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.

WHY SO SERIOUS?

While the Joker is one of my least favourite of Batman's Rouges Gallery, I was somehow inspired to do a drawing of him today.

Mind I wanted to do this for a bit since reading The Long Halloween by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale.

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.

An in progress of sorts

Last night I started working on a piece, which I got around finishing just today.

Here I'll do a quick 'in progress' just to catalogue for myself how it was done!


First off, this is the first sketch, which was actually done on the bottom right corner of a much larger photoshop doodle page.

Here is around half-way done, and the last time I had saved yesteday night. After a couple of hours' work, however, Photoshop crashed and all the progress I did after this stage was lost. So all was redone (hopefully for the better) on the morrow.

And here is the final result. I think I'm relatively satisfied with it. Perfect? No, but then nothing is. So far however I'm pleased, to say the least.

'Tis a Sketch Update I say.

One digital and one traditional, just to keep things balanced.

I enjoy creating weird characters just for the sake of it.
Wonder what their stories are?

It's a pixel self portrait

I don't regularly do pixel art; the style demands a lot of attention and consumes a LOT of time. But it can be very effective and it's surely a lot of fun to do. I decided to do a new pixel art self portrait/avatar, because, hell, I wanted to change the one I was currently using.

A peek through the way-back machine

There was this challenge going on LJ for artists to draw themselves as teenagers; it was too good not to give a spin, at least in totally sketchy form.



Now back to drawing more regularly so this blog can get restarted with the updates!

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.

Sketch Update

I haven't been able to really post updates for the past month, if only because I didn't actually draw much. Shame on me, I know.

Anyway here's I'll throw a couple of sketchbook pages.
This one is actually from some time ago. I like the little Batman there, he's so happy.


This here is from today, a water demon chap or something. He has a totally disregard for humans and their pants.

Art Rage!

Not the actual raging about art (although that should be an actual subject for a blog post) but the program Art Rage, a simple but rather neat piece of painting software. One of its cool features is to have an image pinned on your working space as a reference, something not even Painter or Photoshop do, as well as allowing you to quickly set that reference as a tracing image, if you're ever so inclined to do that.

I decided to test the feature out.



A random photo of a girl was found in one of my many image folders and was hastily sketched over as an excercise of sorts.