The Brush May Be Mightier Than The Pen

Seven drawings this time around. It's getting...a little easier to draw when I want to.

Oh hey, look. Color! Brainstorming, up above, and...checking to see if I can draw different faces and heads, since my paranoia's been getting to me.

Studies. I'm now of the opinion that photos of breakdancers (good photos, mind you) are excellent material to do figure studies with. Or maybe I'm deluding myself.

Concepts for a town, plus brainstorming for FUTURISTIC BUILDINGS. Chances are that if I hit a wall with building ideas, I'll just base them off of shapes found in nature. Like the mushroom-shaped power plant.

Story brainstorming, in comic form. I asked a friend if I should draw a talking scene or an action scene, and talking was the response I received. I really have trouble drawing simple talking scenes, and making them...visually interesting. I also have fear that my linework with the brush is too bold or inconsistent, but...eh. People have said it looks fine?

More studies, plus...Batman and Robin. And...well, that's supposed to be Todd Ingram, but something went horribly wrong.

This is my brain vomiting ideas for powers based on zodiac signs. All will yield to the fish-head powers of PISCES...which is so lame. Gemini is much better. I can always make Gemini better.

AND BEHOLD THE MONOWHEEL. Do you know what a monowheel is? You should. And you should care about the MONOWHEEL. Google it. I love monowheels, and I've always failed at trying to draw someone driving/riding one. But tonight, I succeeded.

So. Seven drawings tonight.
That's 220 total.
I should have 242 by today, though.

...Still behind by 22.
Maybe that's a good thing. I'm not falling behind, at least, right?

Panel by Panel

Lots of comic pages in this update...or at least comic panels, in a few cases.

"Can I draw an action scene?" is what I asked myself. This is what resulted. Am I pleased? Yes. Yes, I am.

This one's a mish-mash. An idea for a character with...a variety of brainstorming bits. Aside from the wall that's breaking apart over on the left.

More comic brainstorming. Also a map to help me ground some ideas about a fictional world.

The end result of me being influenced by an Astro Boy music video was the production of that robot. Then I discovered photos of breakdancers on Flickr.

And this...well, this is Persona 3 fanart. The upper portion with the figure and the cards started out as just a sketch, but then I drew Nyx down below...and modified the above sketch into Ryoji. And the cards became tarot cards from Persona 3/4. I like the way Nyx turned out down below more than Ryoji up above.

ANYWAY. FIVE DRAWINGS.

213 drawings total.
I should have 235 by today, though.

SO I'M BEHIND BY 22. BIG SURPRISE.

But I'll be catching up slowly, starting tonight.

Triple Strike

Yaaaaaayyy. Miniature, on-time update with three drawings!

And two are comic pages. :D
This one was just of a scene that popped into my head, that I fleshed out in the first panel, not intending to go much further than that, but then it grew to two pages in length. I toyed around with using the brush along with my micron and rollerball pen to ink things...and I was pleased with most of the results, except for the bottom of this page.

...My brush's bristles have been fraying, lately. I'd underestimated how badly screwed-up the brush was, and lines became thick without my intending for them to be thick. OH WELL.

So I kept drawing things...I didn't plan/want this to take up the whole page, but the (sort of) full-body shot of Aruna in mid-transformation prompted me to extend her leg and also add that panel at the bottom-left. I like how this looks.

AND THEN ENVIRONMENTS. That high-tech, sci-fi-looking dome is something that I am quite proud of. I might try coloring it up in GIMP, just to give it the look I want it to have.

So anyway. Three drawings in this post.
That makes 208 drawings total.

But I should have 230 by today.

STILL BEHIND BY 22, I GUESS.

Late and Lame

I UPDATED AGAIN.

...Not that I particularly like most of what I've drawn over the past few days.

This page started to be filled after coming off of the Shovel Knight high, but then went into concept sketches for Garlic Gun.

More Garlic Gun: Concept sketches for Count Crow. I remain at a loss as to how to go about giving a vampire with stupid-ridiculous SERAPH HAIR an aesthetically-pleasing "super form."

Character doodles related to another project...and the proportions are off on the first one. :|

More character doodles related to the same project. I'm actually quite pleased with how these look. The dancing figure on the left, in particular. The brush gives me nice line quality...when I'm not being stupid with it.


And these were drawn whilst staring at photos of cosplayers and seagulls off of Flickr. Except for the girl in the bottom-right.
Garlic Gun sketches and a demon. The ox-drawn cart down there is a wonderful idea that popped up into my head while watching Courage the Cowardly Dog.

And this...well, this was from a variety of things. Matthew Patel's entrance in Scott Pilgrim influenced me heavily after I was exposed to his display of MYSTICAL POWERS in the movie the other day. (And I hate Namco-Bandi for making stupid localization choices regarding certain franchises.)


Now, these last two are sketches I made while in dry, scorching heat at the park downtown. The first one I started and finished while at the park, but the second I managed only to pencil a rough sketch. I finished the drawing in ink just tonight. (Using both the rough pencil sketch and my memory.) Both were drawn on full pages of a sketchbook much smaller than the one that the rest of my drawings are from, so I'll count these as half a drawing each.

So...in total, that's eight drawings.

That boosts me up to 205 total drawings.
I should have 227 by today, though.

...So I'm behind by 22. Still. :|

Owls and Brushes

I'm...working so slowly. ;_;

BUT ANYWAY. I've been playing around with using the brush for lines.

I like the results that it's been cranking out. Conceptual sketches for a story idea. Brainstorming, etc.

More of the same. Couldn't figure out how/what to draw in that last panel in the upper-right...

Playing around with the brush again, using some more familiar characters.

I drew this after becoming infatuated with saw-whet owls at the Oregon Zoo. Hooterman/Owlman, however, is the product of a running joke I reference every time my friends and I pass by Hooters.

And this is what I would be in my idealistic vision of the world as a massive Japanese RPG: A Shovel Knight.

And this...this is another owl. Only rendered in watercolor, and much more beautiful than the plain linework owls from earlier. This owl is gorgeous.

SO LET'S SEE HOW MY FAILURE AT WORKING CONSISTENTLY HAS ADDED UP:

6 drawings in this update. I now have 197 total.
I SHOULD have 219 drawings by today, though.

...I'm behind by...what? 22?
Yep, I'm behind by 22 drawings...

OH MAN. ;_;