Ack Ack Ack

I'm several weeks late with this one. Here's a scan (of the majority of the piece fitted together from 2 scanned sections). I'd started it during the week of the topic but got sidetracked, per usual. Hopefully it was worth the wait.

"Ack Ack Ack" ... acrylic gouache on 24"x12" illustration board by Robert Elrod.



See more of my work at www.robertelrodllc.com.

Mars, it's attacking...

What with the fourth planet invading the third and the melting dogs and the experimenting and the vengeance and the bloodrain and the hey hey hey it hurts me...

Mars Attacks Watercolor

Mars Attacks Encore

I was really diggin on the theme this week. Here are some extra sketches.

Mars Attacks

I did this on my iPad today.

Blue Flaming Death!

Man I forgot how much I love this guys!  My friend Matt got me this awesome 50th anniversary Mars Attacks book and it rekindled my love all over again.  The book has all the original series cards plus the re-releases plus original sketches (did you know Wally Wood did some of the concepts for the original cards?  I didn't) plus "censored" versions.  It truly is a fantastic book and I highly recommend it if'n you dig that sort of thing.

Anywho, I remember these cards so vividly from my childhood.  The image that stuck with me is one of the Martians incinerating some poor sap so I kind of put my spin on that:

And just because I am an uber nerd, I thought I would make it into an old style Mars Attacks card:

So yeah, Mars Attacks! 

M A R S A T T A C K S t a r o t

I missed out on last weeks pick, but this weeks was kind of about cards as well so I just merged the subjects. Done with colored pencil on toned card stock.

~Don

MARS ATTACKS...wait, I did this drawing how long ago?

Of course Kevin picks Mars Attacks the day after I post my art for this year's ComicFest...which just happens to be Mars Attacks. Well, I'll take it. And because I've already shown the full color version, here's the black & white:

Sorry I haven't had a chance to contribute the last few weeks...besides my day job kicking my tail, I've been working on a few things for the blog. One is the new header logo above, and part of which was this guy:

Next week, I hope to be back on the ball!

Cheers
Patrick