Bootstoff Robots busting into Shiam's Restaraunt!

Kill Devil and Bootstoff drawings

Joe and Mo...Special Forces a'la Coco Loco

Is this beautiful, or what?

Dude is a pretty amazing individual, here he is in flight! I recently spoke to Bert about Dude's history. Here it is-

Dude is a bio-product of a future time, the 2400's. When a human's body fails through personal injury or illness, and when the brain remains intact, bio-engineers have the ability to encase the brain in a glass container filled with a preserving liquid. The brain maintains all of its previous senses and functions; however, the mechanical body is a very sophisticated machine which still operates mechanically in lieu of the human body. It mostly operates with normal motor functions, but lacks the ability to really touch and feel.

Dude was considered an excellent marksman in the military, before his terrible near-death. He had been quite proficient and skilled with a Colt pistol. He had almost been murdered near the end of The War of 2455, when an entire platoon of his men were caught by enemy troops in a Slavik country where they had been maintaining peace. He and his men were made to lay across a roadway face-down, then they were individually shot until each of them were killed. Nobody lived, except Dude. He lay face down for two days, until peaceful forces scared the enemy away and were able to get to him.

His brain and his other vital organs held onto life, just barely. He was rescued after he was found by American forces to a newer branch of the army medical services called the Special Brain Ops, or nicknamed the "Dead Man Walking Unit".

Dude is one of tens of thousand of these revived soldiers. The lives of these soldiers is much longer than that of normal human beings, for their bodies are no longer flesh, but metal. The only part of the individual which remains organic, is the brain. The body is trashed and the mechanical body becomes the house of the individual.

The glass dome which preserves his brain is super thick, but it can be harmed, and if penetrated, almost always proves to be deadly. Glass is generally used instead of metal, which can rust, or hard plastic, which becomes ruined by plastic toxins, or BPA's, over time.

With the cowboy hat, Bert has finally nailed it!

Sinister Dude...

Early Dude, an incredible illustration from the best...

Bert is working hard to make my vision of Dude precise. I am a punishing in my preciseness. I spent three years of my life bringing Dude to my audience, I want him to be EXACT. Here are some really nice illustrations that Bert did. He is very close to my vision. In fact, I love each of the drawings, but my character is so, so specific. Anyhow, it should be fun for anyone watching to see what he pulls out of his hat of tricks each time.

I submit to the viewer for his enjoyment...Dude... 1 + 2

A few illustrations of Joe...A-Rodish?

Tin Man...hmmm...

I'm sure he will be around some day. I'm anxiously awaiting the Tin man. Bert gave me one, but I think he may be way too cool for my small platoon. I've asked him to dumb the Tin man down a slight bit. Bert is awesome, he'll come up with something great! This much I know.

The Trank!

It's good to have the groundwork for our heroes somewhat laid. It serves us also well to have the Trank transporter set as a moving transport.

The 3 T's

The three process works of Beulah Big Red's Trank(Tank-Train-Truck). The last one being the final design ( I think) and the top is Big Red's Pin Up Girl. 3 is the magic number, eh?

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Out fitting

Some cloths Cash might be wearing. Hope I got the build right. The BDUs are what you'd normally see solders walking around in around base. The annoying thing about BDUs is that they are designed to hide the build of the body so really all I got to draw was a bunch of folds in cloth still he looks much more professional in the BDUs. Just got to move on to Red now and get him in an out fit.

Wall Crawler 2

So here is the more fleshed out wall crawler. It has come back to a more proportional form and it is wearing a mirrored suit of armor. In this version the armor has become less of a specialized "pouch" and more of a shell that hides the creature's true nature. It is also not a robot anymore, a layer of black material lines the joints and keeps the various unsightly appendages unseen until it is too late. I tried to keep the creature from looking cartoony though I did need some pretty heavy lines to delineate the metal plates and make sure that all the forms are recognizable .

Shorty and the Beast

So here's a quick sketch of Shorty taking on a wounded wall crawler.He's got some pretty ordinary clothes on but I think if they were fleshed out it would have just made the image more confusing. the beast didn't get much space in this one but Shorty does look like an action hero, which is cool. I only wish I put a bandanna around Shorty's neck.

More of the goon squad

The riders

So this is a villainous goon introduced in the story early on. It is supposed to have a vague human shape and also lean backwards and crab/spider walk around. I wanted it too look really awkward while it stands up and pretends to look like a man and the oddly shaped arms and legs will give much more ability to move around on all fours. Anyway, the idea I'm working with is that this creature is actually a sedentary parasite that incubates in a host's belly gathering food and strength from its unwilling benefactor. Then at some point the parasite emerges from the host (probably dead or stricken with illness at this point) and uses its tentacles to infect any living thing around it with it's off-spring. The bad guys probably created a mechanical/organic body for a trained creatures and then use them as assassins and shock troopers. I'll have some more drawings of this thing soon and hopefully a shoot out sketch with shorty in it by the end of the day.

