Edge of Something

I wasn't originally going to post this picture because it still looks like kind of a mess. If I had the inclination, I would scan it into Adobe Illustrator and clean it up with the line and brush tools. But then someone encouraged me to put it on here, so I have! 

It's more of me trying to figure out more unique and extreme perspectives. This one is a little stiff, but it is extreme. It communicates a story.

This picture was done with a video reference, though not a drawn reference. I wanted to practice the head shape, body proportions, and hands. This image is based somewhat on Ginny Di, the YouTuber. She does a lot of videos about Dungeons and Dragons and tabletop roleplaying games in general which I like. She's had some good advice about how to be a less selfish player that was helpful to me.

Practicing a new head shape. I messed around with the colors of this image because you can totally see the previous picture through the paper. Whoops. Anyway, hopefully this new method of head construction will help with different angles. I need to work on the chin.

This was a drawing I did in class without a reference. It was inspired by the 2022 game Sifu, which is a truly beautiful martial arts video game. I can recommend checking it out. 

This is another picture I made today with the new head construction. It was also done with a photo video as reference. You can still see the other drawing poking through the paper. Oh well. The drawing is modeled after Jenna Moreci. She does videos on YouTube about writing which I've found helpful. She's also very funny.

This is a drawing I did in class of the titular character from Astro Boy. It was just based on what I could remember. I've compared my drawing here to the actual model, and I was way off. Apparently he has ears? And a real nose? Weird. I also made the hair too pronounced. Looking at my drawing, I almost think he looks more like Jenny from My Life as a Teenage Robot than he does Astro Boy.

God be with me. Lord have mercy on me this week and always. I love you. Amen.

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.

Aliya from Hero Hop

This character's name is Aliya. She is a character in a story I've been thinking about. I drew her once, and then I wanted to practice pushing her pose to make it better. I'm much more satisfied with this final drawing (above), than I am with the first. I've included the drawings in reverse order of when they were drawn. 

Aliya's design is inspired primarily by Aerith Gainsborough from Final Fantasy VII, with a few major changes. Mostly, I'm just happy with the progression here. 

God's will be done. Help me with all of this. Thank you, God. Amen.

Classes Start, Sketchbook Out

 

 I suddenly find myself with a lot more quality time with my sketchbook, because classes have started again. So many meetings. Anyway, the above picture is for more practice drawing multiple people in the same scene. If there's one major complaint I have with this picture, it's that their heads are not consistent sizes. Well, that's what practice is for. 

The next few drawings are actually all characters from the D&D game I'm running at the library I work at. God is good. 

This first character is named Odie. Don't let her appearance fool you. She's really nice. I'm interested in making horrifying monsters that are actually cool people. Odie's character design was inspired mainly by the eponymous character from the indie game Gnarled Hag by Pompasaur. I can recommend the game to anyone who doesn't like peaceful dreams.

These are Nana and Lightspeed. Nana is the shorter one. Lightspeed is Nana's assistant, sort of in the vain of Igor or Kronk. Lightspeed is an ironic nickname that Nana gave her. This design is only a first pass. I would want to draw them again if this was anything official, and Nana should be much shorter.

Finally, this guy. He is actually an antagonist. I tried to imitate what I remembered of the character Vulcan Haestus from the Studio Trigger film Promare. I think I captured his spirit even if not the details of his design.

 

 

God be with me in my classes and always. I love you. Amen.