Final Spider-Man... for now

Ok, time to put this one to bed. I never meant this to be more than a character study to practice figure drawing and I got a bit carried away. Lessons learned since my last post: I need to create my own Photoshop brushes to do clouds 'cause the built in ones don't have the resolution for print. Also, I hate drawing generic buildings for backgrounds. My next project will be composed from the start and the background should be just as fun to work on as the characters.

Captain America!!

I seem to have fallen upon a pattern of my characters facing left. Hmmm....

Frankenstein

I wanted to post my Captain America sketch next, but I didn't get a chance to work on it. So I posted this instead! I want to do a Halloween theme for next week, so expect more later.

As usual, I sketch loosely so I re-drew this one for a cleaner line, and is easier to work with when colouring in Photoshop.

Hulk

This past weekend I did a handful of sketches, but for now I'm just gonna post the Hulk 'cause I'm too lazy to post the rest. :P

At this moment I don't have any inking tools, so I just took my pencil sketches into Photoshop and see what I can do with it. I think I'll be revisiting this piece later on when I get my brushes or redraw it with cleaner lines.

Didn't think it turned out too bad. Hulk turned out a bit more cartoonish than I wanted, but I think the loose sketch lines help offset that. I wanted Hulk to look more sad, than angry about defending himself from unknown assailants (most likely puny humans).

First attempt at coloring

This is the fun part... it really starts to come together when you add color. I also added the webs and spider symbol.

Inking is hard!

I inked a drawing for the first time in 8 years or so last night and I had forgotten exactly how difficult it is. I wasn't too happy with what I did last night so I tried again this morning with better results, which I've posted here. My next step will be to clean it up a bit in Photoshop and then work on the background.

Composition rough

And while I'm at it here is a quick mock-up I did in Photoshop showing the basic composition of the final illustration. Pretty much standard cover fare but this excerise was more about brushing the dust off my drawing skills after too many years of neglect than pushing any boundries.

Final Spidey Pencils

My lightbox arrived yesterday so I was able to tranfer the sketches from my previous posts to bristol board. The pencils are a little more refined and ready for adventures in inking!

'Cause I have no sketches to upload...

My "studio" set-up. Now I just need a Mac...

Pooh!

Just came back from my trip to Orlando with my brother, and as many people do when vacationing down there, visited Disney World! The experience found a love for Disney I've never thought I had. I'm on a total Disney kick right now, so you'll be seeing more Disney skeches from me. hehe

One of the things we did was checked out the Magic of Disney Animation. There they talk about the process of creating a Disney character, and at the end you get to take a 10-minute class on how to draw a Disney character. Appropriately enough, the character we got to draw was Winnie the Pooh! So here's my 10-minute sketch of good ol' Pooh. Behold the magic!