© 2014 Tim Pospisil. Graphite & Photoshop
Resident Alien
by Tim Pospisil
Eons of time,
countless variations,
conquerors of worlds
with little hesitations.
A race long long gone,
no records left to see
leave one genetic strand
that has lead to you and me.
© 2014 Joe Kramer – Let It Burn
Like a lot of artwork that I do, this piece ended up larger and much different than what I expected. I guess I saw a lot more outside of the lines than between them. I did the line art in Illustrator and the final color in Photoshop.
© Tim Pospisil – Mechanical Pencil and Photoshop.
I’m sorry, all I saw in the lines was Mustaches, glorious mustaches.
Brando here. My power animal is a jackal, the African black-backed kind to be precise. My coworkers and I were discussing what the new Illustration Time drawing challenge should be and power animal was the decision. I initially suggested that my power animal should be Yoda or Gandalf, but Joe and Adrianne wouldn’t let me be so cheeky. So, after some thought, I realized why a jackal is so powerfully perfect for me.
The black-backed jackal is much more than your average wild dog. He’s actually very family-centered. In fact, my wife and I watched a BBC special on mammals that featured the family life of jackals. A jackal pair mates for life. When the two have pups, while the mommy jackal does the nursing, the daddy jackal faithfully secures food for mommy. As the pups grow, daddy-jackal plays with the pups and expands his efforts to bring food back for the whole family.
I’m a family man, sharing with my jackal friend those very same characteristics. Taking care of my family is very important to me. My wife does the hardest work there is—staying at home to nurture our growing children (we have four pups). My job is to earn the money our family needs and play with the pups. It’s becoming very rare now for a mom to stay home while a dad is the sole breadwinner, but my wife and I believe it’s best for our family right now (pups grow fast and need lots of love; time flies when they’re young and you can’t get it back).
It is a very joyful life to have a family and it’s also a part of my faith. I recommend it to anyone who has the opportunity. Go jackals!
If you’d like to see how I developed this one in my cutesy style, head on over to my blog, Drawing Faith 🙂
Glass Peacock, by Brandon A. Miltgen, ©2013
There’s a track on Savage Sister‘s self-titled album called Glass Peacock. The title of the song (as well as their awesome sound) inspired me to make this piece. But as I delved further into creating it, I found some deeper meaning. If you head on over to my personal blog, Drawing Faith (click here), you can read about the fuller symbolism of it and see the process that went into making the artwork (I threw down a color variant there for it as well). Below is a link to the song for all you art appreciators who dig listening while looking:
Paris Fairy, by Brandon A. Miltgen, ©2013
Some sweet cryptid entries have checked in already. I just got mine done this evening for my sweet lil’ daughter. She loves fairies and she loves Paris (and fairies do fit the general cryptid definition we’ve got going). So I give you the Paris Fairy (it’s supposed to be pronounced with authentic Frenchiness: Pear-ee Fair-ee). If you review my daughter’s cryptid drawings I think you’ll now be able to recognize her Paris Fairy effort too 😉
It’s my turn to pick the next challenge which I’ll be announcing very soon. Illustrators beware: it will be a challenge indeed… Mwuhahahaha… Mwuhahahahahahahahhahahaha!
Savage Sister (Unofficial Fan Art), ©2013 Brandon A. Miltgen
Brando here with some more fan art, this time for a musical group I’ve been digging. Here at the ‘Zone we have a lot of different talents hanging out in-house. Our newest edition happens to play bass in a band called Savage Sister. After sampling their sounds, my wife and I immediately bought their album last weekend. They classify their sound as “dream pop/shoegaze/dreamwave” and I have to say it’s some sweet sound. You should check them out. Their mascot is an unassuming girl with a war bonnet and goggles (shown below). I took her and passed her through the Brandon-filter as a tribute. Hope you like it, Savage Sister 🙂
http://savagesister.bandcamp.com/
Harried Guardian, by Brandon A. Miltgen, 2013
When we all put our names into the digital hat, Terry was the name given back to me. I was so excited that I blurted out, “Sweet! I got Terry!” Then Adrianne scolded me for letting the cat out of the bag. It was supposed to be a Secret Santa challenge after all. Oops. Anyway, I’m proud to share my drawing of the amazing Terry with you all. He sits right across from me every day, drawing away. He’s a family man with a wife and two kids, and besides being a super-talented illustrator, he’s also a very classy, stand-up guy.
Apatobot, ©2013 Brandon A. Miltgen
Greetings from Brando-land. That glorious time of year is upon us once again: Art Walk! Grand Haven’s local art competition starts today and goes through October 5th. You can stroll on down to GH to take in the beautiful downtown and beachfront while perusing some cool, funky art. It’s a fun, family-friendly experience.
My Decked-Out Dinos are on display in the window-front of Krissy’s Kandies downtown. Here’s a look at two dino images you haven’t seen. Apatobot took the place of DJ Stygi in the composition for my son’s room (my little guy doesn’t quite get the DJ thing yet, being four and all, but he loves anything robot-themed). And below you can see an alternate color scheme for DJ Stygi that will be on display at the Art Walk HQ, the Fire Barn Gallery.
Hope to see you there! Wait… I don’t know if we’ve met… I probably won’t know if I’m actually seeing you there, but have a great day anyway ;D
DJ Stygimoloch (Variant), ©2013 Brandon A. Miltgen
Here is McCoy’s adventuresome illustration for the landscape challenge. It looks like it could be concept art for an epic film, am I right?
So cool!
Landscape with tree : McCoy Khamphouy
Illustration Time 