Little batch

So I bought a little sketch pad to carry around in my bag where ever I am and whenever I get the urge. I also bought a white ink pen... hence many of the drawings you see above. The Monkey drawing, however, is all black ink.

The Man without Fear!

Some Daredevil sketches. I've been working on coming up with a Daredevil piece and it mus thave taken me days to arrive at something I was close to happy with (immediately above). He's kind of a tough character to capture the essence of, if you go too acrobatic he looks like Spider-man, too dark then like Batman. Though I could see a lot of similarities between Batman and DD, which is partially why I went with with this look. Gonna re-draw it though on watercolor paper and add in some reds. Should be fun.

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.