Bump in the Night

Not only have I been on a fan art high recently, but I've also been working on ky DVD collection, getting all those old school movies I love but for some reason just don't own, and lots of those movies are classic horror series. So, as I've been watching all these awesome films again, I've been inspired to bring these great horrors to my personal style. First we have a drawing of everybody's favorite murderers, Freddy from A Nightmare on Elm Street, and Jason of Friday the 13th. The pictures came out much to my liking, so I posted the originals seperately.

Next I did the horrifying yet totally badass creaturs from the Alien films. I put up the black and white o you could fully see the line work put into the picture since the dark coloring job hides a bit of it. Hope you enjoy these creepy classics.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Art!

Recently I've done a ton of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fan art. Since I've done so much and plan on a doing some more, I decided to post some up. The picture above displaying the four turtles leaping into action is an alternate version of a picture I have in my Deviantart gallery, here - http://brendancorris.deviantart.com/art/Teenage-Mutant-Ninja-Turtles-161687470 . This version is different in that it has the neon bursts of light shooting from the sewer inspired by the cartoon's intro song. Below is a whole lot more TMNT art. First off, Rocksteady and Bebop, Shredder's two main mutant minions. They were a little too doofy and pathetic to be taken seriously, like most 80s cartoon villains, especially when a rhino and a warthog who both are big as hell should be able to destroy a turtle no problem, but they were still awesome characters. Next is the staff of Channel 6 News, April O'Niel, Irma, Vernon, and Burne. April was the couragous one, Irma was a weirdo, Vernon was a snobby coward, and Burne was an asshole (of course, he's the boss). Next is a personal favorite of mine, Mondo Gecko, the skateboarding badass buddy of Mike. And last is another personal favorite, Mona Lisa, the lizard cutie who falls for Raph. I'm still angry hat Mondo, Mona, and lots of other great characters made close to no appearances in the TMNT cartoon. Well, enjoy, retro fans!

More Card Art

Here's some more artwork for the card set for my characters I promised. In this post we have the main heroes and villains of my comic book series, Mr. Funnyman (above), and the main hero and villain of my game-in-the-works, The Curses of Spinthra, followed by all the boss monsters (below).

Pictured in each image, starting from top to bottom and left to right is - (Picture 1) Adventurer, Mr. Funnyman's wimpy, yet logical, liberal sidekick; Mr. Funnyman, the main hero of MFM and a macho, meat-headed republican with a massive ego; and Lumpy, the Funnymen's secret eye on Pinhead's base. When Pinhead first created his blender serum, he tossed what he believed to ne a dud out the window, accidentally fusing a man with a mountain.

(Picture 2) Bush Gardens, one of Pinhead's first two creatures and one of his main cohorts. Bush Gardens, along with Electro Gator, is a parody of the seemingly manditory idiotic main minion duo of super hero cartoons of the 80's. He is a combination of various plants. Pinhead (the next character) is Mr. Funnyman's arch enemy and creator of the Blender Ray, a device he uses to fuse things together to create humanoid monstrosities to serve his evil will, which is also a mockery of the plot of too many retro super hero stories. Pinhead is an over-exaggeration of your typical overly-evil villain. Lastly, Electro Gator, a combination of an alligator and lightning from a Florida thunder storm, is Pinhead's other main, idiotic cohort.

(Picture 3) Duke Legend, a Fabio-esque, medieval warrior who, for whatever reason, is around in this day and age, is the main protagonist of The Curses of Spinthra, and marches into the evil queen's castle when the fate of man seems sealed for chaos. He is basically a parody of most video game heroes, mostly the Belmonts of Castlevania. Spinthra, the evil queen of the Netherworld, can take various forms via magical spells. Pictured above are her standard form, and her temptress form, used to seduce people to their graves. Every 100 years (everything epic and evil has to happen every 100 years, whether it makes sense or not) a "black witch" is born, and will become the ruler and most poweful entity of the Netherworld. On her 18th birthday, she is old enough to take her castle to Earth and have her shot at destroying all humanity.

(Picture 4) Here are all of the area bosses you will battle in the castle of Spinthra. Medusa, being much easier on the eyes than rumored, is the first boss monster you will battle. Next, you will battle two wild monsters at once, the Manticore and the Wyvern, followed by Asterion, the dreaded Minotaur of Minos' Labyrinth. Next, you will face a massive reptilian titan, the Dragon, then the most famous nightmare and torturer of children, the Boogie Man. Charybdis is a hideous whirl-pool monster dwelling in the underground quagmire beneath the castle. The sixth battle is with the one-eyed, obese giant, the Cyclops, followed by the Headless Horseman on the back of a zombie horse. The monstrous Grendel lurks in the Lost Temple, still holding a grudge over his stolen arm on humans, and the deadly Hell Hound guards the gateway to Hell. Last are the Weird Sisters, Uror (middle), Varoandi (Purple) and Skuld (Green), the ones who trained and taught Spinthra and the main guardians before her.

More card art will be posted soon.

