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.
Face
A more detailed examination of our lost girl’s face.
Wasp and Scarecrow
More marionette wasp sketches. This is what the creature looks like with out its “marionette” – its fleshy humanoid shell that it manipulates in order to pass as a human.
Also, a creepy looking scarecrow guy.
Everyone is Naked Under Their Clothes
A naked version of the girl from the unfinished jam comic. There were no naked versions of her in the comic itself. I’ve found that it’s easier to give a character the proper shape and mass if I draw the character without clothes first. The clothes then have a form to go around, to hang upon, to bend with.
I don’t know who the woman in the upper left is. I don’t remember such a character being in the story but I could have forgotten.
Men With Guns
Sketches of the bad guys intended for the uncompleted jam comic. The girl is living on an alien world in the decaying ruins of an abandoned human colony. Somehow she was left behind when the humans left. She’s spent at least half her life with only the native fauna for company. She only knows what people look like because she sees photos of them on the building that she passes through. But she no longer thinks of herself as human. So when humans come to reclaim “their” territory; humans bearing weapons and dressed for war, the girl doesn’t see rescuers. She sees a terrible threat.
