Hit an art block for a week, rested up and back at it again. I have a lot of sketches that haven’t fully developed at some point I am going to collect them all in a mini PDF sketchbook. It will be fun to look at them later.
Weekly Wrap-Up 6-26-16
Catching up on my backlog of summer tv with my iPad on hand. It’s still amazing how much I am still learning about Procreate.
It’s very rare I revisit a sketch but I really want to develop longer illustrations. Normally by the time I blue line a sketch and ink it I just want to move onto the next idea.
Reference illustration – Procreate #1
Reference illustration – Procreate #2
Brush pen illustration colored in Photoshop
Hamilton fanart
John Boyega-Pacific Rim 2 sketch
Weekly Wrap-Up 6-12-16
Sorry for the lack of post the nice weather and staying busy has kept me from posting more. Good news is I feel lately like my art block has cleared up. I need more time to actually finish concepts.
Limited palette study
Reference model illustration
Muhammad Ali
Tracer from Overwatch
Red from Transistor cosplay dress
Lumberjack for Sketch Dailies
Beyonce reference inking
Quick late night inking #1
Quick late night inking #2
Smokey the Bear for Sketch Dailies
Justin reference illustration
Weekly Wrap-Up 5-15-16
Super busy lately I need to get back to a more regular posting schedule. Otherwise post like these exist with 10+ illustrations from the last month all on one post.
Still having a blast with Procreate but my drawing time is still the fastest on paper but with digital it’s getting much better.
Lately it’s been a mix of Sketch Dailies late night illustrations and some personal for fun weekend stuff.
Attack on Titan – Illustration
Prince – Sketch Dailies
Voltron – Sketch Dailies
Reference Model Sketch
Utena – Illustration
Reference Model Sketch
Swamp Thing – Sketch Dailies
Gwenpool
Ex Machina
Reference Model Illustration
Rey – The Force Awakens
Red from Transistor
Rowlet- For Sketch Dailies
Rita Repulsa – For Sketch Dailies
Weekly Wrap-Up 4-17-16
It’s been a minute since my last post. The change of seasons brought on a sinus infection which changed over to cold/flu fun stuff. Prior to all of that I upgraded to the large iPad Pro/with Apple Pencil.
It’s taken a little while to get a decent workflow going forward. I still prefer to do quick thumbnails on paper prior. I am a huge fan of Procreate/ MediBang Paint and Autodesk SketchBook. For now Procreate is my default drawing app mainly because I created a thick illustration brush that imitates how I like to ink on paper. Although with Autodesk SketchBook the pencil lines feel 1:1 with real paper.
I still have some process steps to figure out. Below are my Procreate sketches that I don’t think are completely embarrassingly bad. It will be fun to look at these months/years down the road.
Weekly Wrap-Up 03-27-16
I am really trying to get into the habit of sketching something walking away and getting the base lines down before illustrating it. It’s true when I come back to the line work I notice a few errors that would have messed me up later on while adding color to it.
Rosie the Riveter 20XX – oc concept
Little Red Riding Hood – OC concept
The Punisher aka Frank Castle
Nightcrawler 80’s edition based on Ducky from Pretty In Pink for Kevin Wada’s X-Men 80’s challenge.
Funky Spider-Man illustration in honor of the Civil War trailer
Elektra based on the Netflix promo art for her character.
Reference illustration based on a 50’s fashion guide
Weekly Wrap-Up 03-06-16
Getting a bit busy for a moment. Working on some outside work hopefully I will show later down the road. In the meanwhile still trying to do a little something everyday or every other if time permits.
Iron Fist
Daft Punk – Still playing “Discovery” on a weekly basis
Zootopia / X-Files LOL…I am sorry
Quick late night sketch based on T.I.’s music video for “Money Talk”
Darkseid
Weekly Wrap-Up 02-23-16
Trying to work on this phase of creating more original character work minus the Ash illustration. The Jake Parker video channel series has really inspired me to do more work that I can say is my own.
For Chinese New Year the one and only Sun Wukong.
Older Ash Ketchum from Pokemon
Illustration based on the Super Bowl Halftime show outfit
Modern witch illustration
A fanart piece in honor of Tuskegee Heirs – The Kickstarter Project
Bunny Guard Sketch #1
Bunny Guard Sketch #2
Bunny Guard Sketch #3
Weekly Wrap-Up 02-09-16
Really having fun experimenting with traditional colors vs. digital colors in Clip Studio with some color value adjustment in Photoshop. I still prefer quick pencil sketches vs. quick layouts on the computer.
Erykah Badu (Clip Studio – Opaque Watercolor Brush)
Reference photo (Color media test)
Chibi style promo based on Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce
Freakazoid for Sketch Dailies (Dry media brushes)
Minotaur – Sketch Dailies challenge
Snagglepuss/MJ tribute – For Sketch Dailies challenge
Woody (Toy Story) / Fist Full of Dollars – Pixar 30th Tribute sketch
Weekly Wrap-Up 01-25-16
Still doing some style experiments with Clip Paint Studio. Also getting gloves for the Cintiq screen definitely improved the smooth motions on the screen.
Cookie from Empire aka Taraji P. Henson
Lando Calrissian from Cloud City aka Billy Dee Williams
Quick Mr. Robot
Inspired by CTChrysler OC AnnieMei
Effie from Heavy Cream OC by Ttyto Alba
Jake Wyatt’s OC from Necropolis
Weekly Wrap-Up 01-12-16
Recently spent sometime getting familiar with Manga Studio/Clip Paint Studio again. Photoshop is my primary tablet interface but I wanted to see what changed. After installing the latest brushes from Frenden, I can say quite a bit. The new tips just feel more organic and the lag that was around with the latest OSX El Capitan update is now gone.
The first three sketches are from the weekend done using traditional ink and paper. Also, I just finished Into The Badlands this week so thus the flood of characters from that world will begin.
Random warrior guy from Into The Badlands
The Widow aka Minerva from Into The Badlands
Chun-Li based on this awesome cosplay reference I stumbled onto here
Quick doodle for Sketch Dailies topic “The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man”
Quick cast of Into The Badlands sketch using Clip Studio Paint
Can’t forget Quinn from Into The Badlands
Sherlock and Watson based on the new holiday special
Quick character doodle #1
Quick character doodle #2
Quick character doodle #3
Slowly making my way through Jessica Jones…Kilgrave wow what a monster…
Tried out a couple of brushes on this, I try not to spent too much time on this reference photo it’s really good practice though.
Weekly Wrap-Up for 2015 edition 01-03-16
The end of the year is always a great time to catch up with friends and just draw 24/7. This is my last batch of sketches for 2015. I can’t wait to see what 2016 has waiting around the corner.
Doctor Strange – Based on the Benedict Cumberbatch promo picture
A quick Daniel Craig Bond illustration referenced for a 007 promo pic
Fashion model reference illustration
I can’t believe till this year I have never seen Sylvester Stallone’s Cobra. This film holds everything I love about 80’s action movies in one. Halfway though the film I did a couple of sketches and this one is my fave quick little profile.
I did this a couple of days prior to the new season of Luther airing on television. Next Elba sketch I do I need to grey up the facial hair a bit.
It feels like every year I do a Storm illustration. I guess this is my annual Storm for 2015.
The other day Kotaku posted an article about Nintendo creating a female Link character called Linkel. I loved the character design image they released for her, I had to do my interpretation.