Evil Genius
Posted By Scott Hallett at 1/22/2010 4:52 PM

I really tried to avoid all the Evil Genius cliches for this Drawer Geeks entry, but I'm sure I hit on at least a few. I love the idea of a tiny little man piloting a giant robot, very fitting.

I haven't had too much in the way of free time this year so far, but I'm hoping to at least develop some sort of steady art output. To be continued...

Labels: Drawer Geeks, Evil Genius, giant robots, ink, Photoshop

Spirits, Monsters & Wild Things!
Posted By Scott Hallett at 10/26/2009 9:28 PM

I ran into some technical snafu's in the past month or so that made getting art completed and posted a bit of a challenge. Hopefully that's behind me now, so I'm posting some things that were completed recently. I'm also brainstorming on ways to add more content to this blog with or without new art to show, but I'll have to iron that out a bit more first.

First up is this week's Drawer Geeks, "Frankenstein":

I wanted to show a bit more of the messy business of stitching someone together of disparate parts. My Frankenstein is falling apart at the seams, literally.

Next up is another Drawer Geeks from the previous round, in honour of the film and book "Where The Wild Things Are".

Played with a whole new palette for me, as well as colouring directly on the pencils and skipping inks all together. Relatively happy with how this turned out, even if it wasn't anything like I pictured initially.

Finally, this is a pencil drawing of a duo that figure into a larger story brewing in my head at the moment. Not ready to talk about it yet, but I like the design enough to show it around.

Labels: Drawer Geeks, Frankenstein, Illustrator, pencils, Photoshop, Tree Spirit, Where The WIld Things Are

Spider-Man, Spider-Man...
Posted By Scott Hallett at 8/12/2009 9:40 PM

...does whatever a spider can! Not my usual thing, but a fun departure. Broke out some of the stronger crayons in the color palette as well for this one. Just trying new things all around. This was for Drawer Geeks.

Labels: comics, Drawer Geeks, pen and ink, Photoshop, Spider-Man

Design a Deity - Akamushi
Posted By Scott Hallett at 7:38 AM

This is a character design I did for the "Design A Deity" blog. The idea is to throw a bunch of deities at each other, and see who would be left standing. Mine is named Akamushi, which means blood worm in Japanese. Here's my description: There's some great talents with more deities on the way, so check it out!

Labels: character design, Deity, pen and ink, Photoshop

The Monkey King
Posted By Scott Hallett at 7/31/2009 7:23 AM

This week for Drawer Geeks the topic was "Monkeys", so I decided to draw Sun Wukong, The Monkey King. I've been so heavily focused on inking these days, it was nice to dust off the coloring side of my brain. Enjoy!

Labels: Drawer Geeks, ink, King, Monkey, Photoshop

iPhone and So Forth
Posted By Scott Hallett at 5/16/2009 11:16 AM

Man oh man, I have had a roller coaster of a time these past weeks! I've been working on art, just not anything I can show. So what can I show? Well, for you technophiles out there, you'll now be able to hit this site on your phones and get a nifty little mobile version. It relies on some fancy javascript though, so for now it will probably only work on iPhones, or any other webkit enabled smart phone. I'll have to address that in the future, but it'll do for now.

Here's some art while I'm at it. These were all Drawer Geeks entries, some of which I didn't even get a chance to finish and submit on time. Thems the breaks as they say.

Labels: 8-Bit, Drawer Geeks, Pac-man, pen and ink, Photoshop, Troll

Classic Video Games!
Posted By Scott Hallett at 1/16/2009 3:24 PM

The topic this week at Drawer Geeks was "Classic Video Games", or anything that came out before 1985. I actually did 3 pictures for this one (one isn't scanned, and I'm not too happy with it). There was a big break over the holidays so I sort of chipped away at it here and there. I have always been a big video game fan, ever since I first played Super Mario Bros. on display at a K-Mart when it first came out.

First up is a re-design for Mario from Super Mario Bros. Sort of a grounded in reality, practical design. Not 100% sold on this one, but a good learning experience.

