Learnin' Inks!

First, I’ve got a sketch of Patrick Rothfuss, author of the recently released “The Wise Man’s Fear.” I haven’t read any of his books, but my girlfriend is a huge fan, so we went to one of his book signings, which was when I sketched this. We were across the room at the time, and I kept telling myself, “damn, I bet he’s gonna look so different from my drawing once we get closer..” Turns out, he did. He looked a lot more friendly, and a lot less menacing as I had depicted him. Though I did show him the sketch and he did enjoy it, stating that I made him look awesome!

So, I went to Emerald City Comicon over the weekend and became super inspired to learn traditional pens and markers. Here’s the first two pieces of my new learning path! Really trying to pay attention to line weights and confident line strokes. Also, I’m not using a whole lot of markers.. I thought I should start out small and get to know a few select number of colors before going all out.

And to credit my references.. well, I can’t credit the girl with the fuzzy coat.. I’m not sure who she is or what the photo I referenced is from. It’s just something I found online :\ As for the Super Girl, I referenced a photo of a cosplayer.. I think she goes by the name Jenn?

Recent sketches

Here's a few character sketches I did recently.




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Feb 19th 2011 Sketches

Here's a few sketches I did yesterday. More to come~

Sketch for Jan 2nd 2011

Another character sketch I started last night but didn't finish until today. Booo. Team Fortress 2 is a distraction lol.

Hiker Girl

Something I started yesterday but got too distracted by things to finish it, so I finished it this morning. I plan on adding a background and coloring it.

Also, Happy New Year!



Total time: Too long.

Mind Heist

So I listened to Zack Hemsey's "Mind Heist" the entire time drawing this. That song makes everything epic, and make's drawing extra fun! I also didn't save the file until I was done. /fail. Still not completely satisfied with the hands, I try to make them look natural, they come out mangled, blah dee blah dee blah~

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Sorry, I'm just typing the same thing over again because being the smart person I am, I accidentally posted this to Willie's "Weekly Scribblets", and then deleted the post before thinking of copy and pasting my post to my personal blog. /doublefail. So I can't remember everything I said... Oh well.

Anyway, here's what I worked on:



Total time: 1 hour 30 minutes.

Oh, I also said something about how I've got the day off tomorrow, so drawing the night before is stress free, or something. Well, I suppose it was :D

Work Station pix

Cleaned the computer room today and did a little rearranging. I'm enjoying my current workspace:



"Quit procrastinating. Work on your art."
-The Goddamn Batman

He's a good motivational tool :D