Art Blog of Terry Blas

NEW WEB SITE!

2011-03-23T18:41:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone. I have a new official website! Please visit it for new art and updates.

www.terryblas.com

Scott Pilgrim

2010-07-23T19:12:00.001-07:00

So Bryan Lee O'Malley's final volume: Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour, has come out and we are days away from the film and game. I did this today and yesterday and thought I would post it. It's kind of cute, I think. The girls of Scott Pilgrim.

Bryson

2010-07-01T06:47:00.000-07:00

This is some art I did for Bryson Gilreath who you might know from MTV's My Life as Liz. He has his own web site where he posts his writing, reviews of comics, etc. He's a fellow nerd and all around cool guy.

He asked me to do some art for his web site and we came up with the idea of him with some iconic weaponry. So these swords are: A lightsaber, a samurai sword, Scott Pilgrim's flaming sword of love, Finn's sword from Adventure Time and The Master Sword from Zelda.

His website is: www.mythandthemaker.com

Check it out!

Natalie And Emi

2010-06-19T18:25:00.001-07:00

I drew a picture of Natalie Nourigat and Emi Lennox, the creative minds behind Between Gears and Emitown.

Janelle Monae

2010-06-18T11:41:00.001-07:00

I can't believe I did this whole thing in two hours this morning.

I love her.

More Glee

2010-05-15T22:39:00.000-07:00

So I could have SWORN I posted this before but I don't see it anywhere...so here it is...possibly again. Quinn Fabray and Brittany from Glee. Quinn I put in her outfit from the "Keep Holding On" number and Brittany I had to leave in her Cheerios uniform. I love Brittany. She always has the best lines.

Labyrinth

2010-05-13T18:54:00.001-07:00

This is my piece for the final volume of Return to Labyrinth, published by Tokyopop. The story centers itself around Toby taking over control of the Labyrinth.

Dark Crystal

2010-05-13T18:48:00.000-07:00

I was asked to contribute a piece to a volume of Legend of the Dark Crystal, which is published by Tokyopop. It's a prequel to the movie. This is what I did.

Movie sketches

2010-05-11T21:25:00.000-07:00

These are some colored pencil sketches I did from movie stills. I think they turned out all right, if not a little weird.

I Zombie

2010-05-11T17:04:00.001-07:00

I just read the first issue of I Zombie, which is drawn by Michael Allred. I loved it-so I drew this.

Check out the comic. It's a good read.

Another Charlie.

2010-05-10T17:52:00.000-07:00

This time, with "proper" colors.

More stuff coming soon. Like, next few days-ish.

Charlieissocoollike

2010-05-01T14:02:00.001-07:00

I'm a big fan of Charlie McDonnell and his youtube clips. I think they're funny. So I drew this.

Ang

2010-04-29T21:26:00.000-07:00

Just finished watching all three Seasons of Avatar: The Last Airbender and loved it. I noticed how most of the benders were either children or old people and not many who were in their prime. So I sort of wondered what Ang would look like all beefed out. Super Avatar I guess.

I kind of like it. I'm also working on a painting of Toph.

Twilight/Avatar

2010-03-25T22:46:00.001-07:00

So I saw a bunch of Avatar merchandise at a bookstore the other day, and s piece of Twilight merchandise someone had set in the middle of it. So I did this today for fun. Took a few hours.

I've got lots of stuff coming up. Sherlock Holmes art, (from the books, not the crappy movie) Star Wars art and Return to Oz art too.

Mario, Sonic and Link.

2010-03-22T01:12:00.001-07:00

My Life as Liz

2010-03-02T12:57:00.001-08:00

So I like the show "My Life as Liz" on MTV. It's fun. So I drew Liz Lee and Bryson Gilreath.

Sam as Chanel

2010-03-01T01:51:00.000-08:00

So my new comic, Briar Hollow, has six main characters. At the end of each issue I will include a watercolored pin-up for one of the characters dressed as someone else. My main character is Molly and this is her cousin Sam.

Sam and Molly live together and Sam is into fashion, so this is her dressed as Coco Chanel. I like it. I think it's funny.

Chloe Noonan

2010-03-01T01:27:00.000-08:00

Chloe Noonan: Monster Hunter fan art by me.

Chloe Noonan is by Marc Ellerby.

Briar Hollow

2010-02-19T15:35:00.000-08:00

So this is a little preview of Briar Hollow that I have been working on since school ended. The first issue is 17 pages, the whole first story arc should be around 100 and it follows the adventures of a nerd girl named Molly as she goes back to college.

