Category: Illustration

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Weekly Wrap-Up 7-20-15

Busy weekend spent working on designing a friend of mine’s companies branding identity. I will have a slew of logo’s I will eventually post here when they decide on a final layout. Besides that I did manage to do a couple of for fun illustrations.

RIP Nintendo President Satoru Iwata. It wasn’t until his passing I really knew what an accomplished programmer he was.

 

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Sketch Dailies weekend topic was Charmander from the Pokemon series. I wanted to try something Jake Parker has inspired me to do “draw people just having fun and being whimsical”.

 

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During a bit of a drawing block stumbled onto Hellboy on tv. I did a couple of quick doodles earlier and ended up finishing this up. It’s had to draw Hellboy without thinking how Mike Mignola does his shadows.

 

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Weekly Wrap-Up 07-12-15

I did a good chunk of sketches this week. Last weeks art road block seems to have passed for now. Really exciting stuff coming out of San Diego comic con, just a shame it’s tough to actually get tickets in the nerd is cool era.

Congrats to Serena Williams on her 6th Wimbledon Win, like Nike says “Just Do It”

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Mid-friday the first cast photo of the new Ghostbusters hit the internet. I am counting down the days. Really interested to see what they do in terms of how does this relate to the 80’s Ghostbusters crew.

 

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Can’t believe Invader Zim is back. Hopefully this will lead the way to a new animated series on Netflix. I did a quick sketch the day I saw the news the covers were released.

 

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Just a quick model reference pose illustration. These are always fun quick doodles on paper. Ever so often I like to grab one and drop some color on it.

 

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Weekly Wrap-up 07-05-15

A couple of drawing blocks lately, trying to get back into my routine again. I have some rough ideas for a small series to do I just need to focus on it…if only focusin existed (Obscure Simpsons reference). Good news is I picked up a new scanner my line work is much sharper now, so hyped.

 

Sam Wilson aka Captain America for the 4th of July weekend

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Crash Bandicoot from the Playstation series

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Reference photo illustration #1

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Reference photo illustration #2

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Reference photo illustration #3

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Weekly Wrap-up 06-21-15

Busy couple of weeks, after a couple of trips I managed to find the time to scan and clean up some sketches.

 

Anger from Pixar’s Inside Out as a Red Lantern

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Golden State Warriors congrats 2015 NBA Champions

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Immortal Iron Fist ready to strike

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Wonder Woman as a badger, drawing practice from Sketch Dailies mash-up week

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Magnetoad, drawing practice from Sketch Dailies mash-up week

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Sydney Leroux, USA FIFA player

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Process Breakdown 6-7-15

I like to do fashion sketches the folds in the fabric the many styles of clothing always provide an interesting challenge. This image from The Sartorialist proved to be a lot of fun.

Late night I like to sketch on paper it feels good to use traditional media at the end of the day. Most of the time I do a couple of quick sketches and never try to focus too much on background etc. It’s me trying to work on building layers upon layers of color based on the light situation.

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If I find a sketch in particular that works I might like in this case scan it and clean the lines for coloring in Photoshop.

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Before getting to the coloring I have learned try and map out the light and dark spots this makes all the difference for final rendering.

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After I know where my highlights and shadows are, I hide it and drop base colors for all the parts.

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This is my favorite part. I have a set base of folders that have my light values and another set of folders with my base colors. At this point it’s a lot of blending and adjusting of layers to get the final image.

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Weekly Wrap-up 5-31-15

Another busy week trying to squeeze blog updates into the week. Last month I did some NBA sketches I put aside, this week I revisited a couple of them and dropped some color in them.

LeBron James
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Derrick Rose
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Besides that finally got around to watching Kung Fury. It was everything those guys promised to deliver. The plot could have come out of a Family Guy skit and the soundtrack mostly by Mitch Murder was perfect.
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Also, did this as a coloring warm up the other night.
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Weekly Wrap-up 5-24-15

Trying to figure out a proper schedule for posting blog updates. Much like the rest of the internet I am still in awe of Mad Max:Fury Road. Thus the beginning of a deluge of Mad Max related illustrations.

Empris Furiosa
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Nux going for a ride
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Sketch Dailies topic the other day was Totoro from Studio Ghibli’s My Neighbor Totoro.
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Weekly Wrap-up 05-04-15

I have been busy the last two weeks so this post is a bit of a catch up. The reason for all the Avengers stuff is because my daily practice site Sketch Dailies did an all Avengers daily topic posting. Along with that a couple of reference sketches.

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Reference sketch illustrated

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Hawkeye for Sketch Dailies

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Ultron for Sketch Dailies

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Nick Fury for Sketch Dailies

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Black Widow for Sketch Dailies. I wanted to try a concept in which the Black Widow organization has been around since the Crusades. I want to revisit the character some more at some point.

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Yoshi from the Super Mario Series for Sketch Dailies

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Khyah a mythical creature based in Tibetan culture for Sketch Dailies

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Weekly Wrap-up 04-19-15

Weekly collection of sketches for the week of 4-19-15.

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Illustration for Sketch Dailies topic: Yoda

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Illustration for Sketch Dailies topic: Count Chocula

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Illustration for Sketch Dailies topic: Lamassu

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Illustration of a model with the Pentel brush pen

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Illustration of a wolf with the Pentel brush pen

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Weekly Wrap-up 04-05-15

Weekly Wrap-up of sketches and illustrations for the week of 04-05-15

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Illustration for Sketch Dailies topic: The Hulk

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Illustration for Sketch Dailies topic: Invisible Woman aka Sue Storm

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Illustration for Sketch Dailies topic: Quetzalcoatl

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Reference Model Drawing Inked with traditional media brush pen

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Weekly Wrap-up 3-29-15

Weekly Wrap-up of sketches and illustrations for 3-29-15.

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Weekend Illustration #1

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Weekend Illustration #2

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Weekend Illustration #3

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Blade for Sketch Dailies

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Fuath a Gaelic Water Spirit for Sketch Dailies

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Weekly Wrap-up 3-22-15

This week spent a couple of days doing the Sketch Dailies theme of the week villains. Also finished up my designs for a series of animals illustration.

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Animal series black lined
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Queen of Hearts for Alice in Wonderland
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Jafar for Aladdin
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Darth Vader vs. the pickle jar