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sketch nights!

in this post, i’ll be showing you sketches from two sketch night’s, from November and December’s Mystery Sketch Theatre, hosted at The Geek Easy in A Comic Shop. and i have to say, it was a rough couple of months. it was very humbling to see such fantastic artwork from others. it was also a pointer to me that i really need to work on female faces. well, as always, we start off with the 30 second warm ups.

next up are the one minute sketches. if i recall correctly, i’m using the Copic multiliner 0.2mm exclusively here.

i really need to find my style a bit more. i’ve been told i have very clean lines. simple artwork without too much clutter. well, i’m not sure if that’s a good thing. i think i cut myself short because i’m afraid i’ll muck things up. well, that’s the beauty of these sketch night. i go ahead and try to experiment and see what happens. here are the 5 minute sketches.

i know for the sketches in December, i wasn’t getting the female face so i decided to focus on the ink shading. i think it turned out alright. next, 10 minute sketches.

and finally, the contest sketch of the night. in November, it was to incorporate a fairy tale. in December, it was incorporate a Christmas llama. yeah, you read that right.

needless to say, i didn’t win the contest. so defeated, i left early to cry in my pillow! haha, just kidding. one last sketch from November, focusing on the shiny latex.

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laying out a page

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so here we are about to begin the next page of Journey into the INKnown. so, what I’ve done so far is just in blue pencils lay out a page where we have hands looking through some old photographs, where each photo effectively becomes a panel. as of right now the panels are totally unscripted. but in order for this work, it’ll have to be a little different than the previous pages. here, I’ll have to work out the captions for all 4 panels (photos) in order to make sure I have room for them before I do any inking.

I’m also wrestling with how much detail to put into the fingers and the table backdrop. still trying to figure out my style, between cartoony and photo-realistic. well, sit back and enjoy as I experiment and find hopefully find myself.

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panel breakdown

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here are some toughs for another panel in my unscripted comic. as I’m learning, one of the first things I want to do is make room and get the word bubble in, before any artwork interferes. so, in this panel, I want the reader to ‘jump’ with the character down into the abyss. hence, I decided to go with a more back shot than a front shot. in my first attempt, I quickly realized I drew the character too big for the panel. it just wouldn’t leave any room to show the expanse of the abyss. so, in try two, I resized him down and changed his footing some. I really liked the body posture so I had to fit the cliff angle into that perspective. had a tough time actually coming up with the right angles there. I’m sure there is some technical art method to figure out the correct angles for the cliffs, but me, I just eyeball it!

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panel in progress

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another upcoming panel for my journey into the INKnown comic series. done so far in blue pencil lead, I’m still roughing out how this panel looks. our main character thus far is running from someone gunning him from afar. I find myself relying on quite a bit if imagination here, telling myself it should look like ‘this’ after the inking, which I think shows off most of the intense effects. as you can see, his right arm was too elongated or something, it just looked weird. so when I goto inks in the next step, I’ll automatically draw it in some.