Scotty Newton - All Round Entertainer

That's right people, this week marked my return to competitive art. As mentioned last week, I'm competing in the Summer Smash movie tournament over at Outcast Studios and my first round match up was due this week. My opponent Dany2069 and I were given the movie 'Aliens' and told to go nuts and just produce any kind of related art. Could be a poster, tonal study, favourite moment, just anything. Time was not on my side this week though with my Web Design job and weeping over my failed haircut taking up alot of time. I did however quickly churn this out. This of course is a teaser poster for a movie that doesn't exist. I tried to make the idea as simple as possible, giving you a clear idea of what the movie would be about etc. If I had time, I would maybe go back and fix the horrible anatomy but hey I'm happy enough for a few hours. Here's what Dan the man through up He's definitely nailed the essence and tone of the Alien franchise m...

So for today's new project I decided to learn how to use the Pen Tool in Photoshop and how it could be used to create vector based artwork. It's all about outlining shapes in a much more precise way than the Lasso tool and using them as custom shapes that can be coloured, resized and pretty much manipulated any way imaginable. Nothing too complicated yet 'cos it really takes a while to get used to, but here's what I've managed to come up with so far More comin' your way soon!

That's right people ROUND 2 IS HERE and for the first time I'M ACTUALLY IN IT! So I won my last fight against the great Rachael Wells and I was pitted against the 2 time CBR winner and dutch pro comic artist, SirWaka. Problem #1 - opponent I was also on a film set for a few days this week and had some pre production work to do for that. Problem #2 - time Oh yeah and I've a wrist that looks partially broken/fractured/I'll find out when I get time to go to A&E. Problem #3 - injury Annnd I'm using a tablet that I've only used once before and barely know any of the controls for. Problem #4 - er..... tablet.... So things aren't looking to great 6 hours before deadline when I have nothing but a blank page and floating ideas and SirWaka's already posted an extremely intimidating preview of his piece. Anyways, with the help of my left hand, an extremely slow pace and some smoothing features on MangaStudio I came up with this My entry Really...

*By the way, this fight is a week or two old and my piece was completed on my old tablet and not my new shiny Intuos!* It's time for the third Character Battle Royale Tournament over at Outcast Studios! The tagline is 'evil shall rise' this time and the theme is villains. No more tag teams, this is every man for himself! The idea is for each participant to choose a villain. They are then teamed up with someone else in a one on one fight to the death. Each artist will draw BOTH characters locked in mortal combat. Pretty much this guy but about 300000x bigger My chosen warrior is..... Galactus , the devourer of worlds! (from Fantastic Four) Why? I just thought it would be interseting to see how everyone would approach a one on one fight when one of the participants is bigger than a planet. So yeah in Round One I got paired off with the consistently great Rachael Wells. She chose Loki (from Thor) meaning both of us would have to draw Galactus vs. Loki ...