Digital Sketch: Nightmare

I felt like playing with lighting and shadows. I did the colors and patterns in MyPaint and then added shadows in GIMP. I was hoping to add highlights, but for some reason I couldn’t work it right.

Oh well. The result is still cool to look at.

I’m not sure why it’s wearing a jester’s hat. I don’t even find clowns remotely scary. But I’ll be happy to add to someone else’s phobia! xD

Oh look! A Walt Disney Short! And Characters!

Late update is late.
Also, as a warning, next update won’t be until next week. This week is full of school projects JUST before Spring Break (which, for me, starts March 5), but rest assured there will be more sketches during break. Cuz’ I have nothing better to do. xD
This is from a recently filled sketchbook of mine. I relish the fact that the sketchbook is full, and now I can work on a new one. :D
So the two faces on the right are supposed to be Acran (I got his jaw wrong, so that’s why I say “suppose to be”), the girl with the bandana is Carmen, a pirate. The two men with their backs to each other are Keith (the one with the dreds) and Jared (the one with the sword).
And the smarmy, confident teen boy is Bobby. I lurves him. I lurves all of them equally, but I lurves Bobby a little more equally than the rest.
And now to make it up to you that this post is late, I shall now share a delightfully creepy short that Walt Disney himself made before Mickey Mouse was popular. It’s called “The Skeleton Dance.” Be sure to watch it in full screen.
Warning! Don’t watch in the dark.

Another Sketch Card!

I freaking love to draw women.

This is Margot…again (do you remember her from the first time?) I love the pencil sketching technique I used for this one.

The technique I used was simple: draw the structure and rough outline in 2H pencil, then draw the final image on top with my mechanical pencil. I used artist’s tape as a border, but it turns out it doesn’t like to stick too long: it partially tore at the top. At least I know for next time.

If you like, she’s also available as a print for you to purchase! Just check out the “Prints for Sale” at the top.

Also, on deviantART, my journal entry today has links to two posts I discovered that EVERY freelance artist should read. They concern working with clients and going in detail with them (including contracts) and what type of deals to avoid with clients. There’s a LOT more information to them, too. Go check it out!

Oh, and you know how I said I would post thumbnails of my comic, The Messengers, in progress? Erm…I sorta’ lied. I’ll scan those in tomorrow, though, because Fridays are always my free days. :D

A Goddess in a Sundress

I love her.

This is my Goddess character for a short comic I’m scripting out (in my head, so far), called “How a Goddess Creates the World.” I intend on it being wordless (and if possible, without sound effects) AND in color. How I’ll color it, I have not decided yet.

I was inspired to create this comic after I heard THIS song:

Just close your eyes for a minute and listen to it. It’s actually very calming.

I can’t wait to get started on the script. I’ll do that after I add a few more pages to another short story comic I’m scripting right now called “The Messengers”. THAT comic is a post-apocalyptic romp with two girls that are messengers of ancient gods.

Tomorrow I’ll try to post some of the script I’ve got done. So far I have 19 and a half pages thumbnailed out! :D My goal is to get it done by next weekend.

And now I leave you with a very grumpy Bobby. He didn’t want this blog post to end.

Perhaps I should work on making angry faces, too. That doesn’t look quite right.

Facial Expressions, part 1

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I love this character.

His name is Bobby, and I don’t want to talk about his story too much (especially since I’m currently working on his story in rough draft and intend to seriously pitch it to comic companies later). Suffice it to say, he’s a lot of fun to draw and he is a wonderful, 16-year-old ball of teenage emotion.

Not emo-ness. He’s not Harry Potter. Though Bobby certainly has his own problems which I may talk about later.

I know! I should draw him in color next! :D