Grumps, Space People, doodles and a Kaiju

Here's a Game Grumps fanart I did a while ago!

I wanted to submit this one to a fan-made art book that the community put together, but I couldn't submit 'cause was moving to a new place in a different city. It was finished like a month after I was finally settled in the new home... I'll try again next year!

Preparation sketch to figure out the composition and layout.

Final piece

Moving on, I've been on a space kick lately. I specially love how people thought the future would be in the 50's. I've seen people calling it retro-future or paleo-future if you wanna check it out.

Rocket packs and retro-light-bulb lasers are so awesome!

I drew this one while waiting for my train home from Blizzcon. It was heavily influenced by Winston, from Overwatch.

Space chick.

This one started as a doodle, and ended up as a little Commander Holly fan art. For some reason a onesie retro space-suit felt alright for her :)

 Some random sketches, playing with a bit of  old school blue pencilled rendering.

More sketching. Testing out some gold and silver gel pens. They look pretty good and shiny in my sketchbook.

A little stroll with a fallen angel. Playing around with different kinds of brushpens.

The following pages from my sketchbook were a bit of an experiment. Very often I see spiky "triangular" hair on anime that helps creating the coolest silhouettes. I absolutely love that, but you can only create so many until they start looking alike.
I've seen some "rounder" hair as well, usually in more cartoony stuff, as well as in two of my current favorite artists: Anthony Holden, an amazing animator and comic book artist and Guillaume Singelin, another absolutely awesome comic book artist and illustrator. And because they do it I know it looks good, and I've played with that roundness a bit and is super enjoyable. But I'm not very sure if I've seen many "squared" protruding hair, and I wanted to see how it looked... and I personally kinda liked it, and got carried away.

Started sketching with some "round" hair...

And eventually switched to some square-ish heads and ended up playing around with poses for this character. 

These are quickies of people at the Airport.

 And these are some quick cool-offs before going to sleep.

To finalize this post, a monster I did for a contest that I didn't submit, because I ended up submitting a giant dinosaur having coffee in his underwear.

I remember it took me a while to get good references for this one, and it was very satisfactory to see everything shaping up nicely.

In the end I decided to go for the more cartoony route, because I was building my portfolio towards that direction, and didn't wanted to have a piece that felt too alien to the whole collection (even though I did ended up including it in a "various" category).

That's it for now. Hope you have a great weekend!

DW