Random sketches of Beastie, a character I’d created for a series of “New Hero” trading cards back in 1993 or 1994.
Author Archives: skook
Spiderface and Frankenstein’s Wretch
At the top: the head of some human/spider hybrid. With an elaborate hair do.
At the bottom: a early take on the Frankenstein Monster based on the version in the novel. I don’t remember whether I’d read an excerpt of the novel or just a description of the character. I hadn’t read the novel itself yet. That wouldn’t happen for another six years.
Kitties and Bears and Guys, Oh My!
A variety of sketches, the only two from life being the ones of the cat at the top. The cat would be Paliki, a little black cat that is sitting on my lap as I type this. She definitely wasn’t on my lap when I did the sketches. Or if she was she wasn’t there voluntarily. In 1996 she was a much more nervous, skittish animal. She didn’t like being too close to human beings for too long. And she certainly didn’t demand that I provide her with a lap as she does now.
Expressive
Sketchy sketch sketch.
Massive
One of the big challenges for me, when I draw human figures, is drawing people with any mass to their form. It doesn’t matter whether the character is muscular or fat the added flesh around their bones changes the way they need to be drawn. Clothes hang differently. Wrinkles and folds appear in different places. Not that I had to worry about clothes with this guy.
NSFW
Naked guys! Don’t look at these sketches at work! Unless you work in a naked guy factory. And if that’s the case, what are you doing online?
Action!
A page of figure sketches. I seem to have been practicing drawing figures in action.
Comfy Chair
I love this drawing. It’s simple. It’s clean. It looks like I knew what I was doing.
At A Loss for a Title
A couple of face sketches of the girl, one of a dinowolfshark and, on the right, a completely unrelated whatsit.
Dinosharkwolf
The girl lived in a former human colony, a city, that had been abandoned. The native flora and fauna had begun reclaiming its territory, turning the land back into a forest. And every forest has predators. These are sketches of one of the native predator species, a pack hunter filling a similar niche to the wolf on Earth.
