What Are We Even Doing?

 

More practice with perspective, multiple characters in a scene, and proportions. I've been working on making my worm's-eye view of characters better. You can tell the girl in this picture (on the right) is being looked slightly up at by the camera because of the way the lines making up her shoulders and the bottom of her shirt look. 

"How do!"

More perspective/proportion work from earlier in the day. This pose was inspired by Bugs Bunny in the classic Rabbit of Seville cartoon. 

Another image from earlier today. I just wanted to do something fun, so I drew Batman. 

This drawing is from Thursday. This pose was particularly hard to get in this perspective, as you can probably tell from the erased lines behind it.

God be with me. Thank you for everything. You're the greatest. Amen.

Limited Perspective

More of this. I'm slowly trying to achieve more realism and consistency in the proportions of my drawings. I saw somewhere that having a bunch of sketchy lines makes you look like an amateur, which would give someone the correct impression of me. However, I figured it might be good practice to go back and do it the correct way for some of my drawings: lightly drawing the image first, then going back and doing a final pass, erasing the extra lines. 

I'm also trying to achieve more depth in my character drawings, starting with drawing the shoulders behind the neck instead of connected to them when the character is standing up straight or leaning forward. 

I'm still trying to practice different kinds of poses. 

The two above images could potentially be part of the same sequence.

This is another character from the D&D game I'm running. I had some time during class, so I figured I would try to get something out about what she looks like.

God be with me. I'm tired. God's will be done. I love you. Amen. 

Kanna and Others

 So I recently (last year) started reading the manga 20th Century Boys written and drawn by Naoki Urasawa. It's absolutely incredible. I could gush about it this entire post, but I won't. Basically, it's a manga spanning a time period of several decades with incredible themes about growing up, morality, dreams, childhood mistakes, and truth. The writing alone makes it worth reading for anyone adult, but the art is also something special. I really like how the author draws characters and expressions. So while I was in class, I tried practicing the above character, Kanna, from memory. I'll have a look in a minute to see how well I did.

Practicing action poses, in this case one from the manga that I tried to recall.

In the above picture, I was practicing with fabric and clothing on a character. I ended up putting more attention into the face anyway. Go figure. We keep trucking forward.

I think I was practicing expressions with this one too, but I don't remember for sure. Anyway, I liked it enough to include here. 

God's will be done. Save me. I love you. Amen.

Hikers Concepts

 

 

 I realized I never posted these drawings to this blog. As you can see, I didn't even put my signature near all of them like I usually do, but I did date the pages at least. These are concepts for my webcomic, Hikers, which I'm doing for practice. I had a rough concept for the characters, but I didn't know what they looked like for about a month. There's also some cool concept of the evil spirit bull on one of these pages. The image second down from the top was an effort to give the Hiker more of a 3D pose.

God's will be done for me. God help me. I love you. Amen.