Another example of a figure drawing from one of the classes I took in 1992 (and 93). This was obviously one of the male models. There were usually 2 female models to every male model.
Figure Drawing 1
In 1992 and 1993 I took figure drawing classes at the Santa Rosa Junior College. Most of those drawing were done on very large sketch paper that would be a real pain to scan. I did find a few pages that only required a couple of scans and a little photoshopping to knit together. This one was from one of the rare sessions when we had two models posing.
The World is an Environment Suit
An unfinished Sentient 39 universe illustration from 2002. It depicts a denizen of world that once had a thriving human colony that, for whatever reason, mostly collapsed. The world’s environment is toxic, the air unbreathable to naked human lungs. The humans now live as nomads in hacked together transports and ancient many-times repaired environment suits. As humans have done for thousands of years the nomads have personalized their homes, covered them with paint and talismans and friendly (or threatening) touches.
Cover for Glyph Number One
This is a scan of the original art for the first issue of the free tabloid version of Glyph. The essay on the other side of that link is about ten years out of date. It might be fun to update it for 2010 but that’s going to have to be a project for after I’ve met a lot of other, more pressing deadlines.
At Home in the Abyss
I’ve been doing a lot of data entry for my Day Job over the last week. By the time I’ve spent a few hours at it my brain is fried and my ability to sit and do art is pretty minimal. My back is just not happy with me. The one thing I’ve been able to do is scan art. So I’ll be able to start posting sketches and drawings again.
I’ve been pulling art out of boxes rather than sketchbooks. That means some of it will be more finished than what I’d find in the sketchbooks. Some, but, like today’s post, not all. This image is from 2002. It’s an illustration of one of the intelligent species in my Sentient 39 universe – a Trader.
The Traders live in an immense and ancient colony ship. Launched from a world in another galaxy, over thousands of years breakdowns in the radiation containment fields of the ship, resulted in the poisoning and death of the original builders of the ship. With no one to contain them the gardens and animal life brought by original builders grew and adapted and mutated and evolved. And eventually one of the species evolved enough intelligence to figure out that it was living on a ship and, eventually, learned to control and pilot that ship.
Now they travel from world to world, trading goods and services and information. Because they evolved without gravity they can’t ever land on the worlds they visit.
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I’m not posting any new progress reports today. Aside from a general lack of progress I’d like to get the info into some sort of spreadsheet so that it’s easier to read and update.
I’m also trying to get chores taken care of before I go see family up in Alaska on Tuesday. I’m not sure whether I’ll be updating this blog while I’m up there or not.
And Then There Are All the Projects I’m Not Working On … Yet
And what have we learned so far? Not much really. I’m terribly over committed. Really, really over committed when you consider that on most days of the week I have less than an hour available to draw. I don’t know if I’d manage to get more done on any individual project if I had more time available or if I’d just gludge things up by committing to more projects. I’m kind of stupid that way.
And how go things on my other projects?
Progress Report – Oz Squad Comic
Finished – 12 pages
Inked – 8 pages
Penciled – 19
Roughed – 9
Progress Report – Oz Squad Novel Illustrations –
Cover – Inked. Additional Design and Text to Come.
Illustrations –
Finished – 1
Penciled – 1
Yet To Be Started – 34
Progress Report – Sacrifice (Comic for The Black Seal) –
Finished (Photoshopped) – 0 pages
Shaded – 0 pages
Inked – 0 pages
Pencilled – 4 pages
Roughed – 1 page
Lettered – all 5 pages.
Progress Report – Moe and Detritus 8 page minicomic
Script unfinished.
Progress Report – Oziana Story –
Finished – 9 pages
To be done … ?
Progress Report – 2011 Fiction Blog
Illustrations –
172 finished
182 in progress
23 unstarted
Posts written – zero
Progress Report – DavidLeeIngersoll.com
Less than embryonic
Progress Report – Skook Sketchblog
This post 1708. 292 to go. I really need to scan some art. These progress reports are going to get dull pretty quickly.
Progress Report – Skook Sketchblog
And finally, I need to scan more images so I have something for you to look at every day. I know, no one is dying of suspense waiting for the next sketch or resurrected childhood drawing but posting here on a regular basis is a good way for me to pay attention to the passing of time.
I also need to repost the addresses of the blogs and websites of friends, acquaintances and regularly read complete strangers. I lost my list when I updated my template months ago and have only just now started recreating it.
My current thinking is that on post 2000 I’ll retire this blog. I expect to continue some sort of regular posting but, if all goes well, it will be at DavidLeeIngersoll.com. This is post 1707. 293 to go.
And how go things on my other projects?
Progress Report – Oz Squad Comic
Finished – 12 pages
Inked – 8 pages
Penciled – 19
Roughed – 9
Progress Report – Oz Squad Novel Illustrations –
Cover – Inked. Additional Design and Text to Come.
