Girls

I noticed my ladies haven't been looking so hot lately. So I practiced drawing them. I also did some character sketches from my own comic(those are the ethereal ones and the rough ones). I've also been working on a three page submission and some mock ups for possible covers for Tooth And Nail. Plus I've been workinf full time doing the editing on my movie. Lots of work but it's all worth it and will pay off.

Pencil Sketches

Most obvious title I could think of.

-Chris

Soldier

This was my attempt at drawing something of some substance. I figured on drawing a tired soldier and depending on your ideas on the war(or wars) you can see it however you like. So it's meaning is up to you. It was really hard making this image have any kind of realism because of how complicated a real soldiers outfit is. But I liked how it turned out. Maybe I'll color it someday(but I think I've said that a few times already).

Adrian

Cheap brushes and sketch paper

Blogger won't let me upload images right now. I'll try again later. I have two versions of one image to post. According to the status page, it should've been working as of 7:30pm, but it's already 7:50pm and no luck.
update: 10:15pm: The uploads still won't appear. Sigh.
update: 11:45pm: Clicked refresh and there they are.

-Chris

Empire Strikes Back

So I made these sketches while watching The Empire Strikes Back on cable. As well as being the best directed and written movie in the series it has the best cinematography and lighting. Unlike everything they teach you to do the lighting is striking and doesn't hold your hand the whole way through(unlike the lighting in Episode 1 and 2). Some images taken by themselves would be indecipherable, but with the movement of film and familiarity of the characters and sets it all comes across. The light saber battle in that film is just gorgeous. And the scene where Luke leaves Dagoba and they don't show the X-wing lift into space they just show Yoda in the lights and smoke given off as he speaks to Obi Wan is just amazing. Anyway, I loosely penciled these(except for the close up on the helmet), and just tried to copy the extreme lighting of the scenes I was drawing. I should tighten these up and color them.

Landscape...in space!

Here's a gouache painting with a few touch ups in PS. I still want to work on something with sci-fi elements that I like such as city-size spaceships, laser guns, aliens, etc.
This one was fun because there wasn't a pencil stage. Just a brush making shapes and a little texture.

-Chris

Tooth And Nail Practice Sketches

These are some of the many practice sketches I do to test what the characters look like and how to properly draw the action the script needs. Plus it is the practice I need to draw the unique clothes that Samurai's have. I actually have done dozens of test sketches and pages. It needs to be right before I start my proposal. I would of course redraw and then ink these if I liked them enough. The first one by the way was supposed to have a shadow from a tree on his face. That didn't work out.

Adrian

Character Design I

Here's a character design that I sketched out and then lightboxed to get some cleaner pencils. I then dodged and burned the image in Photoshop to make the lines more readable.

-Chris

Comic Cover/Scarface

So this is the cover for the comic I just finished. I was asked to make it an homage to Scarface. My only request was that it not be a straight up rip off of the original design(although the central figure is pretty close). I tried to add some details and concepts to hint what is going on inside the book and give a little more hint as to the rest of the artwork while still making it clearly recognizable as a scarface homage. I hope to have it colored in vary dark hues on the black side and very light hues on the light side to further make it look like Scarface except with the "hidden" details seen upon closer inspection.

Adrian