Weekly Sketch Group #233

[scmarooney]

Weekly Sketch Group #233

Welcome to the Weekly Sketch Group! I continue to act as your guest-host while your regularly scheduled moderator, Manji, is hunting for the Treasure of the Sierra Madre (hint, he looks like the Bogart character ;)!) Reminder: Any PencilJack member can join this sketch group at any time. The sketch group is less about creating a masterpiece of 2 dimensional fidelity than just putting pencil to paper and improving week to week while drawing topics you otherwise might never draw! If anybody wants to see a specific topic or character featured in a future sketch group- just PM me the details and I'll do my best to include it in the next sketch group!

And now on to this week's wondiferous topics:

1. Sgt. Rock and the D.C. War Comics Characters: Draw MSgt. Frank Rock and his Easy Company soldiers, or any of the other DC War Comics characters ((Unknown Soldier, Enemy Ace, The Blackhawks, etc....)).

2. Musicians: (A requested topic, woot!) Draw any kind of Musician, Band, or operator of a musical instrument that strikes your fancy!

3. Original Character or Concept:

by Shaun

Mr. Swift vs. the Ash Zombies

Every Ash Wednesday Catholics have a cross of ash drawn on their forehead, but on one terrible Ash Wednesday the cross was drawn with the cremated remains of a hell beast. In a single day one sixth of the world’s population was converted into hideous demonic ash zombies called ashers. Ashers look similar to zombies though covered in a thick coat of white ash. Their skin is actually concentrated cinder, hard and brittle. They are fast moving, stronger than an average man and reasonably intelligent. Their jaws slack open and their pupils are jet black. They still bare the cross on their forehead, which now glows an unnatural hue.

Seeking them out is the last exorcist, Swift, an ex-marine and soldier of fortune. Mr. Swift is white, early 30’s and is a jeans and t-shirt type of exorcist. Apart from a simple rosary bead wrapped around his wrist he wears no religious items. He is, oddly enough, a practicing agnostic. He battles with a short sword and a small crossbow mounted on his forearm.

In this moment Swift has engaged an asher(s) in battle. As Swift slashes the demon with his blade, clumps of ash break away and the particles litter the air.


And there you have it, Ladies and Germs. Sharpen those pencils and keep sketchin'!

[ditch]

I can see me doing a few musician sketches this week.Here is one of Neil Young from his earlier years.
http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj103/ditchscrawls/IMG-5.jpg

[khmer]

1. Sgt. Rock and the D.C. War Comics Characters: Draw MSgt. Frank Rock and his Easy Company soldiers, or any of the other DC War Comics characters ((Unknown Soldier, Enemy Ace, The Blackhawks, etc....)).

awww jeez!!! One of my all time favorite series!!! All over it like a donkey on a waffle!!

[Einar]

Sean, you keep hitting on subjects I wanna draw:-) I had been browsing car concept art for two weeks when last weeks WSG topics came out, and also planned to pull another musician this week for my portrait practice course:-)
Cool sketch, ditch.

In case I played lazy this week, here is a portrait of KT Tunstall from a few weeks back.
http://i976.photobucket.com/albums/ae248/einar036/Penciljack/20111024_KT-1.jpg

[Einar]

Double tap:-) I have never been that productive. Well, it's just because I ended up on sick leave today ...And put my time to good use, ie. put a second musician portrait together. So Tomi Joutsen from Amorphis, just to balance KT in style. :-)
http://i976.photobucket.com/albums/ae248/einar036/Penciljack/20111114_wsg233_amorphis_joutsen.jpg

[Adam Masterman]

Some sweet music portraits here, guys. Here's a quick and dirty Sgt.Rock, a tip of the hat to all the veterans out there.

http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/318/8/2/sgt__rock_by_mahasiddha-d4g7yci.jpg

[scmarooney]

@ditch: nice job on that Neil Young drawing, way to start off the week!
@Einar: Thanks, and glad you like the topics! Great job on the portrait drawings of the two musicians, nice stuff!
@Adam: Nice job on your Sgt. Rock sketch, thanks for joining us this week!

