Been focusing on fundamentals so far this week… mainly late at night when I should be sleeping. Anyone else feel like quitting their day job to spend 3-6 months improving their anatomy skills?
Category: Sketchbook
The search for a decent white out continues with this disaster of a drawing, look at those smudges, oh well, the rest of my alien sketches shouldn’t suck quite so hard now at least.
I tightened up my pencils a little bit from the initial drawing but prob should have spotted my blacks before inking. I made some adjustments to the final inks and removed some marks, etc. in clip studio paint (no guarantees I got em all).
Pissed off with my efforts on bristol board I retreated to my wee sketchbook for a bit of craic this last week, completing the following spreads over a few lunch breaks at work.
It’s FleshBob!!!
I’ve been trying to reproduce the work I’ve been doing lately in clip studio paint on paper. The results have been varied but I feel like I’m getting closer with the second page here using a g-pen nib and Pentel aquash brush. Weirdly I much prefer drawing on copier paper for these as opposed to bristol board. The g-pen nib is really chewing up the Daler Rowney bristol board I’ve been using, getting all clumpy.
I got the idea to use the aquash brush recently from Franck Bonnet’s instagram, he dips it and uses it as a brush, genius!
I sketched a few Swamp thangs while on hold with my gas supplier listening to what could only be described as interdimensional flushing toilets.
June is almost over so it’s time to clear out the iPad and share some sketches from May.
Really thought Windows95man/Teemu Keisteri (Finland) and alyona alyona & Jerry Heil (Ukraine) would have scored better in the competition, great performances and personal favourites. Would be tempted to do some proper fan-art of these artists at some stage, especially Windows95man… Bambie Thug would also be a lot of fun to draw.
Usually don’t bother much with #maythefourth but thought it’d be interesting to draw some SW characters quickly from memory. Considering how much of the star wars I’ve watched over the years it surprised me how these turned out without ref.
Only a month late this year, not too bad I guess and lets face it, kinda customary at this point. Started doing #alienday in 2019 and my approach to these creeps changes each time… still haven’t quite figured out that tricky Geiger anatomy but love adding all that unnecessary detail.
There ya go, another year, another #alienday, even came pretty close to finishing an actual page of comic art!
