Another sketch challenge. I'm working on comic pages too, but can't post those until they are published, or until Dan says I can.

Serenity sketch

Here is another sketch challenge entry I did. You can check out the others out and vote here Serenity Sketch Challenge.

Thundercats

Here's another sketch challenge. I did the inks with a sharpie and colors with Photoshop CS2.

Robin sketch

This is my little tutorial on my sketch challenge entry over at Ten Ton Studios.

First thing I did was sketch up this. It was quick and I got the idea off of a photo of a model or something I found on the internet. I don't remember what it was, but I saw it on the internet at work. Anyhow, I didn't think much of it at the time. It began to grow on me and later I added the buildings.







Next I cleaned it up and added a lot. I like the shading in pencil, but didn't think they might work with inks.












The inks were done Steev style (Ten Ton Member and friend) and I left some stuff out and added some details. I think they turned out ok, but the pencils do have a certain style that looks cool.







The grey added. This is my second attempt. I didn't like the first attempt, because the sky, so I did them again.











Finally, I added the logo, which I referenced from a cover I found on the internet while I was at work.

Finished Mr. Freeze

I finished it, but I wish I had more time to work on the frozen people. I would have colored them too. It didn't turn out too bad, though.

Mr. Freeze

Here is a work in progress I did last night. I'm coloring it next and posting it in the Ten Ton challenge.

Nothing new, but soon

I'm working on this new page. It's a script by Michael Bendis. A friend sent it to me when he went to the NY con this last month. We're doing a little contest to see which is told the best-one friend is doing it with us. I'll be posting each page one at a time here. The first page is a two page spread so it has taken me a few days to finish it. I should be finished by tomorrow or the next day.

Asajj

Here is a quick sketch I did for another Ten Ton challenge. I had a few references for her closes. I'm hoping to do another one, but I may not have time.

Cage redesigned

I've been playing with gray Prismacolor markers and I did my first piece for a sketch challenge over at Ten Ton Studios. You can see others and vote there here: Ten Ton Sketch Challenge

My process was pretty simple. I sketched out some designs and the first one I came up with was this. I didn't reference anything but his face and I used some actor's photo on the internet. I don't really know what style this is, but it is kind of rough and then I just inked Cage with a number two brush and the background I added later with art pens.

The gray, as I stated above, is Prismacolor and this would be my first try. I think I can do better, but the depth is not bad and I like how it turned out. I'll get used to grays before I go with color, but this is something I'd like to continue to do.

Starwars Commission

I thought I would test out my how-to skills and post an older drawing I did. This was a commission for my boss's son. He wanted all three stages of this piece so I did the pencils, then scanned it into the computer and inked it digitally and colored it in Photoshop CS2.

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Naturally I did the pencils from references I found on the internet. I don't trace, but rather reference. I believe it reflects in the piece when you draw it from reference rather than tracing. Nothing wrong with tracing as many commercial artists have made a good living doing it, but I choose to draw instead.


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Inks are not difficult for me and I generally ink with a number two brush and art pen, but in this case I did it on my Wacom Cintiq.


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I don't like to go overboard with coloring techniques and I'm all about the subtlety of art. Make it look the way you want and that's all you need to do. I have two versions of the coloring. The first being the flats and some minor highlights.

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The major highlights are last and they were just some brush work and gradients.
I don’t think this piece is the best I’ve done, but it was fun and looks pretty cool. It did the job for my boss’s son and that’s enough for now.

The beginning

I'm one of those guys that generally likes to do different things, but it seems everyone is starting or has a blog, so I guess this time I'll be jumping on the bandwagon. I'm hoping to start a regular thing here and post new works and how-to's every week, but we'll see if I can follow through. Things I'm working on this week are a sketch challenge for a redesign of Cage and I'm doing an Electra pinup for another challenge. Both can be seen from Ten Ton Forum when I post the results.

Since I'm going to be working on the Electra pinup when I get home tonight I'll post the results and perhaps show a little on how I did it.