Dennis Jones
eclectic artwork & other random things
Football Is Back
Whew… finally it’s football season again!
The Motorcycle Bug
I caught the motorcycle bug when I was 15 years old. I began saving my money and as soon as I turned 16 I bought a brand new Kawasaki motorcycle right off the showroom floor …and promptly ran over the back of a car, catapulted into the path of an oncoming semi truck and bounced into the Mountain Grove version of Dairy Queen (Panther Freeze) with a fractured ankle, a femur bone pushed up through the hip socket and a leg broken in three places… who says motorcycles aren’t fun!!
New Card Holder
I made something to hold my business cards…
08/05/2023 …I’m going to append my original short post because I’ve had several people on different internet platforms asking me if I created this. About once a year I get the urge to create some sort of soft sculpture kinda thing. Last year it was Mr. Fuzzy. The year before it was Hobbs. The year before that is was this bizarre thing. This fellow with the big hair was an experiment to mix both hard and soft materials in one project.
1956 Chevy Belair
The first Jones family vehicle that I can remember was a 1956 Chevy Belair. There were no seatbelts or carseats back in those days so it was the wild, wild west for kids in the backseat of a car. One day my mom was driving to town and heard me making horse galloping noises in the back seat. She took a quick look back and I had one leg hanging out the back window and was riding the car door like a horse. Ah, the good ole days…
Brick Shed Studios
The Big Bad Wolf is huffin’ n puffin’ in downtown Churubusco, Indiana. Brick Shed Studios is open for business…
E6:11 Update
Back in 1996, I did a book series that featured a pretty diverse collection of really random ideas. The editor and I were both big hockey fans, so we made sure this concept made it into the final mix. Since the Stanley Cup Playoffs are going on right now, I thought it would be appropriate to revisit our Ephesians 6:11 hockey analogy with a brand new piece of art.
Art Club
I’m in Art Club at church. It’s a pretty exclusive club. Just me and Ava. The first rule of Art Club: don’t talk about Art Club… or is that fight club? I forget. Anyway, a few weeks ago when the sermon was over and the ceremonial exchanging of pictures was taking place, I noticed Ava had her dad write a note on one of her drawings that said “can you draw me a werewolf?” The cutesy picture of a bunny that I had just handed her was apparently a bit mild for her tastes… so Ava, I apologize for taking so long, I know promptness is supposed to be one of our Art Club virtues, but… better late than never… here’s your werewolf.
Elden Ring
My favorite kind of game to play on the Xbox is a third person, open world game where you get to customize a unique character and then wander around aimlessly in a giant world looking for adventure. I just started a new game, spent forever getting my character just right, jumped into the world and discovered the character always has a helmet on covering his face… what?? I worked for an hour getting that face just right! So I did this picture of my character. At least he can appear here without having his face covered up…
I was just asked if I could show the in game character for comparison… here it is…
2023 Sermon Notes
If you’re an artist and live anywhere near Fort Wayne, Indiana you might want to visit our church. You get a free pen and drawing paper when you walk in the door!!
Hatfields & McCoys
I’m trying to keep these two pictures separated with this line of text in order to avoid trouble…
The Garden
A few years ago, I did several pieces of artwork for the kids area of Living Stones Church in Crown Point, Indiana. As I was looking through my files today, I ran across some work I did for the entrance to their children’s section. This illustration was for an irregular shaped wall with a big doorway in the middle (the picture has a huge void in the center of it) so I clipped out a few of the perimeter areas to show here.
Mystery Solved
I’m currently illustrating a Bible story found in First Kings 17 and 18. After doing extensive research into the subject I have determined that the ravens in the story were probably feeding Elijah scraps of Old Trapper Beef Jerky…
…but don’t quote me on that.
Batmobile Concept Work
Here’s some of the concept work I did on the Cryptozoic “Pattinson” Batmobile collectable. When I was a kid, muscle cars were really popular. My older brother had a bunch of Hot Rod CARtoons Magazines (basically Mad Magazine for car enthusiasts) and when he wasn’t around I would sneak those magazines out and draw those “Rat Fink” hot rods on my Big Chief Tablet. That experience sure comes in handy on jobs like this… I’m talking about the drawing part… not the sneaking around part…
Pattinson Batmobile
This was a fun project to work on. I got to see top secret photo’s of “THE BATMAN” (2022) movie car before the film released and then worked with Cryptozoic Entertainment to designed their new “Pattinson Batmobile” collectable… and it has finally made it to pre-order!! You can take a look at it here.
Stephan Ehl did the sensational 3-d sculpt. Stephan and I worked together previously on the Cryptozoic ’66 Batmoble collectable. He is one amazingly talented guy.
Winterfest
Winter jokes from nine and ten year old kiddos.
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