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.

Current Status of the Jury-rigged Watercolor Blocks

It looks okay-ish at first aaaaaand theeeeeeeen-

-they're a bit shit upon a closer analysis...

Took a bit of effort to separate the pieces away from each other.

Made a couple booboos with the x-acto knife.

Don't mind the homework and Platinum Preppy Highlighter in the background.

See where I tried, partly in vain, to try and cut away parts of it for easy removal?

I shouldn't have jumped into things all excited, spending a few hours coating the sides of these stacks of paper and pressing down on them while they dried. They're a bit hard to take off, even if you've left a good chunk un-glued and ready for removal from the rest of the block. Imagine what it'd be like to do it with a block that's been coated from all sides. Now add the field conditions that come with urban sketching that aren't there in one's studio, or basement or dirty old room, what have you. RIP.

Guess the next generation are gonna have one side left un-glued. Aw well.

Same palette I talked about before but I made this with a waterbrush than any tradional watercolor brush for painting with this.

Have the sketch I submitted for the Jackson Urban Sketching Competition. As far as I can tell based on the Terms and Conditions I can post the drawing elsewhere without fear of losing my right to participate in the contest. Hopefully...

I drew the underdrawing a few days before I painted over it, both on location and in the space of a couple hours. I may be new to the medium, but I think I may be getting a better handle over painting backgrounds. Some progress, as negligible as it is, is better than none at all!

 

 Also, have a recent watercolor sketch.

 Oh and a map I made for a DnD session for a guy.

An attempt was made

Using some newly bought and some old/well used art materials, I made a little sketch in watercolor. It's badly made, mostly cus I'm inexperienced with the medium, but I'm very much interested in branching out in something outside of my usual crap. I am okay/sub-par with coloring people but I fall apart with backgrounds. Oh well. I just need to practice.

Sketchbook is a Grandluxe Monologue A5 Sketchpad, the 200gsm one, with its pages being soaked with water on both sides and left to dry before being flattened a day prior. I wrote the date which I started drawing on the thing on the side in both ink and white gel pen, Uni Signo Broad. Once I finish using the thing I'll write the date of its retirement next to the day I started using it. The life of my sketchbooks usually last between three to four months.
The paints I used are from various sources, the brands being Holbein, Winsor & Newton, White Nights, and Senellier. They're tube paints that I left to dry in some halfpans or fullpans before slapping in my palette. The pans and palette are from a local Filipino company called Happy Pan. Brush used is a frankenbrush which is the unholy spawn of a Kuretake Waterbrush body with the bristles coming from a Pentel Waterbrush. I have a tiny Sakura Waterbrush hidden snug in the palette's side for extra water and cleaning.
I drew the thing with a Rotring leadholderw ith Koh-I-Noor 2mm lead, and a Pentel Pocket Brush full of Daler-Rowney Kandahar Drawing Ink. Information written outside the live area are made with my Lamy Vista (F) with Noodler's Lexington Gray.

The setting, some details of which you may no doubt read, is of a place called the "Zen Garden". It can be found in the Ateneo de Manila University campus. I made this little brush-and-ink thing with some watercolor. I made a semi-indepth pencil sketch before obliterating most of it in ink with the intention of continuing those details in watercolor. Despite my inexperience, the position I was in, and the hot, humid weather at the time, I had fun making this. Time passed by quickly too. I spent an hour, maybe an hour and fifteen minutes, on this in total. Satisfying really, despite the quality of the piece.

I'm going to recreate the thing on the next page, much more severely cropped and (hopefully) better painted. Without the ink though.

These other ones were made long ago and with different paint, Prang specifically. Unlike the professionally made, commercially available kit that I currently use, I had this badly made palette that I made myself. Those too were fun. I should have picked up watercolor as a medium earlier.

The drawings were some studies I made on ancient Israeli conditions and its environment. It's directly related to the thumbnails of the comic I posted not too long ago. I should make some posts regarding my other studies also directly tied to the comic. Especially now that I made some more research into Saul/Paul's physical appearance and not just stuff based on paintings and illustrations by Orthodox icon painters and illustrators.

The artstyle I'm using is partially based on Mike Mignola's style. Particularly this shot from Hellboy: Wake the Devil. I might change the style up in the final illustrations, I'm thinking of emulating the style of the Orthodox paintings or pre-Renaissance paintings with the skewed perspective and all. Whatever best fits the mood and adds meaning to the story though, so until I make a proper decision I'm sticking with what's here on the blog.

Look at the guy in the back.