CaptainHooks

Happy Holidays!

2011-12-24T01:30:00.000-08:00

Just a little bit of holiday posting.

A painting I did for my brother's birthday.

The Bradts

A painting I will be giving my mom for Christmas 2011.

Hope everyone has a wonderful celebration.

2011-12-05T14:04:00.000-08:00

This is Justin Butts' artwork. He is a good friend and and has a lot of very colorful images under his belt. He is a designer and an illustrator. He has done a plethora of posters and prints for local shows. Please go to his Blogger and show him some love.

Please click HERE to visit J.W Butts' Blogger. He is a very talented local illustrator.

Figure drawing

2011-09-28T23:24:00.000-07:00

I am in a figure drawing class at Auburn University right now, and here are a few of the sketches from this semester so far.

Quick update.

2011-09-28T23:19:00.001-07:00

I've been doing some night-time paintings of some of my favorite movie characters lately. Here are a couple of them.

Chief Brody

Igor

Ben and Nadia's Wedding Invitations.

2011-09-13T10:27:00.000-07:00

The finished product.

RED MAN

2011-08-16T00:49:00.000-07:00

A while back a friend of mine documented the birth of a new character of mine. His name:

Red Man

The Video may be seen here

And here is the quick drawing, colored in PS quickly.

HULK HOGAN AWARENESS!

2011-08-11T00:07:00.000-07:00

It's that time of the year again folks!

HULK HOGAN'S BIRTHDAY!

I have made a printable Hulk Hogan coloring page for you and your kids!

Please print out and color. And when you're done, repost it!

Let's show Mr. Hogan how much we love him during this joyous time of the year!

Here's an example of how much fun YOU can have!

Wedding Invitations

2011-07-28T12:17:00.001-07:00

My friends Ben and Nadia are getting hitched and have asked me to do a superman style invitation for them to send out.

It is based off of this issue's cover.

2011-06-26T02:08:00.000-07:00

Shirt Design

2011-06-26T02:01:00.000-07:00

Lately I have been working on T-Shirt/sticker designs.
One was recently finished and printed. I worked with my friends' band, Nations.

If you are interested in some sort of logo/design work, please contact me here or e-mail me.
jonhooks1@gmail.com I'm Cheap!

A few assorted things.

2011-06-26T01:44:00.000-07:00

Here's a pretty boy drawing

I drew my friend Scott as Rango

Here is a pin up drawing I did of my friend Ryan. Pretty sure he hated it.

Here is the beginning sketch of a t-shirt design I did for Nations, a local band.
You can check them out here!

Here is Ryan again.

A quick sketch of myself.

A sketch of my friend Matt.

Kyle.

Other Kyle.

Joseph.

Yep.

Co-Co-Cody

#brandonloves

Aaron Evans.

I drew Ryan as War Machine from Iron Man.

A tribute to one of my favorite Twilight Zone episodes.

I made this card for my Friends' Courtney and Dante's wedding.

A campaign poster I did.

Painted.

Completed.

More to come soon. :-)

A valentine's card from a while back.

2011-01-21T23:15:00.001-08:00

This was the front of the card.

And this is what is on the inside.

SURPRISE!

Nathan's Birthday.

2011-01-21T23:00:00.000-08:00

It was recently my friend's birthday I drew him a picture.

"Nathan Strickland"

Things found in my room.

2011-01-21T22:37:00.001-08:00

So, I've been organizing my room and I came across some sketch books.. I'm just going to post an assortment of things I found.

Vance Wesson
Sketch done in 2007.
Sketches done in Animation class.
Sketch in a starbucks in 2008
gesture drawings in animation class.
Okay... not a sketch. Just a photo from 2006.
Contour sketch done in 2008
Lincoln design.
Lincoln structure.
Lovers. Going at it.
Gadgetry.
Gadgetry.
front of one of my old sketch books.
feetsies. sketch done in 2009.
My attention span is failing.
hottie, workout.
character design... is that a Heath McPherson drawing? I believe it is.
doodles.
...What was leftover from the letters I cut out, looked cooler than the actual result.

old idea. Never fully followed through.
big face.

Man oh manatee

2010-06-04T01:51:00.000-07:00

I've been on a real manatee craze lately.

I want to make this guy a character in his very own short. Maybe give him a funny hat or something!

Update

2010-03-25T00:52:00.000-07:00

Man, oh man... I desperately need to update this thing. I have plenty of new artwork. Hopefully I'll be posting the stuff up very soon.

Vance Wesson

2010-01-20T23:19:00.000-08:00

Quite a character.

Christmas Eve.

2009-12-23T23:14:00.000-08:00

I find it only appropriate that I post some of the drawings that I am giving as gifts on this fine Christmas Eve.This is a drawing for Andrea's pawpaw.

And this little guy is something I drew specifically for Andrea's Sister.

(of course, she knows about it already if she is reading this)

"My teacher says that every time a bell rings, an angel get's it's wings "
"Your teacher's FULL OF SNOT!"
-Rocko's Modern Life

I want to meet this guy.

2009-12-20T22:37:00.000-08:00

I think this speaks for itself.