The image is a teaser, page two of the book, a dream sequence, without the text. Written and drawn by me, colored by Kimball Davis.

Made in Africa

2010-02-09T00:32:00.001-08:00

This is old but I sort of like it. It was an assignment. It's called Made in Africa.

Luna and Padre

2010-02-09T00:23:00.001-08:00

From the play Holidazed.

Santana Lopez

2010-01-08T10:02:00.000-08:00

Santana Lopez from Glee as played by Naya Rivera.

I've been drawing the whole cast and still have Mike, Matt, Brittany, Puck, Sue, Will and Emma left to do, but Santana had to be next.

I'm happy this character is on TV considering she brings more Latin visibility to television. She is a fun and interesting character, a popular Latin cheerleader in Lima Ohio. That's fantastic to me and eye opening for the country. Latinos make up 15 percent of the U.S. population and account for 4% of on-camera talent.

I love every line she has had on the show and many thanks to Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Ian Brennan and Naya Rivera!

Now give her a song!

Grandma Totenkinder

2010-01-05T12:27:00.001-08:00

From Fables.

What have I been working on?

2010-01-04T00:59:00.001-08:00

Oh, just this...details to come soon.

Second Witch of Wilhelm.

2010-01-01T16:27:00.000-08:00

A piece I did for Tally of her characters Barry and Delilah from her original work, The Second Witch of Wilhelm.

Recent sketches.

2009-12-20T15:10:00.000-08:00

Some Lost characters, Greenman and The RUINER!

Princess.

2009-12-08T17:30:00.000-08:00

Oops. Here is the princess. I forgot her.

More.

2009-12-06T23:38:00.001-08:00

And more.

2009-12-06T23:36:00.000-08:00

More thesis...

2009-12-06T23:35:00.000-08:00

Thesis photos

2009-12-06T23:29:00.001-08:00

A few photos from my thesis presentation. More to come.

Ariel

2009-12-06T23:27:00.001-08:00

The Shapeshifter.

Ferdinand

2009-12-06T23:25:00.000-08:00

The Prince.

Caliban

2009-12-06T23:24:00.002-08:00

My monster.

Miranda

2009-12-06T23:24:00.001-08:00

The Princess.

Sycorax

2009-12-02T20:27:00.000-08:00

Another thesis piece. This one was the cause of some controversy from my mid term panel. They seemed to think I was being racist for making the witch black. I disagreed. It was Shakespeare who made her black. That would be like saying he was racist for making Othello black. Hello, read the play please.

Anyway, I thought it was racist for them to suggest a witch COULDN'T be black. So here she is. I really like it.

Dress

2009-11-28T18:25:00.000-08:00

Coffee filter dress completed. Well, I guess it's more of a skirt. Either way it doesn't matter, cause my friend Jade took photos in it! They turned out great! Thanks Jade.

Brrr, a Lion Among Men

2009-11-28T14:07:00.000-08:00

From the third novel in the Wicked series.

Tempest

2009-11-23T20:40:00.001-08:00

Group shot.

Almost done with thesis...

2009-11-17T14:31:00.000-08:00

Here is a taste.

Dress Progress.

2009-11-17T14:13:00.000-08:00

Check me, out...sewing with a machine. This wasn't easy. I had to pull a jersey skirt through the sewing machine and sew the coffee filters in one by one, cause it was much faster that pinning them. Almost done. I'll post photos of someone in it soon.

Sweet Tooth

2009-10-25T19:06:00.001-07:00

Sweet Tooth. It's kind of cute.

Dress

2009-09-28T01:16:00.000-07:00

So I am taking a class called The Figure. It's all figure drawing, but our final is to create an article of clothing made from some sort of unconventional material. Very Project Runway. So I got all these coffee filters, opened them up, then watercolored them. I need to do about twice as much and then I will have enough to make a skirt. This is what I have so far.

Caliban

2009-09-28T01:13:00.003-07:00

I needed reference for my creature in my thesis. There was no way of finding one...so I sculpted one. Here it is.

Wonder Woman Day

2009-09-24T09:11:00.001-07:00

Hi everyone. I have a piece in a First Thursday show coming up. Come check it out!

Wonder Woman

2009-09-11T15:20:00.001-07:00

So here it is. I think it is done...but I might change my mind and add some finishing touches.

More progress

2009-08-28T15:42:00.001-07:00

I hope I can finish it in time. Here is more progress.

Wonder Woman Work in Progress

2009-08-26T18:02:00.001-07:00

This is how far I am on my Wonder Woman day entry. It's coming a long...

