Collective Thinking

March Theme - Zombies

2012-02-28T12:34:00.001Z

Hey gang. Been busy so no posts from me the last few times - sorry about that! Deirdre got on to say I'm next on the list so I'm putting forward the theme of ZOMBIES...what is there not to love about Zombies? :)

Dire Clan

2012-02-26T15:10:00.003Z

Yo, so it was a great theme this month. And as a kid whenever I had nightmares, Cuchulainn was the guy that usually came to save the day. But instead of doing another Cuchulainn post I thought I'd use this somewhat Celtic-esque piece.

The things that keep you safe at night.

2012-02-24T00:17:00.000Z

Possibly not what quite what the topic proposer had in mind, but part of something I'm working on that seemed to fit.

7 Deadly Sins : Wrath

2012-02-11T12:56:00.001Z

A tad late but sure better late than never right? here's my 7 deadly sins post. I went with a pretty Wrathful Hulk. He's choking the security guard for letting Rick Jones into the testing grounds, Banner is watching in the background.

The Deadly Sinners

2012-02-02T00:55:00.000Z

A little late, here's my entry for 7 Deadly sins. I went for (from left) Wrath, Greed and Lust. It's my first time doing a proper image on Sketchbook. I think I need more practice. I'd like a few textured brush options to be honest. Anywho, I hope you like.

Envy

2012-01-31T15:28:00.000Z

I chose Envy after reading that in Dante's Purgatory, the punishment for the envious is to have their eyes sewn shut with wire because they have gained sinful pleasure from seeing others brought low.
I couldn't get the idea of that out of my head.... so here we are.

Vanity

2012-01-30T12:30:00.002Z

Its been awhile since my last post so I tried my best to find time to get something done for this theme. I was aiming to show a mood change from one seven deadly sin to another nut couldn't find the time for that but I got around to doing a vanity test.

The deadliest sin

2012-01-19T13:35:00.000Z

To be envious of others is in everyone's nature. This my interpretation of this sin. This character has the powers to manipulate people's thoughts using her green eyes of peril. The green flame represents the burning desire to get what she wants and with her mind manipulation she will stop at nothing. Her stealth is another strong point as you dont know she is infecting you with her will. An unstoppable villian perhaps......

Eat Yourself Happy

2012-01-13T05:16:00.003Z

Given my failure to post anything for the last two months, I decided to draw this up as soon as I'd settled on an image.

They may not wear spandex, but don't let that fool you. Colonel Sanders and Ronald McDonald are as evil as they come.

I've always been quite vocal about my hatred of fast food places, partly because of their treatment of animals, but mainly because their products are almost entirely devoid of nutrients. That's fine if you're the sort of person who mainly indulges in a Big Mac or a bucket of chicken tenders after a night out, or once in a blue moon, but less so if your a 'parent' who feeds their kids there multiple times a week.

I think fast food represents two of the seven deadly sins, Sloth and Gluttony. One 'cause you're too lazy to cook something decent, the other 'cause the 'food' is rarely filling so you've to eat a bucket-load to feel satisfied (or sick, in my case)

Bit of a Favour to Ask...

2012-01-09T18:08:00.002Z

Hey all...

I've a good friend in the US (Christian Cuff, who I've done album covers for in the past) and he contacted me in the last week to ask if I might be up for doing a piece of artwork to auction off. His brother Jake was just diagnosed with leukaemia and they're organising a bunch of fund-raising gigs to help with the medical expenses. Anyway, he's already setting up to auction off a portrait done by me (portrait of the highest bidder) and I figured it couldn't hurt to ask if any of you fancied doing something similar.

No pressure of course, but it can't hurt to ask :) I'm working non-digitally on this 'cause an original piece will probably fetch more (I hope).

Let me know if you're interested (elainesnowden@gmail.com). Thanks a million.

January theme - Seven Deadly Sins

2012-01-01T15:46:00.000Z

I was thinking that having over-indulged over the festive period that I'd let it be inspiration. So after being a 'glutton' I was thinking of making this months theme based on the Seven Deadly Sins. So basically pick one or all of the sins and create them as a super villian or team of super villians. Hopefully that will provide some inspiration! :)

Bah Humbug - Nasty Little Grinch

2011-12-31T17:36:00.001Z

A real quickie for this months posting! I decided to include a little nursery rhyme I made up too :)

'This little Grinch isn't nice or cute.
He carries a big knife in his boot.

