Some stuff

Just a few of the random bits and bobs I've been scribbling lately...

The return! Maybe not for long...

Ok, so the internet's back up and running in the flat... BUT! I'm gonna be moving at the end of the week, which will inevitably bring the oh-so familiar cluster of little joy bombs associated with the process, not the least of which being a temporary loss of internet... Still, never mind, I'm going to try and make a couple of posts before then, starting with this one. These are just a couple of pieces I've worked on, there's a version of the Thor and Captain Britain drawing up on Comics Alliance. The more I look at it the more unhappy I am with the colours I did on it, so I've just posted the greyscale version for now.

Halloween SCAREblog- Day 4 (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre)

The first time I saw this movie it absolutely scared the crap out of me. It's such an intense movie, part of that comes from the fact that it's got such a raw, low-budget look to it. Leatherface himself is a pretty creepy dude, you see just enough of his face underneath the mask that you know you don't really want to see the rest, plus that last shot him at the end of the movie is incredible.

This drawing's a little rougher than the others, I was going to clean it up, but I got attached to the way it looked and just kept adding detail to the original sketch.

Very flawed Surfer and some more boxing studies

The title says it all, really... I was actually looking at the work in progress sketch for the Silver Surfer drawing, and it looks much better than the final piece... I've been noodling away at it for so long that it's just gradually got worse and worse in terms of proportions and so on... Ugh, definitely a lesson to be learned there. I think it's got to be a matter of getting faster and trusting the initial sketch a bit more, the computer makes it way too easy to pick away at things until you completely destroy the stuff you liked about the drawing to begin with...

Boxing studies and Brooks: Redux

So here's a couple of studies taken from boxing photos and another attempt at drawing ol' Louise. I think this one turned out a little better than yesterday's effort, but I'm still not entirely happy with it...

From tomorrow I'm going to try and get some more comic book inspired drawings on the go... We'll see how that works out.

Frank Gorshin Riddler

I know, I know, I missed yesterday after doing the drawing-a-day thing for two days, but come on, Friday deserves a pass... This is a quick drawing of Frank Gorshin, the guy who played the Riddler in the 60's Batman show. I saw this picture and thought it looked pretty cool, plus he's got such an expressive face, I figured it would be good practice. Hopefully there'll be a couple of new drawings up tomorrow to make up for the lack of anything on Friday... Although I can't promise that'll happen...

Face study

This is just a quick sketch I did of Summer Glau of 'Firefly' and 'that-Terminator-show-I-never-bothered-with' fame... She's also supposed to be voicing Supergirl in one of the many direct-to-DVD animated movies DC's been putting out. I don't know, does she really have that distinctive a voice? Although, a quick skim through the credits of previous DCU animated movies reveals an average of at least one actor from a Joss Whedon project per film... Maybe there's a quota to fill or something. 

ANYWAY, I'm trying to get a little more practice at drawing faces after yesterday's fiasco, and although I took waaaaay less time with this drawing, I like it much better. I guess you could also say that it's a study for a character I have in mind... You COULD say, if you wanted to. But I don't see why you would.

Some kind of fighting dude, I guess

Yeah, this was supposed to be a really quick drawing, but I couldn't get the face right, so I ended up spending loads of time on it... You can totally tell as well, the face looks NOTHING like the rest of the drawing and it's STILL crap... But who cares? I liked the guy's pose and it was fun to draw. I know I shouldn't say this, because I'm almost definitely going to jinx it, but from now on there'll hopefully be a new drawing up every day... Let's see how long that lasts...