Cartoon Mash-Ups: Darth Cobra- Color Art

Cartoon Mash-Ups: Darth Cobra- Line Art

What happens when you merge two of pop cultures all time villains?
Darth Cobra, that's what!

Cartoon Mash-Ups: VIN-2D2- Color Art

Cartoon Mash-Ups: VIN-2D2- line art

After the success of Star Wars. It seemed everyone tried to cash in on the whole "space opera" phenomenon. As young kid who loved Star Wars and couldn't wait for the next installment to come out I welcomed all of these cash grab productions. Sure Battlestar Galactica and The Buck Rogers/Flash Gordon reboots could never really stack up to Star Wars in my opinion, but I would rather have a halfway decent sci-fi epic than none at all.

Walt Disney's answer to Star Wars was 1979's The Black Hole. This wasn't my favorite of the post Star Wars sci-fi films of the late 70's and 80's but that didn't stop me from gobbling up a fair share of Black Hole toys. One of my favorites in the Black Hole toy line was a little robot named V.I.N.Cent, which bared an obvious resemblance to R2D2. I was curious what these to somewhat similar robots would look like it they fully integrated.

Cartoon Mash-Ups: Trap Fett- Color Art

Cartoon Mash-Ups: Trap Fett- Line Art

For my first Cartoon mash-up I took two of my all time favorite character designs from two of my all time favorite entertainment properties: Boba Fett from the Star Wars films and Trap Jaw from the Masters of the Universe toy line. Each of these villains have such iconic looks to them, I especially love their awesome weaponry. I had a blast figuring out interesting ways to combine the two.

Cartoon Mash-Ups: Update

Ok So this sketch blog have been a little light on post as of late. I had some more concept art from The Adventures of Alex the Ape that I wanted to share but never got around to it. In the near future I have plans to do a major web overhaul in which I plan centrally locate my website , blog, portfolio as well as an online store. When that happens I would like to add a more in depth showcase of Alex the Ape art.

Anyhow, moving on... I've been making progress on my project for The Mini Comics Dump Truck. At 22 pages it has officially moved out of mini comic territory into what most would call a standard format. As of this post the name of the book is Young and the Dead: No Zombies Allowed is is somewhat of a cross between Night of the Living Dead and The Goonies or Monster Squad. So if you think you might want to see kids kicking some zombie butt, stick around, I hope to post some more preview art in the near future.

Now on to something completely different... Cartoon Mashups! What's that you say? Cartoon Mashups are a new series of fan art sketches where I take to popular cartoon characters and, well mash them up. Let me know what you think. If you have any requests I'm open to suggestion.