R2-D2 Star Wars Goalie Mask

This one of the earlier goalie masks I painted and the 1st of many Star Wars influenced masks I have done and plan to do, I present an R2-D2 inspired goalie mask. I thought the goalie mask design lent itself as a perfect medium to transpose R2-D2 on it.

Mike Fisher by Matt Jurasewicz

Matt sent me another one of his pencil drawings of Nashville Predators forward Mike Fisher, Mike mentioned his inspiration for this drawing: Nashville didn't do too hot this (past)year but my girlfriend and I recently went to a Carrie Underwood concert, which inspired my to use her husband, Mike Fisher, as my next project!

Thanks Matt for your continued artwork that you send in and look forward to many more.

Nashville slipped a little bit last ear, my have been the loss of Ryan Suter, one the leagues best defense man and leader. I'm liking them to turn it around for this year especially when they have Pekka Rinne in net.

Mike Fisher

Get ready for the 2013-2014 Hockey season!

Hello everyone,  I apologize for my absence the past couple months and thanks to everyone for visiting the blog, and a special thanks to everyone who submitted their art work I will be posting it all soon on a regular basis again now that the season is getting ever closer. I have had a busy summer and I’ve been working on pretty big project I’m excited about and will reveal it here soon once it’s ready to go, I’m sure all hockey fans/gamers/geeks/fantasy enthusiasts would appreciate this project.  I have also gotten back into doing some goalie mask painting I’ll make a post with some pictures of some of them.

Once again thank you to all the Hockey in Art supporters!

Dominik Hasek

Hockey Art: Kelly Ackerman

I'm taking a bit of a break on my art work now, I have some other projects to work on, and just sit and soak in the Cup finals, in the mean time, Kelly sent me an e-mail linking me to her tumblr site which she has several pieces of her work posted, I was quite impressed. There are several high quality portraits posted, there are a few non hockey ones (and just a few) but I would urge you to spend some time going though her tumblr and view all her portraits, especially if you're a Penguins fan!  Kelly is a Pittsburgh-based portrait artist and graphic designer. She started drawing Penguins in 2009, would frame the originals and gift them to the players if they stopped after practice or a game, so far she's given one to Crosby, Orpik, Fleury, Rupp, Dupuis, Letang, Talbot and Cooke. I might suggest drawing a portrait of Fleury making a save and give that one to him for positive reinforcement (couldn't hurt).  And sure anyone could do that, I doubt any NHL player would refuse a gift such as that from a fan, but as a testament to her work, Talbot contacted her later and ended up using her portrait of his infamous "shhhh" pose for the artwork on t-shirts he sold through his website. I posted that piece and my favorites below be sure to check her out http://kellyackermanart.tumblr.com

 

Maxime Talbot

Evgeni Malkin

Jordan Staal

 

 

Stanley Cup Finals: Chicago Blachawks vs Boston Bruins

For the Stanley Cup finals I wanted to create something simplistic and decided to really just focus on the main characteristics that I think of when it comes to the Stanley Cup final. I took the artwork of a profile for the two captains and simplified it to represent what I believed showed the intensity and focus needed to win, I just rendered their eyes. That was still a little too simple so I added the next feature I think of, which is the playoff beard. So here is a Stanley cup Final simplistic rendering of Chicago's Jonathan Toews and Boston's Zdeno Chara.

Jonathan Toews

Zdeno Chara

2013 Stanley Cup Playoffs Round 2: Chicago Blackhawks vs Detroit Redwings

My final post for round 2 is Chicago and Detroit, the series is currently 3-2 heading into game 6 in Detroit and Chicago looks to force a game 7 back home.

Here are two of my art pieces featuring a pencil sketch of Chicago's Corey Crawford and Detroit Captain Henrik Zetterberg.

Corey Crawford

Henrik Zetterberg

2013 Stanley Cup Playoffs Round 2: Boston Bruins vs New York Rangers

It looks like the Bruins will ultimately take this series as they lead three game to one heading into game 5 tonight in Boston.

Here are two more of my art pieces differing from the comic style I've been doing a lot with a classic pencil sketch of Bruins goaltender Tuukka Rask and Ranger goaltender Henrik Lundqvist.

Tuukka Rask

Henrik Lundqvist