CafeNeo

Sundays are my favorite day. I go to a cafe, sit and draw from life or my imagination. Often times I'll try to paint something really quick. Most of the time I'm not very successful, but it doesn't keep me from trying. The more I can do of these types of things, the better.

I realized today that I have not painted many scenes at all. All of the details, color, and lighting of an environment is pretty overwhelming to me at this point, but in time I'm sure I'll learn a few things about color and light.

Watercolor Knight

Just messing around. He looks a tad meaner than I wanted, but I'm happy with how this little experiment turned out. I hope to continue this a bit further and see where it goes.

Full Metal Alchemist WIP

I'm still not finished with the black and white rendering. It's been awhile since I've done anything like this and I'm trying to take my time and not rush the process. Once I get the values just right, the coloring shouldn't take too much time at all.

Photoshop is our friend

I cheated and did a bit of manipulation in photoshop. Mainly to the values.

YO JOE!

This are some of my favorite pages from GI Joe: America's Elite #22-24. I can't believe I've drawn over 100 pages since I started. I consider myself so very lucky to have this job. And it's looking like I'll be working on GI Joe for at least another year. I'm excited to see how my work develops in that time. Also, I hope to be working with the colorist, Jean-Francois Beaulieu. He's awesome.

Positive Procrastination

Rushed the watercolors.. didn't really have a gameplan tonight... but I think I'm going to have to change that... or not.

Drawing from Life

I really didn't know what I was doing tonight, just messing around. I am not feeling the watercolors these days.

Dry Brush Lifedrawing

Just wanted to bust out the inks this week. I need to do more of this, it's been a while.

Art makings

Just some stuff done in my spare time.

Nudey drawings

So I experimented with black and white acrylic on brown paper... didn't turn out so well. Looks a little mannish to me. Sebastian Kruger, I am not.

Randmoness

This is a sketch I did while at the San Diego airport. Nothing fancy.

This is a drawing/watercolor done in an hour and a half. Just messing around.

I colored this very quickly after a long day of drawing GI Joe. The drawing itself was done before I started the comic. Probably why I spent so much time on the details... those were the days.

A quick sketch done probably before I started GI Joe, but colored a few days ago.

And this is a work-in-progress. I drew this before I started GI Joe and have decided to attempt coloring it in my spare time. This is what I got after an hour or so... I'm pretty slow.

The Process of Creation- Step 5

And she's done. I ended up going with watercolor and guoache and then realized that the textures were a bit too harsh, so I softened them in Photoshop. This project went on much longer than I ever wanted, but it's probably the first time I've ever spent so long on a project.

Cyborg

This drawing was one of those stream of consciousness sort of things. I had no plan and just drew parts as they came and then tried to polish it up. I'm very pleased with the outcome, and I like the design, because it's just weird.

The Process of Creation- Step 4

This is more or less a color sketch of what I want. It's a little too pastel due to the fact that at the time I did it I was using a malfunctioning monitor (the contrast was too high and it was also very dark). So hopefully by the time I finish it, all will be well. Right now I'm starting to flat it, starting with the trees.

Sketchin'

I was at starbucks, trying to get into a character's head ( the female). But as I always do, I take little breaks to read comics. I had the Ultimates graphic novel with me and was inspired to draw the Hulk as well. If all goes well, I'll be drawing the Hulk some day. Just wait.

The Process of Creation- Step 3

I went over the pencils with ink wash. It upped the contrast, but maybe have lost a little bit of detail. I also might continue inkwashing to get more subtle values. Or I will add more subtle values during the coloring stage. This will happen most likely in Photoshop, but I am curious to experiment with watercolor, as well.

Sketches from my latest book

Many of these sketches were done during this last week when I spent a week with my family (parents and little brother) at Lake Chelan in Washington State. Some were done for a GI Joe comic I did a few weeks ago. I generally work very fast and without direction. The more detailed sketches often happen for reasons I can't control, though I wish I could.

The Process of Creation- Step 2 (finished)

This is as far as I'm going with pencils. I think it's a little too far, but since I'm not sure what my next step is going to be, I'm going to go as far as I can with what I know best, the pencil.

There are many options here. Ink, Inkwash, Watercolor, or a mixture of all three, or just leave in pencil and digitally color it. So many options. I think I'm going to experiment on something else first before I do anything to this.

The Process of Creation- Step 2 (continued)

And I continue with the pencilling, very far from being over. I show you now, only for the inspiration to continue with the same effort. This is apparently going to be the most delicately pencilled thing I've ever done. A test of patience and endurance. Lovely.

The Process of Creation- Step 2

This is a piece of 11x14" watercolor paper. The pencils are about 1/4 of the way finished, and I have the feeling that they will look much different when I get this done.

The overall plan is to take this from pencils to watercolor, possibly with the addition of inked contours, but I'm not sure yet. It's kind of an experiment.

The Process of Creation- Step 1

To start this blog off I am going to walk through my creative process. For this first installment, I'm going to actually use a sketch done over a year ago as the starting point.

The sketch was done in a World Mythology class. I reccommend learning about world mythology because many ideas can be found from it. Plus, its a huge part of human history.... kind of important.

I should have been paying attention in class, but all the talk of giants and Norse gods inspired me.