Girls and Doggies

I just did a drawing (some of you may have seen the in-progress peek on my Twitter and/or my Facebook) to be auctioned off this week at the Humane Society's Puppy Mills awareness gala in Dallas, TX.  Here it is (click to see bigger):

By the way, this drawing was done in pen/ink/brush on 11" X 17" bristol board.  This is in a similar theme to an illustration of a girl/dog that I did for my upcoming instructional book (plug-plug again) Incredible Comic Book Women With Tom Nguyen--out in June!  :p  In fact, I demonstrate a full step-by-step of it in the book:

People seem to like the simple, cute pin-up-girl-with-dog theme.  Perhaps I'll do more of these in the future.

Camel Toes:

Horrible Tattoo:

Later, dudes...
TOM

A Little Bit of This and That...

Finally, I have some time (not really, but I'm actually making time) to update this poor blog.  First, a quick follow up on the last blog regarding my black & white drawings of the Vietnamese Ao Dai dress chicks.  A website called AoDai.com (featuring--what else?--Ao Dais!) contacted me and asked if I would like to be featured.  I told them that I only had the 2 drawings of Ao Dai from my last blog entry  (for the time being), but that they are free to use them if they wanted. So for the time being, they are being used on the home page of AoDai.com.  Cool, huh?

Next we have a commission that I did a while ago, but only now shall it be seen.  Every once in a long while I'll be commissioned to ink over someone else's pencil sketch.  Because I dislike plain inking by nature, I normally won't do this unless the penciller is a professional (re: not an amateur wannabe trying to break in) and that the customer is willing to pay a ridiculous price.  In this case, we have a request for me to ink over a Dan Jurgens drawing of Green Lantern.  Here is the before and after:

If you have a keen eye, you might spot some minor liberties I've taken during the inking stage to help strengthen the overall figure.  The most notable adjustments are the arms, his left leg (our right), and adding a bit of a butt visible in this angle.  Other than that, I just slickened the rest up and remained fairly faithful.  I don't recommend beginning inkers to putz around with the structure of another penciller's art too much unless you know what you're doing. 

Another Commish

Here's another 3-head-themed commission by the same gentleman who's been steadily commissioning me since Wizard World Chicago '09, this time of Captain America, Thor, and Daredevil:

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Camel Toes

Horrible Tattoo:

Ladies, just stop it.