3-fer

See myspace.com/jacobbecher

for 3 new paintings. They’re up already.  Later on, I’ll probably clean out some nonsense text clutter from previous posts as this site was intended to showcase sketches not paintings and excuses for lack of sketches.

Coming Soon

A G.I. Joe painting is currently in the works, based on the animation, not the comics. My wife is halfway through painting it as I type this. I love both the animation and comic books on said title, but my wife was only exposed to the cartoon and, to date, is not interested in the cool comics. She likes Duke and Scarlett so I stuck them together, even though the tragic and epic romance was between her and Snake Eyes. The comics were more true to form because the creator of the action figure file cards wrote the comics and focused on characterization and continuity. The animation had a lot of good things going for it as well: voice talent, fluid animation, music…but why the cartoon makers ignored Lt. Hawk as the leader of the Joes for many seasons, replacing him with Master Sgt. Duke I’ll never understand. Plus, for the most part, the animation had the A-Team effect, where no one could shoot a firearm worth a shit even at close distance.

Also, this family is getting a head start and jumping on the band wagon of Transformers. I guarantee it will be next Summers big blockbuster. I will be painting two images: one of Optimus Prime, and the other of Megatron. All this while I take a personal day or two off from work and try to enjoy the holidays.

Just A Painting

We ran out of painting canvas and money has been tight so I have nothing new to add per se. Most likely we’ll pick up more canvas next week since it happens to be a payday week.

Anyway, we touched up the painting based on a character of my own. It looks too much like Star Wars/Darth Maul, but the look of the face and head remains constant from when I first drew the guy a decade ago. Check it out. It’s kind of blurry because the colors looks richer when the flash is off and the metallic paint parts reflect awfully bad, but you’ll get the drift.