Quick Update

Just two images to upload. Finished both today, though both had portions that I had sketched-out yesterday, too.
First up is a character height chart. I kept thinking back to images from the Final Fantasy IX art book that had some similar charts in it, with all of the main characters facing forward, positioned so that you could see how they compare to each other visually...

Just ignore the one on the right. I...I didn't think too much about his design.

Bonus for those who can read katakana, I guess.


Action, with a few glaring errors.

But it still feels so good.

So that's 2 drawings today.

152 total.
213 more to go for this year.

Today's quota would have been 145, but I've surpassed it by 7.
So I'm covered up through the first of June.

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Aw, man. Figure Drawing is tomorrow... ._.

Whooo. Update.

Yaaayyyyy. I'm updatiiinnngggg.

And the funny thing is, I skipped some pages from my sketchbook because I feel that they're not worth the effort of scanning innnn~!

Pastel. Just classwork - the only piece that actually turned out well last week. This week doesn't seem to be looking up, with regards to my Figure Drawing class, either.

Quick sketches of bears for personal reference, for...well, you can see for yourselves.

Conceptual sketches for Little Red. Notice the belt buckle.

I tried getting myself started on the comic, but I quickly realized I have a great deal of trouble establishing interior shots of houses and buildings...so I need to get on that. Still.

The result of seeing more of Batman: Arkham Asylum in action.

Some quick attempts at studies using a brush, with horrible results.

Monster design.

Comic idea, practicing...subpar results.

Fun with...well, "character studies," or "character doodles," I guess.

And this is probably a sign that my drawings are going to go downhill again, and I'm going to be stuck in a frustrated rut because my drawings are going to be garbage.

ANYWAAAAAY.

10 drawings in this update.
150 drawings total.
144 is the quota for today, so I'm ahead by 6 days.

Means I'm covered up through May 30th.

...Man, I'm getting a headache from thinking back to figure drawing, damn it.
I'm doing something wrong. I know I am.

Surplus

Figured I'd update before I had to try manage a large handful of images in one post...

Anyway, I got some stuff from my figure drawing class, of...varying quality.

Charcoal on self-toned paper, using a kneaded eraser for highlights, with bits of yellow pastel.



Same story for these two. These are from today, though. I might get a higher-quality image of the really dark-looking drawing. Lighting wasn't exactly the best.

SO YEAH. That Little Red Riding Hood idea? It's consumed my mind. I figured I'd change my rendition of Little Red around a bit, so that she didn't resemble BB Hood all that much.

My solution, though...kind of badly drawn here.
Well, really badly drawn here...
...my solution was to give her robotic arms and legs.

Ideas about her grandmother, and short ideas about her hairstyle. Also some quick sketches of wolves to get an idea for what their heads are shaped like.

Some sketches of faces, including Stan Lee, at the top-right.

MegaMan doodles, fingertip guns...ideas for the Big Bad Wolf.


More sketches of Little Red and the wolf. More vicious rendition is in pen. I'll probably draw up some comic pages, soon. I think this miniature project will make for good practice and warm-up for me.

So that's another 8 drawings.
Adding to the 132 from before, I'm at 140 drawings total.

Since I should have 132 drawings by today, I'm ahead by 8 days.
That means I'm coverd up through...next Thursday, the 20th of May. o_o

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Hot damn. That doesn't feel right.

Advent of Red Hoods

So I kind of almost fell behind again.

More accurately, I almost fell behind being behind, almost becoming more late than I already was?

I've got more to post...or, well, I -will- have more to post once I get photos of my work from my figure drawing class.

ANYWAAAAY. MOVING ON.

All of this page is for projects with friends, come to think of it. The top half is for a website I'm conbtributing to. (Or, well...eh, I guess that's the simplest way to put it?) The bottom half is for the project of the friend I mentioned in my last post. Not...entirely sure about how happy I am with the results?

A touched-up version of the space pod. (Not counting this as a separate image, just putting it out here.)

Just doodling of Casshern. Or at least as much as I can remember of Casshern without a reference in front of me. This was done at school, so...no computer I can readily use.

More for the previously mentioned project! The main character. I kind of tweaked a few bits of his design here and there, trying to differentiate him from Captain Falcon a bit more. But then I got bored and decided to draw him in Viewtiful Joe proportions, and diving down punching at someone (something?).

