Been a hell of a month… hope you’re all keeping well, looking after yourselves and each other.
Drawing is my refuge in times like these so I decided to do something for #NationalPencilDay to take a breather, relax a little and get lost in some hatching.
I also drew a quick Buzz Chickson for a #drawthisinyourstyle challenge by Tim McCourt.
and some rough sketches…
Picked up a lot of awesome books and comics at DCAF this year, the first up on the reading pile is Bags by Patrick McHale and Gavin Fullerton. Gavin discussed some of his work on bags during a talk alongside Declan Shalvey and Phil Barrett at dcaf and I couldn’t wait to grab a copy after seeing some of the preview pages.
Such a great book, I just had to do some quick fan art sketches in procreate based on one of my favourite moments. It’s been a while since I’ve inked anything traditionally so I drew the layout onto watercolour paper before inking with a platinum carbon pen and brush for greywash and black fills.
Hi Ho! Hope you’re all keeping well, not much happening in the sketchbook atm but here’s a few things from the iPad.
Glass Hood fan art sketches drawn in CSP.
Prey fan art sketches drawn in procreate, tried a few variations of the alien designed by J Francis Totti using different references and approaches.
Matt Garvey posted this yesterday:
Some fan art of Dave from Untitled Generic Space Comedy to celebrate Matt’s 20th comic launch.
Abandoned fan art sketches of the primary and tertiary characters from UGSC designed by John McFarlane.
I initially abandoned this first set of rough sketches for #AlienDay.
It was only when @omarcomics pointed out the leaping pose, I decided to enlarge the thumbnail and see if I could finish it in procreate.
I really liked the basic silhouette that I roughed out in the initial sketches and tried to retain the energy of the jump when drawing the pencil outlines.
I quickly spotted the blacks using a large round brush and then erased with a fine pencil to create the details around the mouth and neck.
A default spatter brush was used to soften the edges and add texture.
I experimented with a variety of backgrounds but settled on using a large distressed brush to add motion lines combined with a textured overlay layer.
Pretty awesome to get a signal boost like this from Donny Cates:
Really like the look of this character, retro spaceman with death metal energy, couldn’t help but picture these guys when I was drawing those shoulder pads.
Had a lot of fun with the texture details on the armour adding dents, slices and other battle damage.
