Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Ink'd up Quickie.

Sometimes I like just to quickly draw little sketches and then ink them up. This one here didn't come out too badly, I think.


I then added a quick texture over it in Photoshop just to make it a bit more interesting.

Sunday, February 24, 2008

Barbarian Day(s)

I got to sketch and watercolour a couple of drawings involving barbarians (of the Conan variety).

Here's one dude riding on a dinosaur!

This one was loosely inpred by the Frazzetta style images in the February issue of Imagine FX. She's a falconer, since today I actually got to see a real life falcon at a demostration. Beautiful bird.



Here's a photo of the aforementioned bird, which was kind of used for reference. Forgot what's actual species of falcon it is, but it's related to the Peregine and the like.

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Painting nights

So it was decided that I'll be getting my hands dirty with real media at least a couple of times or so a week. Which is pretty cool if you ask me. Here's what was done today.


Here's a Professor kind of character and his plucky kid assistant who are probably soon off for exciting adventures! And a couple of crows. Crows are pretty awesome birds if you ask me.

This was my first time trying out inking with a brush. It's real difficult if you ask me. I wonder what brushes are best for inking?

Say Hi to the guys

Today I felt compelled to drawing Krang from Ninja Turtles.

Dude, that is hell of rude of you sheesh.

Guess he misses his robot suit.

Monday, February 18, 2008

Painting is for Everyone

This evening I ended up messing around with watercolours; actually it was the girlfriend who spurred me with her experimenting with acrylics and modelling pastes. I have to try that out too, actually, the whole process looks like a blast. And since the ex-flatmate left a whole ton of art materials in the flat, it's a crime not to take advantage.



I was trying to imitate Quentin Blake, one artist whose work I absolutely relish - few weeks back I was leafing through a copy of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and was blown away by the beauty of deceptively simple artwork.



And here is what happens when someone tries to 'ink' with actual watercolour paint instead of, err, ink. Inking with an actual brush is next in my list of things that I want to try.

Saturday, February 16, 2008

Wherein a dude gets to take some photos.

I'm first to admit that I'm no photographer - I lack the patience for the art, as well as generally prefer to leave it to those who have an eye for such things. But I also admit that I have fun taking the occassional photo, even if with something as simple as a mobile phone camera.



However today I ended up going around Cottonera and decided to snap away.



It's fun what one can see and enjoy just few minutes from one's doorstep (or, err, about 30 minutes' worth of bus drive).


Friday, February 15, 2008

On the different things...

So I saw this rather nifty sketch of Yoko by teh_ryu on good old livejournal and couldn't resist throwing some colours over it, even if only as an excuse to try out this Paint Tool Sai art program, if anything. It's an impressive piece of coding, and works well on my machine to boot.

And here is some dumb fun done in Photoshop. I love drawing silly little monsters like this over green chap over here. I call him Monsigniore Biongiorno Biscotti.


Finally, umm, my own version of Pan's Labyrinth's Pale Man, as drawn with Tegaki E's basic as hell java drawing applet. Surprisingly enteraining stuff, I have to do this sort of thing more often.

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Let's do this thing

Finally settled on a template that I like.
Oh and a banner... I have to admit it's fun to mess around with that sort of thing.

Here's for a sketchpage, folks. Fresh from yesterday.



Colors!

Few months back I discovered this neat little homebrew for the DS, Colors (hnngh the missing 'u' pains me to no end), and thought it might be a good, fun idea to open this blog with the stuff I drew with it over the months. I should restart drawing on it!






Working on a medium that's possibly restrictive (Colors only has one layer and no undo) helps one train their creative/artistic muscle a bit, I think.