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.
And a quick, quick sketch for a forum activity. Traditional Finnish full frontal male nudity also known as sauna.
Here are just a bunch of sketches I did on soviet uniforms from the WWII era. I may have done them for a reason, we’ll see. At least I got to practice using a brush again.
And here are some other sketches I scanned a while back, but didn’t post because I didn’t like them. Why there here now, I don’t know – they still don’t look any better.
Seems like this is the Devil’s week. Not necessarily a good on for him but still…
These two pieces were done for yet another forum activity. The first one is my take on Scobot’s mighty fine sketch. It could either be just an allegory of life – or an epic depiction of how the rebellion of Heaven got started.
And here’s my character for the next one to participate on the activity. It’s not fine or epic at all, but it’s really late and I need to wrap this up.
Some more inking practice. With a sloppy sketch beneath and wobbly inks on top, it’s not exactly portfolio worthy, but good exercise nevertheless. I did a bit of Photoshop touch-up before coloring the thing.
So here’s "Burning Kiss" – or "Excuse me, I think your cigarette just lit my shirt."
Same story as with the earlier ones – it’s a photoreffed speedpaint. I didn’t do any sketching or measuring and unintentionally ended up sexing her up with considerably longer legs.
A good follow-up for naked girls would more naked girls, but this time you’ll have to settle for a bunch of scantily clad beefcakes instead. Originally I intended to do some loosely related tribute art for the late Jack Kirby (who would have turned 90 couple of days ago) but then just felt like generally practicing male anatomy instead.
I don’t think I’ve touched my brushes in a long while, but it was nice that I seem to have learned something since the last time. Traditional inking (black gouache really) was a lot of fun, actually. These first one’s were drawn from my head obviously.
And the rest from old beefcake photos. The last sketch was done straight with the brush – there’s just something about sketching with pencil that doesn’t work for me.
Another late night speedpaint. Backs are interesting and tough to do (without photo reference, that is). There’s huge amount of variety, depending on the pose and how muscular the person is.
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