“The mighty Ms. Marvel packs a mighty punch!”
Sketch entitled, “Miss Marvel.” Illustration done on tone paper with black and white color pencils.
Sketch of Miss Marvel
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Sketch of Billy Idol’s, “Dancing With Myself” Music Video
“On the floor of Tokyo
Or down in London town to go, go
With the record selection
And the mirror’s reflection
I’m dancing with myself…”
Sketch entitled, “Billy Idol: Dancing With Myself.” Illustration on tonepaper done with black and white color pencil. I had the random idea of, “what if the music video to this song had a montage style movie poster?” This is what I came up with, lol. Long Live The 80s!!!
Sketch of Renegades of Steam City
“In a World powered by Steam, three Outlaws stand against the Monarchy that controls it.”
Sketch entitled, “Renegades of Steam City”. Illustration is based on characters from a personally created story within the Steampunk genre currently in development. This piece was done on tone-paper using black color pencil and charcoal white pencil.
Mysteries of The Unexplained Art Show at the Bears and Bird Boutique + Gallery!
Exploring the Supernatural!
Are you a fan of the strange and unusual? Maybe even get kicks from the Unexplained Paranormal? Then come out to the Bears and Bird Boutique + Gallery located within Tate’s Comics on October 4th and join us for the Mysteries of The Unexplained Art Show!
Peer into the Supernatural world through creatively inspired artwork done by many of the local artists including yours truly!
Please share and join in on all the spooky fun! RSVP On the Official Facebook event page! https://www.facebook.com/events/1376005772635501/
The Steampunk Legion Art Show at The Into The Woods Art Gallery and Body Art Studio!
The Steampunk Legion Art Show at The Into The Woods Art Gallery and Body Art Studio!
Come out this September 28th to The Steampunk Legion Art Show at The Into The Woods Art Gallery and Body Art Studio to witness Steampunk inspired artwork done by many of the local artists including yours truly!
As a huge fan of Steampunk, this will be the second time I will be submitting work to The Legion’s show (You can see my blog entry to the first show here). Again, I also want to give a special thanks to Vaughn Reynolds for inviting me to this awesome exhibition and look forward to doing many more in the future!
Please share and join in on the fun! If you’re on Facebook, RSVP by visiting the event page at https://www.facebook.com/events/544689215586103
Artwork is now available for purchase on Society 6!
Johnny Tie Studios now has a brand new store on Society 6 where you can by my artwork!
Hey folks! I’m proud to announce that my artwork is now available for purchase on Society 6! You can now get everything from prints, shirts, hoodies, tank tops, iPhone cases, iPad cases, tote bags, throw pillows, and much more for sale!
Links to my Society 6 store front has been added to the navigation menu on this blog, found here. As well as onto the navigational menu bar on my personal site, found here.
You can also directly check it out, by heading over to society6.com/johnnytiestudios!
Battle Angel: Alita – Gally from GUNNM
“You gave me my life, Daisuke… If I’m an angel, what does that make you?”
This illustration is inspired by one of my all-time favorite manga series besides, “Ghost In The Shell”, “Akira”, and “Full-Metal Alchemist”. Gally (also known as Alita, in the American translated version), is the protagonist of the manga series, “GUNNM” AKA “Battle Angel” and “Battle Angel Alita: Last Order”, which tells the tale of an amnesiac female cyborg. Whose interacted head and chest are found by cybermedic expert Daisuke Ido in the local dump of the futuristic dystopian world where this story takes place.
She is both lethal as she is beautiful… Not to mention, the only fictional character I’ve had a crush on… I’m not ashamed to admit it! Lol. Also, I hear rumors about James Cameron possibly adapting this series into a live-action film. If so, Mr. Cameron… If you’re reading this; feel free to hire me as one of your concept artist… It would definitely be a dream come true!
Sketch of Logan – The Wolverine
“I’m the best there is at what I do, but what I do best isn’t very nice.”
As part of my never-ending practice in my quest to improving my drawing skills further, here’s a sketch I whipped up of Logan; the immortal mutant better known as, The Wolverine. It’s the first time I take up the medium of using grey tone-paper along with black pencil and white charcoal pencil to render out a figure. It’s an awesome technique I’ll definitely be using in future sketches.
Sketch of Amy Pond as played by Karen Gillan
“When I was a little girl I had an imaginary friend, and when I grew up, he came back. He’s called the Doctor.” – Amy Pond.
Here’s a sketch I did of Karen Gillan as the lovable ginger Amelia Jessica “Amy” Pond, and faithful former companion of The Doctor. She shall be missed!
Sketch of The Eleventh Doctor played by Matt Smith
“The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and…bad things. The good things don’t always soften the bad things, but vice versa, the bad things don’t necessarily spoil the good things or make them unimportant.” -The Doctor (‘Vincent and the Doctor’)
I am man enough to admit that I honestly cried at the last moments of The Tenth Doctor. In the two-part send-off The End of Time, the Tenth incarnation confronts the Ood about their original prophecy and is led to present-day Earth where, in the second part, the newly-resurrected Master (played by John Simm) restores Gallifrey and the Time Lords to existence, although he redeems himself by assisting The Doctor to defeat Time Lord President Rassilon (played by Timothy Dalton) before disappearing alongside the other Time Lords. The Doctor sacrifices his life to save Wilfred Mott, exposing himself to 500,000 rads of deadly radiation and thus triggering his regeneration.
