Remember this sketch from my Fude Pen Nib review? I actually had some time during all the craziness to quickly drop some colour in this one. Nice muted palette, Tried keeping the colours very loose in keeping with the look and feel of the original sketch. All colour done digitally in Photoshop.
Enjoy!
This sketch was inspired by a fun incident at my son’s school (remember schools?). Anyways, when my son was in kindergarten, they had some of the older kids act as mentors and read to them. Sone day when I dropped my son off to school, this much older girl came out of nowhere and gave my son a great big hug! Somebody was quite embarrassed. Not sure if it was the hug, or that his old man saw the hug, that caused him to turn bright pink. Somehow I thought this was going to happen when he got older.
Oh well. This was a quick pencil sketch done with a very blunt 6B pencil. Scanned into Photoshop with some quick digital colour and some touch-ups. Enjoy.
This was fun little sketch I did a while back. Was originally a quick pen and ink sketch, but I gave into my self-doubt about traditional techniques and re-did the whole thing digitally. First in Illustrator, then in Photoshop. A nice, fun, loud palette of colours along with a hint of texture. And maybe just a hint of the frustration we all share right now.
And please, people like this who are angry and mean all the time, often are just afraid and maybe lack the tools to process it better, or just need some guidance on how better deal with their own emotions. And they can also pack a wallop, so please, approach with some caution. Enjoy!
So it begins. Started off pretty good, but with some Christmas shopping and stuff with the family, I managed to dip into the handful of cheat days almost right away. eagle -eyed followers will notice that a few of the images may be slightly different than what I posted to other social media. I reserve the right to make quick alterations to drawings as I see fit after the fact as this is hopefully going to be a portfolio piece when I am totally finished. Enjoy
In the midst of battle, around the carnage, and just underneath all the destruction, there’s a cute little orc who just wants to say hi!
This is a fun little drawing I did quite some time ago. Created after studying up on some of my daughter’s toys. Eventually, I scanned this into the computer (it was a pencil sketch done in one of my myriad sketchbooks) and had the colour dropped in on Photoshop.
I MIGHT one day see if I can get her into 3D. Would be a definite challenge based on my skillset, but you never know! Enjoy!
This is a new one.
Over the summer, I took a sketchbook with me on our first family road trip. I tried to sketch a little bit every day. Or maybe every other day. Or every other, other day. Anyways, I did manage to get some stuff on the page. This theme of little girls as antelopes (we were travelling through Saskatchewan and Alberta so it makes sense) came out of that.
This drawing was NOT the result of that sketching. My day job gets pretty technical. Lots of numbers and math. I tend to keep a scrap sheet of paper around to keep track of stuff. It also seems to be the place where I do my best sketching (and daydreaming!) This final image came from one of those sketches.
The original sketch. Like the notes I take for myself?
So All I did was take a quick snapshot with my phone (it was a pretty basic sketch, and I wasn’t out to impress anyone with my preliminary drawing) and dropped it into Photoshop and started painting away. A couple hours later, and all was finished.
I have plans for this one. Enjoy.
So a long time ago now, I created this super hero character with the emphasis on a somewhat realistic and less sexualized costume. While I never did what was intended with the character, I liked it and developed her a bit further, trying out different styles and slightly adjusting the costume a bit. This is the most cartoony style I have tried so far (and am willing to share).
This would be early in her career as a crime fighter. Before she had a real handle on her powers. All derived from the gauntlets she wears. The inks were done traditionally, with the colour dropped in on my iPad and a little tweaking to the background and overall colour in Photoshop. Enjoy!
Here’s your staple, run-of-mill angry elf fighter. Everybody has drawn at least one. This one turned out pretty good. I was originally going to finish off this one in colour, but I decided to just leave it as is, right from my sketchbook.
As a quick aside, I was never allowed to play DnD as a kid. My only experience with it was (without my parent’s knowledge) sitting in the basement at a friend’s house waiting for the DM to show up. And waiting. And waiting. He never showed. Didn’t seem like a very engaging experience, so I never understood the draw. Though I did read gamebooks like the old GrailQuest series and Steve Jackson’s Games whenever I could find them as a preteen. Those were pretty cool.
Everyone loves a nerdy girl, right?
A quick sketch from my trusty sketchbook, inked with a brush pen, scanned into the computer, and then quick colours dropped in using Photoshop.
I tend to use more simplified backgrounds for my cartooning. It helps to keep the foreground/midground elements and the background elements separate. Plus, it’s easier to draw! Got that tip years ago from watching an interview with Matt Groening of the Simpsons fame.
Enjoy!
A quick vector drawing I did several years ago. Desipite it’s simplicity (the printing technique that was to be used was somewhat… primitive) I rather like it. Was never used.
I’m old enough that I had Juice Newton going through my head for the couple of days I took to draw this thing out. Sigh.
Eye Opening Design 