Week 11: Running Low on Subjects

See, there's a bunch of trees in the way and unless I want to draw another one of them there's not much I can see well from the balcony. But I'll be out running around tomorrow so hopefully something else will show up that I can scribble out real quick.

Anyway here's the shed that the maintenance guys use.

I also took the time to sketch some in SAI, actually more of a fully body this time (no pun intended). It's my female version of Castiel from Supernatural. She is unimpressed with something. Probably some demons messing with Dean.

Week 35 Fin

Yep, there it is. His wild hairs in front look a bit odd on the left side, but they'll do for now. It's not a bad product for three days' work all around. Finally Thatch is in color in some form. Obviously neon green isn't his natural color. It ends up being dyed frequently, mostly while he's too drunk or stoned to remember what color until he sobers up.

Week 35.2

This is turning out relatively well, actually. I was unsure of his hair (which of course is not its natural color),  but it's working out. I think besides finishing that and adding more reds and blues to his skin, this is almost done and finishing it by tomorrow night feels possible

Week 35 Is Cheap

This was started today and done in more or less one sitting. I'm giving myself until Monday night to finish it. Looking at it now I realize that his eyes are too high, but thankfully that's all on it's own layer and can be easily adjusted.

I'm trying to draw Thatch again, whom I tried during Week 33. But since I was so slow about starting I figured a portrait-type drawing.

Week 34 and Happy Labor Day

Am I the only one who keeps wanting to call it Memorial Day even though it's not the same at all? Anyway, thanks to all the laborers! Enjoy your day off, and if you don't have it off I hope you enjoy it anyway.

Because this week was a redraw of something, I decided to add the older version for comparison purposes. I feel that the redraw is more emotionally impacting and just looks more complete all around besides the lack of speech bubbles. Those are for later but will say similar things.

Week 34 Progresses More

This is the best way to spend a football game party - drawing instead of watching the game but still hanging out with family and friends, and lots of eating. I plan to work on this more after this post, but felt the need to show some progress before I finished it.

Note to self: don't do a blue background next time. This is the third one in a row I've done.

Week 34: The First Page

It's another late start but there's a long weekend coming up, so hopefully that will mean plenty of time to finish this and then move on to Week 35. Hopefully. This one is starting so late because work was exhausting this week and I've been warned that next week will be the same.

This is a re-do of the first page of the web comic I want to do; the one I did a few pages of for an assignment in the Fall Semester of 2012.

Week 33 Gets Shady

The blog title is a terrible pun. I must be in good spirits.

I read a tutorial on digital coloring recently that insisted that shading with harder, less blurred brushes made the art look more confident and steady. I tried it out and find that I must agree. Just a different brush made this look bolder than my usual shading method. This is also one of the first times I've drawn arm hair.

I'm not sure what to do for Week 34 but finishing so quickly gives me time to think it over.

Week 33: One Day More

...is what I'm assuming it will take me to finish this. Not bad considering it took so long for me to get started. Inking was tedious but it looks nice and I'm happy it's done. My favorite part is usually adding the shadows and highlights and final details like tattoos and scars so the last step will be fun.

Week 33: Wherein I Suck At Titles Again

I am so bored with inking this right now that I can't think of a decent post title. That's probably and indication that it's a good time to take a break until tomorrow and finish inking it then. I'm being extra fussy and pacing myself with this one because I want it to look awesome enough to make up for last week.

Week 33 Gets Back on the Horse

After pretty much falling off the proverbial horse and then being kicked by it last week when I tried to create a finished drawing in SAI, I decided to dust myself off and climb back onto the metaphorical steed. Except this time I'm challenging myself with two characters interacting instead of one just... standing. Yes, it's a late start, but a start nonetheless.

So I present some brothers goofing off. Well, one is goofing off. The other is enduring it. I'm also uploading two progress images because I think they both look cool. I'm trying a new method of coloring as well because I often get bored with how I approach a digital drawing.

Week 32 Knows When to Quit

Yesterday was not a great day for me, and it grew worse when, as I made great progress with this drawing, I realized that I'd accidentally merged two layers. Unfortunately I'd done it too far back to undo it, which I discovered after undoing everything else I'd done since then. I then closed the program in a fit and didn't re-do my progress. Suffice to say, this drawing discouraged me. I never wanted to look at it again.

But today after a productive day of shopping, applying for a job, and cleaning my room, I decided to cut my losses, ink the rest, and call it good even with the purple sketch lines there to stay.

Week 32 Crawls A Little

His legs looked weird, so I need to rethink them.

Yes, he has one of those ponytails where the hair below a certain point on his head is shaved off. And he smokes.

Week 32 Slept In a While

I could have started this on Saturday or Sunday buuuut I didn't. I spent Sunday doing a craft project and wasn't up to drawing yesterday. So today I finally dusted off the tablet and my art mojo and decided to start. I'm going with digital media because several of my markers are drying out and replacing them isn't going to help my financial situation at the moment.

This is going to be another Rose With Thorns character, one whom I've only done sketches of up to this point. I did a nice pen doodle of him on Sunday, so maybe I should scan that and include it in the next entry.

Unsire of the pose but at least he's not just standing there.

Week 29 Is Gonna Stab Some Things

There may come a week that I dedicate to coloring this, but it's not this week. Right now I'm just glad that there's some contrast and the weapons are finished... ish. Now to figure out Week 30.

Week 29.4...ish

So this drawing may be divided into two weeks - one week to draw, ink, and tone it, and another to color. Maybe. I grew bored with it, which is why there were no updates the last few days. Since I started last Monday I'm giving myself until tomorrow evening to finish it so we'll see where I'm at by then. At least both the characters are done - I consider that much impressive.

Week 29.3

I made myself sit down and finish drawing/inking the angry guy on the right today. Those boxy parts of their gear are going to be my breaking point, I can see it already. I wonder how the manga artist manages to draw them so much...

Week 29.2

This one's going to take too long for me to make a silly joke in every title, so I'll spare you all for this one.

The guy on the left has a pose that makes more sense now. All the straps on the gear haven't been too difficult to draw, but the actual machinery won't be fun. Oh well. One day at a time.

Week 29: Two Cool Things for the Price of One!

The static poses and bland backgrounds I've been doing are starting to bore me. So I decided to try and do the opposite of that this week, and to also motivate myself by combining two things I enjoy. I recently watched all of what's released of an anime called Shingeki no Kyoujin (Or "Attack on Titan if your Japanese-illiterate like me). The characters wear this awesome gear to help them kill giants (AKA "Titans") and I thought two of the main characters from Spriggan would look pretty cool in it.

Here's some screenshots of the gear:

My drawing is really rough right now because when I started it my hands were shaking. I'm not really sure why, but since I was actually feeling motivated to draw I decided to go ahead and get the under-sketch done anyway. I know the anatomy on the blue guy is weird. I will fix that.

Week 25: Seeing Starz

Happy late 4th of July everyone! Whether you're American and it's Independence Day or in another country where it's just another day on the calendar I hope it was a good one.

This is a couple days late, I realize. I thought I was going to call it done Wednesday night but I really truly hated it and was too exhausted to fix it. But after an unexpected day off it looks much better and I daresay worthy as a thank you gift to the veterinary clinic that helped Starz. I changed the background because it will be printed out and that would have been a lot of ink.

On a related note, Starz is doing better but still has to be force-fed. Sigh.