So little kiddies hand over the
pressies that Santa brought ya.
Cause this little Grinch ain't foolin'...
He really will cut ya!

Bah Humbug!

2011-12-19T15:49:00.000Z

Hey guys, here is my pic for this month's theme. Cant get any more un christmasy than Ebenezer Scrooge. To all the Collective Thinker's out there, Merry Christmas to all, and also to the followers and viewers.

pan am roide

2011-12-05T23:20:00.001Z

I have been watching too much Pan Am. O_O

Pimp my ride

2011-12-04T22:06:00.004Z

It took a while to figure out what to do with this month's theme. After going through a few different ideas, I finally settled on this one. I tried out a rough, flat style this time.

December's Theme - Bah Humbug!

2011-12-02T02:46:00.002Z

Yes, I'm being lazy and going for the obvious Christmas theme, but in fairness my earlier idea was just 'Festive' haha. This is my absolute favourite time of year but even I have at least one thing that turns me into a total Grinch. What does it for you?

Pimp my Ride - Space Sk8r

2011-11-30T13:34:00.000Z

Pimp My Toy Ride

2011-11-29T19:35:00.000Z

Here is my drawing for pimp my ride. I could'nt think of anything to begin with then in popped Noddy so I pimped out his ride. It has all state of the art luxurys that any toy could wish for. Noddy especially loves his new sound system as his old car didnt even have a radio! Now he can listen to classic Toy Town hits.

Betty makes Don Draper cakes

2011-11-09T18:44:00.002Z

a very VERY late halloween post

for anyone that enjoys Mad Men!

Gore of War

2011-11-01T10:01:00.001Z

Sorry folks running really late on this one, stupidly busy month. but here's the sketch for the post im working on. im painting it up at the mo, ill have it dun as soon as i can.

Ben

November's Theme

2011-11-01T09:08:00.000Z

Righto Collective Chums, the theme for November is Pimp my Ride.
Pick a mode of transport and pimp it to suit yourself, from a shopping trolley to a spaceship or anything in between... as long as locomotion is possible. The nuttier the better :)

OCTOBER HORROR Barbed Wire Man...all he needs is a hug

2011-10-31T18:42:00.000Z

Zombie Boy

2011-10-29T21:33:00.000+01:00

Was going to stick to black & white to accommodate time constraints.... but you just can't draw a zombie without splashing some reds around, gore and gruesomeness a-go-go!
Now pick your favourite relative and/or friend, Zombie Boy has just eaten them : )

Sweeney Todd

2011-10-27T12:17:00.001+01:00

I had some trouble getting this right. I don't think I quite got it though. Ah sure I like the colors at least.

Just so ya know. I painted this in watercolour on A1 Fabriano paper. I created the blotted effect on the walls and ground with salt. It was taking too long to build up the darkness in watercolour, so when I was happy enough with it I photographed it in 4 sections, photo stitched and applied some filters. :)

It's All Just a Bunch of Hocus Pocus

2011-10-26T06:39:00.004+01:00

Watched my fav' Hallowe'en movie tonight and decided to base this month's post on it. Couldn't choose which version I prefer so I'm putting them both up.

http://elainesnowden.wordpress.com/2011/10/26/its-all-just-a-bunch-of-hocus-pocus/

2011-10-18T18:11:00.001+01:00

Here is my piece of tasteful horror. Had trouble with my comp colouring this so it's not done to a finish I would prefer but its better than nothing. Went for sort of the same theme as my previous post with the devil girls, wanted a 50's horror style poster. I think it came out well except the colouring......

Happy Helloween

2011-10-17T16:21:00.001+01:00

This is just a quick happy helloween I drew a few years ago, just added colour and text recently 4 fun. This is just for a laugh, im in the process of finishing my horror drawing and ill post hopefully this week :)

Ben's birds

2011-10-03T16:25:00.001+01:00

Here's my collective post for the theme "Birds Birds Birds". It features Black and White from Tekkonkinkreet, a favorite film of mine. I've wanted to draw these guys for a while now and I haven't drawn a city-scape in ages so I thought I'd try do the both here.

And as always I tried something new here too. I reversed my halftone dots, so instead of using the actual dots themselves I used the area around them. Just thought it would give me a more 'square-er' feel when sorting out the building silhouette.

