Star Wars Uncut: Empire Strikes Back

Howdy folks!  I hope everyone's Holidays are gearing up to be great.  I'll be spending mine here in Texas, with warm weather and dirt, but the family always makes it seem like a perfect Holiday Movie.

Anyway, I had been attempting to clear out some projects so I would have time to do this, and thankfully the boat didn't sail.

So, officially, I have picked up a scene for the latest iteration of 'Star Wars Uncut'.  This doesn't mean I actually get to have my scene in the feature, but I'm just happy I have the time to throw down for the spot.  The scene I chose is the part where Luke slashes open a hatch on an AT-AT and then throws a thermal detonator or something in it to make it go boom.

I will be attempting to keep a pretty detailed account of how I go about doing this scene, from character designs, to set pieces, and story boards to animation.  So you folks will finally get to see some of the crap I do...  Yay!

So, day one... morning one...  whatever, I scraped up some time between animations for the upcoming Jack Reacher review on Spill.com and sketched out my version of Luke, for the animation.  More is coming soon!

Thank you dummy

So, a buddy of mine and all around incredible artist, Matt Frank(of Monster drawing fame), posted a meme lampooning a photo of a Stegosaurus with a sign denoting that Stegosaurs are only 5,000 years old.  Hilarity ensued as one of his facebook friends pointed out the possibility of...  Wait for it... Egyptians riding Stegosaurs!!

F@#$IN' A', Egyptians Riding Stegosaurs!!!!!!

And now this happened...

Bond. James Buh... Oh, wait...

So it has been a while.  Too long I think.  I had quite a computer meltdown and lost quite a bit, but I am back and here is some more artistic drivel.

This started as a piece of art for the Spill.com carousel as part of the find 'em challenges we sometimes have.  Unfortunately the challenge got tossed to the way side, so the artwork was never seen.  So, here it is, in all its unseen glory!  I present, the spill crew in 'You Only Spill Twice'!

I know, I know.  Damn, I'm clever.

Professor Jeff Meets Gears of War

Started this quite a while ago and now its finally finished.  I did this for a buddy of mine who runs "The Loading Bar" over at Spill.com.

3 Dollar Bill

This is strip #150 for the webcomic 3 Dollar Bill.  It was a fill in strip for my buddy Eric Matos and I had a lot of fun doing it.  Go check out his webcomic, its worth the trip.

Chuck 'E' Cheeeeeeese Meets Raccoon City

I never played Raccoon City and I have never been to Chuck 'E' Cheese before so imagine my boss' surprise when he asked me, several months ago, to draw a character from Raccoon City killing the "beloved" animatronic characters from Chuck's only to have me say, "Have who killing the who from what now?"  So I did my research pumped out a picture and this is what came out.  And after doing the research I have come to the conclusion that I never went to Chuck 'E' Cheese as a kid because my parents loved me.

Freakazoid

I made it mo' betta'.

 

X-ThunderMen

Just fooling around.  

Eesta Me! Ah Mario!!!!

This is actually off of an old picture I dug up from 5 or so years ago that my brother and I combined talents to draw on a plane trip to California.  I say combined talents, but the genius of baby goombas wearing chucks is all him.

Ironically I found this picture while trying to figure out what to do with old art so it wouldn't take up so much space.  Instead I ended up with a new warm-up project between work and insomnia.  So I threw on some inks and some colors and tossed in the BG I did for spill.com that was never used and voila!  A bucket full of sleep-deprived, Richlen-family awesomeness!!  ...Or something.

Martial Arts Throwdown

Another commission I did recently.  Karate Kid vs Judo Master!  As fun as it is to draw the Spider-Mans and Batmans of comics, sometimes drawing the goofballs is far more fun.  This was definitely the case with this piece.  Being able to escape my digital bonds and getting to do more traditional work is always wonderful.