Creatures

2009-08-24T19:42:00.000-07:00

So in The Tempest, these strange creatures come out of the woods. I took that literally and I have some creatures who are more stick based and ones who come from the water. Here are some early ideas.

More Ariel

2009-08-24T19:40:00.000-07:00

Thesis sketches

2009-08-24T19:36:00.000-07:00

I've been focusing on the character of Ariel. Men have played the character, women have played the character. In the play Ariel is a tree, a person and a harpy. All of this to me suggests shapeshifting and the gender of the role being different depending on the production supports that in my eyes. Well, I have yet to design Ariel as a woman but here are a few sketches of Ariel as male, a harpy and a child. I like the idea of Ariel appearing as a child. I think it's creepy.

Robopocalypse Coloring Book Cover

2009-07-06T19:15:00.000-07:00

So I just finished the cover for the newest project from the Robopocalypse. It's a coloring book about robots and kids. It's simple but I like it.

Victoria

2009-06-30T14:37:00.000-07:00

So recently Little Brown Books contacted me about the possibility of having me do something for a Twilight related project. Here is what I did.

Tina

2009-06-03T02:48:00.000-07:00

Tina C. from Ryan Murphy's Glee.

Kurt

2009-06-03T02:12:00.001-07:00

Kurt Hummel from Ryan Murphy's Glee.

Artie

2009-06-03T00:34:00.000-07:00

Artie Abrams from Ryan Murphy's Glee.

Finn

2009-06-03T00:01:00.000-07:00

Finn Hudson from Ryan Murphy's Glee.

Rachel

2009-06-02T23:31:00.000-07:00

Rachel Berry (gold star) from Ryan Murphy's Glee!

Mercedes Jones...

2009-06-02T22:43:00.001-07:00

So because I was a crazy obsessed fan of Ryan Murphy's Popular I was excited for his new show GLEE. It didn't disappoint me and now I am drawing the whole cast. This is the first one I completed.

The rest to be posted shortly.

Romeo and Juliet

2009-05-14T15:50:00.000-07:00

Another Romeo and Juliet, this time as a Japanese wood block cut, done digitally.

Lisa

2009-05-14T15:26:00.001-07:00

This was inspired by the novel The Girl Who Owned a City painted for a class but mostly for my friend Joëlle. It's the main character, Lisa.

Thesis

2009-04-21T16:03:00.001-07:00

I do my Thesis Proposal in two weeks. This is a taste of what's to come.

Thorn

2009-04-21T15:57:00.000-07:00

I met Jeff Smith this weekend at I was so pleased to see that he was nice and polite and cool. I gave this to him:

Romeo + Juliet?

2009-04-02T20:03:00.001-07:00

I wanted to do an illustration of Romeo and Juliet as a werewolf and a vampire. It needs some work. The dress is clearly stolen from a certain friend.

More Fashion

2009-04-02T20:00:00.000-07:00

I don't think I posted these...
But one was a gift for my friend Jade and the other group I designed after I saw the film Penelope.

Jean and Logan

2009-04-02T19:59:00.001-07:00

I did this for Joelle for Christmas.

Did this thing

2009-04-02T19:56:00.000-07:00

Promotional Illustration for my school and its department.

Chinese gardens

2009-03-16T19:04:00.000-07:00

New piece inspired by the Chinese gardens in Portland.

Pinocchio

2009-02-24T22:00:00.001-08:00

I just read a translation of the original text of Pinocchio. It was very different from the story I knew so I did this for an assignment at school.

Also...

2009-02-17T17:37:00.000-08:00

A model sheet for Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz. Based on the book.

Post

2009-02-17T17:33:00.000-08:00

So I haven't posted in a while but school is back in full swing. I just did this illustration for scratch in photoshop of Model 6 from Battlestar Galactica...cause I'm a nerd.

I hate her hair.

Sinead

2008-12-15T18:28:00.000-08:00

For an assignment. An editorial illustration of a person.

Self

2008-12-15T18:22:00.000-08:00

Can you tell my semester is almost over? I'm posting more.
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A self portrait. Assignment was to do a makeover of some kind. I painted myself as something I would never want to be.

Religion and myth part 3

2008-12-14T00:04:00.001-08:00

Religion and myth continued...

2008-12-13T23:59:00.000-08:00

Religion or myth

2008-12-09T17:12:00.000-08:00

I just did a series of character paintings based on people from religion or mythology.

I will post them in threes.

My show

2008-11-18T13:01:00.000-08:00

For those who didn't get to see my little show...I have pictures!

Photo credit goes to James Newman.

