I was watching some kid channel, and some new cartoons, and nostalgia came over me. I do not want to sound like a old man, saying that everything in the old days was better, i promised that i wouldn't when i was a kid and i am not going to go that way.
So the cartoons today are different than the ones when i was a kid, but not necessarily better or worst,(How did that came out?) but anyways i miss some of the old cartoon characters and series, one of them was "He-Man and The Masters of the Universe", who remembers that??
He-Man was a barbarian (with a really strange hair cut ) that had a coward green tiger as a pet, and a sword that gave him incredible powers when he said "For the powers of grayskull"or something like that, and it would transform his coward tiger in a wild battle cat. Together they fight against their life enemy "Skeletor". And so i decided i should sketch He-Man, to be honest he doesn't look the hero he used to when i was a kid, i think is the hair cut, if HeMan came back he would need a new haircut that didn't make him look like a page.
The ones who are old enough to remember He-Man will for sure agree to me that: "He-Man is the cartoons Chuck Norris!
Peace!
Superman, real name Clark Kent, talks about his and other heroes childhood.
" Well our childhood was nothing funny and great as many would think it was. We where not that good accepted in school, you see mine and Bruce parents where kind of good friends, and they had this weird idea of fashion, so my mum did my hair everyday before i went to school, so i had to go with this little curl on my forehead, so did Bruce's mom but he bought this mask and used it to hide it as soon as he was away from her. And as if it was not enough, they made us walk around with this kind of underwear over our pants and capes.
Bruce was all into computers and technology, and back then, if you where like that, people would call you a nerd. There were three kids more; Bob was huge and green, and he could not talk, he always made the same sound, something like "hulk". He was a really good kid, but he had big problems with his temper and when he lost it... oh man! He would break everything around him. Then there was Anung Un Rama, he came from another country - and we just called him Rama. He was all red, had a tale and horns, he used to cut them because he was tired of people saying he came from hell. And the last one was Pete, he was an orphan and lived with his uncle and aunt. They were poor and could not afford much, so his aunt used to sew his cloths.
Well we were all different for different reasons, but the kids at school could not understand it, so they called us all kinds of names, they put us appart, we could never play with them, in sports we were always the last to be picked for the football teams and sometimes they even beat us. It was really sad.
When we came of age, we decided to use our "difference" to make "The difference", and so we started to haunt down bullies and bad people to help the cops. Hulk had a difficult time, cause sometimes he lost his nerves and destroyed more than he helped, but we were always there to help him calm down and later he gained control. Most of the bad guys that we found were the bullies from school, the ones that had beaten us up and made our life miserable. They had grown to become criminals and loosers. Suddenly we were all famous, people wanted to be like us, they dressed like us, some even made plastics to get horns like "Hell Boy" or painted their bodies green. We could not believe it, us; the kids no one liked, the uncool ones were now heroes and the coolest ones in the World. We even inspired some people to start a special school something called "X-Man" or something like that.
But the hard times we had at school we will never forget. So a message to the bullies out there; "Behave, or we are coming after you!"
I know, I know... it has been a long time since my last sketch.
I apologize for that, i have been kind of busy with another project, but i am back now, this time with a sketch in Illustrator.
I normally use normal paper, SketchBook Pro and Photoshop to create my work, but it was time i tried the wonders of vector programs, and i am really impressed with it. I definitely need to sit and play with Illustrator more often, it is a whole new program to me, and i have much to learn until i can get the results i would like to, but it is really cool to work with vector. Well this is what i got out of it for now, but i will come with some more vector illustrations. Until then have a nice time and take care of each other!
Well i don't care how many "Call of Duty", FIFA, or W.O.W they release, Super Mario Bros. still is my favorite game ever.
I know that graphics, music and all in the new games are better and more realistic, but you know what? Sometimes realism can kill the fun of it. A plummer with a huge mustache, running around killing Gumbas eating coins and mushrooms, trying to save a princess form the bad Bowser (some kind of weird Dragon), hmmm... i am not making it sound that good, am i? Well i don't know how to explain it, but Mario was and still is a game i love to play so i made a sketch of the Hero, kind of high on mushrooms!
This is again one of these sketches that does not have a story or a name.
Sometimes you just draw not knowing where to go or what to expect, you just keep sketching, the in the end (sometimes) you got something out of it.
Well this is what i got out of an" insomnia night", a kind of female hero, also known as "Heroine" that to me sounds like some drug or something :D But here she is dressed in red and on fire, a hero with no name no past no story no powers, waiting for some creative mind to write her story down! So if you got some good ideas please feel free to leave a comment!
I just got a new external hard drive, so i was taking a look at the old one to see what i had there and came across two old sketches of Batman and Superman. It is amazing how they still look the same, it doesn't matter how old the sketches are the superheros do not age. It's kind of funny, as they all have a dubble life, doesn't anyone of Clark Kents friends ever think about how strange it is that he always looks the same?
Well this gave me the inspiration to make another sketch, this time of an aged superhero, but cause i did not want to offend any of the "dinosaur superheros" i just created a new one and called her Super Granny!!
