Doodles at work

Ah, I am so delinquent in posting on this thing. Drawing time has gone down considerably given my obligations to work, ect. But I manage to get a few doodles in at work...

Mannequin

Lately I've been real bad and haven't been drawing like I ought to be. I'm gonna try to pick it up some more this month and I figured that there was no better way than to finish a previous started drawing. The preliminary for this drawing should be in older posts. Basically, I liked this photo quite a bit, the pose had style and the fashion was interesting and attractive.

What the hell ever happened to women wearing hats? Bring it back!

Anyway, I never finished the hat on this one and I stumbled upon the drawing as I was using my sketchbook to transport legal documents. I thought, the best way to get back on track would be to finish the hat off and get back in the habit. So voila.

I used my sharpie and a gray scale pen I picked up at Pat Catans, plus some old black markers for some of the not quite black areas.

From January

Well I've been keeping up with practice... I just don't generally like what I seem to be producing of late. These few, however, look reasonably alright in my eyes. There's definitely a variance in style which I've been messing around with. I really don't like pencil, but I'm trying to keep up practice with it. Bought a gray marker though, and it's quite fun for adding in a single shade of tone to spice things up.

Orson Randall: Iron Fist 1916

Something different? I do these perhaps more often than I draw, though they're much more time consuming and cost a hellava lot more. This is Iron Fist, of which you saw somewhere around my first post. Though while the painting down below is of a more Kung Fu Iron Fist, this is in the WWI style, as there have been many to hold the Iron Fist title over the centuries. He took me about 6 months while I was in England, though most of the work was on and off. He's a random 6 inch action figure beneath, with a BSG Anders head heavily modified above the nose. Everything is cloth save for the boots and hands, which are action figure plastic. The belt is a mix between leather, plastic pouches from the action figure and an Elizabeth Swann bandoleer from the Neca Pirates line. The Lee-Enfield Rifle was made of styrene and 300 hours of time and patience, this thing is homemade down to the tiniest detail. The mud was cheap paint and some of my flatmates's bleached flour. The Base is from McFarlane military figures, repainted.

He stands somewhere around 6-7 inches.

Unfinished Business and Quick Sketches

This one, roughly two hours. I was just working on it and got sick of it as I've made too many little errors. But, it was fun to use the ink and brush.


These two are one of about 15 envelope and block-in sketches I do for warm ups. It's a good visual exercise and a lot of times they look kind of cool in their simplicity.
Don't really like this guy, but I had some success mixing color with inks.


This one is Aayla Secura from the recent three Star Wars films. From envelope to block in to preliminary sketch. Just above it was the re-draw I did on better paper anticipating I'd go in with the inks. I've got some blue and violet inks that I might go in with next if I'm feeling ambitious. I messed up on the should sockets and I think her hips are too wide, but that what you get for using toys for models. She was actually the creation of the talents Sith_Fire30, who is displayinghte base image for this sketch here: http://sithfire.blogspot.com/

Face Study

Nothing special, a face study for an upcoming drawing. I have these problems when I start a drawing that half looks good and half is understudied, leaving me with a mediocre product. So this is an attempt to prevent that from happening.

the mummy LIVES!

THE MUMMY LIVES! Mwahahaha!

Another ditty I did for a drawing jam, the best thing to happen to inspiration since everyone who's better than me. The theme was the Universal monsters, you know, Frankenstein, Dracula, sea creature thing and the Mummy. Here's a random fact for you, did you know The Mummy, the film with Brendan Fraser whom occupies a poster spot on the wall, was actually a loose remake of some 1932 film? Well it was and I don't have a poster of Brendan Fraser... yet.