Next is just sort of an homage to the NES in general. I wanted to put a positive spin on the act of blowing dust out of the NES cartridges every kid who had one is probably more than familiar with.

Labels: Drawer Geeks, Excitebike, Illustrator, Metroid, Photoshop, Super Mario Bros., video games, Zelda

New Year, New Site Design, Etc. & So On & So Forth
Posted By Scott Hallett at 1/13/2009 2:28 PM


I've just recently seen proofs for the letters of a short story I wrote and drew, coming out in an anthology from a publisher I totally geeked out to as a teenager. I've also recently finished colors on a two page spread I think is the best work I've done up to this point, for a graphic novel I'm working on, with a writer whose work I admired long before getting the opportunity to work with him.

I love comics.

Labels: comics, Esclator, Illustrator, Photoshop

Witch
Posted By Scott Hallett at 11/20/2008 10:01 PM

This is for the topic "Witch" over at Drawer Geeks. This was part of a challenge with an artist friend (Steve Ogden). The challenge was to finish the piece in an hour. I drew the original drawing in about 1/2 hour, then about an hour on the photoshop grayscale. So I guess I succeeded on the drawing, then failed in the Photoshop. One step forward...

Labels: brush pen, Drawer Geeks, grayscale, Photoshop, Witch

Giant Monster!
Posted By Scott Hallett at 10/24/2008 11:16 AM

This is for the topic "Giant Monsters" over at Drawer Geeks. Probably the first time I've slammed together colors without looking back and nitpicking. Not that I'm saying it's perfect, but it was a good experiment. Done with brush pen, pen and colored in Photoshop, in about an hour or so.

True story, I got the idea to give this monster piercing blue eyes after hearing Stephen Harper described that way. I'm just sayin'...

Labels: brush pen, Drawer Geeks, giant monsters, Photoshop, Stephen Harper

Amazing Joy Buzzards Pinup
Posted By Scott Hallett at 10/11/2008 11:23 AM

This was a pinup I had originally started to enter into a contest on the Satellite Soda forums, but I didn't get it completed in time. I liked it enough to finish off. Amazing Joy Buzzards are copyright Mark Andrew Smith and Dan Hipp.

Labels: Amazing Joy Buzzards, grayscale, ink, Kung-fu, Photoshop, Zombies, Zombots

Yeti
Posted By Scott Hallett at 8/21/2008 2:50 PM

Yeti. Drawer Geeks. Check it!

Labels: colour, Drawer Geeks, Illustrator, Photoshop, Yeti

Zombies!
Posted By Scott Hallett at 5/30/2008 2:58 PM

This week at Drawer Geeks... Zombies! Anybody that knows me knows that's a topic I couldn't pass up!

Labels: Drawer Geeks, grayscale, Illustrator, Photoshop, Zombies

Etc., etc., etc.
Posted By Scott Hallett at 5/17/2008 7:57 AM

Here are some of the things I've been working on. Character designs for a short story:





And a very quick color test for that same short story:


The last two Drawer Geeks, "Lone Ranger" and "Dinosaurs":

Labels: character design, colour, comics, Dinosaurs, Drawer Geeks, goat, Illustrator, Lone Ranger, pen and ink, Photoshop

The Story So Far...
Posted By Scott Hallett at 4/19/2008 11:20 AM

I've been very busy in my spare time (still got that day job), so I haven't had a chance to post much. I've got a few different things on the go right now, but the biggest one is a book called "Don't Get Sucked Under the Escalator" with Mark Smith (Amazing Joy Buzzards, Aqua Leung). Pretty exciting, and a great story. Here are some promo pieces I put together recently to sort of introduce the story.





Here is my entry for this week over at Drawer Geeks. The topic was "Triplets".

