I was drawing this dumb Batman last night when I realised I’ve missed yet another momentous #batmanday… and no, I didn’t go to bed, Batman’s not the boss of me!
I actually sketched some bat stuff in August when I watched the latest caped crusader series.
Really like the character design choices and the overall German expressionist influence, Clayface in particular was straight outta Caligari (someone should make that t-shirt).
Some more sketchy stuff… I’ll eventually draw an epic aliens masterpiece.
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.
Pencils and final inks.
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).
Don’t think I’ve posted these here yet.
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.
Really like the way the uni pin brush was behaving on the last two FleshBobs here.
It’s FleshBob!!!
Couldn’t resist mocking these up as stickers.Scribbled some Death Fist in the sketchbook/procreate, he’s pretty neat too y’know.
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!
June is almost over so it’s time to clear out the iPad and share some sketches from May.
I attempted #draweurovision again
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.
Initial SW sketches and inks, that Yoda is suspect
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.
Some bonus sketches messing with proportion and design, pretty happy with some of these.Very quick colour rough using a marker, prob won’t spend any more time on this.Rough layout with spotted blacks.Initial pencil roughs scanned from my wee A5 sketchbook.
There ya go, another year, another #alienday, even came pretty close to finishing an actual page of comic art!
I originally drew this head shapes page over a couple of weeks in May 2020. It was unplanned and started as just a small A6 canvas to practice using the real g-pen in clip studio paint. It’s always kinda bugged me that it’s a ridiculous size for print and I’ve considered redrawing it larger a few times since.
I’m still trying to get better at inking over blue line so thought I’d enlarge the head shapes page to A3 and give it a go.
I tackled the low stakes stuff first, initially inking with a carbon pen but it felt a little stiff (I was gripping the pen too hard, wearing out my wrist). I switched to a Pentel Arts Duopoint Flex pen that I picked up in Poland a few years back, it’s double ended with an ultra fine nib and a flexible brush. The lines went down much smoother and I was getting a nice variation between thick and thin. The only drawback, it’s water based, something I realised when I used the posca white paint pen for highlights. It looks like the posca pen also irritatingly mixes with the water based cyan ink from the printer too.
Some WIP photos from the drawing boardUnedited scanFinal inks – surprisingly it’s pretty close to the original from 2020
The obligatory self portrait… feeling greatSomeday soon I’ll get sick of drawing skulls with high foreheads… but it is not this dayA wee inking test using posca markers (grey added in CSP) – leave a caption in the comments to win a no-prizeSome post-it ghouls from the sketchbook… oooohhhhh aaahhhh *cough* oooohhhPrefer the rough pencils for this, oh wellServed this guy at work and had to sketch his sai tattoos, he now lives in my head as a fixer for the occultI’ll eventually get round to my MarvelUKtober stuff again but here’s a Digitek tease
I tried out a Tombow brush pen this week and it’s pretty great, nice line variation from thick to thin but just a little too chunky for the small stuff. I added some details and hatching with a carbon pen and some uni-pin fine-liners. After scanning and removing the blue line, the carbon pen lines are much clearer than the uni-pins. It’s also much easier to ink with the carbon pen, something akin to a dip pen without all the dipping.
