» Fight with Color
This illlustration with color. Thanks to Blake Loosli for coloring it. He does a good job with color, but he's famous in Europe for his caricatures.
November 2, 2007
October 23, 2007
» When it Rains it Pours
A revision of a previous illustration. Click through to see the big version.
August 29, 2007
» Fight!
Another part of the upcoming 8fish/Impact book. I think my line work is actually getting better. Can't say I'm crazy about the composition though.
Big sketch dump coming this Friday.
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July 6, 2007
» More Faces
Some more facial expressions. I need to get more comfortable with drawing people facing to the left. I always defatult to drawing figures facing to the right. The final face here is an attempt to learn something from the rendering style of Chris Wahl.
June 27, 2007
» Monsters
A couple of guys and ghouls I sketched out today. I was playing alot with my cleanup process here. All of these were drawn and cleaned up on regler old typing paper. I think the results are as good as I would have got with bristol board, although the wolf drawing did get a bit warped with the ink.
On the wolf, I sketched it out with a mechnical pencil. For cleanup I primarily used a brush marker. When I scanned it in, I adjusted the levels, so that you could still see some of the sketch lines from the mechanical pencil. I also had to fix the placement of the eyes a bit, and I played around with the black and white edges in photoshop. So, some of the strokes you see here are digital:
On the vampire chick, I used a .02 micron pen to sketch the whole thing, then I went back and added the thicker lines with faber castell fine point felt marker. I like the delicate lines, and shapes I could build with those lines. I referenced some of Clair Wendling's hair rendering for the hair. Not quite as smooth and pretty as she does, but I'm working at it.
This last dude was rendered in a similar fashion to the vampire girl, just using some different thicknesses on the felt pens. Its interesting, that as I was drawing these, I had the impulse to use different media for cleaning them up depending on the sketch. Much more explorative then carefully planned out.
June 18, 2007
» The Fight
Here's the aforementioned spread with color. It was fun to finally have a chance to do something with superheros. There are some issues here with the drawing and design, but overall I like it.
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June 13, 2007
» Expression
Here's some more artwork I've done for the 8fish/Impact project. Several expressions from a generic superhero character, and a spread. These are all done with Faber Castell and Micron felt pens on bristol board.
I'm thinking the spread still has some issues with line quality, but that may be because its so small here.
June 9, 2007
» A handful of sketches
Here's a couple of things I've done in the past week. The first three are part of a project I'm working on with 8fish and Impact Books. I'll have more on that as it reaches completion.
This last sketch is a bit of visual development for Green Monk.