Sweet Poison

Poison Ivy in one of her rare moments of calm and serenity.

Poison Ivy (C) DC Comics

For a slightly different approach to the same character and motif, check my older piece of Poison Ivy fan art from 2007.

The Be-Boop Variations

Here are some drawings made during the preparation for my last month's big Betty Boop picture (currently exhibited at the "Golden Age of Comics and Animation" art show in Philadelphia).
These sketches were drawn with lot of improvisation and mostly without reference, so they're not strictly on-model. Most of today's Betty Boop merchandise is too much on-model anyway, and I prefer to explore various different ways to draw miss Boop. It's such a funny and flexible character, and her early pre-code films (from 1930-34) are among the best and most imaginative cartoons ever made. This is just a small selection of my BB sketches... I'll post more of them some other time.

Betty Boop (C) King Features Syndicate, Inc. / Fleischer Studios, Inc.

On another subject... I'm working on a new live action film right now, and this time it's a real feature (approximately 75 minutes long). Also I'm re-editing and completely upgrading last year's film Embrace of the Blue. All these activities are occupying most of my already meager free time, so the blog updates are going to be sporadic and occasional during this period.

Boop-Oop-A-Doop

Betty Boop picture for The Autumn Society of Philadelphia's upcoming "Golden Age of Comics and Animation" art show.

Night On The Bald Mountain

Here's my favorite Disney villain, Chernabog from "Fantasia" (segment "Night On Bald Mountain"). This drawing was completed under three hours and made from the memory, without any reference, except that I watched "Fantasia" the night before.



The left wrist definitely needs to be corrected or redrawn in a different position, because it doesn't look right to me. Otherwise, I'm quite pleased with this picture.

And, today's the third anniversary of HammersonLand. It all started here, three years ago, and perhaps I should have wasted my free time in a better way... :)

Guess Who?

Can you identify the people on these caricatures?

• The King Of Cool


• The other King Of Cool


• The King Of Tennis


Coming soon: a new blog dedicated exclusively to celebrity caricatures. More info about it next month, in one of the following posts.


P.S. Comments moderation has been enabled again, and it's going to stay that way thanks to mr.Ed from Taiwan who dumped a large number of spam garbage all over my blog couple of weeks ago.

Hit Me With Your Laser Beam

Forget about new Star Trek movie, this is the real hard hitting Sci-Fi adventure! :)

Partially inspired by Ralph Bakshi and comics from the legendary Heavy Metal magazine. Also I tried to make it look like a scene from some obscure '70s adult cartoon.




On a completely unrelated note, "A Film For You" by Ivan Peric and me was shown earlier today on Youngsters Film Festival in Belgrade (Serbia). I'll keep you informed about the other festival showings in the future, and give you the latest news on our current movie project.

The Voice

I haven't made any celebrity caricatures for a long time, and it used to be my speciality. So, here's a quick one... I think you can all recognize who's on the picture :)

Destroy all Humans - part 2

If the swine influenza doesn't kill us all, these dudes will exterminate the whole human race in just few hours:



It's another painting done for the mysterious cartoon project. Check this post for more info.

And now something completely different (or is it?)



As weird as it seems, that's a birthday card for the amazing and inimitable Marlo Meekins. If you dig long enough through this blog, you'll find two more portraits of Marlo.

And speaking of birthdays, today's mine ;)

Practice Makes Perfect

Three Women

• Alien woman
Her latest album was telepathically transmited non stop into the brains of 10 billion fans across the Milky Way. The suicide rate has quadrupled afterwards :)



• Wonder Woman for Kristen
I think I made few anatomy and construction errors on this one (the right arm and wrist looks weird). Can anybody help or give some advice how to fix it?



• Black Magic Woman
Don't piss her off, she might transform you into pet food :)



Actually, that's a portrait of Marina Coric, a friend and talented Croatian artist. Last month she had a big exhibition in her hometown Zadar where over 100 works have been shown. Take a look at her deviantART page and write her some nice comments.

• Special bonus: Barbarian Woman



I already shown this one on DeviantART few days ago and thought that people would enjoy seeing it here too. Pat McMichael posted his wonderful black & white fan art of Skadi (a popular character from Dumm Comics) and challenged all of his artist friends to color it. These are my color versions, and be sure to check Pat's original b&w drawing here.

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