Still Life No. 8

"Still Life No. 8"

Two hours, graphite, a candle, dried rose, and a book covered by fabric. Light source is the candle.

I'm trying to get back to a good spot with shading so this month will be some still life.

Rowen Gesture Sketch

"Rowen's Gesture"

Back in the 90's when Cartoon Network actually showed good cartoons, there was this segment on there called Toonami which showed Anime. I really have Toonami to thank for my fanship of Anime, and one of those shows was called The Ronin Warriors.

The Ronin Warriors was a show about five young men who wore magical armor and fought against an evil demon who wanted to take over the world. This is a quick digital sketch of one of those guys, Rowen of Strata or Touma no Tenku in Japanese.

I've drawn him and his four friends many times before; this is my first digital quick sketch though and I wasn't going for 'pretty' so much as I was going after the gesture.

The Attic East End

"The Attic East End Sketch"

In my background and layout final we had to design a room where you can see some back-story. Now the sketch here tells it better than my final below. Here is the story:

This is the eastern corner of a large attic in a house where an old family of witches live. These witches are demon hunters and well versed in all forms of magic. No one has been in this attic for about thirty years, and in this attic they store their most deadly and powerful weapon. A book of shadows possessed by an ancient spirit.

"The East Side of the Attic"

And here is the final piece... yeah I don't like working in Maya. It didn't help that I'm working almost full time now too. So I didn't get a chance to add the stained glass window or the lighting, which would have made a lot of difference. I might try to revisit this someday and make it better.

Syrenity the Unicorn

"Syrenity the Unicorn"

My model is my very own chestnut Arabian mare, Syrenity. I made her a unicorn as apart of an assignment at school. Truth be told I'm very proud with how this turned out since it's the second time I've drawn her since I've had her.

The Griffin

"The Griffin"

Wow could this have come out any smaller?

Gladiola 1.0

"Gladiola 1.0"

I'm going to really try and study flowers and nature a little more, we can start with this. This was done in photoshop, I'm trying to stay away from lines for a bit so my stuff stops looking like a coloring book thus here I'm using color as the line.

Three Character Designs

For my character design class this last week, our teacher told us to draw three characters in the style of three comic book artists. He gave us a good list to chose from but said if we had someone else in mind who was not on the list that we could run the name past him. I really enjoyed this assignment he gave us, so far it's my second favorite that he's given us in that class. Below you'll see my pictures and I'll give you links and/or info on the artist I referenced.

"Celeste in Alessandro Barbucci"

Firstly, let me say that Celeste is an O.C. (original character) of mine from a story a friend and I have been working on for the last ten+ years. Given that my style is more anime this was a bit of a challenge. The artist style I'm referencing here is Alessandro Barucci, a French comic artist who's best known for his story Sky Doll. He really has a thing for large eyes and small noses... hey I do too so yay us!

"Saera in Jim Lee"

Marvel & DC fans will recognize the name of Jim Lee I'm sure. He's done some great work on X-Men and Batman. This chick here is another O.C. of mine, Saera is my alternate spelling of Sara, silly I know but I made this character up before Jr. High and my spelling was worse back then. While she is hands down my oldest character I've only drawn her a handful of times. This is easily my favorite of the three and I showed her to my dad who's a big Batman fan and he loved it, saying it was very much the right style. 

"Anne in Kouta Hirano"

Anne is a brand new character of mine, she like almost a year old... and it was very hard to draw her and not color her hair black. Anime fans will know Kouta Hirano for his work Hellsing, oddly enough his name was spelled wrong on the first Hellsing volume that was translated... 

Alessandro Barbucci's blog This is in French.

Sky Doll Space Ship at Marvel

Jim Lee Comic Book DB