Friday, March 30, 2007

Grody Rock Star

One for the Avalanche blog, the theme was "Rock Star" He ended up being a mish-mash of the following ideas:


44 comments:

  1. Super! Looks like somebodies had a few late nights! The hair is great!

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  2. Heh heh heh. Good stuff, man. Great teeth!

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  3. great design! Lve that posture heheh nuther phenomnial piece sir!

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  4. genius, Ryan!..... his expression is great.

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  5. ahahah!! I can hear him say "groovy baby!"
    excellent, Ryan!

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  6. Awesome design, love the teeth and hair and tiny stoned out eyes.

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  7. really nice work woody! great characters! benja!

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  8. wow, I love when you guys post on Friday..makes fridays that much better. This is awsome!! I can almost smell the achohol and smoke on his breath...livin' the hard life baby. another favorite. Thanks!

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  9. Bloody Hell, that is some great textures and the expression ohh man!

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  10. Wow , it remember me Micke Jagger , it´s very heavy dude , congratulations ryan!!

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  11. wow thats crazt##$ awsome....you avalanche guys blow my mind. you guys paint mainly in photoshop or painter, im trying to teach myself some painting skills. but i find so far my stuff still looks "digital" like. maybe it just practice. anyways great work

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  12. Love his skin complexion ,so healthy.
    Thank you Woody for making my Monday
    much easier.Cheers

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  13. Great combo of inspiration. Pure genius adding Sideshow Bob.

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  14. Great illustration man! Love the textures that your incorporating into your work - it works so well. Really nice color palette.

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  15. Ah man- I got a good laugh at that one.Even better to see the influences for the piece to ...adds to the hilarity. Great!

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  16. wow, well done. If I had to pick my favourite pars about this piece, I'd say the hair (really sells that course look of hairspray overuse) and the tats :)

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  17. Excellent stuff! Love all of it, maybe because he reminds me a bit of myself:)

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  18. hah left a comment over at the ava-blog. Mentioned he looks like Tommy Lee...and I see you're influences...hah.

    A great piece

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  19. Nice work, Ryno! I really like his hair.

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  20. Oh man thats totally rad Ryan. I luuvvv the leprechan below too! Its always so fun to visit your blog!

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  21. Bahahaha... verrrry nice Ryan!

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  22. Now that's wicked cool!

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  23. Very beautiful, Ryan.
    And your colors are always awesome for me.

    Laura:)

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  24. haha! that's great!

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  25. I love the tattoo. And I especially love how you managed to sneak an eyeball in there.

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  26. Amazing work as always. By the way, I just noticed that you were interviewed on the Character Design blog. Congrats! That's a great group to be in (I was interviewed there myself so I should know!) :-)

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  27. Ha! I worked with this guy when I had a summer job in high school. He used to hang his head out of the truck and ask people if they were his parents. Yep, he was a rock star too . . . or so he told us.

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  28. Super Grungy Ryan. Really awesome work.

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  29. yeah, but does he know the 'metal handshake'? you can't be a true rock god until you've perfected the 'rock lock'!

    awesome painting...right down to the tattoos and cig embers...i always look forward to seeing new posts from you.

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  30. Man! You are so good Ryan! I love this one.

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  31. I can recommend a good dentist for this guy ! Super work but then why would I expect less !?

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  32. Hey Mr. Wood, I love your art and I love the way you paint! Fantastic stuff.

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  33. He's awesome! I love it!

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  34. Thanks for stopping by & commenting, I appreciate it. I've been neglecting the blog for a bit, more posts soon.

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  35. Helo Ryan...

    Very much pleased to see your comment. I’m a great fan of ur work n keep on visiting ur blog to check out for new posts…You people at Avalanche Software r just gr8...ur work gives me an inspiration to improve myself... Keep visiting n posting comments which acts as a work booster …If possible do tell other Avalanche’ites also to visit n leave a comment which will really motivate me to accomplish my goal… I’m gratified for visiting my blog…

    Regards,
    Vidyanand.

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  36. Great color variation, and a fun drawing. Probably my favorite piece of yours.

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