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Daily Sketch David

Daily sketch. I had to re touched it in Photoshop a little bit... everything for the shot.

M&M Sci Fi

Methods and Materials. One of my classes at The Kubert School.

This class is imparted by the great Kim DeMulder, an old school artist master of inks and a terrific artist overall. I have seen his work in person and it is outstanding his use of the brush, let alone all the other weapons of artistic mastery that he has at his disposal.

Anyway, this is assignment No. 2 which consist on doing a scifi panel. This is the sketch, done in Photoshop, and I will proceede to light box it and do the pencils next.

Deadpool sketch

My life has been complete madness during these last weeks. Since its good bye month for me here in my hometown, visiting all the friends and family one last time before becoming a fulltime student again of course is the perfect excuse not to draw everyday as I should. I know, I know. My bad.

Just not to a total lazy-ass, here is a quick Deadpool sketch from last saturday´s artjam.

Bats Sketch

Quick Batman sketch. Just to play around in Sketkchbook pro and Photoshop.

Daily Sketching

I'm gonna try to keep a daily sketch for as long as I can. I have to force myself to do this. There will always be a reason not to do it.

And that just won't do.

The Batman

Almost 3 weeks without posting anything. Blame me slacking off. 

No, really I've been busy with some freelance graphic design stuff. Not what I really wanted but hey, money is money right?

So here is the last illustration I worked on, as part of the ArtJam! sessions, (that have been halted too) my first Batman Piece ever. I I think I will color it, but Cell Shade style, just to not leave it alone. 

But I will definitely do another Bat-piece. A better one.

Coffee Shop Sketch

I did this one as a warmup for my Gabby sketch. Warming up is really important, I bet everyone who draws has experienced a better set of art lines after 4 hours of working.

Art Jam 4: Red Eye

Continuing with last week's Art Jam Thundercats themed characters, here is Red Eye from the Lunataks!

I do recommend full view.

The lines are from the awesome Marte. The colors by me.

Check out EDSFOX coloring on Mumm Rah

Art Jam 4: Mumm Ra

Art Jam came and went again. Getting better with each edition, we went back to the popular coffee shop with a great affluence of cute girls. This time we had a visitor, Hugo, who just stayed for a while.

This week's theme was the allmighty Thundercats. My character: Mumm Ra, your favorite Thundera sac of evil and bones.

Art Jam 3: Michaelangelo

Taco pizza Dude!

Who doesn't love the TMNT? It was my favorite saturday morning cartoon and my personal childhood heroes.

In this week's Art Jam, EdsFox introduced me to a buddy of him, MarteGod. We jam at his apartment, not at Starbucks like we usually do. Turns out he is not only an awesome artist but also a really cool guy. He even gave me some beer, nothing wrong with that :) Check out his work!

Anyway, this time I drew Michaelangelo. Marte did Raph and EdsFox did Leo.

MarteGod is going to put the colors on mine. I will color EdsFox's Leo and he will color Marte's Raph.

Art Jam Numero dos: Ryu

First Ryu ever. Honest.

I went to my favorite Starbucks with my buddy EdsFox for an Art Jam. In my book this means Laptops + Tablets + coffee + good looking women = fun. This is the second time we get together to jam, and the idea is to keep doing it and inspire more people to join us.

While the first time we talked and discussed several subjects related to illustration, we pretty much did our own thing. This time we came up with a set of  rules to make it more interesting:

1. We had only 30 min. to draw
2. We would have to draw the same character. (in this case Ryu)
3. We would have to use the same software (in this case Photoshop CS5)
4. Once finished the sketch, each one had to color each other's drawing.

I tried to draw as fast as I could keeping the lines loose keeping that sketchy look, even though it was being done in Photoshop.

It was fun! Of course we extended the time up to 50 min (just cuz we wanted a little bit more detail, and we didn't finish the color part, but we will continue next week.

Art Jam Sketching

Just a quick sketch I did while at Starbucks in an Art Jam with a friend. I think her eyes are kind of big, but I don't really mind. Still trying to define a style experimenting.

Also I will try to make it a custom to organize this art jams. It was so edifying to talk with another artist and exchange so much stuff.  Besides it was just a ton of fun.

Deadlines

In illustration as well as in anything, time is on the essence. Never trust the deadline day because you will not make it. As a colleague recently pointed out, being too light handed on yourself and your time management will bite you in the arse if you are not careful.

Right now I have a deadline to meet, that is why I haven't posted anything in a couple of days. But I will get to it, trust me.

I leave you with a little image of one commission I have to deliver in two days. I'll tell you all about it later.

Hands on: Sketchbook Pro

A while ago, when I was looking for means to digitally improve my drawings. In this journey I came across some very interesting software mentions in a couple of different blogs and podcasts. Of course there was always Photoshop and Painter as top artists choices to acomplish any task. As my investigation continued, I began to hear (or read rather) some other alternatives to those programs that not many people know about.

I was watching a live stream of Scottie Young, amazing artist that you should already know, and someone asked him what software was he using.  -"I do most of my sketching in Sketchbook Pro "- he said. He can produce some serious art with that software, it most be worth the watch. So I got it as soon as I could and started to use it with my Wacom Tablet. These quick sketches were actually my first attempt to digitally ink anything at all.

They suck I know.

Needless to say it takes a while to get used to the program, but it can be of great assistance for several reasons. It feels very natural, very real like pencil brushes, as well as other tools like the marker or the pen brush. I have seen it been used on the creation of concept art for cars and other vehicles. I have used it in the creation of logos, and some cartoon characters. 

Here are some other examples of things done in Sketchbook Pro, after using it a few times, it gets easier.

 

And of course, the crown jewel is the Legend of Zelda Tribute, but I can't show you that one just jet. 

It is a good software overall, I haven't fully explore it yet but I recommend you to check it out if you can, you might find it useful for the daily sketching. It just occurred to me this moment to make some video tutorials trying out all the different programs that I use to sketch of to make final art. I think it could interesting.