Keep cool

I liked the Joker and now I think I want to do something similar with Mr. Freeze, so I've been doodling some ideas out. The one all the way to the right has the feel I think I'm looking for, except I want to drive the little gadgets and doo-dads on his suit to the max. Plus, his eyes look like little bungholes... might have to play with that a tad. I like the middle one, I think the face has character. Top one, meh. The little guy in the corner does crack me up though :P

Ha ha, he he, ho ho, ha

This was incredibly fun to do. Basically I was doodling on my notes for my dissertation and scratched this guy out in 1 inch by 1 inch. Then, on a second glance thought it might be worth pursuing in bigger format. So into my sketchpad it went. Then inking it seemed like a good idea... but then it kind of spiraled out of control, color was on the horizon... then poof, this guy. Really quite pleased with the expressive inking. My least favorite bit is the hair, which I didn't really put a whole lot of thought into. The background would have looked nice if it was extended in the upper right. He kind of looks like he has a body halo as well... which I should have figured a way out of as well, but the random succession of added parts just didn't allow for it. Plus it was like 3 am when I finished.

Watercolors and Failed Comic Books

Ok, I've been messing around with adding some color to my ink drawings and, to be honest, I really don't want to learn digital colored all that bad. I figure, it's probably in my best interests to stick with the brush and let my brush skills benefit from the experience rather than my mouse hand. The first two are Iron Fist and Batman with Poison Ivy (my favorite bat-villain!). Iron Fist had the benefit of a model, Batman and Ivy did not. I think I can see the difference as a lot of guest work is left out in Iron Fist. I think with Batman, the dodgy bits are quite obvious and hurt it overall. My colors... well, I'm not completely satisfied. Don't get me wrong, the color is a nice touch but I made some mistakes on both. I learned the hard way with Iron Fist that you should do your inks AFTER your colors and with Bats, watch out for drawing in pencil too dark and washes with ink won't get as dark as you like.

Anyway, the final two are part of a 6 page comic on Rayna Eclipse that I started months ago. I guess I just lost ambition with it as the script was too loose, the panel layouts ambiguous, the dialogue... unknown. Plus I started using models after page one and it shows. I used a technical pen to ink and that really doesn't give me the line quality I can get with a brush. So if I ever feel the need to re-tackle the story... lessons learned.

Ooo Ooo, first post!

Obligatory first post to introduce my sketchyblog that I really hope to keep up on, but chances are won't. Anyway, here's some recent stuff I've been working on: The first is the early sketch of a watercolor I'm currently working on. The next s Ozymandias concept sketch I did for a custom which is staring at my with a fierce gaze that only an uncompleted figure could give. The last is some general sketches for some characters for a story I never wrote, save for Rayna Eclipse who is always an ongoing work. I expect she'll be making some appearances in this thread before long.