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.

The Shadow

I'm 80% to what I want. I already drew a better one. I'll put that up next.

Adrian

It's been way too long

Was walking around Vallejo one day and wanted to draw some of the older houses in the downtown area.
Hopefully, I won't hold up the posts to this blog anymore.

Newest Five Pages

These are pages 5-10 of the comic I am working on. I am actually inking 11-15 right now so these have been doen for a while. I fixed the finger on page 6&7 to fit continuity but it's not on this scan.

Adrian

Ugh...didn't want to post this

but it's all I had... There was more structure to that hair when it was penciled. Well maybe not that much more. Nothing else to say...

Hourman & Starman finished

Here is the finished version. I'm pretty happy with it, except for the fact it has no background which I hate(having been a long time fan of comics, there came a time where a bunch of losers stopped drawing backgrounds, so I feel really bad anytime I don't). It was fun trying to capture what is cool about older characters who are no longer used very much.

Adrian

Native American Studies

I've been working on a layout that Ben Ferrari sent to me. It's still in the rough stage, and I'm waiting to get some feedback on what I emailed today. I'm pretty slow when it comes to breaking down pages, so it's nice to have someone else's compostion to work from. I'm also going to work on some sketches of his characters tonight to get a better feel for them.
Update: roughs for the comic page are HERE.

Starman & Hourman rough

I'm kind of pissed because I really meant to post the finished version of this but I ran out of time. I have to film a segment for my film commercial to qualify in the On The Lot contest and pick up my paycheck(for work). So I have to leave before I finish. Then when I get home I have to finish pencils on like five pages. Plus do some more editing. Gahh! I'll post the finished version on Thursday or something.

Adrian

New Front Page

I hadn't changed the front image on my website for a long time, so I drew this in marker in my sketchbook and scanned it in. There was a little bit of burning and contrast edits in Photoshop, and I'm not sure I should have put any text in it, but there it is. Not sure if there's enough in the figure.

*note: Adrian pointed out that the lettering I had put on the bottom of the text didn't look so good. I'm so glad he did because it wasn't feeling right when I saved the image. So here's the image again...

Bats Again

I usually draw everything on scrap paper before lightboxing onto good paper now a days. This is a Batman page I did for practice to see if I drew him any better than I had previously. Unfortunatley I did not. I still visualize him ten times cooler in my head then I seem to actually finish it. I have a better track record drawing other things. But I'll try again someday. This is very unfinished. I do like the guy at the bottom of the page, though. But he ain't Batman.

Adrian

Quick sketch before work

update 20:21

So here are a couple of more M.O.D.O.K. sketches. The b&w one just didn't look right to me even though I really think that he drinks coffee from Starbucks. This one was just too labored and his chair/life support system just looked dumb. The third one was a quicker sketch that came out better than the first two.