I didn't really have any interest in the Skylanders series when it first came out; when I first saw it I thought that it was yet another reboot to the Spyro series and that they were just trying to cash in on the idea of having an actual video game where you had to buy items to scan in in order to unlock new characters, powers and items, so I never really gave it much notice.

Well, now they have the second game out, Skylanders Giants and when I saw some of the advertising they have for it, I must admit that the character art did catch my attention.
The art is actually really good and a lot of the character designs are pretty nifty, so while trying to get back into the sketching groove, I decided to do a little bit of fan art, so here we have the character Pop Fizz.

When I first saw this character, I assumed that he would be a kind of alchemist character that threw beakers of stuff around, but apparently the idea behind the character is that he drinks these beakers of what I assume are "experimental soda pop" drinks which cause him to transform into a bulkier, heavier form; odd but still fun nevertheless and I have to admit that his overall character design is fun.

Oddly enough, this sketch still proved to be a bit of a problem: the one thing I did not want to do was just replicate the same pose that he has in the promotional art, but I think I managed to steer away from that with something that seems appropriate to him.
I may actually give him some color later on, we'll have to see.

Pop Fizz and all things Skylanders is (c) Activision.
Art is mine.