the art of Will Terrell

Sometimes when I’m in a funk artistically I’ll reproduce sketches from other artists to try something different. I don’t remember who this artist was but I’ve had this image on my hard drive for several years. I thought it was really well done and I wish I could give them credit (this is why I always try to sign my art). Anyways, I think my rendering is getting better. Mine is the one at the bottom with the yellow glow.

-Will

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I know he doesn’t really look grumpty, but it was the name that popped into my head when I scanned this in. Amber was drawing a… round man tonight when we were sketching, so of course I wanted to see what I could do. This is all sketched with ballpoint pen and then I went back with some ink washes. That’s why it looks a little weird and a little creepy if you were wondering. I tried to use all my mistakes and turn them into part of the image. Meh.

What do you guys think?

-Will

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I finally did a Spiderman sketch that I actually like! I always seem to get hung up on the anatomy instead of the personality. This time I worked out all the bugs with light pencil sketches and then inked it up. I’m happy with how this one turned out. If I was Spiderman this is how I would eat fast food. Of course, if I were Spiderman I would be pretty much screwed living in West Texas. Not much to swing from except water towers, wind mills and streetlamps. Although there are a superb amount of churches from which I could perch and brood.

-Will

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My lovely girlfriend Amber and I go sketch pretty often together. I feel really lucky to have someone as awesome as her to hang around with, let alone draw silly cartoons with. Tonight we did some holiday themed monster sketches for the Strathmore “artist trading card” project. You mail off some sketches done on their trading cards and someone somewhere will send you one of theres. These are our monstrous attempts.

-Will

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BAYLOR vs. TTU gameday shirt

The line at the bottom of this shirt originally read “Another chapter in the Texas Tech 2008 STORYBOOK season.” We… decided to change that after the OH SO painful OU game this past weekend. Yeah, that one really hurt.

That aside, I think this is one of my favorite shirt designs so far. Its also the first shirt I came up with entirely myself. I hope I get the chance to do some more this season. (GO OSU!!! Beat the $@*! out of OU this weekend!) I’ve said it before, but I’m really enjoying drawing these characters I remember reading when I was a kid visiting my grandparents here in West Texas.

-Will

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