Lines That Make Things

Friday, December 21, 2012

Cthulhu Final Entry

This is the final entry for the Dead End Press HP Lovecraft/Cthulhu Sketch Jam that won 2nd place along with some great art supplies and a large specialty pizza. The theme for this event was to make greeting card illustrations using characters and settings from the HP Lovecraft mythos.

Saturday, December 15, 2012

Cthulhu

I created this illustration to work out the appearance, color and style of Cthulhu's head for the Dead End Press Sketch Jam. This gave me a little bit of direction once I created the final entry.

Friday, April 13, 2012

James Hong Week - A-Team Episode: Mind Games

I'm not quite sure why this episode is entitled "Mind Games" but it has Mr. Hong so who cares!

We begin this week's episode with Mr. Hong requesting that he be taken by force to a waiting helicopter and put down for a nap. He's tired and is willing to pay the A-Team for these services. He likes a good fight to tucker him out and combined with the calming spin of the rotors it will send him to Slumberland in no time.

Hannibal agrees to his offer and Face calls in a chopper. (He knows a Flygirl.)

Murdock was initially going to piggy-back Mr. Hong to the chopper, but he payed to be forcibly loaded and by golly he's going to get his money's worth.

A short soothing lullaby with B.A.'s soft voice and mission accomplished. Good night sweet prince.

Hong dreams in neon.

Week of Hong Schedule:

Monday April 9th

Illogical Contraption - Bloodsport II
Fist of B-List - The Dynamite Brothers
From the Depths of DVD Hell - Big Trouble In Little China

Tuesday April 10th

Direct to Video Connoisseur - South Beach Academy

Lost Video Archive - Teen Lust

Wednesday April 11th

She Blogged By Night - Seventh Sin

Lost Video Archive - Cyber Bandits

Thursday April 12th

Booksteve's Library - China Girl
Lost Video Archive - Gladiator Cop
From the Depths of DVD Hell - Balls of Fury

Friday April 13th

Direct to Video Connoisseur - Caged Fury

Lines That Make Things - The A Team (TV episode)
Temple of Schlock - Hot Connections

Saturday April 14th

Illogical Contraption - Bloodsport III
Explosive Action - Ninja III: The Domination

Lost Video Archive - Blade in Hong Kong
Thrilling Days of Yesteryear - Bat Masterson and Checkmate

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Yaphet Kotto Week - A-Team Villain

Eastside Charlie

Thanks to my main home slice Seth over at Lost Video Archive I was invited back once again to participate in a week of great reviews by blogs with one goal in mind, to honor the prolific yet highly underrated actor, Yaphet Kotto. It was a blast participating in Blair Week a few months back and after watching The Chilling numerous times it could only get better right? Right! I got to watch a single A-team episode over and over. "The Out of Towners" guest starring our honoree Yaphet Kotto followed the series' usual formula: assess, build, battle, resolve.

Assess: Local New York business owners are being extorted by Eastside Charlie (Kotto) and his goons. Desperate, the shop keeps call on the help of our favorite fun loving mercs, the A-team. B.A. Baracus cases Charlie's lounge and the boys promptly bust in with Uzis and threats.

Build: After agreeing to meet the following day to handover the stolen cash, the A-Team heads back to the affected businesses' neighborhood and builds a sewer booby trap, Molotov cocktails, and a mobile armor-plated defense station made from an oil drum in case things get hairy.

Battle: Boom, bang, nobody gets shot, A-Team dominates.

Resolve: The Alpha Team takes Eastside Charlie back to his safe to grab the cash and repay the shop owners. Faceman catches a ride from the local female taxi dispatcher.

Below is my tribute piece to the one and only Eastside Charlie, a man whose racket was dismantled by the infamous A-Team.