This is round two for this sketch. I have made changes to composition and the anatomy of the creature. Its supposed to be a loose sketch for the painting so this is as far as I’m taking it before paint I think.
This is a sketch from a meeting I had. I haven’t had a long meeting in a while so I have no recent doodles.
Here are a couple of sketches I made to block in some traditional animations I was planning to do.
Posted by Derek | Posted in Kids Illustration, Sketches | Posted on 10-11-2009
I was cleaning my office today and I found a bunch of sketches that threw into a trash pile on the floor. Then I remembered that I said I would post all (or at least most,) of my sketches to the Rabbit. Well, I wasn’t about to scan them all “cause I gots things ta do!” So I decide to take pictures of the trash pile. It’s better that way. Really.
Oh and here’s a Manga kid.
Posted by Derek | Posted in Artwork, Cartoons, Chit Chat, Drawing of the Day, Kids Illustration, Sketches | Posted on 29-10-2009
I hate Manga as a style. I think its a paint by numbers way of cartooning. The lack of lip sync and volumetric construction is just lazyness, but like so many other “cartoons” its called a style to exempt it from standards.
That being said I figured I draw a Manga style zombie. I don’t know why. I didn’t have enough interest to take it very far so its not finished.
Posted by Derek | Posted in Artwork, Cartoons, Chit Chat, Drawing of the Day, Kids Illustration, Sketches | Posted on 25-10-2009
This is a self portrait from this morning. Having to get up at 5am to drive my kid to Hockey practice takes a toll. Technically this is, in reality, another zombie sketch. They are one in the same really. I think most of my drawing have some hint of me in them. Notice the striking jaw line and muscular physique. That’s all me.
His hair and clothes might be a little neat for a zombie but I figure since no ones actually seen a zombie, its entirely possible that they are both image conscious Hollister fans as well as brain eaters.
I’m not sure what I want the Plaid Zombie.com mascot to look like so I am just going to experiment for a while. I don’t really have a style of my own worth pursuing so I will probably just keep trying different styles until I find one I like.
On a side note. This is one the of the first sketches in really long time that I’ve done in red. I usually work in blue colored pencil but, I was talking to a friend of mine the other day and her sketches were all done in red. I thought since hers stuff looked better than mine a color change couldn’t hurt right? So there it is in red. Turns out her work is still better than mine. Who’d have thought! I was thinkin’ I was really on to something with that color stuff.
