Sketchdump 2: Sexy Comic Character Design

Doing a script for a very dirty comic called Betty Binary. It’s sci-fi and very silly and I have fun whenever I work on it. This is one of the characters with the ridiculous name Stormi Jovian.

I don’t know why I have the motif of giving characters Archie comic-style names. I have a soft spot in my heart for Archie comics—but I do despise the cheesy books as well.

A sexy witch character, the main character’s foil, for a sort of science versus magic theme. I know, I’m a very deep writer. Look at the boobs I’ve drawn.

A second attempt at the witch character, this time making her look a little bit more alien. When I decided to go the more goth route, I changed her name from Sally Supernova to Sally Spookynova, which makes me laugh. I think the correct design is somewhere in between these two, or maybe something different all together.

Sketchdump 1: Sexy Girl Drawings

The sketch for my Hipster Vegan Waitress wallpaper, still available at my portfolio website. I like the cute little veggie icons at the bottom of the sketch.

I’m really pleased with the face on this girlie. I’ll probably try to replicate this sort of deer-in-the-headlights expression If I can manage.

The funny thing about this drawing is you can see my sketch marks—“Bigger! Make the boobies bigger!” The shame.

This was a portrait I drew of a girl in either Borders or Barnes and Noble. She wasn’t really topless, although that would give the bookstore a more party atmosphere.

Face I found interesting. Love her nose and the lip-biting smile she had.

I want to be LoopyDave when I grow up

Impressive rendering and drawing that is exaggerated and alive—LoopyDave is maybe my favorite new artist.

Great caricature combined with a nice hand of media. I can’t tell if this is watercolor on pencil or digital painting on pencil. Whichever it is, I love the effect.
 
There’s an impressive mastery of drawing media and digital painting in his work, and his facial expressions and wacky cartoon sensibility really hit the mark for me.
 
Naturally, I don’t really get tired of looking at cartoony paintings of women.

But, it’s not the only thing worth looking at. Look at the rendering going into that gun! It looks perfectly dimensional and incredibly believable. I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of his work. And now I’m off to download his entire gallery.
LoopyDave via DeviantArt

Ben Camberos: Awesome Mexican Cartoonist

Why are Latin Artists always so great? Ben is an artist from Mexico with a lot of style and nice sense of color and design. I dig this.


Apparently the only way I’m going to ever improve as an artist is if I learn Spanish. It makes you superhumanly cool or something.
Ben Camberos via Dumm Comics

"Betty Binary" Character Design Illustration

I had a blast with this one. Unfortunately, It's a little flashy in that I sort of threw in every last thing I could think of to do in Photoshop, so it feels a little bit like I used all of the crayons for the sake of using all the crayons.

Anyway, Betty Binary is a project I would simultaneously love to publish and am horribly ashamed by. I assure you, it's everything this illustration would lead you to believe.

"Cowgirl Lucy and the Dinosaurs of Mars Valley" Illustration

Leah Leet, Made in England

Been testing out a new sort of painting style. I'm much happier with what I've been getting as of late.

Being naked is F*cking Metal.

Can stand to work on the speakers a little bit. But I'm pretty happy with it. Like the drawing of the guitar. Look for a color version in the future. Maybe.

Geek Girl Final

Well, it's pretty much a done deal that I'm not going to be included in the Eye Candy 2.0 book being put together at Brand Studio. I was pretty bummed about that outcome, but I feel good about having finished the piece on time and feel like I'm starting to get back into a good place creatively. I've had a hard time keeping myself excited about making art, and I think this is starting to get my mojo flowing again.

So, in that way, it's a good thing despite the failure.

Geek Girl Pinup--Update

The color process in Illustrator is crawling along slooowly. Good thing is, I'm begining to feel pretty good about what I'm doing. Illustrator sort of does that to me. I feel like I'm wasting my time for several hours and all of a sudden, what I'm working on looks great.

That's my humble take on it, anyway.

Geek Girl Pinup

Been slaving away at this for Alberto Ruiz's upcoming book, Eye Candy 2.0. Alberto is one of my all-time favorite artists, so reading about this open call to entries has gotten me excited about creating art for the first time in probably a year. I've had a serious slump to get through, but I think I'm finally starting to pull out of the nosedive.

I'm working through the painful process of creating the final illustration in Adobe Illustrator. I've been very happy with the results of my recent vector pieces, so hopefully I can finish this little beauty in time to enter.