Strip 2

This was a fun picture to draw, especially the Lion. I kind of based his hands off of Chewbacca's hands. Thought of panel at work, while zoning out in the heat. Trying to crank these out quickly. I probably spent a couple hours on this one. Cheers!

Digital Strip 1

Trying some things out with my new Wacom Bamboo tablet and Manga Studio. I'm going to attempt to crank out some quick single panels. The word balloons were my first attempt at adding them ever, digitally. 

Gilligan's Island Practice Sketches

I know I haven't shown them all yet, but I've been working on a set of 12 Thundercats sketch cards. While working on that project, I came up with the idea to make a set of Gilligan's Island sketch cards. Well, here are some practice sketches I threw down last night and touched up today, so I could post something. This piece is all pencil and I probably won't ink it, it's just a practice sketch.

Digital Coloring

I've finally started coloring digitally!! I picked up Manga Studio the other week and have been watching tutorials ever since. After a little time, I was able to color this piece and I used a mouse to do it. I have a Wacom Bamboo on order from TigerDirect and expect it soon, but I couldn't wait. Hopefully I'll be cranking finished work out now and I've even started plotting out a little story I want to put out in manga form, just for the heck of it. Cheers!

Sketch Cards

I was listening to a podcast the other week and they were discussing sketch cards. The concept really caught my fancy and I ordered a set of 12 to try them out. The cards were a lot smaller than I thought they'd be, they're 2 1/2" x 3 1/2". Here's the first three in my ThunderCats set. I don't have a license and I'm not even trying to sell them, so I hope I get a pass by the owner. I started inking the outline of Cheetarah, but everything else is raw pencils. I will make a post with all 12 finished cards when it's all said and done. The logo is the most difficult part of the whole process. I actually cranked out all 12 cards in one night, sans logo, the letters are very curvy.

Harley Q How Do You Do?

I feel the lines I laid down weren't up to snuff. I figured out how to keep the crow quill tip clean and am eager to go at it again with the new tips I bought. This picture started with the face and I liked the face so much, I just had to do the rest, unfortunately, I don't think the rest of the body matches up to the face. Meh, on to the next one.

Coloring with Copic Markers

Original art by Humberto Ramos, I love that man's art style. Looking at the original, I sketched this out and then inked with a dip crow quill pen, which has become my preferred method at obtaining lines. It's very easy to go from thin to thick with the quill pen tip, which puts more life into the line. The logo is a tight pencil that I will probably ink with tech pens, or the crow quill for the character's name and a pen for the word 'Planet'.

I don't have very many Copic Sketch markers, as they are 7$ a pop at the only store around here that carries them. I have seriously considered ordering them online at BluelinePro, they're just a little less at that site. By the end of coloring this up, my Cool Gray No.5 started to really dry out on me, refills in the mail to me now. The drying is why the left arm is very light.

Going to try to post up a lot of work today, because I'm at home and not at work, being sick *cough*