The three women portraited today (the portraits themselves having been done in 2000) are from my own fiction. The first is Lili Veracruz from Misspent Youths. The middle and last are Sister D and the Jade Buddha, respectively, from Bugfuck Palace.
Three Ladies
Three more cartoon portraits of women done in 2000. The first two are one-offs, done without a specific character in mind. The last one is my version of Cruela De Vil. But that’s obvious, right?
Three Women
I am not going to complain about how much I’ve been working. I am not going to babble on about the Day Job. I am not going to bore you with the details of data entry or finicky Ustream feeds or our customer’s failure to understand that we do not control the internet or their computer.
Instead I’m just going to post these three portraits from 2000. They are not from any particular project. I was doing them as part of series of practice drawings. I do a lot of practice drawings. Or I try to. I haven’t gotten a lot of drawings, practice or otherwise, done recently. But I’m not going to say any more about that.
Section H Final
This the illustration that grew out of the sketch I posted yesterday. It’s not bad but, honestly, I think would have done a better piece (and finished it faster) if I’d done the whole thing in pen and ink or in pencil. I spent a ridiculously long time playing around in Photoshop trying to get the look and effects I wanted. Still, I learned a lot in the process. (Mostly that trying to do everything in Photoshop was doing it the hard way.)
Section H Sketch
The Day Job has been keeping me pretty busy. Busy enough that I’ve honestly been forgetting to post. It’s a lame excuse even if it’s true.
This is the original sketch for the first illustration I did for The Black Seal #1 back in 2003. I’d learned just enough Photoshop that I deluded myself into thinking I could use the program to create an illustration from this sketch. Tomorrow I’ll post the result and you can decide whether I succeeded.
Bad Graffiti Day
Today’s post is an illustration from 1995 done in markers. I think this might be Dave from Bugfuck Palace.
The (Vampire) Kids are All Right
I spent yesterday getting readjusted to home and work and thus missed posting. My apologies.
This illustration was the last piece in the watercolor sketchbook that held the figure drawings and the previous post’s Black Molly illustration. As I think I written previously, most horror writers and fans have a vampire story they want to tell. This is a glimpse of what mine might have looked like if I’d started drawing it in 1992.
Early Black Molly
This painting is out of the same watercolor pad as the four figure drawings just posted so it’s from 1992 as well. It’s a very early version of my Black Molly character.
Yeah, those figure drawing classes really made a difference. This isn’t a perfect piece but it’s world more “real” than anything I’d been doing the year previously.
Figure Drawing 4
A final example from the figure drawing class I took in 2002. Taking figure drawing improved my drawing skills far more than I ever expected. Until I took the classes I didn’t realize how bad I was. It’s amazing how many wrong understanding I had about not only the human figure but how to portray weight and mass in general.
Figure Drawing 3
Another piece from the figure drawing course I took back in 2002. I tried to portray the woman as accurately as possible. I took a few liberties with the background.
