M*cklemore's hair, A SPACEMAN, "But sir!", 3RD EYE

 Don't know anything about the dude but his hair is whack! Is that good or bad? I think it's bad. But it's fun to draw.

A SPACE MANNNN!!!! THAT'S WHAT THEY SAY I AMMMM!!!

I'm really unsure of what's happening here... What do you think?

Nice necklace?

It's time to buckle down and hit the tutorials hard again. I'm getting lazy and doing doodles. Hopefully I've improved slightly, but I want MORE. So yeah, I think I'm gonna do some more perspective stuff. It would be rad to put characters into environments, maybe finish something? Yeah, I know.

EDIT: It's 7:28 on Friday morning. I was looking at yesterday's post (this one) and I noticed that the floating fiery eye in the "3RD EYE" picture has a remarkable resemblance to some of the first few pages of Jake Wyatt's Necropolis. It wasn't my intention to have it look so similar but since I did see some of those pages months ago it's possible my brain was stealing them. I was shooting for something more Mignola-esque, honestly

I need to finish something. I've said that before.

I mean, sketching is fine, but I'd like to have a portfolio someday... Today, actually. Somebody send me my portfolio full of awesome stuff that I drew? Oh... Tragedy.

Also, my sister pointed out that the caption reading "SH**!!" is really just someone shushing someone. So uncensored would be "SHHH!!" So have no fear.

Today is Monday

I went to study with some friends but instead I drew all the people and then I drew a cool guy doing a cool pose. I think he's cool.

"Where have I been?", Belated Halloween, etc.

Hey! 

Yesterday and Friday were busy days and I didn't really have time to sit down and draw. As I typed those words, I was asking myself, "So what? What's your point? Bring a sketchbook, that's what it's for!" So I'm sorry, my guilty conscience speaketh. But I'll carry something all the time from now on. No excuses. Improvement demands one hundred percent. Awright. Got some stuff I'm proud of today... Trying to go off of what I remembered about people's faces.

What's impressive about this is how huge I drew this. I wasn't scared [I was] but it turned out pretty nice! 

AND THIS. Disclaimer: I don't own the following, I'm just uploading it for the readers!

You guys, I work at a library and I saw this book a few weeks before Halloween. It looked like it was straight out of a thousand years ago. Now books like this aren't on hold. The info in stuff like this is outdated and poorly presented. But I was like, "I'm taking this home and scanning it in to show everyone" and I checked the book in and by some insane twist of evil IT WAS ON HOLD!!! I put it on hold for myself so the minute it was checked in I could grab it and show you all. BUT HERE'S THE HALLOWEEN THING THAT HAPPENED: When it came back like a month and a half later (I was enraged, "How could you have that book so long!?") I checked the status and stuff... It was checked OUT on the 5th of November, and RETURNED on the 5th of November! What!? How!? Why!?!?!? Anyway, look at it!!!

People I Saw Today: P.I.S.T.

What an unfortunate acronym.

It's tough to get people from the front... All they have to do is glance up and see me staring at their face and neck and chest. But it's not what it looks like; I'm not checking you out! I'm just stealing your body parts and putting them into my brain so I can re-build you as a bloodthirsty monster. So it's even creepier than checking you out! Word.

Just spend more time on stuff.

Tuesday afternoon BLUES

I need to hit the tutorials again. I've been coasting on the fumes from Cato's stuff and am in dire need of additional instruction. In the interim, here's some scribbles from today. Gonna go see what I can see. 

Looking at some of this stuff now I'm realizing that all I need to do in many instances is just push stuff further. There's some good stuff, just incomplete and not in need of genius artistry- simply elbow grease. Hmm.

OVER THE RIVER AND THROUGH THE WOOODDDSSS

I instantly came to the limits of my skills when I tried to color this. ARGH. I knew from personal observation over the weekend that the sky is darker higher up, so I did that. But the rest was disastrous! I just give you this poorly colored one.

BONUS: "A Brutal Mêlée" and others (November 03 Deluxe Anthology Edition)

Hey, guys. I just found out that "A post may have at most 20 labels". So tons of stuff isn't getting labeled here! ARGH!

Morning sketch

Just trying to apply things I've learned over the last week.

