Tag: Fanart

Cara on

Unedited scans

Felt like sketching a few more of these goofs and dusted off my Huion light pad earlier in the week. Amazingly it still works, I should really use it more often, this thing is great! Anyway, I had a few roughs left over from my alien day stuff and got to work dividing up some A4 bristol. Really looking forward to inking these traditionally over the next few days when I get a chance.

Like so many others this last week I also joined Cara:

I’ve been generally dissatisfied with my experience on social media for a while now, it’s increasingly more difficult to just see great art without the continual interruption of ads, meaningless video content, etc.

I’m lucky that I don’t depend on these platforms for any kind of income and I’m just on there to post the odd sketch and add a wee comment here and there. So far Cara is a good space just for that and it looks like more and more of my favourite artists are moving to the app.

In other news my web host is closing so I’m gonna have to think about what I do with this place. I enjoy having a web site if for no other reason than to have an online sketchbook/diary of sorts but the visitor numbers don’t really justify it’s existence.

If you’ve any recommendations for affordable shared WP hosting in the UK, let me know in the comments, it’d be real good to hear from ya!

April 2024

Quick fanarts… scribbles, playing with tone
Slapped some quick tone on these scans too

10 Captain Britain

Tried something a bit different for Captain Britain using the symmetry ruler in clip studio paint. In hindsight looking at my initial roughs (below) I probably would have had more fun with a heroic/action pose.

09 Death Metal

Day 09 of #marveluktober is the ever so shiny and somewhat homicidal Death Metal! Believe it or not I attempted a version of this on paper and spent about an hour on it. Needless to say it did not work out so I quickly sketched up something in clip studio paint before going a little OTT with the texture. Some of it works I think… I mean I like the thumb print brush stuff in the background.

04 Baron Blood

Got a little lazy with this one towards the end and relied heavily on the thumb print brush and ink spatter to fill in the bulk of the figure. I’m not entirely sure the composition works but I’m happy with the Mignolaesque background and general horror vibe.

03 Dark Angel

Always loved this character, had some fun with the shading using a thumb print brush and stippler, such an awesome effect.

02 Methinx

Here’s some initial sketches trying to figure this guy out, I was planning on a landscape orientation to vary these a bit.

The pencils and ink close-up produced in Clip Studio Paint for Day 02:

01 Deaths Head

I last tackled Deaths Head back in 2019 for #DrawDeathsHeadDay but I never really felt like I got him, it’s a difficult design to get right.

Deaths Head (2019) drawn in Procreate

I approached it completely differently this time and spent a few hours sketching out some ideas earlier in the week, just messing with proportions and style. I was also planning to draw #MarvelUKtober traditionally and thought the sketches would be a good way to test different pens, paper and whiteout. I inked some of this with a Posca fine-liner and it’s a really rich beautiful black on the page, very satisfying!

Traditional inks are just too time intensive for me at the moment so the majority of the list will prob be produced digitally, here’s the final ‘rough to inks’ drawn in Clip Studio Paint for Day 01:

MarvelUKtober 2023

I’ll be doing some drawings alongside my good mate Chris for #MarvelUKtober:

Overkill and other Marvel UK titles got me hooked on comics as a teen, it’ll be good craic to revisit these characters, I’m looking forward to getting started!

Nitty gritty

Scratching that fanart itch…

Been squeezing in some true grit texture supply brush tests from their free sampler. I’ve had this seriously generous collection of goodies resting in my inbox for a while, glad I finally imported ’em.

Heres some of my favs so far:

  • Rusty Nib
  • Crispy inker
  • Dry brush inker

Something just kind of clicked with the rusty nib brush especially, love the line variation and the rough paper feel. Might be my new favourite inker… just don’t tell real g pen.

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