What Do New Friends Do?

They don't have much in common, do they?

Wherever You Go

I'm glad we're together... But you pick the strangest vacation spots...

La-la-lapocalypse!

Anybody else feel like whistling? I sure do!

The Witch Queen

Any resemblance to trademarked characters from prominent animated properties is purely coincidental. Please don't sue me, Disney!

BONUS SKETCH:

Just an experiment. 

Pepin and the Tower

Just a picture from a short story I've written (and rewritten) a couple of times.  I think the cloud turned out well, but the rest of the picture I'm not so sure on.

BONUS COLOR UPDATE:

Umm... Ungh... ONE!

This is exactly how I look when I do a pull-up... except for the onlooker who's all concerned.

No, MY onlookers guffaw. Like, loudly.

The Host

Dude, I kinda want wings.  Of course, it'd be tough to go through doors...

Just another doodle I put together in a few dull meetings. Oh, and here's another one:

And then here are some more that I pulled over from other sketches and added some detail to digitally.

It's been a while since I posted anything, okay?!

I Want Pudding!

How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?

Ram Girl Violent

That... that smarts!

I'm really quite happy with this picture. I did the whole thing, beginning to end, on Procreate - the sketching, the background and hatching, even the basic blocking (which I've usually done on paper).  The main difference between this picture and every other I've drawn for scratch on Procreate is the size of the canvas. I cut the canvas in half from its usual size, and I found that gave me much  more control over the shapes I wanted to use.  Good, good happy stuff.

BONUS SKETCH:

BANK!!!

No real story here - just wanted to draw some buildings on the iPad.

More Ram Girl

I really want to do a story with this character!

I also took a couple of the earlier sketches I've done with the girl with the ram horns and touched them up a bit. Hopefully, it'll start to be a little clearer that she actually has ram horns and not Princess Leia buns.

More tweaking to follow, I guess.

Lastly, I've been doing a lot of shadow work with just "scribbling" rather than more time-consuming "hatching." I... don't like the result as much.

But hatching just takes SO LOOOOONNNNNNG!

Strange Companions and a New Journey

So last week, I decided that I really wanted to draw a little girl sitting in the branches of a tree monster, like from the end of the Lord of the Rings. Then I remembered that, at some point, I really wanted to draw a centaur. So I did it all at once.

I traced the picture out with pen and paper, then photoed it and finished it all in Procreate. I finished hatching the background, but then I realized that the hatch marks all went in the EXACT SAME DIRECTION throughout the entire picture. So I selected the background and flipped it, because I am mad clever.

Get Away From Me!

Your pants... patch your pants!

Back to playing around with Procreate.  It's actually pretty fun working in shades of grey (man, there must be, like, fifty of those things!). This sort of thing is much easier than cross-hatching, but I think I like the effect of hatching much better. I'll keep experimenting.

Suave Clown of Romance

Ladies love the nose...

Don't Fear The Darkness

It's really quite a lovely place. Everyone's so happy to see you.

Madman

Excuse me, sir, but have you got the time? 

New Friends

Huh... they sure are... different...

I've actually started writing a story featuring this character, who's made a brief (unrecognizable) appearance before. Hopefully, she looks more like herself here.

The more I write the story, though, the more I realize I kinda want it to be a comic, so I'm sketching up some character ideas as I go. We'll see what happens.

Jack B. Nimble

Well, he jumped over the candle stick...

Special Delivery

I ain't even got a funny caption for this one...  I just drewed it!

So I've been trying to get a lot more writing done, and currently I'm working on two different stories which, deep down, I know would be better as graphic novels.  Now, I'm going to keep writing and see how I feel with the finished product, but JUST IN CASE, I'm going to try my hand at sketching up a few scenes as I go.

This picture was actually inspired by a technique I've seen used by Stan Sakai of Usagi Yojimbo fame.  If I do decide to dive in and draw a graphic novel, then I plan on studying Mr. Sakai very closely, as he's probably among my favorite comics artists of ever.  Sakai will sometimes shade in objects in the foreground, creating two different "depth" levels in his pictures.  This is my first real attempt at aping that technique.

The Rising Horror

Man, I'm screwed up!

I regret doing this one on the iPad. I think I would have gotten better results if I'd just used paper.

The Golden Child Inside

Whew! Really had something in your throat, didn't you.