Here’s an example of how messy my real life sketchbook can get. To justify myself, I will say it’s sketched on my lap, during my tube journey to work which gets pretty shaky so straight lines are no option (although my lady fellow-commuters might disagree – they slap their make up on and use eyeliners totally oblivious to biggest turbulences, what’s their secret?!). I now need to work sort out foreshortening and perspective here but once I am done, it will be a badass, I tell ya;)
“Mike Chick, 1, 2…” just testing some female bits and pieces;) Monster still present, but unconscious. Short speed overpaint based on an old pencil sketch. Need to work on details more… She’s kinda manly, too, I am afraid.
Here’s some W.I.P work – sketch to ink (in photoshop) process for a Crinimals project: Scruffy animals’ mugshots. I know – will have to work on the title a little…
I drew this one on the tube yesterday thinking about Bobby Chiu’s Fairy Tales re-imagined challenge that’s been going on at CGHUB. I happened to be listening to some hip-hop while drawing so… there you go – G-loxx ‘n’ 3bearz is the result of that. I like it – I’ll go with it:)
Was looking at the Creaturebox website today. Love these guys! Cannot focus on anything today so had a go at the cartoony style and, since there’ve been only monsters here recently, I’ve decided to add a fair bit of booty for a good measure…
I’ve created a new rule of creating at least one quick sketch on the way to work and using the 25 minutes before I begin to work to try pimp it with some photoshop brushes, colours and textures. I want this habit, it’s a good habit…
Ball pen + photoshop + wacom bamboo one
All the best in new year to ya’ll! May your new years artistic resolution be as strong as mine this year and may they actually last and yield results (i.e. get me into the industry;) )
While away from the computer over Christmas I have been enjoying some pencil and paper action and it felt great. Now my computer is within the reach and I have become overly careful again…
I am working on this poster style illustration showing a masked dude with a sword and some curious faces hovering above and decided to finish the sketch traditionally but simply couldn’t refrain from doing a quick check in terms of the composition and shading…
Aaah! back in the comfortable chair of layers in a world of multiple undos…
…must… turn… back… must… ditch…digitaaaaaaaaarghhh…!
erm, that’ll be it for now.
Cheers!
P.S. The shading is done with a mouse, that’s why it’s so wonky (awww the insecurity – it’s so last year, isn’t it?;)
Aaaah, at last found a moment for a quick update! I am sometimes forgetting what is all the fun about with having a sketchbook blog and this affects my regularity (not sure if this is a word but it’s a quick update so I’ll look it up later). This here is a result of 10 minutes furious sketching on my lunch brake and about 25 minutes furious chopping away with photoshop’s semi hard round…
I got inspired by this guy here, Mr. Mike Monroe and his Drawing in Circles sketchblog – Bunch of really cool sketches, bold brushes, bold colours – short and sweet – check it out.
I did this sketch this morning on the tube. I really like it. It makes me wanna come up with the story for this big guy. By the way – what an interesting effect just by using cutout filter in photoshop! Even at the default settings the filter changed the sketch into an almost finished stylyzed illustration. Brilliant. I think I am a bit over-excited about this one… it’s just a sketch;)
There are so many things at the moment (the most urgent being finding a roof over our heads) that take my spare time. This is yet another update to my mutation nation fixation(I know, I know, long gone) and an update to my earlier ball-pen “tascock” cartoon. This one is going to be more serious and messed up as this creature is only designed to be messy and fussy – more about that later. Just scanned it and put some rough colours in photoshop: layer with base colour at the bottom, sketch layer in multiply, base creature colour layer above it in the overlay mode. What’s that? You knew that already?… Well, you have all the tools to start then.
