Simplier Sketches

As much as adding details can be fun, sometimes all you need is that rough, but strong body language to sell an emotion or situation. That's why I love sketches.

More of the same

Seems my boredom at work is inspiring more terribly messy story boards. I just can't help it, I need something to do to pass the time while playblasting. No one is going to know what is going on (much like the last post), but I still think it's worth sharing since I've never really bothered to make boards in my spare time before. Oh and more green, yes, I know you all love it.

Oh, and I thought I uploaded these in order, but they are actually backwards.... enjoy that.






I usually hate showing things in my sketchbook because it's a place where I lay things out and play around, but I'm finding as long as I solve the problem I am working on in the book (even if it takes five tries) then I'm okay with it. It's nice.

PS: I love using a pen, especially black ones... I stole this one from my roommate, I was just gonna borrow it, but now... he might never see it again.

Suddenly Sketches

I wanted to put these up before I over thought them and decided not to put them up. Yes, my sketchbook is green, despite what some people think, I don't find it a problem because I almost strictly use pen to draw in my book and so colours can never be thrown off.

Anyway, I thought these would be neat to upload because first, you can see how I design outfits. Yes, not very exciting... also... messy. Anyway, the reason I wanted to show you this is because in the last couple months I have had a couple people come to me and talk to me about their characters' clothing. Personally, designing outfits for characters is one of my favourite fun things to draw. I can just do it for hours. So, I took it upon myself to help these people (and their characters) out, they didn't complain and actually liked my end results. This is one I did today, his outfit was pretty simple for me because he is a pretty casual dresser. I barely used reference for a change.

This second one is a sequential set, but I didn't frame most of them, which is normal for me. Still, it's been a while since I did this and they usually don't get this long. There is no dialogue for you, but I know the conversation they are having. Don't worry about it.

Not Impressive, and Yet

Hey all,

I'll keep this short and a least depressing as possible.

Lately I haven't been up to any serious work at all. It's depressed me slightly, mostly because I don't know how to fix it. It seems like I never come up with a painting idea that seems like it will be interesting in any way, shape, or form. I don't know if that has to do with my attention span or just my thought process. Having no way to solve this problem, it's went on for a couple weeks, but today I looked through my DA and noticed that someone I really like on my devWatch had updated. She hadn't updated in a while so I was pretty excited and I hadn't seen her work lately. The image wasn't very interested, but I forgot how much I loved the way she painted, something about it just made the piece interesting for me. I suddenly REALLY wanted to paint, even if it was something boring, with strokes like that it could be interesting.

So today at work I'm gonna make a list of everything I think of to draw and finally get my butt in gear and make something, ANYTHING to get me practising painting and finishing a piece again.

Hope everyone else is going strong!