Been sketching with the kiddo lately. She's been very into Bendy and the Ink Machine, Steven Universe, and Undertale. I broke the pattern with this Joker piece but had to pay the price of some side eye due to my not staying on assignment.
pen & ink WIP
Joker needed a little color.
AND a few other pages from recent sketchatons.
Steven Universe's Lapis and Pearl.
We found a My Little Pony Flash on Pinterest, because of course.
Undertale is a video game I have not played. So I know very little about it. But this is from that thing, I guess.
Amethyst and Bendy along with a creepy 1920's bunny in suspenders cartoon dude.
A Strange Alliance. Okay, I went off task more than once.
Filling out the post, this Talia al Ghul sketch is actually from a few months ago.
And here's one from a new drawing group I found in Lansing that meets at a quaint, new coffee shop called Blue Owl.
And another one.
I've been drawing in an old pad I got as a kid but only ever used a handful of times. So here's a copy of Tony Harris' STARMAN #20 cover I did when I was about a year and a half older than my drawing partner is now.
Saturday sketch of some sort of battle between a few members of the JLI. Why? Why not? The better question is why is Dr. Light's right arm so long? Has she been sneaking Ralph's Gingold? Can I make a geekier reference?
There are several things I'd like to correct here: the physics-defying cape folds; the angularity of Fire's face (faces on a small scale have been tricky lately in general--this was done in an 8x11 sketchbook); Dr. Light's foot placement making it appear like she's walking rather than floating which just screws with the entire perspective (is Fire behind or in front of her?). But I had some fun playing with the more casual, impressionistic cityscape, which allowed for trying out some new pen techniques.
WIP pen & ink
A little digital polish, and things are looking much cleaner!
Still in love with my newish Faber-castell pen set. And still very much learning all they're capable of.
While testing those limits, I figured my buds Dr. Kamikaze and Farewell Scalar's d.auge deserved to get the golden age superhero treatment. So here they are as Plastic Man and Superman (in Clark Kent guise) along with me decked out in Jack Knight Starman attire.
pencils WIP
final, inked
Based a pic from our mutual bud Elliott's (who pops up on some Dr. Kamikaze and other recordings of ours) 2013 wedding.
So Halloween is long past, but watching Rudolph and Frosty this last weekend, no images of sugarplums were dancing in my head. Just death and cigarettes.
So I started penciling and then inked my current comics binge read, the Hellblazer himself, John Constantine (which is also a pretty fun NBC show that's on the bubble if you need a TV-cause to get behind).
Hopefully, this will be the start of some more inking projects. No real goal in mind other than stretching my drafting legs a bit, creating some interesting images, and having a ton of fun while doing so. I'm already seeing a bunch of problems with this piece I would like to fix, so hopefully things will get more consistent as I get back into it.
