comic pages

Comic page

Haha, it makes me laugh. Thats good enough XD

head painting

havent painted in a while, im surprised i was able to paint as well as i did, but im happy i want to paint now :p

Finally updating...

Atleast its an update :/

Penelope progress

Worked on this picture again. Its nice and meditative to work on. I'm kind of glad its not finished so I can come back and just meditate in it. Though I am kinda annoyed now and want to start and really work to finish and improve it a lot. I just have to wait and see how much time I have. Photoshop in mac is ehh. I don't know why, maybe its that I can see my desktop as I draw, it just moves weird.

Artrage sketch test

Here is a sketch done in artrage. Its a stock image from http://lisajen-stock.deviantart.com/art/Feeling-Sad-4-84091444, I used it for the lines then tried to figure out some lighting stuff with it on my own and the pens that artrage has. I'm missing photoshop... I'm gonna work on the Penelope pic some more next.

That asian girl

So I got the program ArtRage today and just tested it out and doodled and came up with this and liked it. And had lots of ands in the last sentence. I wonder how it will progress if any. But I have a feeling for it and want to work on it, so here it is. Well, looking at the art programs I have let me see how I should do this now... photoshop for penelope, which I like working with ps for that picture, corel painter im not really using but maybe I could do this picture in corel, artrage started this picture, its a good fast loading program to get ideas out, sketchbookpro for the comic, I'm kinda just liking that one for line drawings basically, and manga studio for ummm manga when I go to draw more. I really gotta pick a program and go with it or I'll be stuck learning a whole lots of stuff and not going anywhere. I think I'll just stick with photoshop and work on that more and test this also, and when i get further finish it in corel painter. I guess I'm sticking with my mac programs it seems.

Of predator and Prey

Finally got around to finishing [using that term loosely here] these comic pages. Yep thats all 3 pages of them. It's a story by Jasmine Henderson. I scanned it in and drew over it in Sketchbook Pro. I've never used it before but the interface intrigued me and was neat so I decided to try it on this. The program is kind of bitchy though or I just haven't used it enough, some neat things while others aren't that great but overall I like it. Though I do kind of am starting to dread its ability with layers as it doesn't seem that good with layers and I had a few headaches along the way. I like how this comic came out with this program though. I want to add some action lines and put the dialog from Jasmine's story into these pages. Its just a short snippet from it, I picked this scene for the homework where the main character leaves his room to check on his grandfather and it leads to drama! D:

I want to go in and do the entire story, but screw it I'm not gonna use sketchbook again, atleast not for comic stuff. It will probably photoshop for lines and corel painter for colors, though I'm liking this sin city colorish style.

Penelope comic pages & cloth fig

A clothed figure drawing study from class.My second to last homework for my comics class, its a scene adaption from Penelope. See I got to do a painting kinda and a comic, yay! Used levels to clear up the contrast and cleaned it up from the scan. Its in page 1-2 order. The black border is for print later.

Penelope progress 2

I worked a few more hours, maybe 2-3 more. She is growing up even more. Now she looks more adult like. If you watch the progress, you'll see her hair has gotten darker and colors are more saturated now, background is darker, cheekbones are more defined, eyes have been consistently getting smaller, nose is more round and bowed, mouth is bigger. This picture doesn't look like the Penelope I'm drawing from. But I kind of like it that way, shes her own person, I just used that picture to inspire to this. Shes starting to remind me of the one middle eastern woman that was on that nature magazine (forget the name) but I remember there was one of her as a child with striking eyes, and one where she was old and you could see how life has affected her. Especially with the way the scarf is, she reminds me more of that woman than Penelope. Maybe a hybrid. I should of started with a more structured beginning instead of fixing as I go, messing up and redoing things along the way. Oh wells. I had figured out the things I wanted to work on this time so it was easier. I still don't like the nose, its too male like, and her face structure a bit I think. I guess I can test more details on her forehead. Now where to go from here, what to work on hmmm...

Penelope progress

So, I've decided to stay up late again drawing this, I feel good because I don't have to be guilty for staying up, because its for a good reason. I'm gonna see what progress I've made so far, thats what this blog is for. I totally didn't keep track of my time. This is the first photoshop drawing/painting that I've worked on with a wacom to a more finished level, lotsa experimenting ahead! Lets see, I started with Penelope's head shape, hair, drew an eye, a little big, maybe it coulda went in an anime direction. It does look a little desaturated because of the textures on top being a whitish color. The nose was smaller, but I'm taking my own liberties instead of making a realistic copy. Needs work on the anatomy of her nose, cheek bone, chin's a bit small. Also needs another eye probably. Lets see what I've done so far. I'm thinking now that I've spent like 4 hours each maybe, so lets say 8 hours so far, thats a good start for a first time I say, its still not even half way, hmmm maybe not, but I'm having fun so its all good. Cooled down and darkened the background. Finally made layers for stuff just incase I messed up. Decided to make the background, hair, and eyebrows into new layers. Got rid of her eye lashes because it looked weird and made a new layer for it later so if I mess up I can just delete it. Warmed up the face texture to help pop things up. And gave more contrast for the scarf texture to see the design. Added that eye, aha! I spent some time trying to figure where I wanted to go with this one. After drawing the other eye I decided the eyes were too big and so made them smaller, I think it works better that way, who knows maybe I'll change my mind later. Fixed how her eye, nose, mouth was aligned. Her eyes are a big askewed in the actual picture, I kinda like it that way. Made her nose bigger and did some anatomy/structure for it, its good to have planes. So I started out splotchy to see what I could do and thought nothing would happen but then started liking this Penelope drawing. Now I'm progressing and starting to figure out planes and making things simpler and more concrete for later. I posturized and grayscaled the original reference to see value better plus how the colors and planes were placed. I guess there were stuff from school I would end up using outta no where yay! Haha I just noticed, it looks like she's aged, just like how it progressed through time, so has penelope in this picture. She looks like she was about 7 before and now she grew up to like 14 and getting a stronger defined facial structure instead of that baby fat. Well the other one looked like a lack of fat actually. When you grow up you're eyes don't look as big either, oooh. I think I need to make the bottom eye lids work together better, the left side looks a bit droppier than the right side. But getting an eye transplant can do that to you maybe. Plus instead of looking innocent before she now has more character and individuality to figure out who she is, like in the movie Penelope. :3
I wonder if I'll have time tomorrow to draw this some more, meh it seems unlikely, heres to me wanting the weekend to come to relax, and coming back to this in the future. I think I started it on sunday and now its tuesday.

