Assassin

A quick sketch, done in Autodesk Sketchbook Pro and tweaked a bit in Photoshop.

Ink, brush, create

I've decided to try out inking using india ink and a brush.

But first, of course, one needs practise.

Result! A test for something bigger, hopefully, for Schlock magazine.

I like the effect of ink on plain old board.

I have no scanner at the moment, so photos will have to suffice.

Later got around to having some fun with the SLR and Poladroid.

Sketch for the day

A favourite subject of mine.

Unimaginative? You bet your ass. But I will insert some lame excuse here, and, uhh,
let me give myself a break.

Venusian Rescue! an Ultranauts adventure

A step by step of my latest illustration. Nothing too fancy, really.

Aaand there it's done! Hoorah!

An in progress: Nazis and the Schlock Issue 2 cover: Part 1

At the moment I am doing some artwork, such as covers, for an internet magazine created by a few friends of mine. It's a pulp anthology rightly named Schlock and now it's on its second issue. I did the cover, together with T who did the inks.

The issue's theme is 'Exploitation' so immediately the idea to do something Nazi related came to mind. Nazisploitation, if you will, as in the Ilsa She Wolf of the SS movie series
.
So here is the very first sketch, done on a random piece of notebook pad. The pose was taken directly from this poster to Ilsa Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks





After that I went to photoshop for more sketching. The sketch on the right striked me as the better pose, so work went on that one.


So with a pose decided, yet another sketch was done. The original idea was to do the illustration in the form of a poster to a movie about Nazis coming from the moon on flying saucers, thus the text. However since it was going to be a magazine cover we decided to keep it all more general.


The sketch above was sent to T for inking. T's style is very angular and spiky, which I think actually suited the piece quite well.

With the lines settled, it was time to open Photoshop and start doing the colouring. Since that process would make this blog entry too big (and blogger is a bit unwieldy to compose posts with in the first place) I'll do the inprogress for that in a second post. Keep tuned.

STOP PRESS ! Check out part 2!

Long time no post

I have to admit of not being very active here on this blog.

Hopefully this year will change that?

Here's a couple of things anyway.


This one was more of an exercise than anything else.


And some fun with character designs.

Caricature Sketchin'

I've been doing some caricature work of my office workmates today.
Here's a sketch for the first one.

I've been trying out inking with Illustrator actually.
I'll be posting those later. Maybe tomorrow! So stay tuned.

Colors! the sketchdump

Today I was messing around with the DS homebrew software, Colors, a bit. Here's the results.

I like the last one best, truth be told.

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.

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.