Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Missiles!

There's a little extra "volume" in this piece I know.
Ahem.
It's a gift for a couple friends... friends who are a couple. You know what I mean. There are two of them. Friends I mean.
Anyway she's their creation HyperJen.

I was going for more of a retro 50's version of the character.


I couldn't decide which version of the scan to post, so you get both! I like the crispness of the high contrast scan but I also like the cool variations in materials that you can see in the color scan. Including the zip-a-tone on the space stuff and rocket.


Inking is fun. I need to get back into it more.



36 comments:

Kristina Bustamante said...

Yeeuh! SPACE GIRL!!! The cleanup work on this is rock solid. Way to go!

Desiree said...

Oh, very retro indeed ^-^

Larry Levine said...

Your work is awesome!!!

Fabry Fab Workbench said...

I LOVE THE ROCKET!!! :) NO, I PREFER SPACE GIRL DEFENITELY

Scribbler said...

Wow!! Fanatstic work!

Odd Voodoo said...

Holy asteroids! Great pic!

Unknown said...

I like the second one the best! the contrast adds a whole lot you don't notice in the first!

Shane said...

Bill, you are easily one of my biggest inspirations right now as I struggle to learn to realy draw girls ( LOL seriously ) and this kind of stuff is why.. Fantastic man... thank you for sharing..

WOW!

Brian said...

I love retro space girl stuff and this one is - excuse the pun - out of this world.

Nicolas Martinez said...

Very nice! :)

Liana Hee said...

Bill..you're funny. I love this girl and her humongous boobs!

Anonymous said...

Liana, you know the person who she is modeled after! Thus the boobs.

Joey Lee said...

I love you.

monkeyfeather said...

Great drawing, and your inks are KILLER.

Liana Hee said...

Ikumi..I knew right away! I think it's a fantastic representation of her!

Vanhoozerbot said...

Really brilliant.
Big fan.

JV

Michael Dooney said...

Great pose and girl, endowed or not. I know what you mean about the color scans of bw artwork...it definitely shifts from warm to cool when it's strictly bw. There are some great full color scans of Dave Stevens bw ink art in the new book about him Brush with Passion you should check out if you don't already have a copy.

Adam Kaszycki said...

Stellar! And, YES, more inked pieces! Keep up the killer artwork.

Tatevik Avakyan said...

Beautiful work!

bpresing said...

Thanks everybody. I'm really happy with the piece.

Mike,
I do have the Dave Stevens book, it's fantastic! I'd forgotten how big an influence he was on me when I was young, and didn't even realize his continued effect on me know.

Meesimo said...

Excellent drawing man, from inception through cleanup, great stuff.

Kei Acedera said...

SO Cool!!

Dave Dick said...

Looks beautiful! It's nice to see the
zip-a-tone, too!

Jason Johnson said...

You have great work, Bill. So much energy, and the girls are super cute.

James Dylan said...

Bang Zoom, to the moon Alice! awesome work dude.

Nathanael Lark said...

Gorgeous work! Thanks for posting the preliminary sketches as well.

Totoche Tannenen said...

Sacrée paire d'obus.

Lydia Sanchez said...

So cute!

^___^

William Bradford said...

Thanks for including the different stages of the art (like on the valentine one, too). It's nice to see the process.

I love the extra arc that the billows on the boots add.

Pedro Vergani said...

Amazing Work!
I've just became your fan.

Lindsay said...

just wanted to let you know how inspiring you are to me.... and tell you that this girl is too sassy... i love her :) golly gosh your women are cute. hah

Francesca Paolucci said...

Great piece!

XAV said...

your friends are lucky !

Floyd Norman said...

The late Dave Stevens and I were pals back at Disney and Hanna-Barbera. We both worked for Doug Wildey.

I think Dave would have loved your drawing.

XOXO said...

What a fantastic piece! I came across you completely by accident, but am totally smitten.

Cheers!

XO

bpresing said...

Thanks for the sentiment Floyd, Dave is one of my heroes.