Labels: comics, Escalator, Illustrator, pen and ink, Photoshop, Triplets

Samurai
Posted By Scott Hallett at 4/04/2008 8:58 AM

"Samurai" was this week's topic at Drawer Geeks. I haven't had any real time to draw anything just for myself (which is actually an awesome thing... more on that later), but I couldn't pass up Samurai! That being said, I tried quite a few new things in this one, some successes and some not so much. Interesting experiment none the less. Enjoy!

Labels: Drawer Geeks, Illustrator, Photoshop, Samurai

Tarzan
Posted By Scott Hallett at 3/07/2008 12:00 PM

"Tarzan" was the theme this week at Drawer Geeks. I really tried to push myself this week. I took my time, and really tried to get down exactly what I had in mind. I'm happy to say this is relatively close to what I had in mind, a few happy accidents aside. I know as an artist I still struggle with putting down on paper what I had in my head.

Labels: colour, Drawer Geeks, Illustrator, Photoshop, Tarzan

Monsters Under the Bed
Posted By Scott Hallett at 2/21/2008 8:36 PM

This week at Drawer Geeks the topic was "Monsters Under the Bed". I kind of just flew through this one, not a lot of time this week.

Labels: bed, colour, Drawer Geeks, Illustrator, Monsters, Photoshop

Galactus!
Posted By Scott Hallett at 2/05/2008 10:13 PM

"Galactus" was this week's Drawer Geeks topic. The focus on this one was getting a straight up cel shaded effect that I was happy with, and cutting down on my coloring time. I was pretty pleased I was able to get this one out quickly. I realized after finishing this that Galactus' pose is a bit like he's getting ready to scratch some records. Maybe he's a DJ on his off time?

Labels: colour, Drawer Geeks, Galactus, Illustrator, Photoshop

Ents
Posted By Scott Hallett at 1/31/2008 4:06 PM

This was my original sketch for the "Lord of the Rings" topic at Drawer Geeks, but I ran out of time. I decided to finish it because I thought it had promise. This was done with a brush pen and Photoshop. The things I tried to focus on this time were limited palette, and no fancy Photoshop tricks such as blurs or fancy brushes. This was done using the pencil tool and a few gradients. Often times I get caught up trying to add more bells and whistles and really eat away my time.

Labels: brush pen, colour, Drawer Geeks, Ent, Lord of the Rings, Photoshop

Nazgul
Posted By Scott Hallett at 1/24/2008 1:56 PM

This week at Drawer Geeks the theme was "Lord of the RIngs". I wanted to take some time and try out a few new techniques to try and speed up the way I do things. I also wanted to focus on value over hue, hence the grayscale. I think I'm going to use the Drawer Geeks topics from now on to try and push new ideas and new ways of doing things, at least for me.

Labels: colour, Drawer Geeks, Illustrator, Lord of the Rings, Nazgul, Photoshop

Red Necks
Posted By Scott Hallett at 1/09/2008 9:21 AM

This week at Drawer Geeks the topic was "Rednecks". For some reason, this was the first thing that popped into my head. More of a "red necks". I know, I know... Rednecks are obvious. I think I have too much giant monster on the brain or something.

Labels: colour, Drawer Geeks, Illustrator, Photoshop, Red Knecks

Aqua Leung Pinup
Posted By Scott Hallett at 1/07/2008 4:16 PM

I did a pinup for the book "Aqua Leung", coming out later this year by Mark Andrew Smith and Paul Maybury. The short story in Popgun Vol. 1 was awesome, so I had to take a crack at drawing the character. Inked in Illustrator, coloured in Photoshop. Enjoy!

Labels: Aqua Leung, comics, Illustrator, Photoshop, pinup

Mannequin
Posted By Scott Hallett at 6/13/2006 6:34 AM

This one's been a bit of an uphill battle. I really wanted to push myself and try to learn new techniques and new ways of doing things. I tried a combination of different tricks and hopefully the end results pay off.

I've included the original digital line work, as well as a more traditional colour scheme (minus the fancy multiply layers and extra bells and whistles), and finally the finished product. As always, feel free to leave any comments.

Labels: character design, colour, giant robots, Mannequin, Photoshop