And here is a Sgt. Rock that I just finished to keep things rolling early on this week:

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll311/smaroon69/MSgtRock1.jpg

[phillip_r]

Nice work guys, here's mine for the week :)

http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/318/9/2/sgt__rock_by_phillip_r-d4g8rnq.jpg

[ditch]

Thanks Einar great sketches from you,Sean thanks and i'm interested to see which musician you choose. Heres a very quick and rough Johnny Cash not happy with this one i messed the eyes up.
http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj103/ditchscrawls/JohnnyCash.jpg

[ditch]

Im going to throw this one in as well as it was a 30 min sketch i did a few weeks back.
http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj103/ditchscrawls/NikkiSixxsketch.jpg

[Bruce Lee]

Quick one of the Sarge:

http://www.lostonwallace.com/sgtrocksketch.jpg

[hydekomiksink]

Inspired by all the great stuff this week. And here i thought I'd skip this week cause I'm busy... :)~
http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k65/HydeKomiksInk/pjwsg233ROCK1.jpg
http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k65/HydeKomiksInk/pjwsg233ziggy1.jpg

[The P.R. Man]

did this one a couple months ago, but it's musician related!

http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj36/prscholtz/finished%20drawings/sonofabitch.jpg

[sirandal]

Hyde has provoked me to post my Ziggy from a few months ago. This was a study for a much better finished painting. Acrylic on A4 copy paper.
http://th03.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/f/2011/223/6/b/where_were_the_spiders__by_sirandal-d4669b7.jpg

[Zippy]

Quick Jimi for warmup...

http://i842.photobucket.com/albums/zz342/zchudson/Sketchbook/sb_11_15b.jpg?t=1321400518

[HunterGreen]

http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww40/hunter_green/mw2.jpg

ironically I was working on a meg white water color.
--edit did some more work on this peice
http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww40/hunter_green/mw4.jpg

[girdoggy]

very nice stuff ya'll

http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/3126/sgtrock.jpg

[scmarooney]

@phillip_r: I like the cartoon stylings of your Sgt. Rock, nice job!
@ditch: Nice job on the Johnny Cash and the wild hair rocker guy drawings :)! I'm gonna figure out some kind of musician to draw next ;)!
@Loston: Cool Sgt. Rock, very dramatic use of black!
@Hyde: Cool Sgt. Rock, and cool Ziggy Stardust, thanks for joining us this week!
@P.R.Man: Nice job on your Musician illustration!
@sirandal: Nice colors on your Bowie Tribute illustration!
@Zippy: Like the Jimi sketch!
@HunterGreen: love to see the watercolors in the sketch group!
@girdoggy: Nice job on the Sgt. Rock sketch!

And here is one of the original character or concept from me to keep things rolling along. I kinda got carried away with the sound-fx, though :D!

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll311/smaroon69/Exorcist1.jpg

[girdoggy]

Cool stuff scmarooney!

*&^^$^$#@!!!!.

http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/7762/pattony.jpg

[cbikle]

Excellent job guys, I like the different styles on the musical artist pieces.

@SC Marooney: I love how your pieces on the original characters has them "in action", excellent job as always.

[khmer]

Here's a quick one for this week... Enemy Ace... all that Prussian angst and self loathing.. what's not to like?!?! It could be more on-model and pushed a whole lot further... perhaps a few more sketches are in order... would like to get in The Unknown Soldier and Sgt. Rock as well..

http://i1218.photobucket.com/albums/dd404/luccreative/Penciljack/EnemyAcetryptic.png

[Adam Masterman]

And here is one of the original character or concept from me to keep things rolling along. I kinda got carried away with the sound-fx, though :D!

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll311/smaroon69/Exorcist1.jpg

That boot to the head... is so money. Only in comics do you get the movement AND the awesome freeze frame; nicely done.

[Bathill8]

really cool stuff ya'll! I was inspired to do a Sarge Rock and also post an Oooold BB King from a few years ago I drew/caricatured.........
http://i393.photobucket.com/albums/pp19/bathill8/Image0012.jpg

http://i393.photobucket.com/albums/pp19/bathill8/DSCF4096.jpg

[Bruce Lee]

Amazing, Bat! Rock's really nice, but the B.B. King is outstandingly good!

I wonder if he knows you don't have to prick your fingers any more to take insulin....?

