Scotty Newton - All Round Entertainer

This is it folks! Here's the entries to Round 1 of the 4th Character Battle Royale Tournament! A quick recap on how it works.... Every artist picks ONE character. This character stays with them. They are paired up against another artist and their character. Each artist must show a battle between the 2 characters. If you look at my blog post from about 2 entries ago, you'll see that I chose Goku from Dragonall and my opponent chose Cucumber from Cucumber Quest. Well my opponent from what I can tell is a very experienced comic artist with loooooads of experience in full colour comic strips and a day job (ithink in animation) that involves drawing every day. I needed to up my game. What do you think? Click to view full size Here's what my opponent delivered Wow those are some serious colours and such a quirky style going in there. I'll updated with the results, but at the moment I'm 24-11 up in votes :)

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...

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 ...

Yes you did read the title right. Ben 10. My first fight on Battle Artist and I signed up before the subject was announced. And I get Ben 10. I have no idea what Ben 10 is apart from a kids' TV show that thinks it can replace Dragonball. Anyway from what I can see Ben is a shapeshifting alien. Or a kid who can shapeshift into aliens or.... something. Anyway I decided to go for a more realistic approach- taking a photo of myself and going back to Manga Studio and digital inking. Here's my first ink outlines on Manga Studio aaaaand the Photoshop flats and the first tones in PS And the final versions with slightly more 'alien' looking colours Will post when I see what my opposition submits!