Trinquétte nude

My late entry to last week's Trinquétte Publishing drawing challenge. Pencil and Photoshop.

CLICK FOR UNCROPPED IMAGE (Warning: nudity)

Revamped Smurfette Vamp

A revamped version of my 2006 Smurfette art done for an upcoming exhibition on the Gold Coast to help celebrate Queensland Pop Culture Week and the Gold Coast Film Festival. Ten of my artworks (including this one) will be on display at the Gold Coast Sofitel Hotel in April.

Christina Hendricks

Pencil with Photoshop colour.

 

New Year sketches

I was a bit slow off the mark this year with art due to moving house and having a little slump in creativity...but, I'm back at it with a renewed enthusiasm. Here are some sketches from 2013 so far...

Pop & Twist

My most recent REVOLVER double pager in the latest January issue, featuring Twisted Sister and Motionless in White. I went for a retro 80's pop art look for this one.

Below is a version without the text.

Rock! Shock! and Horror...

A couple of Double page illustrations from a recent REVOLVER Halloween issue.

First one is Slipknot's Corey Taylor interviewing Wes Craven, the second is from an article with Pantera's Phil Anselmo interviewing Devil's Rejects actor Bill Moseley.

Both are available as limited edition prints at my store- www.chriswahl.storenvy.com/

Online Store now open!

I now have an online store where I'm selling signed and numbered, high quality prints of my art, so if you've ever wanted to put some Wahl on your wall, now's your chance.

www.chriswahl.storenvy.com/

Here's some size samples of the larger prints available (13" x 19").

Hoth Intruder

It's been 5 years between them but I finally got around to doing an accompanying piece to my Chewbacca Hoth Encounter illustration. This Han Solo piece was done for Acme Archives and was launched at the recent Star Wars Celebration Expo in Orlando, Florida. Below you can see some work in progress of the art.

King Triceratops

Done for a dinosaur playing card set for Dino Wars/Jurassic Lounge and the Australian Museum.

Double barrel Revolver

A couple more rock illustrations done for REVOLVER magazine.

Danger 5's Ilsa

Some fan art for the fun Aussie TV show Danger 5.

A load of garbage...

My 22nd cover for Australian MAD magazine. Pencil and Photoshop.

EEEK! now in technicolor

I posted the black and white version of this a while back. Here's a coloured version for the digital release of Jason Paulos' EEEk! comicbook.

Double Jinkies!

This isn't the first Velma I've posted on my blog and it probably won't be the last. She's always fun to draw.

Revolver Rebels

Two recent illustrations for Revolver magazine in the US. They were for their 'Rebel Meets Rebel' articles where up and coming musicians interview their idols. The first was Jeremy McKinnon (A Day to Remember) interviewing Mark Hoppus (Blink 182), and the second was Lzzy Hale (Halestorm) interviewing Pat Benatar. A lot of fun to do.

Meanwhile in the Australian Outback...

Two different bits of art but in similar settings. The first one is some Tank Girl fan art done for a recent challenge over at the OzComics group on Facebook. I've been a huge TG fan for decades, and I might have some very interesting news to share in the near future.

The second piece was a mural puzzle done for Optus. In the mural is hidden 26 movies all with an Australian link (actor, director, location etc). See how many you can get.

Wild Thing no more...

Yesterday saw the passing of Maurice Sendak, children's book author and artist most famously known for his book, 'Where The Wild Things Are'. I loved this book growing up, it really kindled my imagination, and I was lucky enough to be able to make it a part of my son's upbringing as well. This is a little tribute I did after hearing the news. RIP.

Another Björk...

One more Björk caricature for CS3000. I went a bit wild with this one. I wanted to create something spontaneous without too much planning and thinking. Something full of 'happy accidents'.

Painted in Photoshop.

Björk 3000

A Björk caricature for Caricaturama Showdown 3000.

Painted in Photoshop.

I always enjoy caricaturing Björk, she has a fun, quirky face and personality which lends itself well to exaggeration and experimentation with the caricatures. I've caricatured her a few times in the past, the previous time was for a Caricature Jam on the Drawing Board forums. You can see them here

Ace of Spades

Three caricatures of Lemmy Kilmister, lead singer and bassist of metal band, Motörhead. One is a nod to their well known song 'Ace of Spades', the second is 'Yosemite Lem' a mashup with Looney Tunes character Yosemite Sam and the third is 'Lemmy the Motor Head'.

I'm happy to report that 'Lemmy the Motor Head' won the Lemmy competition out of 350 entries on Caricaturama Showdown 3000.

Here's some process steps of 'Ace of Spades'.

Monica Mania

Here are three caricatures of Italian model and actress Monica Bellucci from a recent challenge over at Caricaturama Showdown 3000. She was a very tough subject to caricature.

Jean Reno visits Sesame Street

My fun little entry for the Jean Reno caricature challenge over at Caricaturama Showdown 3000.

Tennis with friends

A caricature of Argentine tennis player, Juan Martin Del Potro and also some caricatures of Facebook friends. Three used brushpen with digital shading, the other is pencil colourised in Photoshop.

EEEK!

A pinup done for a friend's horror anthology comic called 'EEEK!'. Done in Photoshop.

I wanted to avoid portaying a completely helpless victim, so I included little elements that would hint she has a fighting chance.

For the proprtions of the design I used the Golden Ratio layout. I've never used it much, so hopefully I applied it correctly. You can see how I used it here.

Danger 5!

Late last year I did some art for a fantastic Aussie indie TV series called Danger 5. It's a weird 60's inspired WWII action spoof with Nazi dinosaurs, German/Japanese supersoldiers and other off the wall characters, incorporating the best of old spy movies and the worst of Italian cinema. I was approached to do some art for the DVD and posters and had a ball doing it.

Below is the art of the Danger 5 team, there's also some closeup detail shots and lastly some of the sketches and previous layout ideas. I hope you enjoy these as much as I enjoyed producing them. And do yourself a favour, hop on Youtube and check out Danger 5. You won't regret it!

Ricky Gervais

A caricature of Ricky Gervais done for the Facebook Caricaturama Showdown 3000 challenge. Digitally painted in Photoshop.

Wheel of Life, Wheel of Death

Another Steve Jobs caricature. 'Wheel of life, Wheel of Death'. One is part of the Buddhist philosophy which Steve followed, the other is a dreaded sight to any Apple user.

The colour elements are clip art from the internet. I didn't draw those.

Head of Apple

A little tribute to Apple's mastermind and innovator, Steve Jobs who passed away a few days ago. This is based on a younger photo of him circa 1985, around when the first Macintosh computer was released.

Brushpen and Photoshop.

Van Gogh

My rendition of Vincent Van Gogh. I noticed how earshaped his head was in his self portraits, so I thought it would be interesting to explore the concept of his madness and the possible reason behind him cutting off his own ear- the persistent nagging of the artist's self-doubt and the sinister whisperings of his insanity.

For this I used dry brush and Photoshop.