Originally, this was for the same project: Trying to come up with faces for other characters, but only really came out with one I was satisfied with. Then I decided to try draw a bird and a squirrel.

So last Friday, I was watching a friend (same one who I'm creating designs for) play Batman: Arkham Asylum. One of Batman's abilities in the game is a really useful X-ray vision that lets him see through walls, and identify enemies and allies. We forgot to use this when we were jumping over an ambulance in a new area...and were promptly shot by enemies with guns.

It needed chronicling.

Just a lot of random drawings - I'd read something about fighting in the bakery section of a grocery store using baked goods, and drew up the baker. Everything else just dropped into place, including that quick sketch of the Tokyo Metropolitan Office in the upper right.

Last night, I had this idea to make a really badass Little Red Riding Hood, running around with guns and explosives, beating the snot out of anything and everything that opposed her. I decided to follow up on the idea in my free time today, and produced this and the next drawing.


...But then I realized that my idea is a really, really borderline copycat of BB Hood from Darkstalkers. God damn it.

WELL, WHATEVER. That's it for this update.

8 drawings in today's update.
132 drawings total, now.
That leaves 233 more drawings to go for this year.

Should have 130 by today, though.
I'm...caught up? o_O What?

...Wait, my math doesn't seem quite right.

Oh, whatever. I'll just make sure I have an excess of 10 or 15 by the year's end, and I should be okay.

W-POST

Well, look! Two posts in one day, and both with multiple drawings!


So I recently realized that I hadn't followed the concept art for one of my characters accurately at all, and decided to try working with a design closer to the original concept art. What emerged was a pose that is probably very painful to maintain.

I tried it myself, but I don't know if that counts for much.


The same idea drove me to this page - trying to nail that design down...Granted, when I drew this and the other page, I didn't have the original concept art with me, so I'm not sure what the purpose of this was.


And this is for a friend's project! I was tasked with giving visual form to his characters, and...well, I've slacked off terribly at this task. I feel a lot more confident in what I can do now, so I figured I'd take another shot at it, especially since I've become involved with other parts of his project as well...

It occurs to me that while I have fun drawing comical expressions on men's faces, it's very difficult for me to do the same with women's faces.


WELL. Four drawings in this batch.
Brings me up to...118, total.
That leaves 247 more drawings for this year.

I should have 124 drawings by now, though.
So, I'm still behind by 6.

I'M CATCHING UP, HOLY SNICKERDOODLES.

More Schoolwork, Figure Drawings

Uploading some more material from my figure drawing class. All but one image are from past weeks.

This was done with charcoal.

And this is...well, the paper was made into makeshift midtone paper with charcoal, and then a black color pencil and a kneaded eraser were used for shadows and highlights, respectively.

More of the same.

And this is inkwash, applied with, well...a brush, obviously. This one's from yesterday. Not too happy with...the foot in the foreground.

BUT WHATEVER.

Four images in today's update.

114 drawings total, with 251 more to go in the year.
However, I should have...124 drawings by now.

I'm behind by 10.

Slowly catching up... SLOWLY.

Working From Photos...Mostly.

Still breaking that new sketchbook in. Working from a lot of photo references in some desperate attempt to improve my understanding of...

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...actually, what I'm trying to achieve by doing this is beyond me, but with any luck, I'll see an improvement somewhere. Maybe. Possibly. With hope.

Images off of Flickr, for the most part. That would be my (disproportionate?) face down in the bottom-left.

More Flickr images. Horribly proportions and perspective on the girl on the right.

...and I won't even delve into the errors in the faces here. The figure on the left turned out fairly nicely, though.

So I took a shot at trying to draw stylistically, after a night of drawing from photos off of Flickr, and...I was severely disappointed while I struggled to consistently an accurately depict the face of one of my characters. EVERYTHING IS A FAILURE. EVERYTHIIIIINGGGGGG

So I awoke today, and decided to try drawing before doing anything else...which ended mostly in frustrated failure that emerged only after I stopped drawing the faces of Japanese people. Make of that what you will.

SO.

Five images in this update.
110 drawings total.
255 to go.
However, I should have...122 drawings by today.

I'm behind by 12, still.

Slowly working back to speed...Slowly.