Just some recent sketches

2009-12-15T23:20:00.001-08:00

Some stupid little comic

A quick painting I did with some left-over paint
In loving memory of Special Agent Lundy
Not sure what this guy is.
A sketch for a painting I did for my aunt and uncle
Just some weird creatures

Andrea, my girlfriend drew this in my sketch book.

So, then I drew my version quickly after.

-Back to studying for my Math Final

Album Cover Project

2009-12-15T01:40:00.000-08:00

Here is what I went with after-all. I want to do "The Nipples" and I will eventually. It is larger than my scanner, so I scanned it and combined several scans to get it all... But, you get the idea.

Some Unlikely Album Art

2009-12-07T20:36:00.000-08:00

Album Covers... maybe

More dogs

2009-12-01T19:04:00.001-08:00

I'm done for tonight.

Dogs

2009-12-01T14:13:00.000-08:00

A week ago, one of my professors at school proposed a commission. He wants me to design a cigar wrapper to go around his cigars in the future. Here are two sketches I did yesterday to begin this project.

"woof"
-every dog in the world

Block Printing

2009-11-30T20:19:00.001-08:00

This was an assignment in my 2-d class. I went with this design out of Gray's Anatomy book.

The Block

The result.

R-r-r-remix.

2009-11-30T20:14:00.000-08:00

Here is a colored version of Chris Garrison's sketch seen here.

I added a little something.

I can't deny a good doodie drawing.

Happy Post Thanksgiving.

2009-11-30T18:31:00.000-08:00

A lot has happened over the last half month--I had a birthday and Thanksgiving happened. Okay, so it's not that much, but whatever. For my birthday, my girlfriend threw me a party that was space themed, I had E.T. cupcakes, and we played laser tag. So, I thought I would come up with a shirt for myself to wear for the event.

On the shirt: My dog, Bitsy and I in outer space.

This is not the best photo of it in the world, but I was pleased with the results. Oh yeah, and all of the stars, comet, and the planet glow in the dark.

2009-11-09T22:25:00.000-08:00

Here is a "gag-gift" I made for my friend, Nadia on her birthday last week. The fellow on the right, is based off of her boyfriend, Ben.
By the way, If you love food, especially Vegan Food, you should check out my girlfriend, Andrea's blog. It's pretty awesome.

Just two random Draws.

2009-10-27T23:54:00.000-07:00

Birthday Card for a friend's dad.

2009-10-27T00:14:00.000-07:00

Here is a birthday card I just finished for my friend, Ben, to give to his dad.

"Honorary Citizen of Mayberry"

2009-10-22T21:00:00.001-07:00

One more, for good measure.

2009-10-21T15:41:00.001-07:00

So, Ummm... here's Joseph's Technicolor Dream-Turlette

I'm pooped.

Halloween Treat.

2009-10-20T10:58:00.000-07:00

I'm so ready for Halloween, and I like putting on Spooky makeup, so I did.

When Hell is full, the Second Hell will be opened up for business.

The Best Season.

2009-10-20T00:05:00.000-07:00

Here is a new one I just finished.
Ummm... I was trying to do something Halloween-ey.

And here's another that I did Yesterday. A little bit of line work.

I need to cut it out with the self portraits, people are going to start thinking I'm into myself.

Old Comic.

2009-10-18T11:31:00.000-07:00

I just found this old comic I made in 10th grade, I believe.

"I'm Bad With Tests"

Back to the JFK Assassination show...

Bone Phone

2009-10-15T14:39:00.000-07:00

Earlier today, I came up with a series I would like to paint:

Household objects turned spooky.

"Bone Phone"

-AND IT GLOWS IN THE DARK TOO!

Been Busy.

2009-10-15T08:21:00.000-07:00

Hey, I've been pretty busy lately and have had no time to update this bad boy. Hopefully I'll have some stuff soon to post up.

But Until I do:
Harry, the lovable Bigfoot.

Memaw

2009-09-18T00:32:00.001-07:00

So, here is a painting I just finished for my Memaw's birthday.

Hope she likes it.

I’m an early bird and a night owl. So I’m wise and I have worms.

-Michael Scott

2009-09-16T21:46:00.000-07:00

Here are some sketches I did for a locally made short that will be shot this Fall. We are going to be combining drawn backgrounds, with the actors shot in front of a green screen. So, I was enlisted to do the backgrounds. These are not what the final versions will look like... just some preliminary kind of stuff.

Shanty town late 1800's

Shanty home

Church

And just for fun:

IG-88 contour line drawing

Until next time.

Okay then.

Quick Draw

2009-09-08T16:43:00.000-07:00

My friend Brandon challenged me to draw a picture of him doing something he would be doing. So, here it is:

I'm on a Roll.

2009-07-28T03:28:00.000-07:00

This is a really bad scan, but here is:

Night of the Living Bread

And the tagline should read:

'Breads will Roll'
or
'This Night Will Surely End-Piece'
or
'Breadly Weapons'
or
'A Crust See!'
or
'You'll Rye of Fright!'
or
'They'll Wheat You Alive!'
or
'You're Toast.'

