Sketches - Week 7

OK, so it was Valentine's Day, so I drew this one... I didn't want them lip to lip, I wanted something different. I maybe should have had him either holding both her arms (his far hand is on her face) or one hand on her face and the other around her.
A girl... I kind of wanted her to look like she's being drawn forward by something she sees, that's why her arms are dragging behind her. Her far eye isn't lined up quite right.

This below is just evil stuff. A dead guy with a nuke and dragons coming out of his head. The evils of mankind. It's hard to see in the photo, but his hand is on a globe.

Yeah, Bioshock 2 was out this week and I played it a lot. So I guess the girl is somewhat influenced by the little sisters. I wanted a girl who was looking lovingly to a gross guy. I drew her first and then drew the guy squatting instead of standing. That's why her eyes aren't really looking at his eyes.

The idea of this was some sort of freedom. Originally there was going to be a body and all these kind of weird birds coming out of it representing spirits or something. I jotted down "final freedom" at the bottom of the page.

This guy was from a dream. He was actually a toy in the dream called Nucliod or something. I think he was green.

And yes, the night Bioshock 2 came out I did this quick sketch. I played the game a lot since it came out so most of my sketches were rushed this week and it ate up a lot of time, but I'm finished all the single player now (and have all the single player achievements). I ended up going with the special edition and don't regret it; the CD is OK and the art book is really cool.
Ok, suicide, I guess... The gun isn't quite 100% to fit to his head. Also a lot of people would probably have turned his wrist so that it was pointed straight in the side of the head.
This one was the same day as the suicide guy above. He's a guy who is down on his luck and living in a box. He is basically for all intents and purposes dead, but his life just keeps going on.

Sketches - Week 6

Nothing I've done this week is especially pleasing to me. My mood hasn't been good, either, though... Oh well, here's what I had (1 a day).

A lion from Preston Blair's book. His head is leaning a little too much to the viewer.

I've been reading Celtic myths and legends lately, so I felt like drawing a Celt guy up.
This was based on a page from All Hail Megatron #4. I didn't work too much on keeping the sizes 100% and instead explored the weird point of view of the original. The original was very dark in spots so you couldn't tell how it really goes.
I watched the movie 9 this week, so here's 9 and part of that weird bone cat from the start...
I was happy with my previous Mick Foley sketches so I started with an Undertaker photo (on the left). I didn't like how these came out too much other than the one with the eyes rolled up on the bottom-right.
This guy had started as maybe going to fight someone, that's why he's angry. Instead I decided he was going to find some mystic artifact to get his revenge with.
Three stooges...
That's it for this week. I'm hoping to get time to get into some new drawing/animation books I picked up this week and see what I can learn.

Sketches - Week 5

This week marked the last episode of Dollhouse on Fox. Another Joss Whedon show which I enjoyed. I think putting it on Friday night was probably a problem. Most people have better things to do then watch TV on Friday nights... Anyway here's a sketch of "Echo" to mark the occasion.

I watched Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs tonight and enjoyed it. That's what this one is from...

From Preston Blair's book on animation, some different emotions of dogs:

Some cat and mouse stuff, just for fun...

Some rabbit emotions with no references or anything. These were done before I went back to Preston Blair's book for the dogs above.

Guy impales another guy... Guess I was in one of those moods. :)
Sad girl and sad kitty in the corner of the page...

That's it for now...

Sketches - Week 4

Another week, another set of sketches. I had a New Year resolution of 1 sketch book page per night, but unfortunately it was broke on Thursday night when I worked all night. I did two pictures the next night to make up for it, but it's somehow not right. Oh well...

Here's a girl holding the pole on the train.

Left 4 Dead 2 means I felt like drawing a zombie looking for brains!

Done the same day, this was some sort of undead lady...

I didn't know what to draw, so I picked out a random DVD and drew from the cover. The DVD was Planet Terror (Grindhouse).
I decided to draw a guy in pen. I wanted him to be a typical sci-fi/fantasy stock type character. He was just for the sake of drawing, he had no purpose or specialness to him.

