Just more stuff I’ve been working on. So much of the early thumb-nailing and roughs are pencil on paper, and I have such a mediocre phone camera, and such laziness when it comes to actually using my very capable scanner, that I end up never digitally consolidating these sketches unless they’re going to be developed. […]
Page one of the graphic project Old Stones is complete, at least for now. What I discovered trying to refine my rough sketches into a graphic illustration was that I really, really suck at colour and lighting. Especially since the two are so intertwined, it becomes extremely frustrating trying to guess and make colour passes […]
This is really my first real attempt at sequential art outside of commercial storyboards (I didn’t really work on sequential frames as a storyboard artist back in the studio; it was a huge team of artists pulling everything together). This is the first time I have almost complete creative freedom, reigned in only by the […]
Yesterday I tried a short charcoal sketch in Procreate using Lane Brown’s Charcoal master pack, and over an hour passed and I just couldn’t stop playing. Below is the result of that trial run. Probably the best thing about these brushes is that they give me access to virtual versions of really high quality tools […]
These are really just the result of idle doodles and half hearted studies. I find I’m constantly torn between wanting to draw story moments from imagination, and wanting to purely study, and generally struggling to find a balance between the two. Anxiety never helps; when I’m studying I feel like I’m not exercising my creativity, […]
Just some value sketching concept thumbnails from a few days ago, and a rushed page of sketches for a children’s toy block that I cobbled together yesterday for a project. Below is a quick study sketch of John Singer Sargent’s portrait of Ms. George Swinton. John Singer Sargent is one of my very favourite fine […]
With todays batch of thumbnails, I decided to play around with colours in ProCreate after photographing the pencil sketch. Colour theory is something I’ve always had trouble with as well, but the nice thing about experimenting with digital colouring is the ability to modify tonal values with relative ease. You still have to know your […]
Rocks have always given me trouble, which is a pity because once I actually got around to doing these quick two- minute thumbnail studies, I realized that they’re actually super fun to draw. My Pinterest has been enthusiastically throwing increasingly more fantastical rocky landscapes at me, and I’ve been pinning them all and working my […]
Now that I’m signing on for online classes on Schoolism and NMA that aren’t prohibitively expensive like CGMA’s, there is a lot more that I’m keen to try. There will be a lot of upcoming posts on dynamic gesture drawing, thumbnails, and environments as I dive into the fundamentals.
I enjoyed returning to traditional tools to sketch this. I’d forgotten how much I missed the tactile feel of a nice mechanical pencil on good quality paper, and how conducive that feeling is in maintaining interest in the sketch. I can’t fault digital tools for the endless versatility they provide, but there’s something very rewarding […]
