I just read Green Lantern Corps: Recharge the other day, and I can’t imagine I didn’t read this when it came out. It was so good, and I now have a nerd crush on Soranik Natu.
I think I messed up on some parts. I did this while at work. Sunday nights are boring.
Inking’s a bitch. Although I can say it’s one of the rewarding parts when you’re drawing, especially when you see the final polished piece. But it’s not easy work, it’s gruelling and painstaking work. You have to make sure every stroke you do is final, since it’s going on the paper permanently (unless you like to use white correction ink a lot), and not to mention the steady hands you need to make sure the lines to stray away and they don’t look crooked and rough.
After my recent drawing exercises, I now how a different level of respect to inkers. I salute you, inkers of the world.
Also, here’s the recent sketches I did in the past few days.
Manhunter and Dr. Doom. These were basically inking practices, since I spent more time inking them and trying to figure out where to put the shadows and shinies. Also, the first one to find the anatomy error gets an internet ticket!
I did this at John’s place during my internet’s downtime.
And some sketch studies I did at work last Sunday. It was a boring day, so I just spent most of the day reading stuff on the internet and not doing any work at all. Yeah, I work on weekends.
I’m also planning on reviving my sketch-a-day thing. That’s all for now.
It’s been a long time since I’ve posted something on this blog. I’ve been a bit busy with work, and I’ve forgotten to save a small amount of time and attention to my drawing. Along with that, I have committed on doing a 5-page Hellboy story by the end of October, seeing that it’s already 3 days into November, and I’ve only finished 2 panels, I’m kind of dissapointed at myself and at the same time felt that I let my friends down (that’s you John).
I’ve been saying this a lot, that I will set a specific time of my day for drawing, either a sketch or something or anything, as long as it involves drawing. I mean, how can I achieve my “dreams” if I don’t do anything? This time, I’ll be a bit more serious about it. Less talking, more working. I noticed that if I talk about doing something, and actually tell my friends that “hey, here’s what I’m going to do..” I actually end up doing nothing. I guess it’s what you call “a sense of accomplishment by imagination”. Yeah I just made that up.
What actually gave me a wake-up call was an episode of Oprah. You can laugh about it, but that night, I was playing with my DS and then while my mom was watching Oprah, a preview of the next segment came up. It piqued my interest, I laid down my DS and watched it.
It was about Dr. Randy Pausch, an American professor in Computer Science at Carnegie Melon University, who upon learning that he only has months to live, gave his “Last Lecture”, which is basically how to achieve your childhood dreams. (for more info about Randy Pausch, go use Google).
That hit me like nothing hit me before. I mean, my childhood dreams are either to become an astronaut, or do comics work. The first one seems impossible, but the second one is a possible reality. So basically, he made me realize that I should get off my ass, and nobody can achieve any of their dreams if they just keep on sitting and dreaming. It requires hard work, dedication, discpline, time, patience, and the works. It’s not an easy thing to do, but I have to do it if I want to go somewhere. I just need to keep reminding myself that.
You get the point. I need to make it work this time around.
Wish me luck.
It was supposed to be just a quick practice sketch. Now it took longer than what was planned. I call this Trinity: Batman, Wonder Woman, and the Punisher. Just because Superman is too damn hard to draw. -_-
Frank Castle a.k.a. Superman. I just realized Ifail at doing “proper” faces. Better stick to the disfigured ones.
A few local artist friends and I are having a sequential page practice by doing a 5-page Hellboy short. And what’s Hellboy without some WEETCHEZ! I did the thumbnails already, now I need to find the time to do the actual pages.
Here’s some studies of witches I did, based on Duncan Fegredo’s art in Darkness Calls.
Sorry Jessy, no lesbian action for now 
EDIT: Jessy asked for an inked one of that one on the first pic:
It looks different now. heh.
Hi, it’s Thursday again, time to post some sketches I did in between Ace Combat missions.
This here’s Deadpool. I need to do more dynamic poses. I don’t like how this one turned out, it looked pretty generic and static. I also messed up the right should, and placed too many blacks.
This one’s supposed to be some girl carrying a gun, the end result was being Spider-Woman. I’m trying some shadowing and hatching stuff for this piece, some of it carried over from the Deadpool piece. I messed up he face by covering it with too much black.