I could just go on and on, but I won't.

Have a good Day.

Late night painting

2009-07-27T01:35:00.000-07:00

Just got the late night-night urge to paint something.

The Scream II

Cha-ka-roo.

New Shirt revealed

2009-07-25T23:55:00.000-07:00

So here is the shirt. Betchya didn't know it was going to be Jay Sherman.
My friend, Aaron said it looked a bit like a Thundercats shirt to begin with.
Obviously I'm a fan of The Critic.

Detail

I'm considering putting "It Stinks!" coming out of his mouth, but I don't know.
Anyway, I saw a play my brother worked on the music for tonight, and it was pretty awesome. It was very funny, and while the play was going on, I had like a ridiculous amount of ideas rush into my head, so hopefully I can stay busy with those for a while.

until next time.

New Shirt

2009-07-23T23:30:00.000-07:00

Here is the beginning stages of a new shirt I'm working on. This is just the first layers, Hopefully I'll have it completed by tomorrow or Saturday.

Hmm... I wonder what it is going to be.

later,
Love,
Jon

2009-07-21T22:32:00.000-07:00

Self Portrait

One of my favorite things to do is just sit down somewhere, and enjoy a nice cup of some kind of comforting liquid and sketch everyone that comes by. Here are a couple of sketches I've done recently.

Waffle House

Shopping for Ribbon

Looking for her husband
Father Figure

Working Man

Okay... I didn't really see this one.

too-da-loo.

T Shirt

2009-07-20T23:33:00.000-07:00

Here is a Shirt I painted about a year ago. It is a loose interpretation of Harry, the gentle Sasquatch from the 1987 Film Harry and the Hendersons. This was always one of my favorite movies growing up, and so I thought it only appropriate to commemorate this movie in a wearable medium. I get alot of comments and most people recognize him.

catch you later.

2009-07-20T23:17:00.000-07:00

This is a small series I did sometime late last year. It is a family. The dad, who I drew no inspiration from my own father for, is a beaten, workaholic. The mother is a trendy mom who is probably about ready for a divorce. She's ready to break-away from her old family life, and start a new one, filled with late nights at a hip club where she knows the younger crowd hangs out. And the kid was drawn from that dirty kid I always saw before my little league games as youth. He was probably the younger brother of somebody on the opposing team, but he always lurched near the concession stand, throwing a baseball repeatedly against a wall, and begging his mom for more money to spend on big league chew. He had layers of nacho cheese, b-b-q sauce, dirt, snot, and powerade on his mouth region.

Dear ol' Dad:
The Head of the Family

Trendy Mom:
The Lioness

Dumb Kid:

Enough Said

A piece or two from last year

2009-07-20T22:45:00.001-07:00

Churning Japanese

This piece came to me while listening to that great 80's song "Turning Japanese", by the Vapors. And as you guessed.. it is yet another pun. I'm full of this crap. I showed this piece to my mom, and she loved the barn in the background, but thought that I had ruined the aesthetics of the painting by placing the Asian kid in the foreground. I had to explain that this is the joke.

Secret Handshake

This piece is somewhat of a self-portrait. I'm on the right, and on the other elbow is just one of my characters. This piece is weird, and I suppose the only comment I have about it is that I am intrigued with body parts replacing other body parts--which goes back to that age-old Third grader question, What if we had a hand coming out of our stomach, or what if we ate through our buttoms, and made waste with our mouths?

2009-07-20T22:14:00.000-07:00

A few weeks ago, my girlfriend had a birthday... and I always try and create my own card for her, or for everyone for that matter. But here is this years.

Front

Inside

It's unconventional.. But that is what makes it sweet.

What I've done lately.

2009-07-20T21:52:00.000-07:00

I said I'd have more soon... I meant it. when I typed it 20 minutes ago.

This is an idea I had one night.. It is a bit of a pun, which I have a clear weakness for. I was worried that this may be offensive, but I definitely had no cruel intentions when drawing this.

Here is a piece I did for my grandparents. I was afraid they would not like my style, considering they have portraits in their house that have a softer, professional portraitist look to them.
Anyway, They did like it. Or at least said so, but then again, they are my grandparents.Here is a portrait I did for my Step-something, Misty and her boyfriend. They asked me to do this after seeing the one I had done for my grandparents. I feel pretty good about the result.

It is odd to do so many portraits at one time, when I really don't feel like they are my strong point.

Up Next: My Birthday Card for my Lady Friend.

Little Game of Ketchup

2009-07-20T21:36:00.000-07:00

Lately, I have been working on some ideas for a series of paintings. The theme of the series, is Movie Titles turned into Food. For example... Rosemary's Gravy.. The Egg-sorcist... Creature From the Black Legume. You get the idea. Here is a piece I finished and framed Yesterday.

It is a Day of the Dead inspired painting. It's getting closer to Halloween, so I'm the mood for skeletons. More to come soon... very soon.

First Post!

2009-05-05T01:35:00.000-07:00

Hey there, I am going to progressively put artwork up as I get time.
Here's one to start off.
This guy is just a guy I draw often. I am interested in Amputees for some reason.