One of the primary reasons I left Deviant Art (other than outright theft of my stuff) had to do with people always hitting me up to color their sh*t for them and without fail, it was like they were reading from a script..."I can't pay you now, but will pay you on the royalties I make on the book. Plus, it's great exposure for you. I use to get really p*ssed off because every time I opened my Inbox, it was more of the same request. It got old really fast.

I'm kicking myself for never giving Joe a shout out in this thread. We've talked about him a few times in other threads like Avenging Spider-Man. How To Draw and Art Plagiarism. But until now, he has never been in THIS thread. Well, I'm gonna give you guys a treat. These have been floating online for a long time, but in the off chance you've been living under a rock.....enjoy Red Monika in all her glory.

That was very cool.

I'm going to show my age here. I remember... as a child... watching this Disney short on car pinstripping. Can't believe I found it available.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO7ZqnRwqnQ

Love all of them!!! Great find!

I was about to say "bullsh*t". I stand corrected and impressed.

Here's the doodles I did after reading J Scott Campbell's book... put them on DA with a moderate maturity warning on them, since it's bodies with no clothes (or organs or anything on top either), just to be on the safe side, so I don't know if these will show up.






Man, I was real gung ho about these at the time... the magic is really sort of fading away from me.  They're still pretty good, I think, but it's not like a "whoa, I did THAT?" feeling from me anymore.  I think it's more of me realizing I was more skilled than I thought... though I haven't been able to improvise with that new style yet (the placement of hands and feet was always an issue for me, and it hasn't been resolved yet).