Indiana Jones Week - Toht Melts!

Everybody loves a melting Nazi. Everyone also remembers this scene and even years later with the ability to freeze frame and check out how they did the effects shots, watched as a whole it's an amazingly chilling scene. One thing I find fascinating about the scene is that they just get on with it, they capture Indy in the scene before and twenty seconds later Belloq is opening the Ark. You wouldn't get that today, there would be some sort of extended unneeded build up. I've written before about actor Ronald Lacey who played Major Arnold Ernest Toht in Raiders of the Lost Ark so I'll let you check out his un-melting appearance here, and make sure you check out his pal, Oberst Dietrich, melting away too.

Here endeth Indiana Jones week, I doubt it will be long before I draw more from these films :)

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Indiana Jones Week - Doctor Jones

"Bow ties are cool"… wait a minute that's a different Doctor, but this is a scrubbed up clean Indiana Jones via Temple of Doom at 'that' dinner table scene.

On the 'Get Harrison Right' front, I'm pretty pleased with this one, maybe my best attempt to date?

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Indiana Jones Week - Henry Jones

There is a lot to like about Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade but there are also a few things that don't sit right as well (my dislike of the Monty Python-esque knight at the end for one) but undoubtedly the best thing is the relationship between Jones Jnr and Snr. Professor Henry Jones, played by Sean Connery, works so well that you forget he's only in about half the film. Brilliant casting and in many ways I'm glad they didn't persuade Connery to return for the Crystal Skull as the dynamic wouldn't have worked with so many other characters on hand.

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Indiana Jones Week - Mola Ram

High Priest of the Thuggee cult, Mola Ram liked to dress up and stick his hand into people chests to steal their still beating hearts. Excellently played by Amrish Puri, he's a bad guy highlight of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Amrish is really only known in the UK for this film and perhaps his role in Gandhi but in his native India he was a huge star of screen and stage, his most recognised role as the villain Mogambo in the sci-fi superhero film 'Mr India'.

I have no idea what they're saying or what is going on but I like it all the same, Hail Mogambo! Mogambo Khush Hua!

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Indiana Jones Week - Indy

You can tell when I'm gearing up for a convention, not only do I start producing a lot of sketches but all my favourite subjects come out to play. Its just as well that some of my favourite comics, films and TV are also very popular and so I get to sketch them over and over and throw in the occasional personal, lets not say obscure, but less instantly obvious sketch. 

This week is all about obvious, I've drawn five Indiana Jones related sketches and unlike the last time I did this I've ranged beyond the first film. To start its Indiana himself, which I feel I've 'over cooked' slightly. You can go back over my previous attempts at sketching Harrison Ford and read of my own personal goal of trying to draw the perfect likeness of him and while I think elements of this sketch hit the mark, overall it doesn't quite get there. It's still obvious who it is and parts of his face work but maybe I've made his face too long and the bridge of his nose looks too thick. Man is he tricky to get right!

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Trundling over Westminster

When it comes to drawing Daleks I like to play around with them a little bit, one way is by changing around the colour schemes but its also fun to place them out of continuity. For this sketch I've placed an updated 2005 design Dalek into the classic 1964 'The Dalek Invasion of Earth' scene of Westminster Bridge, nothing drastic but a nod to the past.

I still haven't attempted to draw the updated 'Paradigm' Daleks. I've slowly accepted their design but I have to question the reasons for their change other than a marketing ploy. If the producers of Doctor Who really wanted to re-boot the Daleks and make them feared again why on earth did they decide that each time you've got to see one after 'Victory of the Daleks' it was in a defeated, battle damaged or immobile state? Essentially undermining any 'fear factor' from their last full appearance?


Reposted from Scotch Corner.

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