two for today

plus a christmas gift for a friend of mine.

noses poses

I guess I have a thing for drawing noses?

metamorph

actual birds

birds and bodies

Really busy last week, will post another later this week.

strike that dramatic pose

faces faces faces

spin that thing

Fanart of a particular object and a particular character in the movie Event Horizon, which is a bit like if Aliens was made in the 90's.

not quite a piano man

going to keep on doing these

More Practice

One of Tom Hiddleston as Loki in Thor.

And two of Norwegian supermodel Freja Beha Erichsen.

life drawing all day every day

(all images referenced from this helpful site)

two for today

Sometimes, things end up a bit topsy-turvy in my sketchbooks.

Muscle reference from Classic Human Anatomy by Valerie Winslow.

faces everywhere

(right click, new window/tab for bigger view)

one for today

suits n' boots

I used to...

...draw horses quite a lot when I was a kid.  Glad to see I haven't quit drawing them completely (though I could use some practice haha).

armor and a dragon

more armor and another

crown doesn't fit

I like medieval armor

I like how the different pieces and parts are shaped and how they fit together.  I like the variations on armor between cultures and why said variations exist (do these people ride horses a lot of the time?  Primarily use bow and arrows as opposed to spears or swords?).  So it's not surprising that my liking armor seeps into character design.

Here I'm trying to illustrate differences in armor between two made-up cultures.  Still needs some tweaking; the one on the right is supposed to be geared toward riding horses and the one on the left not so much.  Horse-riding dude could nix the armor bits sitting below the belt; it can't be too comfortable sitting in a saddle with those things there haha.  I like the leather kilt on the righthand figure but it could be changed up more so it doesn't scream 'ancient Roman'.

That's all for now, will check in back next week.

just one for today

In other news, I'm going to try for a weekly update schedule and see how it all works out.  New internship at Animatus is eating all of my time and energy right now.

slimpickings

Really busy today, didn't get much done.  Oh well onto tomorrow...

original character

After Kiera Knightley's cute haircut on The Daily Show

I like space...

...which explains the giant folder of wallpapers featuring galaxies and nebulae taking up memory on my computer.  And the made-up planets and alien races.

So today we have a sketch of a way station embedded in a large potato-shaped moon, which is large enough itself to have two smaller moons and a comm satellite orbiting it.  This moon is located in a debris field between the planets Olan and Rhokha.  I thought something like this would be needed for travel between planets in my made-up planetary system (which I still need to map out /makes mental note).

First Post!

So you've found my online sketchbook!  If you've seen other sketchbooks before you know what to expect here; messy pencil doodles, quick sketches, WIP and other things.  Updates will happen erratically and probably at ridiculously late hours (birds may even be chirping too).  In any case let's get the ball rolling with a few doodles (with bonus awful handwriting sample, fun!):

Fenris, from Dragon Age 2 ©Bioware

Helm designs, world building

original characters, Kori and Leja