Showing posts with label digital sketch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label digital sketch. Show all posts
Friday, September 7, 2012
186 - Simple shapes = simple characters
Just a fun simple sketch. During tonight's recording of The Next Element Podcast I talked about starting some character design work for a character in a short story I wrote which Colin is turning into a script for a 4/5 page comic. The character is a little bad ass barbarian girl named Camilla the Hun. I think she is going to be a blast to work with but what I don't have yet is the design of the character. So in comes Creating Characters with Personality by Tom Bancroft.
So after we were done with the podcast I started flipping through the book and after a couple of minutes had the very simple urge to sketch something. One of the best feelings in the world for me is having that feeling of wanting, almost needing to draw something and being able to feed that need. Lucky for me I was sitting in front of my computer with a nice Intous tablet and a book. One of the first sections in the book goes over simple shapes and has the great line that simple shapes make simple characters, hence the sketches above. Simple shapes make simple characters, more varied shapes create more varied characters. Sketching in Sketchbook Pro is getting to be more fun every time I use it.
Sunday, April 29, 2012
167 - little robot guy
Finally installed the O so cool Autodesk SketchBook Pro 2011 to my pc. I so love this program. Nothing else feels as close to pencil on paper as this program does. Just a little robot guy for fun.
Thursday, April 12, 2012
164 - Bucktooth Noodlearm Boy...I don't know why...
Bucktooth Noodlearm Boy my first creation on my nice new touchscreen laptop. These little suckers aren't bad. This one is a little old but I like it. Downloaded Sketchbook Pro to see if I could get any kind of positive result with the active digitizer stylus and I have to say the combination is nice, no where near what I had with my Wacom on my PC but workable. Using the pencil tool you can get nice sketchy lines that build up even with a stylus and touchscreen that have about 6 layers of sensitivity at most. So here we have the first sketch with my new set up. More to come...
Sunday, November 13, 2011
125 - Sweet ride Kaneda
A quick little try out of my awesome new toy, Corel Painter 12. Don't let anyone tel you that those "retweet for a chance to win" tweets are a scam. Well some are, but not all. BIG THANKS go out to @corelsoftware. I re-tweeted one of their tweets and was chosen as the big winner, this Saturday a FULL copy of Corel Painter 12 showed up at my door. It's awesome so far and I can't wait to spend some real time with it learning all the changes and advancements.
So we have a Kaneda's bike from Akira, one of my favorite vehicles of all time for the PencilJack weekly sketch group. Enjoy.
Monday, April 4, 2011
98 - NOT Thanos!
Darkseid indeed! For the epic 200th version of the Weekly Sketch Group over at PencilJack. One of the choices for the week were the Jack "The King" Kirby Fourth World characters, pure greatness. Tried to channel my inner Kirby and get a little Darkseid going, don't call him Thanos fools!
Actually did 3 stages on this one, tossed down some blue lines, added solid pencils and then went over it all with some pens. Enjoy.
Sunday, February 6, 2011
78 - what is this THING?
Step 2 done. Went back and made some changes after getting great feedback from the folks over at PencilJack, great forum. Got the digital pencils done and now I am going to print it out again and finish the inking by hand with my new ink brush ala Skottie Young style. I've never done digital pencils before and my inking skills as limited as they were are now also rusty, hopefully this turns out well.
Original drawing done by Steve McNiven.
Sunday, January 30, 2011
75 -that Thing you do.

This drawing was originally done by Steve McNiven, all credit where credit is due. I have the image set as my desktop wallpaper at the moment. The original has Sue standing in front of Ben but I wanted to just work on the Thing so sadly no Sue Storm this time.
While looking at the image I started a sketch in Sketchbook Pro 2011, I got the image partially done and converted the image to blue lines in Photoshop and then printed it out and started inking it with a Prismacolor ink brush. I've been wanting to try this technique as I've been watching a lot of the videos that Skottie Young has up in multiple places(check out http://www.skottieyoung.com/ for some great stuff) and his way of working is very different from mine. So mainly it's just for fun.
After I worked on the ink for a bit I decided to add in more pencils and try to do the rest of the image. Added some lines with just pencil and I'm gonna rescan it and add in the rest back in Sketchbook Pro 2011.
I just threw this piece up on http://www.penciljack.com/ to get myself started there. Hoping for some positive art critique and feedback. I am also posting it here for both of my loyal fans, enjoy.
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