Illustrations –
Finished – 1
Penciled – 1
Yet To Be Started – 34
Progress Report – Sacrifice (Comic for The Black Seal) –
Finished (Photoshopped) – 0 pages
Shaded – 0 pages
Inked – 0 pages
Pencilled – 4 pages
Roughed – 1 page
Lettered – all 5 pages.
Progress Report – Moe and Detritus 8 page minicomic
Script unfinished.
Progress Report – Oziana Story –
Finished – 9 pages
To be done … ?
Progress Report – 2011 Fiction Blog
Illustrations –
172 finished
182 in progress
23 unstarted
Posts written – zero
DavidLeeIngersoll.com – less than embryonic
(Note to self – put this stuff into a spreadsheet or something. Slob.)
Progress Report – DavidLeeIngersoll.com
Drat. Missed a day.
I own DavidLeeIngersoll.com and DavidIngersoll.com. At the moment both those addresses point here. Eventually I’d like there to be a website at that address. Something professional and attractive that shows off my portfolio quickly and simply. At the moment I have to admit I haven’t even come up with a rough sketch for what I’d like the site to look like. The most thought I’ve put to it in the last few years was/is this post. So, a long way to go with that project.
DavidLeeIngersoll.com – less than embryonic
And how go things on my other projects?
Progress Report – Oz Squad Comic
Finished – 12 pages
Inked – 8 pages
Penciled – 19
Roughed – 9
Progress Report – Oz Squad Novel Illustrations –
Cover – Inked. Additional Design and Text to Come.
Illustrations –
Finished – 1
Penciled – 1
Yet To Be Started – 34
Progress Report – Sacrifice (Comic for The Black Seal) –
Finished (Photoshopped) – 0 pages
Shaded – 0 pages
Inked – 0 pages
Pencilled – 4 pages
Roughed – 1 page
Lettered – all 5 pages.
Progress Report – Moe and Detritus 8 page minicomic
Script unfinished.
Progress Report – Oziana Story –
Finished – 9 pages
To be done … ?
Progress Report – 2011 Fiction Blog
Illustrations –
172 finished
182 in progress
23 unstarted
Posts written – zero
Progress Report – 2011 Illustrated Fiction Blog
Way back in 2009, when my day job was a much different animal than it is right now, I had a lot of time on my hands. Much of the time my job involved me waiting for the phone to ring. That was one of the advantages we had over most of our competitors; someone was there to answer the phone when a potential customer called. Because we wanted me to be as responsive as possible I had a lot of unscheduled time. I never wanted to read a book while on the job, or play games online or watch videos or do anything that would cut down on my ability to pay attention to a customer when needed. So I spent a lot of time waiting. Eventually I started spending some of that time sketching and eventually I started to think that I could sketch with a goal in mind. And thus was born 365 Bumps in the Night.
What exactly 365 Bumps is will have to wait until January 31st. Hopefully that will be January 31st of 2011 but I originally hoped to start this project on January 31st of this year and that obviously didn’t happen. There will be 366 posts in the project – one character drawing plus some text that will give some context to the illustration. The stages for each character drawing goes from sketch to inks to shading to photoshopping and posting. Here’s where I am so far –
Illustrations –
172 finished
182 in progress
23 unstarted
Posts written – zero
And how go things on my other projects?
Progress Report – Oz Squad Comic
Finished – 12 pages
Inked – 8 pages
Penciled – 19
Roughed – 9
Progress Report – Oz Squad Novel Illustrations –
Cover – Inked. Additional Design and Text to Come.
Illustrations –
Finished – 1
Penciled – 1
Yet To Be Started – 34
Progress Report – Sacrifice (Comic for The Black Seal) –
Finished (Photoshopped) – 0 pages
Shaded – 0 pages
Inked – 0 pages
Pencilled – 4 pages
Roughed – 1 page
Lettered – all 5 pages.
Progress Report – Moe and Detritus 8 page minicomic
Script unfinished.
Progress Report – Oziana Story –
Finished – 9 pages
To be done … ?
Progress Report – Oziana Submission
This one might be finished. It might have some lettering still to be done. It might require some more illustrations. It all depends on what the writer finally decides. It’s a comic that has mostly been accepted for a near future issue of the Oziana. Currently there are nine pages finished. I just can’t take the project off my plate until I know what might need to be done and it’s been sent to the Oziana editor.
Oziana Story –
Finished – 9 pages
To be done … ?
And how go things on my other projects?
Progress Report – Oz Squad Comic
Finished – 12 pages
Inked – 8 pages
Penciled – 16
Roughed – 9
Progress Report – Oz Squad Novel Illustrations –
Cover – Inked. Additional Design and Text to Come.
Illustrations –
Penciled – 2
Yet To Be Started – 34
Sacrifice (Comic for The Black Seal) –
Finished (Photoshopped) – 0 pages
Shaded – 0 pages
Inked – 0 pages
Pencilled – 4 pages
Roughed – 1 page
Lettered – all 5 pages.
Moe and Detritus minicomic
Script unfinished.
