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Fanart: The Wire & Game of Thrones

I love fanart. Taking an existing character you know and love, doing whatever you want with, maybe taking advantage of the fact that you already have your subject nailed down to experiment or practice new techniques, and spreading it to millions of fans who’d love to see anything even remotely related to their favorite fandom.

Anyway, here’s some stuff from my recent favorites:

The Wire

Omar is such an awesome character, and a “My Little Pony” doll is not really the totem animal I’d pick for him…but his name just begged for it. In my head at least.

Omar Little Pony

Game of Thrones

Here are two of my favorite duos: Jaqen & Aria (drawn on an iPad, trying to play with the painting tools) and Tirion & Shae.

Game of Thrones: A Man and a Girl

Game of Thrones: Tirion and Shae

Comments on the shows themselves are welcome, but please – no spilers!

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G for Ganesh, Gizmo and Godzilla

G had so many good options: I always love drawing Gambit, GladOs is a fantastic character, a Ghandi-Goku face-off could be epic, and the combination of Gandalf, Glenda and Granny Weatherwax is the stuff great novels are made from. Or at least esoteric musicals.

But in the metaphoric auditions that went on in my mind as I scanned the characters list, these three came up with the most intriguing idea, and a strong, compelling performance to boot. Couldn’t say no.

ABCharacters: G for Ganesh, Gizmo and Godzilla

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F for Frodo and Falcor

After a long wait, finally featuring F!

Someone suggested I drew Fezzik, and the thought of Frodo trying to fight the Giant had a certain charm, but eventually the fluffy luck dragon won. Falcor is drawn part from memory and part from reference, after I tried drawing “a dragon that looks like a dog” and came up with some sort of Simba-Stitch hybrid, and decided to maybe check how he actually looks.

As usual, drawn on an iPad with the Procreate app and a Wacom stylus, with a subtle texture layer in Photoshop.

ABCharacters: F for Frodo and Falcor

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D for Death and Dolf

There are some great characters in D: Denver the Last Dinosaur (which is apparently one of these), various doctors (that I only considered if they were actually called “Doctor” or if their real name began with D), Don Draper, Draco Malfoy, D’artagnan, Daredevil, Daniel Jackson, Darwin, Dorothy…and then I realized I could draw all of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman’s main characters. I’m not a huge fan of it however – angry comments after the beep please – and as cute as Gaiman’s Death is, there’s one I like much better.

And Dolf? Dolf is Justice.

ABCharacters: D for Dolf and Death

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