Weekly sketches are back!

After a long leave I am returned!

I've taken a long time off from drawing and making posts, partly due to travelling, but mostly I'm settling into a new stage in my life: work. I graduated engineering and am now the proud owner of an 8 hour job! Hurrah!! It's taken me a while to ease back into my hobbies. I've manage to get back into music pretty smoothly, and now have a schedule to work around! 

Now to the reason why you're here: ART!

I've been working a lot more on expression and the human form. During this time, I found about the great Frank Frazetta. Frank Frazetta is most notably known for his book cover illustration, and worked on such works like John Carter, Conan the Barbarian, and Tales from the Crypt. I attached a Wikipedia link if you would like to learn more.

Something about his work made everything about drawing the human body click. His perfect grasp of andatomy and contrast is like none I've ever seen before. The three drawings bellow are pretty much direct copies of three of his own work, which I've also attached links to in the description of each sketch.

Frank Frazetta Woman and the Moon   & Caveman

The caveman I drew first, and I took some liberty with the drawing. The woman I drew second, and with this one I developed an exercise to attempt and duplicate the drawing in 30 minutes or less, which I achieved!

The night I drew the caveman, I liked him so much I did a few more studies on him, which you can see bellow. I might have also had some influence from Jumanji in drawing this one, but I'll leave that up to you.

I continued the exercise, this time drawing two scenes I liked from the trailer to "The Master". The biggest lesson I learned from Frazettas art to observe the source even closer so as to draw what is really there, and not what I've learned should be there.

This week I will be working on how to apply all this to inking, and hopefully by next week I'll have more work to show off. Thank you so much for visiting and be sure to COMMENT! All feedback is welcome!

No time to draw.. :/

So it's been rather difficult to develop comics lately, seeing as i'm creeping on the end of the summer semester and trying to move to my new place. But in the mean time, here are a couple sketches from my sketchbook. Down bellow are two drawings I did about 2 years ago.

Firestarter.

Drawing inspired by the Pixies song "Monkey Gone to Heaven".                    Amy Pond floating in space. Doctor Who Sketch.

I love working with shadows. You can do so many different variations all resulting in a different picture. All invoking a different emotion.

These two I did during my first art class in college. I was just learning how to work with contrast properly, and I wanted to these two drawing to display the extremes; the darkest darks and the lightest lights. That's why part of the drawing is left with simply the outline of the figure.

Go see the new Batman!!

On Friday night I saw "The Dark Knight Rises" and it inspired me to do these two drawings. I'm still not as comfortable with ink as I would like to be, so it seemed like a great time to practice it. Hope ya'll like them!

... Also, go see the movie. It was incredible!

The Penguin.

Here is the progression of my Joker drawing. It took me a while to get the eyes right. Eyes can be a tricky thing. Either they come out exactly as you want them to, or you draw them 50 different times until you end up with something you maybe like. I got lucky. After 30-some times I got these, which I was really content with.

Sketches and Old Art

New Art coming soon! for more frequent art posts, check out my tumblr http://daysicantremember.tumblr.com/

For now, here are some drawings and sketches I have done in the past.

First Angry Buddha sketch i ever made.

Sketch for an upcoming Comic.

Drawing I did for the school newspaper before UT game in 2010.

Drawing of the Faun from Pans Labyrinth by Mike Mignola. I really look up to Mike and his art work, and so decided to practice inking with this drawing of his.

Drawing of The Crow I made for one of my friends.

DC's Firestorm.