The Count

Since I did Boo Berry and Frankenberry I thought adding Count Chocula was a no brainer. I am going to donate all three of these to one of the Aurora shooting charity events coming up.

My Tokyo piece is still coming up!

Captain Crunch vs The Sogmaster

...I loves me some Peanut Butter Crunch.

//Tony the Tiger - Final with Process

Final Pencils

Final Inks

Colors

This is the first of what I hope to be a full on project that will eventually culminate into an arcade game.  

Pencils were taken into Photoshop, converted to cyan for inking.  I printed off that cyan copy, inked it, and then re-scanned the piece.  Once scanned, I clean up any stray pencil lines and brought it into Illustrator and further cleaned up using the Live Trace feature.  I did this to give a better, more organic feel to the inks as my inking tends to lose some of the organic-ness of the pencil drawing.  Then it was brought back into Photoshop for a traditional coloring.  While the subject matter usually has a cel-shaded coloring applied to it, I chose to go with a more "traditional" coloring style as it is the desired look for the overall project.

Any critiques are greatly encouraged!

Quisp

I had to bring us some quazy energy from Quisp!

Trix the Rabbit

For my submission I chose Trix the Rabbit. 

I originally did a cartoony sketch. I didn't think this was enough "me." I did the darker watercolor after that.

The Captain

Cereal characters! I really liked this topic. Wish I would have had more time to play around with this one...

A Tasty Pair

I kind of got a little carried away this week. As soon as Brett sent me the topic I knew it had to be Frankenberry which I am sure wasn't much of a surprise. While I was drawing him though I got a hankering to take a stab at Boo Berry. These also begged to be in color. Bold bright colors just like they use on the boxes to lure children into their cereal crunchy goodness and scream at mom in the store until she buys some for them. The funny thing is I don't really like cereal except for Fruity Pebbles. I know.

"Frankenberry"

White Prismacolor pencil on 8"x10" black Canson Mi-Teintes board by Robert Elrod.



Here it is with a little digital color.



I took inspiration from classic photos of Boris Karloff as The Monster to create this portrait of "Frankenberry". Hope you find as much enjoyment in it as I did in drawing it.

All the best!
Robert