Cartoons, Ninjas, and Strawberries

It's no secret I love collecting action figures. I have for as long as I can remember. As a fan of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers this figure was well over due. Bandai has finally released a Rita Repulsa figure. She will fit nicely with the 2010 MMPR line. I didn't follow comics growing up, so most of what I know about comic book heros comes from their respective cartoon series. Growing up in the 90s, I was a huge fan of Spider-Man the animated series. This character of Peter Parker's clone was only in the last two part series finale but I thought his costume design was so cool.

Below are some head studies done for my graduate courses about three years ago. The first two are graphite the second two (the green ones) were done with pastel pencils. Hope you enjoy them. -DM

Grad school has been keeping me swamped and now with some time off between semesters I have been catching up on a number of personal animation and illustration projects that have been on the back burner for too long. One nice thing is that I have been trying to get in some more figure drawing and decided to do a self portrait since I haven't done one in a long while. I am pretty happy with how it turned out considering it was done late at night my time preference of choice when it comes to all of my artistic endeavors. Hope you enjoy. -DM