Bah, I’ve been totally unmotivated to draw for the past week or so. Feels like a much longer time. Oh well, nothing to kick me out of the stupor than being forced to participate to a forum activity.
So here’s a couple for U16’s Character Tag Team activity. First one is based on Gavin Mouldey’s sketch. And the second is my sketch for the next in line.
Pencil sketches! Watercolor paintings! Photoreferenced nudists! In the order they were created!
I think I could get the hang of this watercolor stuff with some more practice. Fun, except when the results turn out bad, hahhah. Or when you’re trying to get a decent scans of them…
I was doing some digital doodling and it occurred to me I could do some fan art of Jed McGowan’s awesome “Ritual of the Savage” comic that he’s been working on lately.
Even though my pinup is pretty ironic take on Jed’s comic – which itself is quite ironic – it doesn’t appear all that ironic, which in turn is sort of ironic.
What? Oh. I’ll shut up now. First the pinup, then the doodles.
Don’t let my sad image scare you off, go read the comic.
I did this for U16’s CTT activity after Nicholas Liaw’s sketch. Here’s what he says about the character:
Psychologist Dr. Alice Anderson has always been empathic, able to perceive the slightest changes in her patients. However, a terrible accident caused her to lose the ability to feel emotion. Instead, she gained the ability to modulate the neurotransmitters of other people; the control over emotion, pleasure, pain, and even death itself.
Here’s she is, instilling guilt without feeling any.
I hope his armor is rust-proof.
Another sketch in Manga Studio that got out of hand. It was just supposed to be a character concept initially.
The rest of the calendar images are coming up shortly, but in the mean time here’s something else. I haven’t gotten any drawing done since the holidays – save for some doodles in my sketchbook – so I’m glad to be finally doing it again.
This is just another photo referenced speedpaint of a naked girl – a redhead this time. I painted it in ArtRage 2 and really wasn’t sure if it would amount to anything, as it was technically a venture into the unknown for me. But what do you know, I think it turned out quite swell and was a lot of fun to do.
Here’s a bit more catching up with forum activities. U16 has had a “Masters of the Universe” redesign activity and already sketched these a couple of weeks ago for it, but only now had time to finish them.
Actually Skeletor is the main star here – or Aviator General Skeletor as I dubbed him with the redesign. The shoulder pads and the crotch piece of the original design reminded me of feathers, so I went for a bird motif. Conveniently, with a different name and color scheme he could well fit in another story as well. I imagine the world the MOTUs would live in would be a mixture of the Napoleonic era, WWI, magic and weird gizmos.
And then there’s He-Man. He was kind of dragging himself along with the Skeletor design, but as you can tell he’s still slightly sketchy.
He’s hard to make look cool or charismatic like the leading man should be, considering the original design basically comprises of steroid muscles; sissy looking hair style from the Middle ages; S&M armor and solarium tan. He’s like Conan’s uncool, Californian little brother without any personality. I don’t know if my version feels any more like a person, but at least he’s wearing pants now. It’s way difficult to look noteworthy (well, in a good way anyway) when everyone else is properly dressed and you’re running around in your panties.
And a couple of images for Unit 16 forums “Character Tag Team” -activity. The first one is a take on asnmdirtehw’s sketch and the second is my image for the next in line.
Scifi isn’t exactly my forte, but I think the exoskeleton dude turned out alright, for a silly, impractical design. Eat your heart out, Shirow!
Man, I’ve been busy lately! I managed to get the blog updated to Wordpress, but haven’t had the time to play with my new toy up until now.
I finally had some time to do some drawing just for myself, and here are the results. Doodles and sketches of my regular cast – monsters and women.
The title pretty much says it all there really is to say about these. These are just couple of pages from my digital sketchbook, consisting mainly of random doodles of naked women (yet again) and other human and non-human characters.
Trying out a new technique, which could be worth pursuing for some projects. These were done in Manga Studio, by the way. I guess I’ll have to see how much I can bend the program to break from the regular pencil and ink type approach.
Here we have another case of things getting out of hand. It’s comic for yet another U16 activity, "sequential exercise". The comic may not make much sense without the previous pages so you might want to check them on the forum as well.
Shit, this was a lot of work. Deciding to do a Google Sketchup 3D-model of the castle sure didn’t help either – except the actual drawing phase, of course. It would’ve been faster to just draw the castle the old way, though – but maybe someone else can use the model later on as well.
So to begin, here are some sketches I did to get to know the characters and their gear – as well as the said castle model. You can download the Sketchup file for castle here and use it as you like.
And the actual comic:
Alright I think all that man meat has been the first thing people see on the blog for quite long enough.
So, here’s a bit more man meat – at least they’re wearing pants this time around. I was looking at some beautiful Jack Kirby covers, and felt like drawing some manly action. So, if you see a Kirby influence, it’s quite deliberate.
This is pretty much just a sketch with plenty of things wrong with it, but yet again it was a nice exercise of traditional inking with a brush. I’m slowly moving up to more ambitious images. Maybe next time I’ll even try to come up with a proper composition.
And a completely unrelated note: All you fellow bloggers might want to look into Blogrush (it’s the gadget on the main page of this blog) to increase the traffic to your blog(s). It’s free and seems to work nicely, based on my couple of days experience.
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