Card Art

Every so many years since I was little, my brother and I have drawn little fake collectible card sets for our characters. I'm doing a new batch of cards this year, and the artwork is coming out so much to my liking, I've decided to post lots of it. They will later be placed onto the card pages with backgrounds and titles, then cut down to size, but here are the images that will appear on the cards. Above are all 9 of the cards for my graphic novel, Stupid. The cards include - Stupid, Weirdo, Dopey, Lasher, Hrns Guy, Bears Guy, Scarlet, and then two other cards, one for other "That Thing" characters that appear in the comic, and another for the Beasts. Stupid is not the only one of my creations featured, though.

I have finished a handful of ones for my comic strip series, Rick the Raptor. Above are Rick, Clarissa, and Dave. I will soon have some to showcase for The Curses of Spinthra, and then some for Mr. Funnyman. The quality of these cards is tempting me to even post some for projects of mine I have currently not announced since I'd rather my viewers get accquainted with the creations I have posted thus far rather than overwhelming people with too much crap to remember or care about. Sorry for not posting anything in so long. Expect more soon, and look me up on deviantart in the mean time.

Old School Gaming Drawings

I decided to do some drawings of classic NES games, since I already seem to have a decent sized collection of those. Unfortunately, for a couple things in both of these drawings I used one of my worst enemies - preset gradated shading. I absolutely hate the way preset shading looks. I still believe in doing everything yourself. Preset shading always looks so sloppy and out of place, like a child who just learned the concept of shadow colored it, and these pictures are no exception. These drawings were ultra rushed, so I got too lazy to color the sky and even draw or color the ground in the Super Mario Bros. one. The sky's gradated shading looks fine, especially since that's how Nintendo themselves shaded shies in the SNES Mario All-Stars, but the ground is straight up hideous. I quickly drew a bunch of slabs of stone with the mouse, then colored the cracks, the decided to rush together a preset downward shading for the rocks cos I was too tired to do it by hand by that point - bad idea. I plan on doing the ground over by hand and posting a better copy. For now, I posted production step pics below so you can at least admire the character work without that nightmare behind it. Everything besides the two parts I mentioned before (sky & ground) was colored by hand on the comp.

As for the Ninja Gaiden one, only the building in the BG are auto-computer done. The tops of the buildings look good, but I couldn't prevent that bright-ass red in the center that turns to grey. That's what makes it ugly. Once again, I was rushing to the max. If only I put more time into making this. I saved steps of this one as well, though, so I should be able to fix it. Everything else besides the building shading was done completely by me. The pcture is of one of my all-time favorite NES games, and video games, period. Ninja Gaiden was a huge part of my childhood, so I figured "why not do a picture for the blog for it". In this picture are - Ryu Hayabusa, Jaquio, Irene Lew, and a ton of enemies from the game that came out at a time when one was able to be intimidating whle wearing hot pink and purple.

I know earlier this month I said I was going to do more holiday drawings, but I've been occupied working with some people so I've had no time, and now the holidays are over. Well, I was going to do one for one of my personal favorites, Will Vinton's Claymation Christmas Celebration, a little-known but great special that aired in the late 80s, but I didn't like the way the pencil work came out and decided to forget it. I will, however, do a regular themed drawing of Herb and Rex, the two totally gay dinosaurs who hosted Will Vinton's holiday masterpiece soon. Until then, enjoy what's up.

Happy Holidays

Just did up these the night after Thanksgiving, then colored them this morning. The subjects should be obvious - the cast of Rankin Bass' "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer", Karen from "Frosty the Snowman", and the Grinch from Dr. Seuss' classic, "How the Grinch Stole Christmas". The coloring job is kind of whack because I did it real rushed, but they're still enough to bring you some holiday cheer. I'll probably post some more holiday themed artwork, so if you liked these, stay tuned. Also check me out on Deviantart.com. I've got a decent sized galler up now.

Mr. Funnyman - Volume 1 Cover Artwork

As promised, here's all the covers to volume 1 of Mr. Funnyman, my original comic book series. I did these four works over the past two weeks. Below this post is one with a preview of episode 1. As you probably know now, I'm trying to publish my work, so I figured this would all be a good taste. All concepts, artwork, and everything below is by me, Brendan Corris. Enjoy.

If you'd like to see higher resolution versions and the full artworks without the logo and what not, go check out my Deviant Art gallery that's just gone up at : http://brendancorris.deviantart.com/gallery/

Mr. Funnyman - Episode Preview

I present to you a previw of episode 1 of Mr. Funnyman (my comic book series). This episode, titled "The Intro" is one of two comics in issue #1. There are 4 issues in the first volume, all with two episodes and two 1 page shorts each. I'm only posting these 14 pages so viewers can get a taste of what Mr. Funnyman is all about and so you can see whether or not you like it. Enjoy. (Click the thumbnails to view the full, readable size)

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween. Just decided I throw up a drawing of some of horror films' greatest faces. Sorry for the some what crude coloring job, this was a very rushed picture since I wanted to put up something special for Halloween in between my busy work on some comic book covers I'm doing. I once again resorted to coloring it on the computer since it would take much quicker that way, though like my other computer colorings, it's all drawn 100% drawn by hand with mouse by me, even the coloring in the background and the shading on the characters. I drew Michael Meyers, Pinhead and Jason last night, then threw on Leatherface and Freddy this morning and colored the thing all in about an hours time, so that is why the coloring may look a bit rushed - it was. Well, soon I'll have those for covers finished and I'll post them with some sample pages of Mr. Funnyman.