A Halo calendar from last year inspired this. The middle-top guy with the details was the first, the rest was just messing with a pencil with no context.

I picked up the New Adventures of Mighty Mouse DVD a week or so ago, so ... Yeah, I could use more work on drawing Mighty Mouse. The DVDs themselves were pretty fun for the most part. Some of the animation is pretty sloppy or reuses old animation over again, but I guess that's what comes with a budget.

January - Week 3 Sketches

Girl with a celtic type symbol to the side.
Sheamus from WWE. The bottom-left was from a photo, the rest were attempts to cartoon him up. I like the bottom-right one and the top-right one.

After Sheamus it was on to one of my favourites... Mick Foley. The top left is based on a photo, the rest are cartoons. Oh, and we couldn't forget the many faces of Mr Socko. I like most of these; I think maybe Foley is just kind of a cartoon in real life.

Some plays on elephants. The orangish one was from a photo and the rest were for fun. Girl with a hat in the middle...

Some hooved animals. Don't remember what this was, but the top-middle one laying down was from the photo and the rest are cartoons based off it.

Classic-me... A dragon and an octopus...

Classic cartoon type cat along with a bird. I didn't know what to draw, so I drew these...

Ugly bug... The picture didn't capture the lines well, so I had to do some "enhancement" to it. It made the edges dark and the middle is still too light... Oh well...

Some tilted buildings. I was playing with the ideas of perspective that you see in some scary movies. Just an experiment.

The pinkish was done with my left hand and the greenish was done with my right hand. I used both hands at the same time. It's interesting to see how the right side is more confident lines and the left side are kind of edgy... It gives this guy an interesting look... A little unbalanced, a little crazy...

January - Week 2 of the Year Sketches...

Here are some sketches for this week of the year. I decided this year to try and do at least a page everyday in my sketchbook. So far, so good. I'm not sure if I'll be able to keep it up when I do some more animation; we'll see... I won't post every single thing here, but most of what I'm doing.

First up some cats from some photos quickly sketched out followed by White Stripes cats.
The upper left was based on a photo from Force Character Design from Life Drawing. The others were loosely based on the first. In the 2nd I tried to make her more cute by giving her a smile (she has a gun hidden behind her skirt), the 3rd is her shooting someone climbing up something, the 4th she's backing down from someone and the in 5th she's a bit cuter/chubbier. There's a gun like she might use with a black widdow on it.

The near center is based on a photo from Force Character Design from Life Drawing. I don't particularly like how any of them turned out. The one in the upper right is easily my favourite.

The viking holding the sword on the upper left is based on a photo from Force Character Design from Life Drawing. I like the three on the bottom of the page best.

Once more based off a photo in Force Character Design from Life Drawing is the center woman. The others take her in different poses and ideas.

Some random drawings of things. The girl isn't too bad and the beholder is OK, but the flash has faded him out some. I also like the overweight lion. I was just thinking how beholders have kind of caught on as a fantasy monster. Of course nowhere near the level of dragons or the like, but they're getting there...

On a night when I didn't know what to draw, I drew this fat guy on the couch (no reference). I'm playing with making his face fater at the top of the page, but he looks like he's just blowing up his cheeks. On TV they said something about Kitchiner, ON and I thought about what a place with kitchen in it would be like, with utencils running around.

Some pseudo-cute girls. I like the one towards the center best, but they're all OK.

The central figure was from a photo online. The others are changes based on the original, playing wiht what I can stretch and change.

Drawn based off some photos. This one was kind of quick and needs work on the structure of the face in general. Not bad, though...

Finally, based on a photo from Force Character Design from Life Drawing. I wish the photos in that book were a bit bigger for me. :( Anyway, the one in the upper left with the full body was based on the photo and the ohters I just made up with the pirate idea and the basics from that one.

That's all for this week... Hopefully another set next week...