I had a lot of fun with this one. I kept it B&W for obvious reasons. Since the theme was about birds I tried my best to keep them as much a character as Black and White are in this piece. I like the idea of the crow resting on blacks club and White playing with the only dove in the whole city.

White's imagination is a great element to play with. In the film about half the things he's interacting with aren't really there and some times he just floats in mid air. I thought I'd have him play with a dove that may or may not actually be there, that's up to you.

I'll blog again soon, laters!

One for Sorrow...

2011-09-30T21:39:00.010+01:00

And here's some 3D stuff I've been working on this month:

It's not a bird, but it's actually a quarter hippogriff on its mothers side so it nearly counts, right?

Aarggh!!

2011-09-30T17:23:00.003+01:00

I set out to do an abstract image of a birds eye, but when I did a google search for reference a picture of Captain Birdseye showed up and I had to draw him (plus the parrot, to keep the theme). I should have know that would happen!

totem bird bird bird

2011-09-30T10:06:00.005+01:00

i like totem poles!this one's a bit weird,

i actually hate that bird in the middle but anyway. :(

Birds, birds, big feckin' bird!

2011-09-30T10:00:00.001+01:00

I think this has inspired a possible series of big bird paintings for me.:) Got a little bit better this time, I think. I have my friend Photoshop back now to make it all better.

Octobers theme

2011-09-30T08:50:00.002+01:00

As October is the month for horror......lets have a REAL HORROR SHOW! I want to see this blog filled with unadulterated gore, filthy dark thoughts, and stuff you wouldn't want to upset your granny with!

All tasteful, I hope, but will leave that up to the individual artist!

Birds_Birds

2011-09-29T16:47:00.004+01:00

2011-09-26T12:59:00.000+01:00

Just some old photos of mine that relate to the theme, I have always liked these picts I took them in the Botanic gardens one day. I used these as reference for my new doodles in flash and on Post-its.

next tuesday

2011-09-23T10:36:00.001+01:00

hi folks, the next meet up is fast approaching, does anyone want to recommend a better place to meet up?

Birds Birds Birds

2011-09-21T14:09:00.000+01:00

Birds Birds Birds, of prey

2011-09-20T14:52:00.000+01:00

This is just a quick render of my hawk flying and looking for prey, its not finished yet its just a basic test animation. Hope to put the full version on in the next month......

Birds, Birds, Birds...sorta

2011-09-19T20:16:00.001+01:00

The theme’s ‘Birds, Birds, Birds’ but I ran with the human (or rather celestial) variety… angels. It’s mainly inspired by how the homeless are invisible to a lot of us and I thought I’d make them the angels. So while those of us who (want to) believe look to the skies maybe we should be looking closer to home.

Birds! Birds! Birds!...in Space

2011-09-17T21:21:00.000+01:00

Bird's

2011-09-04T21:59:00.002+01:00

Sorry serious lack of posting on my part, here's a mix of stuff I've done recently. Hope everyone's well

Cockatielsssssss

2011-09-02T21:32:00.000+01:00

Not Birds.

2011-09-02T19:31:00.001+01:00

Some Batmans I drewed.

Since my last Batman posted looks like it was drawn by an actual bat, I thought I'd better try and make it up to the caped crusader.

Birds animation

2011-09-02T15:44:00.001+01:00

So I see some old stuff has gone up I could do that too...Here are two flash animations I did of birds a while back. I plan on doing another piece so I will have an update near the end of the month.

Birds, birds, birds in flight!

2011-09-02T13:59:00.003+01:00

Hey guys, thanks for having me on the blog! Thought I'd jump straight in and add a short piece of animation I recently completed for a short film...it was ready to go and had birds in flight so I thought it was a sign :) This is an earlier version we later decided to do the birds in silhouette, but I like the lines so I wanted to post this one. Looking forward to next month's theme already!

Bird Flight from Karen Harte on Vimeo.

Phoenix Energy

2011-09-01T13:09:00.001+01:00

This is my mythological renewable energy solution. Painted in watercolour. Not quite back up to scratch with my painting, but these projects are helping. :D Slightly improved image added.

birds! birds!! birds!!!