Started with Prisma, threw some tones on and then some color.

I should have more tonight. 

I used this Bilal as reference (I just wanted to steal that smirk!):

Blurgh

I finished the Bob Cato training today. I'll have to watch it again. Or at least pick up some different tools. It's weird to make a jump from traditional to digital media. I never realized how useful a pencil could be in terms of texture and layering. I just don't have a white Prismacolor pencil. Some nice gray markers would be nice, too. But here's what I did. I was gonna upload something else but I'm still workin' on it... It was a really rough sketch I was going to add value to in Photoshop but it's proving harder than I expected. So here's some more exploration in value on the human head. In the one on the right I couldn't decide on a light source, so it's kinda silly.

Inktober Day 32

Haha! Just kidding. Shout out to the people in my blog feed who did 31 days of Inktober: Nate and Ashley, good job, y'all. Yeah, those are the only people I saw who made it. Maybe I'm not following your art? Sorry, we'll fix it.

I'm at a friend's house and it's 8:45 and it's early and I'm tired and I don't have my tablet and coloring/editing/stuff on a computer is hard without it! I've been trying a lot more sketching with stuff that's not pen in the interest of working through understanding light and shadow and loosening up in general. So it's rough, but if you remember back to Day 1, this blog is all about growth. Attempted growth.

So the movie Gravity? I never saw it (which is odd for me because I do love the Sai-Fai) but I'm curious to see how it would fare with the addition of giant space sharks. You might think that's absurd, but clearly I have an eye for detail. Look! I didn't put gills on them because there's no flowing water in space for them to breath. So watch out for space sharks, s'all I'm sayin'. I'm adding the "Aliens" and "Animal" tag to this post because I think that giant space sharks are both. Oh, and "PHEAR" and "Scary" because they would be terrifying (and "Hairless", etc. Giant space sharks are many things).

Some noodlin n doodlin

BONUS: I posted too soon!

Right after I uploaded that last one I put down the computer and picked up a prismacolor pencil and started some sketching. I started like normal (see the really dark lines on the right side of the image) but remember what Bob Kato has taught me in the last couple days I tried again, just keeping really loose and remembering a few key measurements and to darken things I want to accentuate this happened, and it turned out well, I think! I do think I could work on making the eyes smaller, because they always turn out too big.

I might work more on this later, but now I have to go to work :(

Spooky!

Dungeon delving and a confession

A guy going into the cave to get the trayshure.

And other sketchbook stuff from today:

 In this first one, I was trying to get the hands right for the guy at the top who was supposed to be holding a sword. In the process it inadvertently became JoJo-esque, with after images in an arc shape. I DID NOT DRAW THE BLACK AND WHITE IMAGE, I just placed it there so you could see what JoJo stuff I was talking about! Also, my sister was talking to me about tardigrades. She showed me a picture and I sketched one out. I thought it looked like a squatting dog and so I drew that too. Also a nude man.

Some perspective stuff and then working on the human head. I've been trying to figure this stuff out with the aid of some Gnomon tutorials. 

So yeah, confession time: I didn't draw at all yesterday. I have been a little lazy as far as posting goes this month, and yesterday I wasn't feeling great... Art has been slow and it has felt like I haven't been learning anything. I hope that growth is taking place but it's tough to see. But all that kind of came crashing down on my face and I just felt kind of poopy. I played video games for an hour or so and did some reading and was just kind of lazy in general. I'll try to do better. 

But now I have to go fold laundry and get ready for bed. 

Drawing

It's hilarious how hard it is for me to draw from below looking up at the human head. For whatever reason that outside edge of the face is outrageous. I need to practice more. I try to draw the jawline and then I move up to do the outline of the face and it all falls apart.

Been drawing heads. Sorry for my absence, it has been a busy weekend. I have a paper to type tomorrow. I hope all these lame drawings add up to something soon!

Welcome to the Circus of VALUEEEEEE

Playing with hard form and soft form. I really like the blue guy and the punching guy. It says "Hadrian's Wall" because I was taking notes in art history, and that was something I wanted to look at. And I guess I didn't erase it? The bottom picture feels a little soft around the edges. Those dern edges. I do like the robot on the bottom in the center, though.

I'm tired, going to bed.