Trying out some new techniques in Photoshop.  I love drawing monsters!

I watched part of Steve Firchow’s Gnomon coloring video last night.  While our styles couldn’t be farther apart, I liked what I saw and still learned a lot of concept stuff more than technical stuff.  I pulled his pallet file and one of the texture files and tried them out today.

Quick sketch, more for experiment than results.

Inspired by the weekly Ten Ton Studios sketch challenge.  I don’t draw women much or well, so this turned out better than I expected for me.  Still think I broke her spine by twisting her so much and the legs need a lot of work, but I’ll let it go for now.

All digital in Photoshop with Wacom Intuos2 tablet.

Rough

Tightened up

Maybe final?

Move Avengers goodness.  Inspired by the Ten Ton Sketch Challenge prompt.  I drew it digitally, so can’t enter, but it was a fun piece.

My littlest one started drawing a bunch of Marvel heroes tonight.  Iron Man, Captain America, Hulk, Spider-Man.  He likes it when I draw stuff for him to color, too, so I whipped this out.  A little rusty, but it was fun and he loves it.

Here is a new Peter character head concept from my project Congress of Night.  Enjoy.

I wrote about this a few posts back.  I talked to Brett Woods, the penciller/inker of the book, and got the go ahead to post the final colors up.  This was a fun piece.  A lot more graphic in design than issue 2 cover, but still fun for a painterly guy like me.

Issues 1 and 2 are available through IndyPlanet here.

Not sure where I’m going with this piece.  Lost a lot of action when the rendering tightened up, but still like it overall.  I think the near wall/building in the background is a bit too small, too–making Batman look huge in comparison.  The joy of working digital allows me to adjust this pretty easily, but I’m not sure this one is worth the effort yet.  We’ll see.

Still trying to get some “sexy” in my female drawings. They usually look too man-ish for my taste. Figured I would try using some ref to get tips. One of my main problems was my chest to hip proportions. Using the ref helped me see those better, as well as body thrust and general sexy posture, imo.

Added some tone to practice form, too.

The Ten Ton sketch challenge was Kitty Pryde this week. I didn’t enter because mine is digital, but I still use the prompt to push me to do things I don’t normally draw. In this case, girls. I don’t draw girls well. Never have. This is probably my most successful female without using tons of ref. C&C always welcome.