2011-09-01T11:17:00.001+01:00

So Elaine says it's my turn to pick a subject. I thought long and hard and asked lots of advice from others. I really wanted to pick something as amazing as last months and as inspirational as the month before.

Hold on to your hats!

This months theme is: 'Birds, birds, birds!'

Collective Gathering Sketches

2011-09-01T02:07:00.002+01:00

Many thanks to Ben, Andrew and Jon for making the first three pages of

my new sketchpad pretty awesome :)

Batman by Ben

Batgirl by Andrew

Bat Hitchhiker by Jon

I don't have a scanner so, if it's possible, they look even better in real life :)

Collective Thinking Meet Up

2011-09-01T00:19:00.000+01:00

Here are my few sketches from the meet up

Medusa

2011-08-31T22:18:00.000+01:00

Sorry I missed Tuesday drinks. Next time.

August Collective thinking bg

2011-08-31T19:34:00.000+01:00

Im just posting up the bg that I did for my August post at the request of others. As I said this is the part I enjoyed most. I rarely do bg designs I did one recently and I liked it so I did another. I would like to add bottles and stuff in but it would take a long time to do..If I was to do it again I would probably play around with some textures.

Mythology with a Modern Day Twist - The Morrígan

2011-08-31T19:00:00.000+01:00

2011-08-31T15:39:00.002+01:00

hey all,

here is this months post.

I also missed last months post but thought id post it anyway.

Aggronauts

2011-08-31T14:59:00.001+01:00

11th hour!
Jason and the Argonauts+iPods etc= 2011

Collective Meet up

2011-08-31T13:03:00.001+01:00

Batman in a Day Doodle

Elaine and Jons lovely contributions to my sketch pad! :)

birth of venus

2011-08-31T12:46:00.003+01:00

after planning on doing a post for

6months i eventually did. here is the birth of venus

avec some sexy modern lingerie. ;)

Modern day Banshee

2011-08-29T12:35:00.000+01:00

This is an idea I had for the August Collective thinking. I looked into Irish Myths and was interested in doing a piece on a banshee. So this is a modern day banshee in a bar screaming at her date when he starts to fall asleep.I wonder who is going to pass away that night. I also did an animatic of the short just for fun. I spent most of my time working on the background as I enjoyed doing that it still needs a lot of filler but its ok.

Athena, Goddess of War

2011-08-27T00:26:00.000+01:00

So I had a few ideas this month. I decided on Athena, Goddess of War, since the theme is all over the news at the moment. I just wanted to do a strong, unafraid woman engrossed in battle. I thought it was a simple way of depicting real women playing a role in war and being heroes in their own right. It didn't turn out anything like I had envisaged, but its still ok!

Mythology with Modern Day Twist - Lady of the modern day lake

2011-08-26T20:18:00.000+01:00

Mythology with a Modern Day Twist- Cuchulainn

2011-08-25T22:36:00.001+01:00

Okay so it's another collective thinking blog post and it's another new style im trying out. I tried it with Spidey last month but I couldn't really get my head around it, I think it's starting to click with me now though. As soon as I started painting over mistakes rather than erasing them it all started to work out. I'll definitely do a few more of these, I really enjoyed it, and it's always great to learn a new style. Lots o fun to do and pretty handy to have professionally.

Here is Cuchulainn. I freakin Love Cuchulainn! I've been drawing him and reading about him since before I can remember. But I've never drawn him like this. Actually before I drew this I would have thought it to be near blasphemy to produce something like this about Cuchulainn. Well here we are, the piece is finished and I actually kinda like it, so it cant be that blasphemous.

My original idea about this was to have a close up on him sitting down with "Gae Bolga" ingraved into his gun. Gae Bolga was the name of his spear, it was a weapon that pretty much killed whoever and smashed through whatever got in its way. I really wanted to involve it in my painting and since I've been looking at a load of Ashley Wood lately I thought what a better way to involve it than as a big honking robot. And with the Ashley Wood influence so to came the Steampunk style.

Hope you like it!Until the next post, laters!

Ben

Maid Marian

2011-08-23T23:43:00.004+01:00

This took far too long to pull together but I'm glad I finished it. Nothing terribly profound or clever, I just ran with the basic idea of the '89-'94 kids' show 'Maid Marian & Her Merry Men'. In a nutshell, Robin's a dimwit & Marian's the leader. Gave Marian a bit of a costume update 'cause she's cool, y'know ;P Originally I had the pair of them side-by-side, with Marian looking bemused by Robin but I couldn't get it to work so this happened.

