New Sketches

Fight the Power!

More sketches! These are in order from newest to oldest and all created over the last week or so.  I've been working on hands a lot the last few days. One of those tricky things I never really got good at. I'm still working on developing the style for my web comic. Lots of ideas just not quite ready to start posting actual comics yet.

This actually part of a frame I'm working on for the comic.

I've got the style of the face pretty close to what I want. I'm working on bodies now.

Need to come up with some women's hair styles.

Working on expressions here!!!

Heya! ;)

Sketch from a photo.

Same here.

and here.

Family Guy study. Eyelids or no?

I'd totally buy a used car from this guy! lol

What do you mean we're out of bacon?!

Feeling Sketchy

I took a long break from drawing after finishing art school in 2004. When I was in college I drew like a madman. After graduating, I looked for a job in 3d graphics and after six months of unsuccessful job hunting I moved on to other things.

I started drawing again in February (2012). I'm always looking for ways of releasing creative energy and I thought it would be fun. It was like riding a bike and I picked it up again quickly and in no time I got into the same rut I was in during college. I was drawing the same blank face over and over again and getting frustrated because it wasn't "good" enough. I couldn't move on to anything else because I was stuck and my brain wouldn't let me get to that next step.

I had been reading a few webcomics (Penny Arcade, VG Cats, Least I Could Do) and I started playing around with drawing my own cartoons. It was a good feeling to be able to draw and not obsess about getting all the anatomy perfect. It was nice to have a goal to shoot for too: Come up with some good characters and start my own web comic. I like writing too so this is a project I'm excited about.

Here are a some random pages from my current sketchbook. 

Some quick gesture drawings

Link

Dragonborn kid (Skyrim)

Playing around with different styles

Getting there

Working on expressions

Getting closer

I still have a few more sketchbooks to fill before I'm to where I would like to be. I have lots of ideas for characters and jokes for a web comic. At this point I'm working on developing a style that will fit. My goal is to develop a comic that I will post on this blog and will add new content once a week (at least).

My Intro to Prop Building

Nerd Alert! Nerd Alert!

You've been warned...

Six months ago I came across this photo of a complete "Big Daddy" costume from the game Bioshock. I was stunned, this thing was awesome! It was surreal to see an actual photo of something from a video game that looked so realistic. Not long after that I found a similar photo of a gun from the Fallout 3 game. Turns out both of these projected were created by the same person Harrison Kirx (aka Volpin Props).

This guy is a genius. He is able to build props that look like they were made for big budget Hollywood movies from material you can find at your local hardware store. He is so good at what he does he takes commissions for props and build them for people. You want the Portal gun from the game Portal, he can build it. The laser rifle from Fallout 3? Yeah, he has one of those. How about Link's sword and shield form Twilight Princess? You guessed it, he built it. He also documents the process very thoroughly. Recently, he completed a replica helmet from the band Daft Punk... and no, he will not make you one so don't bother asking.

I am an artist/creative person and it has been about seven years since I have created a piece of art that wasn't digital. I was very excited to build something that was three dimensional and I could hold in my hands. I started working on a few prop replicas of my own a few hours here and there when I had the time to spare and now that I have a few completed I will be doing a blog post for each. Stay tuned!

Here are a handful of links to various prop building sites that I visit regularly:

Volpin Props
Blind Squirrel Props
featherweightcosplay.com
paperkraft.blogspot.com
therpf.com
BioWeapons.com
405th.com
cosplay.com