This week’s sketch is a little something different since I was about 4,300 miles from my studio when I did it and thus without a scanner to scan a pencil sketch. I did this sketch of Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen as part of a talk I did on MAD movie parodies and caricature entirely digitally using my portable Wacom Cintiq tablet and Photoshop. I drew it live in front of a studio audience! READ MORE
In a rare break from tradition, the original of this sketch is still available in the Studio Store! This week’s “Famous Movie Moment” features Hollywood’s most famous chin, the late Kirk Douglas from the “I am Spartacus” scene from the 1960 movie of the same name. Well, actually this is not from THAST scene, but is just Kirk in the role. The film was directed by a young Stanley Kubrick, who took over after original director Anthony Mann was fired only a few weeks into the shoot. Douglas’s production company was producing the film, so they brought Kubrick on board after Douglas’s work with Kubrick… READ MORE
Admit it… you know this one was coming one when the passing of the great James Earl Jones last Monday at the age of 93. Jones of course had an incredible career on both stage and screen, but will probably be best known as the voices of Darth Vader in the “Star Wars” movies and Mufasa in “The Lion King”, which doesn’t credit him properly for the many other memorable performances he did over a long career. Personally, I remember him scaring the crap out of me as “Thulsa Doom” in the original 1982 “Conan the Barbarian” movie opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger. He was evil but… READ MORE
“Throw me the idol and I’ll throw you the whip!” The opening scene from “Raiders of the Lost Ark” introduced the world to Indiana Jones in 1981, and movies were never the same. Harrison Ford was already a big star thanks to playing Han Solo in “Star Wars”, “The Empires Strikes back” and, of course, television’s immortal “The Star Wars Holiday Special”. But jumping from one hugely popular action hero to another (and back and forth), and ultimately another widely successful movie franchise, launched his career into the stratosphere. Just a year after “Raiders” he’d play Rick Deckard in another sci-fi classic, “Blade Runner”. He… READ MORE
What’s in the BOX???!! Here’s another sketch from my “Famous Movie Moments” series. “Se7en” was a groundbreaking but brutally disturbing 1995 crime thriller/horror movie that helped star Brad Pitt break out of his “pretty boy” typecasting and into more diverse roles. The end of the film’s “What’s in the box?” scene is a never ending internet gif/meme to this day. I do a video of me drawing these sketches every week, and paid subscribers to my weekly newsletter have access to them. Every once and a while I share that video with everyone, and this is one of those every once and a whiles: Subscribe… READ MORE
HEEEERRRRE’S JOHNNY!! Our “Famous Movie Moment” is from Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 horror film masterpiece “The Shining”: Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrence. READ MORE
We’re back to our “Famous Movie Moments” series, this time revisiting 1994’s “Forrest Gump” with Tom Hanks on his park bench with his suitcase, box of chocolates, and the feather. Hanks has one of those faces that’s hard to “unlock”, partly because he’s such a great actor that his “presence” can change considerably role to role. That makes it hard to grab hold of an expression that reads as undeniably “him”. As Forrest Gump, he often had a slightly confused and somewhat vacant look on his face, which is what I was going for here. READ MORE
Not exactly a “famous movie moment” in the category of “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn” or “Here’s looking at you, kid”, but it’s one I think of now and then… especially at certain events. “Revenge of the Nerds” was a goofy movie but it had some great characters. Donald Gibb played the dim-witted Alpha-Beta frat jock Fred “Ogre” Palowoski, who famously hated nerds. This moment from the movie plays in my head a lot during comic cons… I don’t know why. READ MORE
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