MEDUSA

I'm afraid I've no childhood admiration for the Harryhausen movies; like many things they're something i learned to appreciate more as an adult, than as a child. Like boobies. Speaking of which....

Quick, rough sketch this week (deadlines!). So quick and rough you can see i didn't even have time to use google to see what a snake actually looks like.

Dec.

Harryhausen Skeleton Warrior

I tried to convince myself that I didn't have time to do a proper piece this week, but I couldn't help myself. I have so many indelible memories of Ray harryhausen's incredible creations seared onto my mindgrapes since childhood. All those saturday afternoons sitting on the floor in front of the telly watching Jason and the Argonauts, Clash of the Titans, The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad et al. Of all the amazing creatures he brought to life(Talos, Kali, The Cyclops, Medusa, The Gorgon, the giant scorpions.... classics all), the sequence I still remember thrilling to the most as a kid was the one in Jason and the Argonauts where Jason and his crew face off against the 'children of hydra', or the skeleton warriors as they're more commonly known.
Just utterly brilliant cinema, Harryhausen injected such life and personality into those bony feckers; it repeatedly blew my tiny mind.

HypnoToad

More creature heads- always my favorite.

BENDER by Nick Roche

This week's picture heading will make it a lot easier for former schoolmates to Google me, containing, as it does, the names I went by during my time at the Christian Brothers.

So yeah...Futurama, eh? What is there I can say about it? Umm...Well, I was quite tickled by the CG modelled spaceships that time I saw it.

Erm...

That's all I have to say about Futurama!

Sorry to all those hoping to come across Bob Byrne today. There are other parts of the internet where your positively encouraged to come across him. He bloody loves it. But Fridays is where I'll live from now on. My new catchy day name may need some work though. Suggestions...?

Horrible Gelatinous Blob

I've managed to climb out from under the avalanche of deadlines long enough to do a proper piece this week. The brilliance of Futurama really took the sting out of the Simpson's quality freefall ten years ago. Of course Futurama was cancelled and the Simpsons is still dragging it's corpse across tv, but that's how it goes.

The Head Museum

Pheewww. I drew this well over a week ago when I got the idea, and with the ComicTwart guys already having a go and a few Micks ahead of me I was sweating that someone else would have come up with the same gag.

"DAFFODIL"

God I love Bender. I love that even though everyone in Futurama knows him, he always makes a point of telling people his name.

Soooo busy right now, so just took a few minutes to do this small drawing of Bender. I like how the 'lil guy came out.

Dec

Zzap!

Once again, snowed under with work this week, so my effort is not at all like I envisioned it would be . Ho hum. Looking forward to the other lads' pieces though.

DASH RENDAR by Nick Roche

If I could have changed my name when I was seventeen years old, it would have been to Dash Rendar.

I just totally bummed Shadows of The Empire. It came into being around the time I got frighteningly autistic about Star Wars, and having not been fully aware of the original releases as they came out, I felt like this was a unique jumping-on point with in which to immerse myself. The idea of sequels and Expanded Universe malarkey was such a novelty back then, that I was Xucked in by Xizor and the rest of the cast. I'd love to see this as an animated feature - a la Clone Wars - someday, but I'm half afraid George would bloody do it.

Gamorrean

Just got back in, so knocked out this color sketch of Brian Cowen in an early role.

Jedi is my least favorite of the original trilogy- the aliens were great, but chopping wookies in half in an effort to sell plush fecking ewoks was NOT cool.

George Lucas: some neck

Like anybody who grew up in the 70's or 80's, Star Wars was probably the most cherished, important and exciting thing in their lives. I loved it so much. I think I've seen Jedi more than any other film. But George Lucas' maniacal dollar wringing has killed the magic. Now it's not something I dream about watching with my kids any more. He's a prick who gets way too much credit, Ralph McQuarrie made Star Wars not him.

And on that high note I'm bowing out of weekly postings on Eclectic Micks. I'll of course pitch in for theme weeks here and there but I'm done. You can still follow my weekly webcomic SPAZZMOID if you've got a pair.

Thanks lads, its been great.

Salacious Crumb by Stephen Thompson

Much like Mooney I'm in the unforgiving embrace of Lady Deadline at the moment so all I had time for was this little sketch of everybody's favourite Kowakian monkey lizard, Salacious Crumb. Return of the Jedi has always been my favourite Star Wars film, mainly because of all the creature stuff at the start. Jabba, the Rancor and the Sarlacc pit. Awesome.

HAN SOLO by William Sliney

Really enjoyed drawing this. Infact I listened through all of the Star Wars soundtracks while doing it too which definately put me in the mood. I could draw Star Wars all day every day for the rest of my life and be quite happy about it. I still get goosebumps when I watch the movies.

You can see the line art over at my blog here

sliney.blogspot.com

DARTH MAUL

I always wanted to have a go at drawing this guy. Say what you want about The Phantom Menace (as i'd probably agree with you) but Darth Maul was a great looking character, and that lightsaber battle with him and the two Jedi is absolutely fantastic.

Dec.