Penelope, wendling, random

Heres some random scribbles from my notebook. Along with some photoshop stuff.

The girl in the middle with the fairy is a Claire Wendling drawing. Maybe the ballerinas too.
Ahh good ol Pans Labyrinth is a good place to go for inspiration, I have the eye monster somewhere, and I will hopefully know the characters names by then.




Saw Penelope yesterday, gonna use a scene for my comics homework after my Alice one. Decided to go and draw her in photoshop, used photo reference and slapped some texture on. Gonna finish this one later. I made the eyes a bit bigger, but she does have the most expression in the eyes, so I say it helps, the mouth looks good from here, gotta work on the pig nose some more.

James McAvoy! <3
More Wendling study/copies. Cut off some limbs because the scan was blurry.
Wendling again.

Fallen Angel

Heres a drawing I did in photoshop, took about an hour maybe, I spent a lot of time trying to figure out photoshop and discovered a lot of things which I should of explored early, because they're awesome! Started using charcoal and pastel brushes, Corel painter is convenient in that it has all those mediums there, but isn't as flexible, but it was still nice to do more pastel looking art in photoshop. This is a study, inspiration whatever from a Claire Wendling poster. I changed her face a bit, my main concern was learning to use different brushes. The arm is kinda weird, I just threw it on there. I think I'll cover it up with angel wings or something, I didn't really prepare this, it was a random thing, I really gotta use photoshop and corel painter more and get better. And I think I'll use manga studios too a little later to test out inking artwork.

Alice comic pg 1-3 progress

Heres more progress on the alice comic homework. I didnt use any layers, because i was lazy and it ended up having me use more time to make it look good, well serves me right, best not be lazy next time. Only the lines are due, but I'm gonna think of the values ahead of time, because im lazy and want to just know what to do then do them instead of have to think about it. Which is actually a pretty good thing, so yeah.


Now I need to draw up a character sheet to make sure to keep the characters consistent throughout.

Alice comic page 3 progress

Worked on page 3 a bit more.

Cloth figure 2 sketches

These are sketches from my clothed figure 2 class. They have the amount of time on them. I'm slowing getting better at it. I started out very clean but yet too stagnant, then I went into a more loose flowing style, which was better, but pretty messy, more time will give me discipline. I think when classes start up again I'll have the flow and style, but go slower, really understand the area I'm working on, so the drawing will be clear yet flow well.

Wendling drawing & Alice comic homework

I've been in love with Claire Wendlings art work. Bought her books at wondercon and went poor really fast ._.
This is a study of one of her calendars, its for march, because now is march, and this is the picture. I've been wanting to go to the zoo next month to draw some animals! I have no clue how to draw realistic animals, at all. I can draw a fantasy pixie thing though? I might make it a traditional thing to go to the zoo every month to draw, that would be awesome. Gonna work on this picture more as time goes on. Thats why this blog is here.
This is for my comics 1 class. Our homework is to make 2-3 pages for an alice in wonderland story, the story is already set out I just have to organize and create the comic. This is a super loose outline of it. Alice finds 3 playing cards painting white roses red, the queen will behead them for planting the wrong color. Suddenly the queen and her entourage come by, she demands beheadings! Alice hides them while she looks away. The queen invites alice for a game of croquet. It is a confusing game. The cheshire cat shows up and discusses how she feels about this game. The king notices the cat and tells the queen, in her haste she demands more beheadings! Bye bye cat, back to the game. I've been thinking more about how to organize the panels and such. When I started I simply used 3 rows vertical. And split them up that way. Now I'm trying to explore into vertical panels and open panels. And using 2 or 4 rows, changing around the sizes of each row and how many panels are in each row. I should post some character designs to better think about how they look. Yep.

Self and Batman Scribble

This took me around around 2 hours I think, actually I was doodling other stuff within that amount of time, so I think around an hour is a good estimate. I'm still figuring out using a wacom and photoshop. Theres lots of stuff I haven't tried or know about, I've been meaning to figure out the pen options like pressure and tilt, etc.
I've been into Dark Knight ever since the trailer, and I love this version of the Joker, its really sad that Heath Ledger died though.
I have this idea of doing a Joker and Two Face as best friends picture, I've been inspired by the Claire Wendling caldendar I have, and want to do it in that style, a very graphic poster kind of picture. I also want to draw this one with doves flying out of the background for something.
I think this blog will just be postings of scribbles, some complete work, but its mainly for my daily drawings to look at.