..and yes, I did re-use the sketch I did at the first 'Collective Gathering' haha.

Saturn

2011-08-22T01:40:00.004+01:00

The children of Saturn were devoured by their father, who sought to preserve his power and the universal status quo. Zeus escaped, and eventually returned to avenge his brothers and sisters and overthrow the old order. Sound familiar?

2011-08-10T21:27:00.001+01:00

BIT late, I know...completely missed the boat on the end of month thing for July but still wanted to post it! Battle of the Planets did it for me! :)

This Months Theme - Mythology with a Modern Day Twist

2011-08-01T13:43:00.005+01:00

Alright I think its my turn to pick. Pick a favourite story/character in mythology and give it a modern setting or any modern addition in any form or way. Enjoy!

Childhood Heroes

2011-08-01T13:36:00.002+01:00

Spent most of childhood with this guy, taught me a lot things in life.

Collect a lot of gold and jewels, run as fast as you can and smash tvs.

Childhood Heroes - The Movie

2011-07-31T23:36:00.000+01:00

Loved the theme for this month and I always knew it was going to be tough to pick my childhood heroes and I immediately thought that a montage was the way to go and since I'm a huge Drew Struzan fan I thought why not do a homage to him too.
The short list included the Six Million Dollar Man, Batman, Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon who made the cut, but others who didn't quite make it but could have included Captain Kirk, Starbuck, and Bo and Luke Duke... Would have been tough getting them all in.
I didn't get as much time on this as I'd like, but that's the way it goes :)
Hope you enjoy!

Childhood Hero

2011-07-31T14:30:00.000+01:00

Super Grover!

...and so began a lifetime love for Super Heroes.

Roald Dahl & Quentin Blake

2011-07-30T22:35:00.003+01:00

My favourite author as a kid was Roald Dahl. I re-read all his books over and over and over again. The books were made all the more magical by the illustrations of Quentin Blake. They are still both heroes of mine!

Childhood heroes

2011-07-25T12:25:00.003+01:00

In a distant time
in a distant room.
The planet New Texas a dream of freedom.
The country of free people so it could be.
But mingled always with an evil.

BraveStarr!

A man of the law came from somewhere
He had the strength like a wolf and a bear
Protector of the weak, he defies every danger
upholding the law Marshall BraveStarr

Bravestarr!

Eyes of the hawk, ears of the wolf

Bravestarr!

Strength of the bear, speed of the Pumas

Bravestarr!

BRAVESTAR!

Childhood hero

2011-07-22T10:22:00.000+01:00

Alright so i figured yesterday that my main idea for the this months post is taking me a little longer to crack, so on the odd chance that it takes me a little longer to figure out than the months deadline here's something I knocked out this morning.

I think I was only kid to prefer Leo over Raph, I just thought he was the best. and when i thought about it as I was drawing this, there are some Leo and Spidey character similarities, that maybe the reason why I love both those guys. But if anyone ever aks i'll say its cause Leo had swords! :)

Tried something new with this as well. I like the ink spatter and roughness of it all i reckon ill do more of these in the future and also go on to take em a lot further, watch this space.

The other post im working on is obviously Spidey (there's no way I'd be leaving him out), he'll be done in a different style alltogether

"Remember what master splinter thought us" - Leonardo

Childhood Heroes: Jungle Emperor

2011-07-18T18:32:00.005+01:00

I think my earliest memory is of being amazed by Kimba the White Lion (1965).
After a horriffic beginning when his mother drowns in a cage on a sinking ship, Kimba manages to swim to shore and return to his fathers kingdom. (I remember crying on many occasions during the series)
In his fight against his evil aunt and rogue lion, Claw; Kimba feels beaten and useless. He finds and hides away with the skinned remains of his father...which rather than causing him more grief inspires him to fight for his friends and his fathers land....wearing his fathers skin...ew.

This was pretty hardcore exciting when I was 5, and I was lucky enough at 24 to be able to visit a museum in his creators honour (Osamu Tezuka) and buy some of the original books and music. I know Osamu would have been delighted to know his story inspired someone as far away as Ireland. Its still an inspirational story to me, and was weird for me to find out the year Tezuka died was the same year I was so enjoying his story about a little white lion.