Thanks man

Thank you gave a really, really detailed description. I am clay in your hands Joe- after the Big Red description I learned that you know exactly what you want and that actually gives me a crazy drive for creation, experiencing your vision pushes my work places it has never gone before. Thank you for the extra description. I'll ease back on the pretty boy effect. I was working from a base of innocence shattered and less of a hard core beaten by an deranged father feel like the first on I did.

Cash gets life!

an email that I just sent Bert-

"Cash...you are on it! You surprised me...well, not really, but this is a lot like the Cash I have invested so much time into. I need to see him in some regular clothing for him. Also, I definitely think you have the face down. The hair is really clean-cut, maybe just dirty it up a very tiny bit. I like the eyes. I would say to give him a little more gray in the hair. Maybe, bushier eyebrows. Face structure is perfect. I like the way the eyes have an intensity about them. You might try to sink the eyes in just a tiny bit- he doesn't sleep a lot, he's always watching his back. Overall, I have got to say he is just about perfect. He's a little bit pretty-boy, but that is okay, I asked you for that. Just darken his features just the lightest bit and don't forget to give him a little more gray in the hair going back from his face and over the ear. Throw a military jacket on him, and I think we are just about there.

I LOVE IT...Great job Bert, you know what you are doing!"

Cash

Here is another Cash. I hit it with some more realism and turned off the heavy metal to get a little more empathy in this one. Hope this is a little more of what you're looking for Joe. I wanted to try and get a guy who has won we had too yet survived when he didn't, albeit with a little emotional scarring. -Bert

Plans are a frivolous pursuit to instill order upon reality.

Didn't get much work yesterday I've been bombing on these Silverlake drawings and I've got to move on. I think Silverlake might be a problematic character It's easier for me to draw a character when I have a firm grip on their personality and Silverlake is a little more complex than I expected... Anyway I'm gonna hit up Cash again and see if I can get some personality out of the next few sketches and then I'll plan out an action sequence with shorty taken out a wall crawling, tentacled, bike riding creep. Soon.

I'm diggin Shorty...

I love Shorty with the Confederate cap, nice touch! This is kind of the way I saw him. The guys drink Smug-Wug's, not beer. I really love your interpretations, though. How about one with Shorty making short work of a wall crawler? Just a quick sketch? Try to lean more towards the sepia tones in the sketches, just for continuity's sake. Regarding this study- Great job, you have got a good handle on the material, this is much more professional than the first Cash heads.

We've got New York and California eyes coming to take a visit, let's make sure those tweebs can wrap their minds around southern sci-fi! Let's rock their world.

I welcome the Miss Lake drawings, but it will be necessary to take another whack at Cash, a.k.a. "Mr. Moneybags"... remember, "they don't call him Cash for nothing!"

This is Shorty, Red's Side kick. He looks a little like a spider monkey hope I didn't go overboard on it but Damn! this guy is fun to draw! I like his hat. I'm going to start on some face studies for Ms. Silverlake after I get back from a quick trip to Target. I'm thinking about giving her a Indian Bharatanatyam Dancer feel. Well see how that goes over in the sketch (I saw a sweet documentary last night about india their outfits rock)

Cash Torment

First out of the lab. I don't think any of these really fit the bill with Cash but hopefully I'm on the right track and these can at least be landmarks.

Big Red is born!!!

My dear artist friend Bert has concisely brought to life one of the more interesting characters I have created for my storyline about a group of mercenaries hired to save the world.

My tale begins many years into the future with two character's- Cash and Big Red. Both are mercenaries, guns for hire, who are hired by our government. This is probably the most important job either one of them has ever been commissioned to work on. They will travel overseas to battle the lecherous Karl Kruelter and one of the most sinister armies to walk the face of the earth- an army of super-powered robots! It will be a job working to overturn Kruelter's evil regime overseas, one which closely resembles the forces at work in Germany during WWII.

Bert will make sure that the world is safe from villainy and that characters like Big Red and Cash are there to save the day.

Comparing sizes of Big Red. just helping myself visualize this guy. The new one is the second set of head sketches of Big Red. I think next I'm gonna do some face images of cash and then move on to some body sketches. I'll post the first set of Big Red sketches at some point (actually I'm probably going to cannibalize them to add some depth to some random characters) although I was way out of the ball park in terms of style and personality. Rest assured they will be posted at some point perhaps not in their original incarnation. -Bert