[ekotek]

Here's an old Sid Vicious:
http://i40.tinypic.com/2qlxxjt.jpg

[scmarooney]

@SC Marooney: I love how your pieces on the original characters has them "in action", excellent job as always.
Thanks! I'm an action movie junkie and like to try and illustrate the characters doing something interesting!


That boot to the head... is so money. Only in comics do you get the movement AND the awesome freeze frame; nicely done.
Thanks, Adam! Appreciate the kind words!

@girdoggy: Thanks! Nice job on your drawing as well!
@khmer: Nice job on the Enemy Ace sketches!
@Bat: Great job on the Sgt.Rock with the Tommy-helmet and the BB King is REALLY good!
@ekotek: Nice job on your Sid Vicious drawing!

And I was inspired by Bat's caricature of BB King to do a couple of caricatures of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, one of the most prolific song writing duos of the 2nd half of the 20th century ;)!
http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll311/smaroon69/Stones1.jpg

[ditch]

Love that Keith Richards Sean and Micks good as well. Quick and messy Sgt Rock realy struggled with his helm it either looks to big or to small.
http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj103/ditchscrawls/Penciljack%20Weekly%20Sketch%20Group/WSGSgtRock.jpg

[hadesillustrations]

I love the WSG - great for warm-ups:
http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u225/hadesillustrations/sgtrock.jpg

[scmarooney]

@ditch: Thanks! Nice job on that Sgt. Rock drawing!
@Alex: Sweet pose on that Sgt. Rock drawing!

And here's an Unknown Soldier to keep things rolling along this week:

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll311/smaroon69/UnkSold1.jpg

[NickRocks]

first time ever drawing this character

http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l48/NickGuy_2006/sgtrock.jpg

[Bruce Lee]

"Are You Lonesome Tonight?" http://www.lostonwallace.com/elvis2100.jpg

[The P.R. Man]

daaaaamn... can't go wrong with the king,

[Einar]

That's aawsome, Loston.

[khmer]

People keep posting up good stuff and I see it and I go 'ooh! Damn.. ok where my pencil!!' :D Forcing me to get more done... very cunning this plan you guys!!

Here's my take on Sarge... a quicky... not entirely happy and yes I find drawing helmets on people to be a royal pain. No matter what you do they never look right. The size... the angle... ughh... whatever. It's on his head and that's that. Getting Rock to look like Rock is also another issue... random tough guy yes... Rock a la Kubert... no. Do not pass Go... do not collect $200. I'm gonna hit it again later tonight if I can get the time. :D

http://i1218.photobucket.com/albums/dd404/luccreative/Penciljack/Sarge.png

[cbear]

Here's a really quick and dirty sketch, done with a big, fat Sharpie. Kept it loose to get that Kubert vibe, but looks more like Nick Fury than the Rock:(

http://i531.photobucket.com/albums/dd353/cjdaddy55/IMG-28.jpg

Chuck

[Bach2099]

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-R4E5kN1adeA/Tsmp8v36EMI/AAAAAAAAAzA/biWgH2KK8TY/s1600/MM+sketch.jpg

Quick little head sketch of the always color changing Marilyn Manson. How often can you draw a guy wearing serious eye makeup.

[Bruce Lee]

Some amazing work in the WSG this week! I really enjoy seeing the great variety of styles and approaches on display in these threads each week. PJers deliver the goods!

[scmarooney]

@NickGuy: Dynamic Sgt. Rock sketch!
@Loston: Cool Elvis illustration! Spot on likeness!
@khmer: Nice job on the Sgt. Rock Sketch!
@cbear: Cool Sgt. Rock sketch!
@Bach2099: Nice job on your Marilyn Manson Sketch!

Great job to everyone who participated in WSG #233! You all continue to make the weekly sketch group a great activity, week in and week out here on PencilJack! I'll get WSG#234 posted up ASAP and I hope to see you ALL there!

[sdowner]

Here's my last-minute entry. The Creature Commandos!

2 hours, all digital.

http://downerillustration.com/images/Random%20Images/Creature_Commandos_Final.72.jpg

[Spidey]

Very cool, Steve.

[Greg Anderson]

Here's my last-minute entry. The Creature Commandos!

2 hours, all digital.

http://downerillustration.com/images/Random%20Images/Creature_Commandos_Final.72.jpg

Haha! Bad ass.