Uh...anyway....this washed-out picture was inspired by Kimbas speech to his father as he lay with the remains. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0LiFZUIaHs Excuse my bad Japanese.

UNJOY!

Also because I am a jerk here's the ones that didnt make the cut while I made up my mind:

Childhood Heroes: 80s dream team.

2011-07-17T12:31:00.003+01:00

I guess I probably watched too much tv as a kid, but these were (are) my personal favourites. I reckon there ain't a problem this team couldn't fix. Penny gadget with her book containing all knowledge, Rainbow Brite with near godess-level powers of life and death, Papa Smurf with his gnomic wisdom and leadership, Ullysses for diplomatic/seduction missions, and of course Optimus Prime for situations that require sheer blunt force trauma.

Incidentally collective thinkers, I found a resource on DA that you might find useful (or at least fun to look at). It's a mine of old model sheets and concept art for animated tv series and movies. Here's the link:

http://art-reference-vault.deviantart.com/

Jon.

how's about we meet up?

2011-07-15T10:16:00.006+01:00

Gary & myself have been talking about meeting up and working on some concept art, would anyone here be interested in joining us? How's Tuesday or Friday of next week sound? and then from there we can make it a regular thing.

Here's some Doodles from last night

Now for my crop o sketches, approximately in order of execution, near as I can recollect:

Joker by Ben. To my mind seems reminiscent of the early, "friendlier" Joker, before he was recast as a sociopathic monster.

Cornerface by Elaine. Nice Kirby-esque vibe off this, I feel.

Broody guy by Gary. If you look closely, you'll see him looming in the background of Elaine's sketch, above.

A sketch that may or may not be based on Elaine. If you think that's bad, you should see the ones I did of Andrew and Gary. On second thoughts, maybe you shouldn't.

Some kind of Troll featuring my "default nose" - something I didn't realise I was guilty of till Ben pointed it out!

This is Peter Parker if he had been bitten by a cricket instead of a spider, by Ben. I particularly like the strap-on abdomen. I imagine its sort of like a batman's utility belt. Who knows what delights lie within!

Gary here... here a few sketches from the other night. First up is a warm up pic that is as badly composed as can be... drawing off the page with loads of room behind. Rookie error.

Batman sketch, straight marker work so no hiding the mistakes.

So there was this weird Gerard Depardieu type dude staring at us all night so I just had to draw him... Not really of course... Just a weird sketch out of the ol' imagination.

Ben gave me this excellent brush pen to try out and this is what I did. Again, ink straight on page means all mistakes are forever...

Ben did this brilliant sketch of Spidey in my pad. Loves it! What can I say the boy's talented.

Elaine did this lovely sketch in my pad too. Now this is how to draw a female! Love it!

Indiana Jones

2011-07-13T14:48:00.000+01:00

My childhood hero, Indiana Jones. :D For anyone who has seen my hat, this wouldn't be much of a surprise.

For The Honour Of Greyskull!!!

2011-07-08T05:34:00.005+01:00

I know I am very early with this but, as I have quite a bit of free time at the moment, I figured I'd start drawing and see what happened. Took a while but I managed to decide on She-Ra as my childhood hero. I've meant to draw her before (countless times) but I've never been happy with the result. Anyway, simply for the fact that when I was little (and blonde haha) and my Dad would be blow-drying my hair, I'd make him send my hair all over the place a la She-Ra when she transforms, she's my childhood hero :)

Edit: Fixed the title 'cause I'm pedantic like that ;P

New Post - Childhood hero

2011-07-03T13:38:00.007+01:00

Got a feeling the turtles may make an appearance!

bit behind again I'll have my posts up next week.

Curious Dino!

2011-07-01T17:14:00.001+01:00

Dinosaurs at the Races

2011-07-01T11:42:00.004+01:00

Just a quick concept sketchy thing. Wanted to do something

a little different style wise. Didn't have much time though. :(

2011-07-01T11:07:00.000+01:00

Dinosaurs

2011-07-01T01:38:00.001+01:00

2011-06-30T19:33:00.000+01:00

So this is only my second contribution, but already I'm noticing a worrying trend in my posts... They all have the theme of the destruction of mankind! And I thought I was generally a cheery person!

