The wisdom of Master Yoda

Hi everybody!

This is one of my latest works. The Empire Strikes Back has always been my favorite Star Wars movie and I think part of it is because it's perhaps the only "spiritual" movie of the whole series.

When I was sketching this piece I had a hard time figuring out if I wanted to do a realistic work or one with an animated-cartoon feel. I chose the latter because after all, this is the style that I've always felt more comfortable with.

I hope y'all dig it!

Ack ack aaack!!

So the movie was complete nonsense but let's face it: it was filled with colorful explosions, a wonderful soundtrack and most certainly the best friggin' martians hollywood has ever produced! 

Mars Attacks! also had a great soundtrack and it did exactly what it was set out to do -entertain. It was more welcomed in the UK than in our country but it still managed to make around $37 mill in the US.

I really loved the artwork on the Topps trading cards set, so if you ever want to get me an uber-cool birthday present, you can always buy an original card and have it shipped to yours truly :D

Jabba & the gang

Well, some of them...

The Creature

The Doctor is in...

Star Wars Day

Boris & Elsa

Nothing beats the classics...

 

United colors of Gremlins

For a while I 've been thinking about doing a lot of Gremlins in all kinds of kooky shapes and colors. I think I've spent about 3 weekends trying to come out with crazy looking characters but I'm sad to say I have just not ben inspired lately, so I decided to do a few color variations so I can use them on the characters when they're done.

I posted this one on my Facebook and a fellow Graphic Designer gave me a hard time for using the word "Yellow-ish", so I decided to leave it exactly like that--I think he should be thankful I didn't call the one on the top right corner "Orangey". 

The Pixel Creatures bunch

Mutant Venus Flytrap

As a monster-loving child growing up in the 80's, I found Little Shop of Horrors a wonderful source of inspiration. It's been a long time and I still do. There were so many things about that movie that made an impression in my work. The music, the characters (who can forget Steve Martin's interpretation of "Dentist!"?) and of course, good ol' Audrey II.

I'll get you, my pretty....

Yep. It's that time of year again, folks!
Cold weather, hot chocolate, crowded shopping malls and lots and lots of Christmas specials.
While watching T.V. the other day, I got excited when I saw the first "Wizard of Oz" promo for the season on TBS. Yet one more sign that the winter's coming...
So excited, in fact, that I thought I would do my own rendition of the Wicked Witch of the West.

I love three day weekends!

Bugs from outer space.

Yet another one of my collectible gum cards. This is a character from a Sci-Fi web comic that will hopefully see the light of day in the near future.

Enjoy!

Ahhh the 50's...

Who you gonna call?

I have always been a huge fan of the Ghostbusters. I've watched the first movie hundreds of times and I don't think I ever missed a single episode of the RGB cartoons back in the day.
Needless to say I was more than happy when I got this assignment from High Definition Review earlier this year.
I bought the XBox 360 videogame a few weeks ago when it came out and haven't had enough spare time to finish it just yet.

This is a good year for Ghostheads like me with the BluRay movie release, the videogame, the Time Life collection and now the new Mattel "action" figures. I haven't felt this good since I was 10. I hear they're working on a script for the third movie and I hope they do a good job with it... lots of us have been waiting for a long time now.

Young, fresh and beautiful

Here's one of my latest pin-ups.
Enjoy!

GROOVY, BABY

With my apologies to the DC Universe, here's my own version of one the hottest comic book characters ever brought to life: Yvonne Craig as BATGIRL.
I used to watch reruns of the 60's Batman TV show when I was a kid and this chick really made an impression on me. (sigh)

P.S. Yes, I'm a big geek.