illustration + design
I managed to print a couple samples of my Inktober 2017 art book. Learned a couple of things in the process but happy with the end result. My last illustration for day 31 was also a starting point for October’s character design challenge topic – demon/devil. I added some base colors in the scan and had fun playing with vibrance layers for this illustration.
Inktober – Finale really happy with how this years Inktober turned out. Definitely going off topic at the end of the night with an brush pen in my hand was fun. I am almost done with final layouts to print these into a small art book to remember how it all turned out.
24. Sentai transformation
25. Elephants cutting loose
26. The Queen’s guard
27. All summer she practiced
28. One swift strike
29. Practicing summon magic
30. This squirrel fights back
31. In a Halloween mode for the last day
Inktober Week 3 – So far so good, I have a good handle on my illustrations the next few days. Going away from a particular theme esp. Halloween related like in the past was for the best. Some nights I look over at the clock and it’s past 1 AM, best part I still feel like I have so many fun ideas to try before the month is up.
17. Energy summon to destroy the orb
18. Never too old to skate
19. Crow mage
20. High altitude sky surfer
21. Lone priest ready to fight the undead
22. Good day for a ride
23. The forest archer prepares to strike
Inktober Week 2 – After hitting a few roadblocks late night I realized it’s best to just draw whatever comes to me at night. I thought about trying to hit a theme each day but in the past I got tired of sticking to a particular topic or era. Somedays I want to do sentai stuff the next day fun animal characters.
10. Crew hard at work before the next round
11. Chicken and Worm detectives 80’s cop team-up
12. Wasteland junker
13. Underwater always full of surprise
14. One swift strike
15. The best on the dance floor
16. Fleet commander charting the course
Inktober Week 1 – The first couple were a little hard. I have been doing digital lately so it takes a few tries before my hands feel steady to do long line work. So far so good I have a schedule when I get home to not burn out on my daily pieces for the month.
1. Jay-Z on SNL
2. Striker Jr. Pacific Rim 2
3. Iden Versio Battlefront 2
4. Wary traveller on his walk
5. Rooftop defender
6. Braking the 4th wall
7. Flamingo charging up his chi
8. Pizza delivery bot 30 mins or less
9. 80’s Sentai on her way to a fight
My last week before Inktober begins. I did a couple of iPad sketches while watching the fall premiere of my favorite shows. Bristol board paper with the Inktober paper has been printed and I have a full supply of ink cartridges for my brush pen.
Having a blast edited my brushes and changed a couple of settings Medibang Paint on iPad feels so smooth now. It finally feels loose like how a blue line pencil sketch should feel. The coloring is still a process I am trying to get faster using.
Trying to do full color designs. I get into a habit of doing VERY loose sketch lines followed but clean-up lines and moving onto something else after that.
Back at it again. I fell behind on a couple of projects so right now I trying to remember how to draw again. I have 5 pages of scribbles and 3 bristol sheets that never went anywhere. This is the first batch that feels good.
Things have been a bit hectic no real time to do larger illustrations. I do try to just do a reference sketch just to stay on routine every couple of days.
Took sometime to finish up the end of a sketchbook I have in the pile. Very excited Attack on Titan is now back I started a couple of sketches and should drop some color in them when I have some free time.
Really happy the winter darkness is over with and the sun is out until almost 6:30pm. It’s almost time for running season to start up again. I really liked a couple of Oscar photo’s that were taken on the red carpet, I had to do a couple of illustrations. Besides that I am working on a couple of smaller design projects but still making time for kind of daily more like every couple of days illustrations.