Galliano

2008-11-18T13:00:00.003-08:00

An ad for Galliano's RTW 2006. Inspired by anyway.

Pin up Wilma

2008-11-17T14:40:00.001-08:00

A little pin up version of Wilma Flintstone.

Carmen

2008-11-17T14:35:00.001-08:00

From the opera Carmen.

Great Grandma

2008-11-14T07:46:00.000-08:00

I have always liked a story my mom told me about her grandmother saving an iguana.

So I painted it.

Crypto

2008-11-14T07:42:00.000-08:00

I did this little design based off of cryptozoological animals and I like how it turned out. I kind of want to print it on fabric and make pajamas out of it.

Notorious

2008-11-14T07:40:00.000-08:00

Notorious is one of my favorite Hitchcock films. I did a digital painting of a still from the movie, and while I don't think it's great, it is the best of the four stills I painted.

Pirates

2008-11-14T07:39:00.001-08:00

Book pirates even.

Doctor Horrible!

2008-09-11T16:03:00.001-07:00

I had to draw this...

I feel like I'm getting better at digital stuff.

Ruth

2008-09-11T16:02:00.001-07:00

Another character from Hero. I like her.

Galaxy Twins

2008-08-29T09:18:00.000-07:00

I drew The Galaxy Twins from Hero. I plan on drawing more characters.

X-Women

2008-08-19T23:57:00.000-07:00

First off, I did NOT draw these. My best friend Joelle did. We go running every once in a while and for some reason, as we jog we talk about comics. We grew up together in the 90's during the Jim Lee/Joe Madureira runs of the series and one night, probably brought on by Project Runway we talked about how we would redesign the X-Men.

Joelle and I drew them, hers are better so I colored her sketches. We've got Jean, Storm, Rogue and Jubilee. Maybe I will post mine some time. I just thought these were so cool.

We both just read the Joss Whedon issue where Emma makes Scott see her as Jean. She loved it. Especially cause of the Wolverine stuff.

Anyway, like I said. I did not draw this. Just colored it.

Tristan

2008-08-16T15:16:00.000-07:00

This afternoon I should have been finishing up sketches for my RCC Proposal book thing. Instead, I ate a chicken ceaser wrap and colored this.

It's a character from Love the Way You Love by Jamie S. Rich and Marc Ellerby.

I think it's kind of cute.

Etheline

2008-08-16T00:32:00.000-07:00

So a while back I saw a blog devoted to artwork of The Royal Tennenbaums. I was surprised to see that no one had really done any of Anjelica Houston. So I did this today.

I think I might send it on over to James for kicks.

Javier

2008-08-01T02:41:00.000-07:00

I didn't like the last one I did so I did this one in Joelle's sketchbook.

Divine

2008-08-01T02:35:00.000-07:00

I drew these for a friend's birthday. A whole bunch of clothes.

Strangetown

2008-08-01T02:32:00.000-07:00

A little piece I did for Ian and Chynna for their book Strangetown. Ian tells me no one else has done Vanora fan art.

Oz

2008-08-01T02:29:00.001-07:00

So I have this drawing that I did when I was little. It's the earliest piece of art that I have. Since I just got a tablet I wanted to color it without changing any of the line art. 20-some years in the making folks.

Raquel

2008-06-17T23:04:00.000-07:00

So I painted this. It's kinda sorta supposed to be my mom.

RCC

2008-04-13T11:21:00.000-07:00

This is the first page of my English final/RCC Anthology submission.

Jacob Black

2008-03-31T00:08:00.000-07:00

I plan on doing many sketches and pieces inspired by Twilight but this one I did real quick after my homework and now I am going to bed. Took me about an hour and I actually really like it.

This is Jacob Black from the Twilight series. Mostly how I picture him looking in Book 2: New Moon. I know he is young but the book states he looks like he is in his 20's. Anyway, I will do more later.

Malingo and Mater Motley

2008-03-22T11:54:00.001-07:00

Malingo was tough because every time I drew him he just looked like friggin Jar Jar Binks. Physically, the character was similar but I had to play with highlighting his differences.

Mater Motley is just creepy and I wanted her dress/coat to look like it could kill you on its own.

More on Tuesday!

Squiller and Boats

2008-03-22T11:50:00.000-07:00

So here is my Squiller and Boats from Abarat. Squiller was fun but a challenge as I had to play with how he would wrao himself around Candy's face. These boats are pretty much yanked from Polly and the Pirates but I like the idea of the boats being houses and want to expand more on this later.

More Abarat

2008-03-22T11:48:00.000-07:00

Candy and Boa.