3/1/2014 Sketches and Stuff I've Been Up To

 

 

 Been quite busy these days.  Work's been crazy, and I've been trying to get together my personal work. I haven't forgotten to do sketches whenever I have the chance though.

11/30/2013 Inking and Writing

In the midst of writing, I got a chance to do a bit of inking.  Here's a quick 1 hour sketch!

10/5/2013 30 Day Challenge: Day 22

Didn't get a chance to update last night because I went out drinking.  The bar we went to had ridiculously beautiful servers working there.  Inspired me to draw this!

10/3/2013 30 Day Challenge: Day 21

Under the sea~!

10/2/2013 30 Day Challenge: Day 20

Intense negotiations

10/1/2013 30 Day Challenge: Day 18 & 19

Making up for yesterday!  Here's a twofer!

9/19/2013 30 Day Challenge: Day 17

girls on bikes

9/28/2013 30 Day Challenge: Day 16

Decided to draw something a bit more relaxing today.

9/27/2013 30 Day Challenge: Day 15

SUSAN ELBOW DROP!  Half way to the finish line now!

9/26/2013 30 Day Challenge: Day 13 & 14

How to Put Your Man to Sleep: an instruction manual

9/24/2013 30 Day Challenge: Day 10 & 11

 

Experimenting with integrating cross hatching into this new more geometric style.

9/20/2013 30 Day Challenge: Day 8

Gotta Hurry, gotta reload!

9/19/2013 30 Day Challenge: Day 7

1 week in!  Some boxing drawing today!

9/18/2013 30 Day Challenge: Day 5 & 6

Got side-tracked yesterday and couldn't post anything.  Making it up today!

9/14/2013 30 Day Challenge: Day 2

This will be my post for Day 2 of the challenge! (the previous post was something I drew last night)

9/14/2013 30 Day Inking Challenge!

I've decided to tackle a 30 day challenge!

My good friend and co-worker Vince has convinced me to do a 30 day challenge (He'll be posting a 30 day challenge of his own here). Our goals are a bit different, I'll be trying to draw and ink characters and include backgrounds or at the least characters interacting with their environments.  I'm a bit rusty on having characters blend into the space they occupy, so this should be a good exercise!  I'm going to try to make sure to practice onomatopoeias and effects.  If you're a fan of 30 day challenges, stay tuned!

(This is actually last night's entry, so I shall be posting again later tonight!)

9/1/2012 Update

 Holding slow and steady on the comic front.  Progress is by no means fast, but I'm at a comfortable pace.  I thought I'd update a bit of my work progress, so enjoy!

8/13/2012 Stuff and Happenings

Hello friends!  Sorry I've been absent for so long once again, but I promise it was for good reason!  The whole finding-a-job situation has been distracting me a lot.  Though I have more time, I seem to spend most of that time looking for leads, or stressing out about not already having a job.  I've had some good news trickle in recently, so hopefully that's a sign of things lookin' up in the future.

But!  That's not all I've been spending my time on.  Take a look see, my friends, here's a little preview of what I'll be working on.

It only took me 4 tries, but I've finally completed the first page of my comic (pictured left) !!! 

Some More Findings

First, photoshop is proving itself not be to be the best for screen toning.  The Images I brought into Photoshop were already high resolution, but the dot matrices were too large even at the smallest settings.  and I'm not really sure how to create new patterns.  Also, the process is quite slow.

On the more Analog side, I need to draw with thicker lines.  Must not forget that all these will be shrunk down, and lines that are too thin are hard to read.

Even though manga style drawings are far more lighter with the inking, the darker colors still need more blacks.

More Inking

 The inking continues!

I'm getting a bit more familiar with what I can get away free hand and what i need to use a ruler for.  Basically any line that's shorter than my index finger, I can get done with just free handing, but any line longer than that, I need a ruler to keep my hand steady.  The problem is if I have to reposition my elbow mid stroke, the line becomes wobbly, and the line weight becomes inconsistent.

I'm thinking it's time I try screen-toning.

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Been watching a lot of car shows as inspiration.  Top Gear, and Fifth Gear being the major TV shows I've been watching, with a healthy dose of Initial D and Wangan Midnight.  They're super fun shows, especially if you're into cars. 

At first I was looking for good car chase movies on netflix, but there's not a lot there to choose from...  Ronin definitely has my favorite car chase scenes, but other than that, I can't think of anything good.  Any suggestions?