He holds it back and is shown visiting several of the companions we came to know during his run on Doctor Who.[a] He gives Donna Noble (played by Catherine Tate) a winning lottery ticket on her wedding day, buying it with money he borrowed from her late father in the past, saves Martha Jones and Mickey Smith (played by both Freema Agyeman and Noel Clarke) from a Sontaran sniper, saves Sarah Jane’s son Luke (played by Tommy Knight) from a car, introduces Captain Jack Harkness (played by John Barrowman) to a potential romantic interest (played by Russell Tovey), and finally, just before regenerating into The Eleventh Doctor (played by Matt Smith), he informs Rose in 2005 that she is about to have a “great year”. As he begins regenerating, his last words are “I don’t want to go”.
It’s here that I began sobbing like a baby, and most Whovian fans would agree, one tends to grow attached to a particular Doctor they have connected with, and The Tenth was truly my Doctor. Besides brilliant storylines courtesy from the amazing Doctor Who writers and production team, the actors themselves with their flawless acting give you no choice but to believe in their performance and thus you click with them on an emotional level as you would with someone like a best friend or loved one. It was sad to see The Tenth Doctor go and it was an amazing ride. To David Tennant, thank you for giving us a memorable and definitely unforgettable Doctor.
But like always, Doctor Who is about looking forward and pressing on. Thanks to new show runner Steven Moffat and the rest of the Doctor Who production team, the future of the series continues to flourish with the wise casting of Matt Smith as The Eleventh incarnation of The Doctor. At first, I was a little taken back by this new Doctor, and funny enough, I found myself withhold from opening myself completely to a person I apparently didn’t know anymore. But that didn’t last long as The Eleventh Doctor ultimately wins you over with his newly reconfigured energetic and eccentric personality, while at the same time doing and saying things that will remind you that he in fact is The Doctor… But just a little different in the noggin.
The Eleventh Doctor is portrayed as a brash and lively man who is rather arrogant and vain but has a great deal of affection for his loved ones. He’s at times arguably downright childish, which allows him to connect very well with children. However, there are also times when he acts his age, such as when he retires in Victorian London after the loss of Amy Pond and Rory Williams (two companions that the newly regenerated Doctor befriended earlier on in his new life, and are played by both Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill) and becomes a grumpy and solitary man who refuses to interact with others until he is charmed by Clara Oswald (played by Jenna-Louise Coleman).
Unlike his two most recent incarnations, this Doctor seems oblivious to details about human mainstream pop culture, besides a few references to classic literature, and is often seen embarrassing his companions with his attempts to be cool (including enthusiastic dancing). He even seems unfamiliar with certain adult activities such as sharing a bed, providing bunk beds in the TARDIS for the married Ponds, and drinking wine, spitting it back into the glass after trying it. He is also helpless at responding to romantic advances, acting awkwardly when River Song (played by Alex Kingston), Amy, and Clara try to seduce him; however, there are times when he behaves more maturely in romantic situations, frequently flirting with River and eventually marrying her, despite his usual discomfort with romance.
The Eleventh Doctor takes us through several adventures that introduce us to both new villainous alien life-forms as well as marking the return of some old ones, New friendships are made while old ones come to an end, and among anything else, he takes us through several new story arcs that not only reinvents the manner clever time-traveling plot devices are used, but how we see The Doctor himself. This becomes even more apparent when we finally discover the very secret The Doctor has been hiding this whole time; In “The Name of the Doctor“, the Doctor falls victim to a plot devised by the Great Intelligence, who holds the Doctor’s friends captive on the planet Trenzalore, where the Doctor will one day die and be buried.
Within the Doctor’s tomb, the Great Intelligence uses the Doctor’s remnants—his disembodied “timestream”—to spread himself across the Doctor’s history, turning his many victories into defeats. Despite objections from River Song, who at this point in her timeline is dead and is guiding Clara from beyond the grave, Clara goes after the Great Intelligence and is scattered throughout the Doctor’s timeline, where she undoes all of the Great Intelligence’s work, becoming Oswin Oswald and Clara Oswin Oswald, among others in the process. The Doctor has a sorrowful conversation with River’s phantom, and with a kiss gives his dead wife some closure. The Doctor enters his timeline to retrieve the original Clara; while rescuing her, she discovers a previously unknown incarnation (played by John Hurt) that he says broke the promise he made by taking “the Doctor” as his name, even though it was for the sake of peace and sanity.[34]
This is where we are left off in the whole history of Doctor Who, and will find out more when The Eleventh Doctor comes back during the Doctor Who’s 50th Anniversary Special episode, which also includes the return of The Tenth Doctor (played by David Tennant) and his companion Rose Tyler (played by Billie Piper). Finally, we will learn of The Doctor’s ultimate destiny during the Christmas Special and beyond.
In closing, sketching these eleven Doctor Who portraits were a blast to do, and it will definitely not be the last time I do something like it again. I have some really cool ideas for future Doctor Who inspired pieces. But till then I’m going to be focusing on further improving my illustration skills, exploring new subject matter, and aiming to perhaps changing or modifying my rendering style. Till then, folks! Thanks for watching!
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