Hath not a Sketchbook drawings? II

I haven't been able to draw much. University and all. Still, I made a few pieces of art and drew some stuff.

I was helping a friend out with her comic. It was standard and worked well enough but I just had to rip into the lettering. One of the characters were two people in one, or something to that effect, and when they talk they kinda speak at the same time and overlap over one another. How she pulled it off was.... less than optimal. So I quickly crapped these out to help her out and give her some direction. Hopefully they went to some use.

Not long after drawing this, after some time being dormant from drawing, I started craving it again.

A friend sent me this to try and draw, so I did. Bellow you'll see a tiny doodle in ink. It's from a Platinum CF-2000 (or something) Brush pen which I filled with Rotring Technical pen ink. The feed mechanism was almost marker like and I just had to test it out if it'll work. It's been a week, maybe less, and it seems to work well enough. Seems... Will update as time goes on.

The original picture. I didn't feel like trying to capture the thing 100%. Instead I focused on trying to be as clean with my lines as possible. As clean and mechanical. I THINK I did a good job.

That's all for now. Quick, little update.

Hath not a Sketchbook drawings? I

 These are some of the first things that I've drawn in the new sketchbook as well as some studies I've done. There are other drawings in that sketchbook, like a watercolors sketch of a lobby and an uninked and unfinished perspective shot of a department store, but I got lazy and didn't picture those. So have these. 

The drawing on the left is me inking my friend's stuff, the one on the right is her inking mine. It's directly tied to the other project I'm working on with my friend.

Couple pencils by me and her inking them.

I also did some studies.

Rather than trying to draw the entire figures I just focused on certain parts and drew those as detailed as I could in two minutes. There are more but I'm proud of a couple of these.

Hands!

The figure with the big chain of spikes all around him is me redrawing Mike Mignola's rendition of The Rocketeer. Right leg aside and my guy's body not bending forward a bit, I think I did a good job. The drawing in question below.

That's all for now.

Maletilla (comics)

You don't know how long it took me to make that establishing shot. Three or four hours maybe? It's not even a three-point perspective and the measurements were off so not everything lines up well.

Mooostly happy with this panel, the third to the last panel is a wonky.

Mostly happy with this page too.

I'm not happy with the transition between four to five. Panel six has  wonky perspective too.

I tried but I'm just not a corss hatching guy.

Unhappy. Eugh.

The hands aside, this isn't too bad.

Falling apart.

The bandana is supposed to be colored. I'll rectify that in the published issue.

Maletilla is finally done

I've decided to move to Grandluxe's Monologue's 200gsm sketchbooks, not the pads for the binding is a bit flimsy, on a permanent basis for sketching. Peter Pauper Press' excellent Premium Sketchbooks have served me well but I'll only use them for "work-related" drawings from now in. Mainly thumbails, character sketches, concept art, etc, and just random sketches at home. Monologue's stuff is for actual sketches for leisure and the like. The ability to use watercolors on them is the main reason for the switch to the things as the Peter Pauper can only handle dry media. It helps that the Monologue sketchbooks have a nicely textured cover.

The name of the new sketchbook. I name all of mine to help differentiate them from each other, dates used besides.

I always do some lettering to grant the sketchbook its name to start it off. For this one, I used the Hebrew alphabet as my basis. I played Shylock for an activity in class back in highschool, which is, of course, in reference to William Shakespear's The Merchant of Venice. Basically, we were given a character from one of Shakespear's stories and were tasked to dress up like them as well as memorize one of their monologues (haha). Obviously, the hath not a Jew eyes was what I had to memorize and perform. I have fond memories of that experience and it always stuck with me. Not the words I used in front of the class though. I was never a man of words. Maybe I can change that.

Those last few pages just flew by. I've been working on these on and off , the actual drawing phase anyway, over the course of a few weeks. When I finally reached the action bits where I can drop the backgrounds off.

Failed sound effect lettering.

 

A good draft of what finally appeared on the finished art.

Proper scan of the first page.

I'll post the rest soon.