Extinction

The breakthrough of breakthroughs!
A wonderous sight!
Wouldn't you know it?
Michael Crichton was right!

Using advanced genetics
And experimental science,
Mankind had resurrected
Nature's ancient giants.

Caught up in their own genius,
Ploughing ahead 'cause they could.
Not once did they pause
To consider if they should.

But of course! You've guessed it -
Their creations escaped!
The apocalypse is here...
... And it's DINOSAUR SHAPED!

Despite attempted cover-ups,
Panic quickly grew,
As the populous realised
The rumours were true!

Most species were herbivores
Which allowed some relief,
But a DNA mishap
Was to worsen Man's grief...

For vegetation no longer
Sated these beasts,
And they joined their brethren
In human meat feasts!

With so abundant a food source,
These reptiles could thrive
Whilst terrified people
Fought hard to survive.

Cities and villages -
All of them fell,
And the half-eaten corpses
Caused one hell of a smell!

Thankfully on land
The dinosaurs remained,
So this murderous outbreak
Was somewhat contained.

Of course, it was awful!
So tragic and sad!
But it's only one continent,
So it wasn't too bad!

Dinosaur

2011-06-30T19:16:00.005+01:00

I took the lazy way out this month and used an image I did a while ago of a plesiosaurus skeleton. Brings me back to my archaeology days :)

Dinosaurs

2011-06-30T14:26:00.001+01:00

Dinosaur

2011-06-28T18:45:00.000+01:00

Jurassic Wilde

2011-06-25T23:44:00.005+01:00

I was going for a dinosaur hunter idea and cast the action gal' du jour Olivia Wilde in the role. Not sure I was very successful resemblance-wise, but it is my first attempt at drawing her.

On a completely unrelated subject, I may be watching 'House' too much haha.

Dinosaurs

2011-06-24T21:35:00.002+01:00

Triceratops: surely the baddest vegetarians ever to walk the earth.

Jon

Dinosaurs - Velocirapper

2011-06-16T16:18:00.001+01:00

Hey guys it's good to part of Collective Thinking and here's my very first post. My first dinosaur pic ever too I think. Really enjoyed doing this and took a few liberties with the theme, but what the hell. It was only as I was drawing the arms that I realised they looked a little ''Westsiiiide'' and from there put on the cap, chain and thought of a name that would work and tie it all in. I know it probably looks nothing like a real Velociraptor... Anyway all done from head, no reference.
Included a process pic too. Hope you like it. G

Dinosaurs

2011-06-11T20:02:00.003+01:00

So I was pretty sly this month, managed to knock out a monthly post with a well over due favour for a friend of mine. My mate does a lot of racing and he asked me before Christmas would I do some kind of dinosaur design for his racing helmet. So months n months later here it is. Sorry mate, turns out I don't have as much time as I thought I did. At least u get the rest of the racing season out of it.

His racing helmet is white so I kept the bg white and the rest of his racing gear is red so, red felt like the right colour for the dinosaur.

Above is a test with a font and the bottom is a bigger version of the raptor for the blogs sake. Nice and early with the monthly post this month so anything else I post will be bonus points!

This is the main graph for the helmet I should get the finished design up after a bit more work with my m8, maybe by the end of the month... I've kept him waiting long enough.

below is iteration1, on the big dinosaur head i painted in a scaly texture just to add a bit o life to it. Obviously its no longer gonna b a white helmet

Heroes of the 21st Century

2011-06-05T19:15:00.006+01:00

Yoda force-surfing on R2D2. This is in anticipation of the moment, later this century, when Star Wars becomes public domain and we, the people can "fix" it.

New Post - Dinosaurs

2011-06-03T15:57:00.000+01:00

Hi guys I was thinking that this month we could work on this Title "Dinosaurs" . cause lets face it Dinosaurs are awesome.

Ben

Heroes of the 21st Century

2011-06-01T00:15:00.000+01:00

posted by Deirdre de Barra

The Original 21st Century Hero

2011-05-31T23:49:00.006+01:00

I was going to try something very political for my hero piece but I ran out of time and sold out to doing a quick sketch of Spiderman 2099. The original 21st century hero

21st Century Heroes

2011-05-31T18:16:00.003+01:00

Jane Fonda rules - the woman is in her 70's and is still rockin it.

