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Ice King


Continuing on with the Adventure Time series, I tried my hand at the Ice King. I was excited for him because he's one of the characters that I can actually push the details and really make him gruesome but still keep him true to the original.

I was a little unsure about making him blue since I like keeping my inks clean, but in the end I think it added more than taking away. Either way here's a copy of the black and white version.


The next two in the series are actually already complete, Jake and Marceline's Dad. Marceline's Dad has to be my favorite so far, I really went all out making him crazy scary. There's not really many characters in the Adventure Time universe I can go all out on without changing their actual base design.

Well, actually they aren't 100% complete. I'm trying to stick to this black and white + 1 color scheme to these pieces, and that's the point where I'm struggling to find out what works best.

Print: Ice King
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Val Kilmer as Batman


Cause he's fat.
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What time is it?

Finn the Human



Marceline the Vampire Queen


It was late one night and I just had an urge to draw Adventure Time, sometimes these things just happen and there nothing you can do about it.

I'm going to turn these into a whole series and see what I can do with the rest of the characters. I have a Scary, Demon Marceline in the works and have a few ideas for Marceline's Father and the Ice King. But, Princess Bubblegum is giving me some trouble right now so I may have to come back to her.

Both of these took one night each, so hopefully the rest go down that easy, too.

Finn City.


Prints: Finn / Marceline
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Judge Dredd

 

Finally coming back to some good old fashioned black and white pieces. But I needed a warm up and my go-to subject is usually a grizzled busted up Batman, but I've done him way too much recently. So, I went with my old standby I haven't done in years. Mr. Dredd.

I've actually never really read much Dredd comics except on wikipedia, but his design and every piece of art with him has always been just so bad ass and iconic. It just hits you.

I even kinda enjoyed the old Judge Dredd movie, thankfully I was mostly oblivious to how badly they fucked up the actual character. But, at least it still looked cool.

I'm pretty hopeful for the new movie, the original creators read the script and said it actually tries to be faithful to the comic, so that's something. At least they already confirmed that he will not be taking off his helmet, which is basic stuff right there. Helmet looks a bit big for my liking... but we'll see.
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Face Revision

So, I went back into the first yellow face I did.

http://suarezart.blogspot.com/2011/04/face.html

And I wanted to change the colors and finish it up a bit. I think I'm starting to develop more of a sense of what color schemes appeal to me, and I just felt that bright yellow is way to harsh now and blown out.

So after a few hours and way to many color revision layers, this is what I ended up with.


The actual piece has the colors darker and more saturated, I think this version is a bit easier to take in at first.