The mysterious and deadly El Chupacabra; sucker of livestock, and bane of herders.

After “dressing up” as El Chupacabra for Halloween I wanted to draw my own version of the mysterious beasty.  I honestly cannot think of a more silly crytpozoological critter.

This was drawn in pencils and colored on my computer using drop shadows and paper texture to get the cut-out effect.

Another addition to my collection of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles characters.  This guy was always my favorite as a child, so I didn’t feel right changing his design too terribly much.  I just wanted to give him a more modern look, and a slightly crazier edge.

My vision of the originally X-Men team 46 six years later.

I was looking it up the other day, and Scott Summers would be 62 years old, so I wanted to do an illustration that portrays their actual ages. I also wanted to hint at some adventures that they might have had in the meantime.

What follows is my parody “what if” biographies of the characters:

Jean Grey (Phoenix): After the thirteenth time that she was killed and rose from the ashes, the fates didn’t think she was getting the point and started her again from square one. Scott adopted the infant Jean, deciding to raise her as his own. Wolverine took particular offense to the move, calling it “f**ked up”. Before he left the team Wolverine was heard to remark to Scott, “See you two in 18 years.”

Scott Summers (Cyclops): Tired of not being able to tell who Scott was addressing at when he’d scream, “YOU! Get behind cover!”, Forge engineered a pair of glasses that let Scott control his optic blasts, as well as project a holographic image of his eyeballs, so people could actually tell who he was looking at.

After Jean was reborn Scott retired from the life of a hero to watch after his new adopted child.

Hank McCoy (Beast): After decades of trying to reverse the mistake that turned him into a blue furry beast, Hank started to naturally lose his hair with age. He pursued a career in politics, eventually passing legislation that made it illegal to discriminate based on genetics. After only one term in the senate Hank retired from politics, and became a university professor.

Charles Xavier (Professor X): While investigating strange occurrences in a small village in the Andes, Professor X once again finds himself doing battle against the alien scout Lucifer (the one responsible for putting him in the wheelchair in the first place), and in an last ditch effort to end the alien’s tyranny Xavier musters all of his strength, bringing down an avalanche on the two of them. Angel flew to Xavier’s rescue. Unfortunately his body was badly damaged, so in an effort to save Xavier’s life his head was removed and put in a life support jar, which Xavier controls with his telekinetic abilities.

Bobby Drake (Iceman): Because most of his teammates started to grow old and retire, Bobby became a salesman of heating and cooling appliances, often flaunting his powers to make a sale and to mold his appearance based on his clients.

Warren Worthington III (Angel): Of all the original X-Men Warren remained most active in his older age. One day while flying to his penthouse on the top of the Worthington building, Warren suffered a massive heart attack and plummeted into a city bus dying instantly. At the moment of death a latent power (imbued within him when he became Apocalypse’s Horseman) awakened. Warren literally became a manifestation of the angel of death, able to kill with only a thought.

Recently I was commissioned by some friends of the family who own a winery (Yellow Hawk Cellar) to create a logo for their new wine.  I cannot WAIT to see these all printed up.

*Sorry for the watermark.  I don’t want this to be ripped off and used for something else.

Something I drew for a contest on deviantArt.  The contest was to “illustrate your dream”.

Personally I think this one is pretty modest and do-able.