First sketch...

in a Moleskin watercolor sketchbook. Needs a lot more contrast among other things.

Chris

Suicide Girl

Another one. I took forever to post it even though I finished it the same day as the other one. Just lazy I guess. Teaching myself to paint and working on some more pages, and test illustrations for a job, and reshoots and editing. So maybe I'm just a little lazy.

This kind of looks like a girl I used to know. But not the tattoo. Whatever.

Adrian

PS sketch

This guy had a bad day at the lake when all he wanted was to go fishing. There are so many ways to approach paintings in the computer, a person can spend way too much time hitting ctrl alt Z.

Chris

Green Arrow, Elektra, Daredevil

I did these pages spur of the moment one night(it took me way more than one night but you get the point). It had no rhyme nor reason just things happening and characters showing up because I felt like drawing them. At the end of drawing these I drew another sample which is way better. Weird how it all works out. I will probably ink these soon but the other one gets priority. I wish my pencils looked as good as my inking. Whatever.

Adrian

Stuff

Here is a picture I made from a photo for a thread on Drawingboard.

Adrian

Sword of Doom Sketches

Had this movie on the recorder and wanted to draw a few things before erasing it. This movie had a lot of stuff going on, and I almost couldn't keep track of all the characters the first time I watched it. I probably should watch it again because I'm starting to confuse it with some other stuff I recorded off of IFC these past few months.

I also wanted to draw these because Adrian's sketches for his comic made me excited for samurai stuff.

-Chris

Don't call it "furry"

Here's a piece done in PS. Having worked in a comic book store, I've seen some furry comics that I just can't get into. I may have subconsciously drawn a cat-like creature because of my friends' cats--Wendy, Bean, Oliver--or maybe because of a story that I've been putting off finishing. This was all done in the computer, so once again, the sketchbook and other supplies sitting on my desk go untouched. The colors work for me, but I'd like to do more with the actual character. He should be leaping or coughing up a fur ball to make it more interesting.

-CM

Death Proof

Loved that movie. Hot chicks, fast cars, and crazy shit. Not bored by it at all, unlike some people. Wanted to drive fast and ram into things and talk to hot girls(what else is new).

Adrian

Grindhouse Mess

Here are my attempts to do some Grindhouse drawings for a thread that Adrian posted on. There will probably be at least a dozen more thumbnails to get the elements to work with each other more. I also have to do more research in terms of photo reference. Does anyone know if the Grindhouse book is any good?
I'd rather not worry about likeness too much, but I may do some character studies just to practice drawing Hollywood types.
It's really too bad that this movie didn't do better at the box office. They're both really entertaining even if you don't know anything about the grindhouse genre.

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

Experimenting with the PS pen tool

Cheesy space car.

Inks on last Pencils

Here are the last two pages of the comic I was working on in full inked glory. I also have a really detailed cover I hope to put up this week.

Adrian

Digital skribbles

I've been holding up this blog recently, only to post something like the thing above. Ugh.

Tighter Pencils

I'm trying to get my shit-stick back(I'm sure there is a better word for it but I can't bother to remember). My artwork has been lacking that critical eye(that was the word). I was good sometimes and other times, not so much. So I had to get my shit-stick back and make myself work harder and be more consistant and not let bad panels happen. These two pages were an attempt. I think I can still do better, but this is consistant and it was done in a timely manner so I'm happy. I'll be inking these over the next two days. Oh, those empty panels on the first page are where I have to repeat a panel except for a few differences.

Adrian

Stuff from sketchbook

The one on the right is supposed to be Bettie Page, and the other one is just a head sketch done in marker because I like the smell.

Even More Pages

Five more pages. 11-15.

Adrian

Trying to get this illustration job

Found a listing on craigslist for a book illustration job that wanted line drawings of different articles of clothing. I emailed the four drawings I worked on today, so hopefully, I hear from someone on Monday or early in the week. It would require 200 illustrations; that would be great practice for drawing stuff I might not draw on my own.