lead couple. Not really knowing much of the story, this was going to be a character piece.

The pose composition is copied from the poster art for the Star Wars: Solo movie. I can understand folks not picking up on that after all, I drew 2 figures instead of the five + of the reference. Secondly, the pose is rather generic action story-guy with gun kind of pose.

#3 - K-9 with the 11th Doctor: suggestion by @nikkistar5394

The family dog seems like a great fit for the lead character in a television series. Examples: The Brady Bunch had Tiger; Battlestar Galactica had Muffit; Frasier had Eddie. Many times, however, they don’t last long on the show. K-9’s history seems to have included several upgrades as well as being the feature of its own spin-off series.

Still, as a practical prop for the long running Doctor Who series, only so much action can be staged when the robotic character can only roll over flat surfaces.

K-9 remains beloved and it’s fun to pair it with any of the Doctor’s regenerations.

Here are the rest of the 3 drawn on Sunday:

Spaceman Spiff

suggestion by @big5army

Harley Quinn vs Patrick Starro the Conqueror (in Space)

suggestion by @alltookayleigh

Chani (a.k.a. Something from the new Dune film)

suggestion by @anthony.helmer

All of these and more original piece of art will be for sale at my next comic convention showing, which, I guess, will be in 2022.

This will be this year’s last scheduled WSIDT session. The scheduled September WSIDT is cancelled as emerging events are poised to occupy more of my time and energy.

Thank you to everyone who pitched their fun drawing suggestions. Thank you for following my blog and/or Instagram (@Monstergram7) and/or Monster Enterprises Facebook page. Thank you for liking. 

All: Black ink and color pencil on Bristol Board.

“The Jetsons”: 17.78 cm  x 12.70 cm (7.00 in. x 5.00 in)

“Space Ace”: 12.70 cm x 17.78 cm (5.00 in. x 7.00 in.)

“K-9 and the 11th Doctor”: 6.35 cm x 8.89 cm  (2.50 in. x 3.50 in.)