Posts Tagged ‘Mr. T’

I ain’t gettin’ on no choppah, Dutch!

Monday, February 21st, 2011

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Mr. T vs The Predator

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Here’s another sample of my perennial attempts to use Adobe Illustrator drag Adobe Illustrator kicking and screaming to make a painterly style of illustration.

It’s not the first time Mr. T or the Predator have made their way into one of my drawings and probably not the last. I fear as I get older my childhood influences grow more profound. Years ago I thought would be funny to make a comic where B.A. Baracus gets separated from his platoon (Hanibal and the gang, I guess) while on patrol in the waining days of the Vietnam War and ends up having to confront a Predator alien while trying to help some refugee kids. Who knows? With the way Hollywood keeps recycling my 80′s child hood for big bucks it will probably end up a major motion picture directed by Micheal Bay and staring a C.G.I. puppet as young Mr. T.

I pity the fool who has to watch that movie.

Anyways, I also posted my preliminary pencil sketch morphing into vector line art so that the nice Russian girl that keeps spamming me can get an idea of how my graphite drawing gets translated into complicated vector art.

I pity tha fool that ain’t a member of the Communist Party.

Saturday, June 20th, 2009

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I made this rather demonic portrait of everybody’s favorite 80′s icon, Mr. T. It was an experiment to help me with an upcoming poster design that I’ve been asked to do. The project that I will be doing  is suppose to be reminiscent of the Russian revolutionary propaganda posters from the 1930′s. I drew Mr. T to help me adapt my drawing style for that job. I used the bold stylistic coloring and the angular geometric forms that were often employed by Russian poster artists of that time. I like the end result and if I get time I think I will try to develop this style of illustration a bit more.