Real Life Studies – 1

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Life studies, oh boy! Drawing from life is something that every artist should do regularly, its one of the best ways to increase your skills and understanding of drawing as it makes you pay attention to the worlds details. With that said, maaaaaan is it difficult sometimes! It’s like exercise, it’s hard to start and might not be very fun, but once you’re doing it you feel better and the end result is always worth it.

This is *pretty* much all black ballpoint pen, though two of these drawings have some pencil shading in them.

Concrete on the Mountain Top

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Higher on the mountain than any person had ever been, Concrete sits bare with nothing but a special pen and paper, pausing in his writing to look out far, far into the distance.

For those who aren’t familiar with Concrete, he’s Paul Chadwicks creation and one of the finest comic series found today! A man who had his mind transplanted into a near-invulnerable rock-like alien is now forced to live out everyday with his foreign body, though it does have its advantages. Many of the comics follow him traveling the world as an invulnerable writer and takes on challenges that no human could, such as swimming the Atlantic Ocean. The drawing is incredible and I highly recommend it to anyone with good taste.

All done with digital, and I will say it again, CONCRETE IS NOT MY CREATION, I WISH HE WAS BUT HE ISN’T.

Stuff for Stuff – 1

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Some, ah, not so kid friendly drawings that my sister had requested. I’m not one to turn down a challenge, even if it is peculiar. Mostly hilarious though. I swear that she is funnier than me most of the time, I’m  the  one who can draw the crazy stuff.

All done with some liiiight pencil then with itty bitty ink pen and greyscale markers. Currently my favorite drawing method!

Minion-Made Birthday Present

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OH NO THE PRESENT IS TRYING TO KILL THE MINIONS

I figure these guys wanted to surprise the girls with a real-life unicorn but this horse isn’t having any of it.

So this was originally drawn for a letter being sent aaaaaaall the way to Germany to a lovely girl there who was an exchange student with my family for a time. I liked it so much I decided to color it, and oh man it is awesome! Pencils were done traditionally, colored in Photoshop.

And, of course, I didn’t come up with Minions (I wish I did) and they belong tooooooo some big company that I can’t remember. DON’T SUE ME

Potato Spelunking, the Comic

 

A short comic from me to you! This was a fun little thing to make, 5 pages long and whipped up in 2 weeks during school as an extra project. Special thanks to Malcolm Sutherland, he provided the inspiration for it. It kinda/sorta had offensive language, but no f-bombs or anything.

‘Potato Spleunking’ is about a grumpy character named Potato Sak who has had his beloved taters stolen and now scours all of the Vine world for them with help from his ever-chipper fox companion, Pete. In this particular time in his journey, they are crawling deep down through the root tunnels on a rumor and find something they weren’t expecting.

I did the initial drawing and rough sketches traditionally then colored and added text digitally, and if you’d like I made a fancy PDF for you, feel free to download for yourself! Make sure not to steal credit for it or anything, that is a very uncool thing to do.

Potato Spelunking Comic

P.S. If the quality is crummy let me know, I can fix that I’m sure!

 

All Sorts of Faces 5

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Look at all these interesting folks! All these people were at the big mall next to the place I just moved into, food courts are one of the best places to sit and draw. I had a challenge of a very limited selection of pencil crayon colors that I had limited myself to which results in some of these unwitting models looking really cold. All of these were colored with pencil crayons and a mix of dark pencil and thin markers to outline. Also apologies if you can’t read what they’re saying, my writing is a wee bit atrocious.

Oryx and Crake, Portrait of an Antagonist

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I realized after drawing this for a while that this fellow looks like Harry Potter. However this man, Crake, is from a far darker story with a far darker destiny. This was for a school project, a portrait of a protagonist and an antagonist, this man being the latter. The book is Oryx and Crake and is a world wiped free of nearly all humans with the past being slowly recollected through the mad thoughts of a stranded man. Crake is the dark and hidden evil with a calm and cold face, a hyper intelligent man with his own plan for the future of humanity.

This is one of my favorite books as it has such a strong imagery and story, it  even stayed in my head for weeks afterwards, recommended for all adults!

Crocodile Watercolor, Full Body

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Another crocodile painting! I really can’t get enough of those wicked tails and big bellies. All done with watercolor on stretched paper.

Crocodile Watercolor, headshot

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Oh crocodiles, I would have one of my own if I could. This is a painting, not a photo, all done in watercolor over the course of 16 hours or more. I really enjoy working with watercolor, it just takes too long to set up everything for me to make too much of a habit out of it at this point. More paintings on the way!

Colored Stuff for You 2

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More colored bits taken from my sketchbooks and cobbled together. The teddy bear in the middle is Pooky, the best teddy bear in the world who always hangs out on my desk. I tend to draw him because he’s so damn photogenic, there will likely be more of him later on.