Joker, Luthor and FakeMon

Sketches of Lex Luthor, the Joker and a giant smoke waterfowl with castles built upon it.

I've gone all wrong with my current project, and have to start most of it again (luckily not the background) so I thought it might be good to start something else then come back to it. So I did a Pick-A-Mix drawing, which is literally 3 tubs of folded names, one for Characters (eg, Batman,Final Fantasy Character, Historical Figure) Species/Type (Alien/ Steampunk/ Pokemon) and Theme (Battle/ Summon/ Character Sheet).

What ended up being randomly picked was Cluny the Scourge ... Pokemon (Starter)...and Summon. The three drawings above are the sketches of Clutus, Cluogant, Clucourge. Hopefully this won't take me that long.

Ptera-Feilong Headshots

I have finally gotten around to designing my fictional creatures for my fictional planet Feilong. The Ptera-Feilong could be considered the main species of my novel, as the main character is a female Quez ( all the heads here are of the males, the females tend not to have the crests/horns ). As the sharp eyed among you may guess I've based them from Pterosaurs, as in the dream which inspired this story I was a Ornithocheirus.

These were meant to be the illustrations for the book, which is why they are black and white, with the mind that they'll be printed next to the encyclopedic description that feature in the book. I plan to lay some basic colour on them, which I'll post up with quotes from my novel.

Shadow Swan ( Iscibble )

I suppose this could be considered a tribute to the film Black Swan, which I really want to see sometime.

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Sketch Dump # 1

When was the last time I had a good ol' honest sketch dump... August last year! GASP SHOCK HORROR! Some of these are from my sketchbook and other's from Iscribble (which I have started to record with video, here are the links for the Mutant Donkey and the Martian Fungus - yes I spelt it wrong on the drawing.)

The two images on the top are from my sketch book. There's a nice example of "Happy Accident" in the top image where there is some sort of horse-like creature. This sketch was on the other side of the page of the sketch of the dragon (in the second image) and as it was my first experience with using Pro-Markers, I didn't know it bleeds through the page. However, there was some interesting shapes created with the beige colour, so I incorporated it into the design.

The second image are sketches drawn on fabric (except for the dragon, which was placed in the space I have yet to fill using Photoshop's Multiply layer filter) which I found as an interesting experience. Every stroke is permanent, even pencil is hard to erase. The fabric also reacted to the pro-markers (the creepy critter rabbit) and I liked the bleeding.

Reading Issue 66 of ImaginFX and the pages of Justin Gerard I realised that I have very little sketches of human faces. It was sort of a knife prick in the spleen, telling me I should really practice human faces (and hands and other life drawings). So I'll try to stab myself into that routine.

A Ruined Hunter: Part 3 (Basic Back' and Flat Colours)

I've found out recently that doing a basic background first can help direct the main figures and how they are painted (before I used to do the figures first on a *shudder* white background). Of course it will be improved later on, but as a base it works.

A Ruined Hunter: Part 2.5 (Digital Sketch)

Digitally fiddled with and Background added. Adric's tail is bugging me for some reason... We'll see how it goes with it.

A Ruined Hunter: Part 2 (Sketch)

Yet again I find myself running out of paper-space. hah! Oh well, I can digitally sketch the rest now, pencil sketches are only a foundation to work from anyway... Adric's head is a bit triangular... I'll need to round him off a bit. I'll also need to get some background in there...the only reason I haven't pencil drawn it is because I'm not that clear on what I want back there, so I'll play around on Photoshop for the right composition.