illustration + design
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
Golden State Warriors congrats 2015 NBA Champions
Immortal Iron Fist ready to strike
Wonder Woman as a badger, drawing practice from Sketch Dailies mash-up week
Magnetoad, drawing practice from Sketch Dailies mash-up week
Sydney Leroux, USA FIFA player
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.
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.
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.
After I know where my highlights and shadows are, I hide it and drop base colors for all the parts.
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.
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
Derrick Rose
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.
Also, did this as a coloring warm up the other night.
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
Nux going for a ride
Sketch Dailies topic the other day was Totoro from Studio Ghibli’s My Neighbor Totoro.
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.
Reference sketch illustrated
Hawkeye for Sketch Dailies
Ultron for Sketch Dailies
Nick Fury for Sketch Dailies
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.
Yoshi from the Super Mario Series for Sketch Dailies
Khyah a mythical creature based in Tibetan culture for Sketch Dailies
Weekly collection of sketches for the week of 4-19-15.
Illustration for Sketch Dailies topic: Yoda
Illustration for Sketch Dailies topic: Count Chocula
Illustration for Sketch Dailies topic: Lamassu
Illustration of a model with the Pentel brush pen
Illustration of a wolf with the Pentel brush pen
Weekly Wrap-up of sketches and illustrations for the week of 04-05-15
Illustration for Sketch Dailies topic: The Hulk
Illustration for Sketch Dailies topic: Invisible Woman aka Sue Storm
Illustration for Sketch Dailies topic: Quetzalcoatl
Reference Model Drawing Inked with traditional media brush pen
Weekly Wrap-up of sketches and illustrations for 3-29-15.
Weekend Illustration #1
Weekend Illustration #2
Weekend Illustration #3
Blade for Sketch Dailies
Fuath a Gaelic Water Spirit for Sketch Dailies
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.
Animal series black lined
Queen of Hearts for Alice in Wonderland
Jafar for Aladdin
Darth Vader vs. the pickle jar
I didn’t do a lot of sketches, busy work week. I did manage to zone out for a bit this weekend and fully recover from this nagging cold and do some just because sketches. After a quick marathon session of Steven Universe I definitely felt inspired to do some characters from the show. The others are nightly sketches that I try to do on a consistent pattern for Sketch Dailies.
Trying out some different angles
Steven and Son Goku playing leapfrog…why not
Garnet from Steven Universe
Maxima a rouge of Superman done for Sketch Dailies
Matt Murdock aka Daredevil done for Sketch Dailies
My sketches from last week. I was a bit under the weather most of last week so I couldn’t stay up to late to do anything major in color. This week gotta get back into drawing animals mode again.
Storm
Misty Knight
Jennifer Hudson from the “Trouble” video it’s soooooooo POP
Misc character design #1
Misc character design #2
Some of the stuff I drew last week. Working on some animal concepts for an illustration project, listened to Kanye’s “Wolves” on repeat numerous times and a little sketch to commemorate the Johnny Karate episode of Parks and Rec. it was soooooooo good.
