Best Models We Could Find...

Here's a pic of my sister and I wearing t-shirts with the logo I designed for the fundraising walk she is organizing. All the proceeds collected go to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation to help find a cure. The walk is in early April. Brianna (my sister) has all ready raised over $2000 by herself! Scroll down a bit to see the original posting of the logo.

Just For Fun...

Just a fun exercise to get my back in the swing of things. I haven't just sat down and drawn something for fun in a while. I found an image of Wolverine I liked and went to town. Top image is my pencil work and the bottom image it the inked version. I'm going to try and to more of these as a way of disciplining myself to draw more.

Fly Me to the Moon...

Here is a piece I've been working on for a while now. Just a fun take on "Old Blue Eyes" himself, Frank Sinatra. It's a mixed media piece much Like how I handled the John Wayne piece. Hope you enjoy. Let me know what you think!

Get Pumped Logo

This is a logo I'm working on for a JDRF (Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation) fundraising walk my sister is organizing. The design is centered around an insulin pump, a device used by many diabetics as a way to help control their disease. This project is near and dear to me because many members of my family are diabetics including my mom, dad and sister.

Sorry about the typos, most of the time my mind moves quicker from thought to thought than my fingers can type. I'm sure I'm the only one that ever happens to.

Move Along Pilgram...

Here is the final art. Touched up and added a few this via photoshop. I added a simple light blue gradient for the delineation of sky. I also the text "the Duke" to his badge but it's not like he needs a label. It's John Wayne for crying out loud! Hope you enjoy. I would love to get some comments either here or at bryanfinch@hotmail.com.

John Wayne Caricature Work In Progress Photos

Here is the final art before I scanned it. I added the line work to strengthen the cartoony aspect of the piece. I used a black out line for the figure to help bring him forward and a red/brown line for the background. I pretty much painted the sky back to solid white so I could add a simple indication of sky in photoshop.

More paint and colored pencils, really starting to focus in more of the final details.

John Wayne Caricature Work In Progress Photos

Here I'm just adding more detail with colored pencils. The desert background started to come into focus at this time.

Here I started using colored pencils and acrylic paint applied a little more opaquely to move the image along. Notice I reversed the value of his vest and his shirt. I decided I wanted the vest and hat to end up being about the same color and the shirt had to be a classic red one. I also eliminated about 2 inches of the sky making the composition more squat. Not doing the sunset just made that area dead space.

At this time, I was just make more changes and adjustments. I changed my mind on the sunset type sky and decided to go with day time setting. This helped with the overall value range in the composition.

I then used more acrylic washes to establish values. At this point, I kept it mostly monochromatic to help visual the value placement.

Here is the first step to my John Wayne piece. After I transfered the drawing to a piece of illustration board, I applied a warm wash of orange.

John Wayne Caricature Line Art

Here is a refined sketch of the latest thing I'm working on. It's just a caricature of the "Duke" John Wayne. I'll post work in progress images as I work.

Cartoon Avengers...

Here is some character designs I've been playing around with just for fun. We've got Captain America, Ironman and the underrated Thor. Just wanted to play around and get back in the swing of things since I haven't time to just sit and draw anything in a while. I tried to design these characters the same way I draw all of my Probe characters (see www.bryanfinch.com or www.coroflot.com/bryanfinch), angular and with an animation influence. I've been pretty influenced over the years by the great Bruce Timm (Batman: The Animated Series) and all of his great character designs. I also in enjoy looking at the character designs of Sean "Cheeks" Galloway (Spectacular Spider-man). He has a real fresh approach to the way he designs his characters. Hope you enjoy my designs! You can click on the small images and they will open up in a new window much larger.

Madonna with Obama Final Art

Here is the final art for "Madonna with Obama." The piece was created with all traditional media with a little digital editing like the cracking texture. I wanted it to look aged a bit.

Madonna with Obama Line Art

Here is a sketch for and editorial piece I just finished. It is dealing with the issues of how President Obama is viewed in the eyes of the mainstream media and some of his "followers". I used a classic compositional setup for the image by looking at paintings from around the time of the Renaissance. I then "characterized" the two figures to add some humor to the piece...hopefully.

Just the Beginning...

Welcome to the official blog to all things Bryan Finch. This Blog will hopefully act as a supplement to my website www.bryanfinch.com. I will use this blog to post progress work like sketches, comps and even some final work as well. Hope you enjoy the work you see here and please feel free to comment as often as you like.