89 -the Littlest Barbarian and a Tank Girl

My warm up for today was to throw down a quick Tank Girl for the PencilJack weekly sketch group. Think it turned out pretty good. Nothin like a comic about a hot chick with a love of guns and explosives!

The second pic is an idea I have had rolling around in my head for a bit. I'm trying to come up with a possible all ages comic about a little barbarian girl, possible named Camilla the Hun. Not sure of anything yet other than I want her to be twice as tough as she is cute. Just another thing to keep on the back burner when I'm not focusing on the work I should be doing.

88 - who nose?

Who knows? The nose knows for sure. At least I think so...
Anywho back to it with my progress through the great Christopher Harts book Simplied Anatomy for the Comic Book Artist, still traveling through its pages and getting my more prolific side moving. Also had a bit of extra fun with this one as I inked 2 of the heads with my 2 new brushes, ordered me a Copic Drawing Pen and a Copic Multiliner. As you can see I've only done a few lines with each so far but they both work nicely so far.

And on a love for NetFlix note - I am a little over half way through the 3rd season of Buffy and my love for all things Whedon is growing daily.

87 - Darth 3PO fools!

Weekly group sketch over at PencilJack had Evil Star Wars characters as one of the topic choices with bonus points for What If Star Wars Infinities characters. The second I read this I got the idea of Darth 3PO stuck in my head, for the first time in a long time I actually HAD to draw an idea out of my head. Love it.
Enjoy.

86 - color me wonderful

The experiments just keep on coming. I have finished my first piece done with digital pencils and inked by hand. I have finished my first page of pencils inked digitally. And now I have finished my first ever coloring job over someone else's work. A post was put up on PencilJack asking for help coloring some pages for a contest and I decided to give it a try.
As this is the first time I have ever tried to color something I think it came out pretty damn good. The line work is a bit choppy as I was coloring right on top of pencils with the inking step. If I were to move forward on this project I would either need to have the pages inked or ink them myself so the end result would be much cleaner. Now to post them up and see what the requester thinks of what I did with his art.
Fingers crossed!

85 - Angel in full Angelus mode

I have sixteen different things going on right now and after finishing my first page of digital inks I felt like actually just doing a regular old sketch. And lucky for me I am currently watching all the seasons of Buffy The Vampire Slayer on Netflix(best thing ever! I love my Instant Queue). During Season 2 Angel gets all evil again after nailing Buffy and turns into Angelus - his evil alter ego. Great stuff. Paused the screen and did a quick warm-up sketch, enjoy.

If you've never given this show a chance, do. If only for the comedy alone it is worth watching. Plus HUGE bonus, no matter how melodramatic the characters get on this show none of these bad asses sparkle, and thank god for that!

84 - page 1...paging page 1...

Here we have it, my first ever finished page of digital inks. This is a low rez jpg so don't let the zoomed copy fool ya, this turned out pretty nice. I'll put up a clean high rez later hopefully along with the colored version once someone on the Jam Session over at PencilJack pretties it up a bit.
This have proven to be a really fun project. Never actually thought I would enjoy inking something as much as I did while working on this. The fun of learning new software along with new techniques did make things interesting. Here's hoping the next piece will keep me as interested as I keep learning.

83 - inking page progress

Here's some progress on my first digitally inked page. Still lots to learn in Manga Studio, lots of little tools and techniques to figure out. Got until the 19th to finish this, gotta get back to work so it will be done in time for my deadline over at PencilJack.