illustration + design
Last blog post for 2018 it’s been fun going through my illustrations and sketches through out the year. The art book is almost done so far its around 47 double sided pages, the best part is working mostly digital this year I didn’t have to clean up paper scans. I really enjoyed just experimenting this year and hope to push myself further into the new year.
Since the last post I have been doing smaller reference studies with the grease pencil in Clip Studio. I spent sometime working on grey scale values with clothing folds and soft lighting shadows. I did find a couple new fashion blogs that will come in handy for a couple of designs I have been trying to work on recently.
I started the beginning of October with allergies at this point I don’t want to burn out trying to catch up on my Inktober drawings. So this year I will take a break. I did enjoy the art meme going around with Bowsette the collective art going around is all so much fun. My final concept for last months character design challenge the creme brulee wrestler was something that came to me towards the end of completing my initial concept the chocolate bar model.
The last two weeks I have been busy and doing mostly quick at work lunchtime sketches. I did have time a day before Batman Day and drew a couple of layout sketches. I did eventually finish both during last weekend. With the model illustrations I was trying out building out grey levels before applying any color to the images. I always enjoy approaching a drawing with a possible new way to apply layers and colors.
Enjoying the best time of the year and getting back into a couple of smaller projects hopefully in the next couple of weeks. Also really trying to do full color in my semi-daily drawings, I really want this years hardbound sketchbook to have a larger color section.
It’s my favorite time of the year, I have been on the road just putting miles on the bike and taking stops to sketch. For the month of May I managed to do something for Mermay, a couple of NBA illustrations and of course one for the monthly character design challenge. Some days I want to do thick inker lines and the next day loose pencil styled designs. It’s still hard to decide what “style” I actually am.
I got around to uploading a couple of older illustrations that I did last month. On May the fourth aka Star Wars day I did a quick Luke illustration. One of my fav. music videos in quite sometime is Childish Gambino’s – This is America the afternoon after watching it I stayed up into the early AM to draw it. Besides that here are a couple of lunchtime pencil sketches in my work sketchbook.
Things have been a but busy lately. I did find the time to do a couple of illustrations for one of my favorite film franchises Aliens. Besides that I uploaded my recent pencil sketches in my work sketchbook.
I did a couple of Space Pirate designs for last months character design challenge and eventually went with the initial concept and cleaned it up. Besides that a few lunchtime sketches and tried an animation test using Clip Studio on iPad only.
Warm weather finally showed up I really want to do outdoor drawings debating on doing it digital or carrying a small book and pencils. These illustrations are from the last couple of weeks I am getting around to uploading them on my site.
Alt version for her second weekend performance
Getting back to posting again, mostly just smaller night time drawings. I have been doing a lot of digital blue pencil layouts and very few completed drawings.
Finishing up a couple of outside projects so I haven’t been filling up the sketch pile lately. At least with the last batch of snow storms I have been able to do some fun weekday AM model reference drawings.
