Part 3 of 3: Tough Guys & Sassy Dames: Bruiser and Flo (My Original Art) - My Process!

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Up close and personal with the fine-detail of my latest illustration Tough Guys & Sassy Dames: Bruiser and Flo.

Figure 1:
I feel I’ve captured the essence of the character I’m parodying with this, my steroid-infused version. My Bruiser has all of the iconic accoutrements that his non-tough guy counterpart has, such as the rosey drunkard’s nose, the green flat cloth cap covering his eyes, the cigarette, the red tucked in scarf around his neck, and his black suit.

Figure 2:
Shows you a close-up the detail of Bruiser’s mug. If this guy was real, I’d seriously not want to fuck with him… would you?

Figure 3:
Just as with Bruiser, I feel my Flo captures the essence of the character I’m parodying. She’s my full-figured, sexy, rough-and-tumble version of Andy’s wife. She has all of her iconic accessories. From the black polka-dotted scarf on her head, blonde hair, the blue overcoat with black skirt and red gloves to the purse and rolling pin clutched in her hands. Only this Flo’s rolling pin is meant for a bar brawl with the pub’s inhabitants and not for bashing Bruiser!

Figure 4:
Here is a nice close-up the detail of Flo’s face and erm… other attributes.

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~Joe

Part 2 of 3: Tough Guys & Sassy Dames: Bruiser and Flo (My Original Art) - My Process!

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Hey hey hey Roboteers, here’s my second post in a series of three posts about my creative process for drawing my Tough Guys & Sassy Dames: Bruiser and Flo.

As a child, to hone my drawing skills, I’d steal my mom’s cooking wax paper. Anyone out there remember wax paper? I’d use it as a sort of tracing paper. By flipping it wax side up and placing the non-wax side down on comics, I’d carefully etch the wax off to create my tracing and teach myself how to draw. I vividly remember using Thor comics to learn how to draw male figures while using Archie Comics’  Betty and Veronica to teach myself the art of drawing females. They were THE epitome of cute little sex-kittens in comics at that time.

Those early Betty & Veronica art tutorials have come a long way since then. They were my foundation. However, I like my women with meat on their bones - and I draw them that way. Enter Flo, my latest lovely creation.

Figure 1:
Figure 1 is actually made up of four separate sketches. The top two are Flo’s head. I wanted to keep the key characteristics of Flo Capp, the character I was parodying. So my Flo has the scarf. I’ve turned the big poof of hair real Flo has into a sexy 1950s bangs style hairdo. I wanted to keep her facial characteristics and expression mean looking and tough, but soft and sexy too.

Under the heads are the arms I drew. Both arms/hands are holding iconic accessories that are important to my parody character. I love the juxtaposition rolling pin arm with the purse arm.

Figure 2:
Vavavoom!! This is my “final” sketch of Flo’s body. I drew three others before this one, each getting closer to what I wanted. That’s a normal process for me. I usually will draw the bodies and even faces of both female and male characters at least three to four times. I’ll do this until I get them to the point where they’re refined enough for me to use as my template in Adobe Illustrator.

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All artwork, illustration and design copyright Joseph V. Barrile — JoesGiantRobots.com

~Joe

Part 1 of 3: Tough Guys & Sassy Dames: Bruiser and Flo (My Original Art) - My Process!

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Howdy Roboteers, here’s the first in a series of three posts about my process when creating my Tough Guys & Sassy Dames: Bruiser and Flo.

I have several techniques in my illustrator’s “toolbox”. The technique I use is determined on several factors, such as concept or how I see the final illustration in my mind. Either of those two things could help me choose to start with hand sketches, like I did with this project. Other times, however, the actual art medium may help me decide. Like pixel or ASCII art for example.

For this drawing I knew I wanted Bruiser and Flo to be in a comic strip/comic book style and to look as natural as possible for vector art. I chose to hand sketch them first so that I could use my sketches as templates in my vector art program of choice, Adobe Illustrator.

Figure 1:
In this first photo you see the pen and paper I used resting on my desk. As always, ideas will hit me in many different ways. In this instance, for over a week I had been reading a lot of 1970s Andy Capp by Reg Smythe. After not reading any for several days, the idea of a tough guy “bruiser” parody of Andy just came to me. The idea barely hit my mind and I immediately drew his face. This is that very drawing.

Figure 2:
As soon as the face was drawn, I immediately started on Bruiser’s body. I tend to focus on parts. For Bruiser it was his head first (Figure 1), then body, and then I drew and refined his hands on yet a third piece of paper. I then snapped pics of them on my mobile phone, exported the pics to my Dropbox, opened the pics in Adobe Illustrator, and used the hand sketches as a template to base my vector drawing on. I put my creation together body part by body part… I always knew I was a Mad Scientist!

This awesomely fresh new artwork is available over at my online store! Make sure to get your t-shirt today by clicking this link!

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All artwork, illustration and design copyright Joseph V. Barrile — JoesGiantRobots.com

~Joe

Monday New Art - Joe’s Sketches - JGR Marvel Supers 2012 (My Original Art) - Joe’s Sketchbook!

Howdy Roboteers. Today’s Monday New Art post will be NOT one, but FIVE awesome MEGA-POSTS!!! You read that right gang, I’ll be posting FIVE way-cool Monday New Art posts today! I can just smell the fresh pixels… mmmmmmm.

Here you see the cover for my latest sketchbook that I’ve dubbed Joe’s Giant Robots Marvel Supers (AKA: JGR Marvel Supers). This is just a teaser for the next four posts I’ll be making on the half-hour - so stick around gang! Mind blowing JGR all new artwork is readying itself to drop on you like an atom bomb of love! Ohhhh yeah baby!

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See my illustration process posts here, and see my sketchbook posts here.

All characters copyright Marvel Comics. All art/drawings copyright Joseph V. Barrile — JoesGiantRobots.com

~Joe