So of course the moment I promise to start sketching again, my desktop (and thus my scanner) dies. It's all working now, so here I have for you Butterfly, the squire of a squire, based on Dean Trippe's Butterfly comic at www.tencentticker.com/butterflycomics/ (go read it)
The promised Nightcrawler. This was inspired by a character jam going on at www.thedrawingboard.com as well as the work of Lee Bermejo. I've been drawn to doing more hatching recently, and I like how it has come out in this picture.
On the left is a doodle that sort of took root and kept on going for a couple of days. On the right is my first half-decent sketch of a bus passenger in a while. I'm not horribly satisfied with the likeness, but the rest of it is pretty ok.
Still in order to bring up my average, I will post another picture for you.
So I haven't done many sketches in a while. I'm hoping to change that so here's my newest moleskine, decorated with the stickers that come with it, and all taped over (roughly) with packing tape. In the meantime, I'm really open to ideas for a series of sketches. If you have a cool idea for a series of sketches, post it in the comments. If it catches my imagination, I'll do it.
I apologize for not having updated in a while. This past couple of weeks have been crazy for me for a number of reasons. These are sketches from travelling over thanksgiving. The one on the right is a girl about 7 years old, and the one on the left is her father.
They share the family trait of moving at totally inopportune moments.
I like doing drawings in duochrome. Once I was planning to do a webcomic in two shades of ink. Black for outlines, and brown for toning/shading. It was to be set in a summer camp, with the brown ink providing the sepia tone that summer memories often take in my mind.
So here's the samurai in landscape. I know the hair makes no sense, but the balance seemed off everytime I tried to draw it in the opposite direction. I'm also had some trouble with his right foot. That being said, I like this image.
P.S. one of the drawbacks of experimenting with tone is that it definitely makes for messier pages.
Sometimes choosing someone to draw is very arbitrary for me. For example, there were two (and a half) reasons why I chose to sketch this lady. The first was that she had interesting looking earrings, and the second was that she had prominent cheekbones, neither of which really made it into the sketch. I think this one came out well though and is definitely capable of holding the page on it's own.
The samurai was interesting, I was going for a simpler "animated" style, which mostly worked, but I did that drawing in landscape format, but I'm not sure if it works better that way or this way. Check out the next image to see what I mean.
From top left, counterclockwise.
I was on the bus, and this group of guys were talking pretty loudly in the back. These are two of the more quotable lines in their conversation. I'm probably going to use the top one in the graphic novel I'm currently writing.
The bottom, is a pirate. I was bored and I felt that pirates were worthy subjects.
On the right side are two sketches of people on the bus. More on that in the next pic.
I rarely shade my sketches, so I'm not particularly sure what inspired me to do so now (probably that ugly Superman head from a while back) Anyway, I like how these came out. I like using pattern to shade. It's surprising, when I first started to draw I wanted to do the photo-realistic, smooth as silk shading. Now, I have almost no interest in doing that. Gabrielle Ellertson(my former Drawing I teacher) would be proud of me. She probably thought that I was a complete flake. In part because I was somewhat of a flake, and also in part because I liked comic books and illustration and she didn't. Who really knows. I think part of the problem on both sides was that first impressions lasted.
Oh, And I still like Norman Rockwell.
