T.V. DINNER

I wanted to do something completely wholesome this week (trying to make up for the Hulk's actions in the last post). I also tried to make it look like a fun advertisement for a pretend T.V. Dinner. So delicious, how can you resist? Everyone is happy.

If that is too lame for you, pretend that the ghosts of a deceased 50's family haunt an innocent television set after he moves into their home.

I also included some of the idea pictures I doodled when I thought this one up. Originally, I was going to do an ironic image where the TV was eating packaged humans. A fun idea no doubt - but I was more interested in trying to do something that could be mistaken for authentic. Maybe I can come back to that Idea later in a different style. I really want to draw that guy popping his head out of the creamed corn! The other doodle represents the final, but I was originally thinking that the layout would be vertical, like a magazine ad. At some point, I decided to try and draw the family in a linework style - more like the 50's ads I was researching. Then, when I tried to put the food on a fork, the vertical layout didn't work any more. Hope you enjoy.

HULK SMASH

The Hulk is a kind, gentle, stupid monster. He likes to play, and is very inquisitive of the world around him. Unfortunately, having super strength causes more trouble than it's worth for poor Hulk. In this particular scenario, even the combined might of Superman, Santa Claus, Abe Lincoln and Orko can not stop The Hulk before it's too late.

CLAWFUL and BUZZ OFF

Without a doubt, my favorite toy line of the 80's was Masters of the Universe. The colorful characters were immediately a draw for me, and although the cartoon sucked - the fun I had with the action figures could not be measured. It wasn't a hard choice to make for this week's OAC theme, but to choose characters to draw was a challenge in itself. I decided on a good guy and a bad guy that were not too common to most people, but represent the fun of the toy line. BUZZ OFF and CLAWFUL were released in about the 3rd or 4th wave of figures. They share claw hands from the same mold (sharing parts is VERY common for original Masters of the Universe figures), and just because of that, I would make these guys fight a lot. I decided to draw representations of these guys based off the new toy/statue line because they look WAY cooler. I forget just how lame the 80's toys looked. Anyway, hope you like my interpretations. I also have a trivia question . In the original 80's toy line, which character shared the same torso as BUZZ OFF?

Spawned from the depths of Hell

This image is probably better left to interpretation. This week for OAC, the idea was to show a person you admire in a state before they were famous. With my life being heavily effected by Lucas, I felt compelled to portray him, but not without getting a little revenge for some of that Prequel stuff that was hard to swallow. Just trying to have some fun here. Hopefully George won't have any hard feelings - I'm paying for his youngest to go through college with all the toys I bought.