The Cosmas

Here's a sketch of Cosmo and Wanda from my favoritest cartoon! I'll probably color it and everything later, but I'm just a bit too tired for that right now.

I realized that I really need to find my style. I don't really do "realistic" all that well (and if I do it takes me a STUPID long time) so I may go for something a little more cartoony.

To be honest, I think this turned out really well. I, obviously, just drew from a stock photo (actually, if you are on Netflix it's on the title card for the show on the site), but it's not traced. I'm pretty good with "here's a drawing, redraw it" and that's why a lot of my stuff is Pokemon. Plus, the artwork is pretty simple and has a "rushed" feel anyway, so not everything has to be perfect.

Well, I've been itching to draw lately, so hopefully I'll have more for you soon!

Skyla

Whoo! What's this? A sketch? No way!

 I'll edit this post later, but know that I'm not fully satisfied with this Skyla. I plan to attempt some digital editing to test some stuff out.

My live has been ridiculous lately and now I'm getting sick. Well, you can read more about my life at http://argentangel.blogspot.com/ but for now it is bedtime.

Good night!

Edit: What a fail. I don't know why it didn't upload correctly, but it should be right now.

Gorram Motherfrakker

So, you know how I have a computer? Well, you know how computers sometimes get viruses? You know how those viruses can be REALLY bad sometimes? You know how your computer can get completely bricked and need a fresh OS installation sometimes? Yeah... all of those things happened to me. I'm just kind of trying to get used to my fresh "new" computer. Note that Photoshop and Illustrator are both gone and I'm going to be looking for alternatives to them for a while. Also, my schedule has been very messed up so I haven't had much drawing time.

The upside is that my schedule is finally balancing out and my computer is working REALLY well. I do have several of my files on my external, but, well, to be honest, I don't back stuff up NEAR as much as I should.

Expect posts soon. Not too soon, but soonish.

Moleskine 1

These are just a few sketches from my Moleskine. I tend to draw a lot while at work because it keeps me awake so I can pay better attention. I have other doodles in my notebook, but these two are, by far, my best.

I need to bust out Tom (my manikin) and start working on proportions (including neck size...) Also, I need to work on side and 3/4 view people, because straight on is all I'm decent at right now.

These are very rough and uninked, but I haven't posted in a while so I wanted to show you a bit of what I've been doing. (You can even see my eraser marks and how the paper has that traditional Moleskine tint.) The one major thing I have learned from these drawings is that it can take me hours to get something looking just right. Before I thought that my drawings had to be fast. I'm sure I'll GET faster, but as of right now, I'm just working on getting the drawings done satisfactorily.

Anyway, I'll post what I can as I finish.

Have a great Holiday (as you probably won't see much from me until after)!

This is an apollonian gasket that I doodled today. I also drew a Sierpinski triangle and a weird amalgam of the two (a large triangle with circles in it), but I don't know if I'm going to actually upload those.

I have two things now that I didn't have before:

1. An amazing new Moleskine sketchbook from a friend (which I will begin using tomorrow)

2. A scanner

I've given up on Illustrator. It's broken... again... and I really don't feel like fixing it this time. I'll find something else... eventually.

I'm not in the best of moods at the moment, and I have a lot of stuff to think about before I actually fall asleep, so I have to go.

PS Not keeping a normal schedule on the Internets does not mean I'm not drawing. I just couldn't really find a way to upload the stuff, but I have a scanner now so all is well on that front. Eventually, (ie when I feel like it/can) I will be attempting to keep a normal schedule. Until then, though, sporradic updates are all you are going to be getting.

PPS Did I mention my Moleskine is amazing? Because it is!

The Sketchiest

This is my progress on learning how to draw. I am not going to make you suffer my wireframes. I know that I didn't update last week, but consider this my Sunday drawing a day late. I'll likely update late Thursday. I just got a new job and don't have to work Thanksgiving, so that'll give me time to pump something out.

This is the sketchiest sketch I believe I've ever sketched. So, please bear with me some more. Oh, and I know that my sketches are normally some shade of blue, but when I was drawing the wireframe I made that blue, so this one gets to be orange so I can differentiate them. There's some brown in there too because I was having to draw the arms in a different color and Photoshop was being whiny about switching my colors so I did it weirdly.

I'll be getting glasses sometime next week, so hopefully that'll help a bit.

Also, I'm going to cut a lot out of my wireframe. For some reason when I draw it my arm proportions are always off, but I get the geometry bits correct. Hopefully I can learn to draw in my own style (whatever that may be; I trust it will develop over time) and cut out the preliminary steps (wireframe, geometry, muscle structure, etc), but for now I am where I am in drawing. I believe I am improving. I do have a lot of ideas for some comics, but they are going to wait until I'm ready to start drawing them. Yeah, I might have to wait a long time, but I'm willing to do that. No, I don't expect to be at the epitome of my art when I start to draw, but I hope to at least have the basics down.

Other than the people on Facebook and following my feed on Google Reader not many people actually look at this page, so I'm not terribly concerned about publishing until I feel I'm ready.

I considered for, like, 2 seconds making my comic in the style of wobbly jointed geometry people, but I looked at my drawing a little more and realized that the fact that he has no face. I think it's just that he reminds me a bit too much of Skeleton Harvester in that way.

Gah, this got TL;DR really quick. Well, I need to get to sleep pretty quick anyway. We'll talk to you soon. 

Everything Right is Wrong Again

Well, viruses suck. I fixed it... no thanks to MalwareBytes not correcting my proxy settings that the virus changed. Without the technobabble: I messed up my computer and then while fixing it made it worse. I eventually fixed that too, though.

Anyway: blah blah late drawing... blah blah excuse.

I may have one up tomorrow, but I likely will return to normal scheduling on Thursday.

Goodnight