21st century heroes

2011-05-31T17:19:00.002+01:00

i feel a bit wrong that others went for actual people and i still go for computer game characters........ oh well

21st Century Heroes

2011-05-31T17:16:00.004+01:00

Above is cartoon I saw last month, in and around the time the SEALS got Bin Laden (duh!). I just thought it was cool, so when anna picked the theme for this month, I thought I would do my own version of the piece. Just got informed that the artist of the original piece is J.D. Crowe. It's such a powerful piece.

Turned out referencing these two guys was pretty tuff, couldn't find the same Helmet that's in the original one, but while looking I saw that the SEALS also used another hat so I thought I'd use that one (I was also pressed for time). This is just my interpretation is all. I put the two towers in the BG cause thats pretty much what I saw when I looked at the original, it's almost like America is complete again... I dunno, The cartoon really worked for me, just hope I did some kind of justice to it.

Artist Rendition of the Mr. Kipling

2011-05-31T12:21:00.002+01:00

The ability to consistantly make awesome cakes.
The portrait of the fine man himself. Its the least I could do.

the Caped Crusader

2011-05-30T13:16:00.003+01:00

just a loose sketch this time round

Heroes of the 21st Century

2011-05-30T10:08:00.004+01:00

'Thanks Tina' by Elaine Snowden

I picked Tina Fey 'cause, not only did her impersonation of Sarah Palin effectively ruin her vice presidential campaign and save the world from THAT horrible prospect, but she also wrote Mean Girls :D

Crazy Hobo

2011-05-17T14:22:00.000+01:00

Sorry it's late ( and barely started let alone almost finished), but I only got round to a concept sketch. I was playing with the idea of having one of those kellogg's crunchy nut people who has basically become a crunchy nut junkie. This is Eric, Eric was kind of a big deal but now he just deals crunchy nut boxes. He sells off what he can to kids and takes their pocket money to buy more of the good stuff. Eric like most crunchy nuts, prefers his cereal straight from the box milk poured right in and like most crunchy nuts Eric has sold the shirt right off his back just to get his hands on some... poor Eric

I'll try n finish a post this month

Collective Thinking

March Theme - Zombies

Dire Clan

The things that keep you safe at night.

7 Deadly Sins : Wrath

Suggested topic for this month

The Deadly Sinners

Envy

Vanity

The deadliest sin

Eat Yourself Happy

Bit of a Favour to Ask...

January theme - Seven Deadly Sins

Bah Humbug - Nasty Little Grinch

Bah Humbug!

pan am roide

Pimp my ride

December's Theme - Bah Humbug!

Pimp my Ride - Space Sk8r

Pimp My Toy Ride

Betty makes Don Draper cakes

Gore of War

November's Theme

OCTOBER HORROR Barbed Wire Man...all he needs is a hug

Zombie Boy

Sweeney Todd

It's All Just a Bunch of Hocus Pocus

Happy Helloween

Ben's birds

One for Sorrow...

Aarggh!!

totem bird bird bird

Birds, birds, big feckin' bird!

Octobers theme

Birds_Birds

next tuesday

Birds Birds Birds

Birds Birds Birds, of prey

Birds, Birds, Birds...sorta

Birds! Birds! Birds!...in Space

Bird's

Cockatielsssssss

Not Birds.

Birds animation

Birds, birds, birds in flight!

Phoenix Energy

birds! birds!! birds!!!

Collective Gathering Sketches

Collective Thinking Meet Up

Medusa

August Collective thinking bg

Mythology with a Modern Day Twist - The Morrígan

Aggronauts

Collective Meet up

birth of venus

Modern day Banshee

Athena, Goddess of War

Mythology with Modern Day Twist - Lady of the modern day lake

Mythology with a Modern Day Twist- Cuchulainn

Maid Marian

Saturn

This Months Theme - Mythology with a Modern Day Twist

Childhood Heroes

Childhood Heroes - The Movie

Childhood Hero

Roald Dahl & Quentin Blake

Childhood heroes

Childhood hero

Childhood Heroes: Jungle Emperor

Childhood Heroes: 80s dream team.

how's about we meet up?

Indiana Jones

For The Honour Of Greyskull!!!

New Post - Childhood hero

Curious Dino!

Dinosaurs at the Races

Dinosaurs

Dinosaur

Dinosaurs

Dinosaur