Kakapo Leprechaun

(click on the picture for a larger view)

I recently moved to New Zealand to study Wildlife Management which inspired me to do a drawing of one of the many critically endangered New Zealand birds.

After looking at a number of Kakapo pictures I started to realize just how much they remind me of little fluffy leprechauns.  They're evasive, green, and like to hold things in their mouths (thus the pipe).

Hoatzin Sketch

Sketched this up really quickly this evening.  It's a hoatzin (pronounced "watson").  I saw a whole tree full of these when I was in Ecuador in 2006.  It was like seeing a tree full of 80s punk rockers.

I started this out at exactly the wrong dimensions and resolution, so that's why it kind of looks like a black velvet painting.  Better luck next time.

Christopher Lloyd Caricature

This is a caricature I did of Christopher Lloyd for an caricature contest I found online.  I figured that a Back to the Future caricature would be fun considering they were just celebrating the 25th anniversary in 2010.  That and I've been wanting to redeem myself for a poor caricature I did of Lloyd a few years ago.

And now for a couple of progress pictures!

 

Ray Fillet

Another of my Ninja Turtles Redesigns.  I'm adding this to my TMNT page with a description, but I'm also going to post them on the main page as they are finished.

Polyphemus the Shepherd

Polyphemus from The Odyssey tending part of his flock.  Prior to the eye impaling of course.  

I read once that the Greeks came up with cyclopes after finding an elephant skull, so I wanted to base my design off of the pachyderms.  

Yahweh and the Buddha

Yahweh/Allah/God and the Buddha sharing a spaghetti dinner with the Flying Spaghetti Monster. 

This was one of those ideas that popped into my head the moment before I fell asleep, and it took me ages to remember the next morning.

I was playing with the halftone effect in this one a bit.  Going for more of the look you would find in a magazine comic out of the New Yorker or something.

Banjo Hero Pig

My submission to the Dueling Banjo Pigs blog; a website dedicated to illustrations of banjo pluckin' swine.

Anna and I were discussing possible concepts for the duel a while ago, so I'm sure this was her idea.  But I stole it fair and square.  ha HA!