Two updates in one night… madness. I did some color work so I decided to post that to. Really wishing I’d planned this out better (the perspective is very shallow and the composition’s proportion aren’t that great), but I still like it so far.

Major update to the drawing I’m working on, so I made a new post. I decided to add in a actual background, instead of just a horizon and some half-assed mountains. so far I like it. I’m having some challenges due to the haphazard manor this was drawn in (characters first, with no staging or thinking about the environment at all), and have been trying to keep tangent issues to a minimum, but overall I think it’s coming out pretty nicely. I like how the one shaded goblin looks grayscale, and I’m tempted to keep the whole thing grayscale… but we’ll see. Once I get it there, I might be just as tempted to throw some color in.

Took a break from programming to do a sketch of a battle scene between a knight and some goblins.

Picked up a new Wacom tablet, an Intuos 4, this weekend. I was tired of always being tied to my tablet pc (small screen and somewhat laggy input) so decided to give a regular tablet a try. So far so good. I did this little sketch to get used to not drawing right on the screen. I was shooting for a crusader-ish type soldier, though I did zero research, so I’m sure none of his armor or weapons are actually correct to any style or time period. I’m torn on what I like more, the tablet pc or the intuos. The tablet pc is great because I’m drawing on the screen, but the bigger screen, way faster response and fantastic programmable shortcut buttons on the intuos is quickly winning more over. Either way, at least I’m pretty sure I didn’t waste my money on the intuos, it’s definitely a HUGE step up form my old intuos 1.

Just figured I’d dump a few sketches I did over the past few days up here. The face and the guy standing with his arms crossed were just an attempt at drawing two different faces (I decided to give the one a body after the fact), and the action shot was me trying to work on more dynamic poses and more fluid lines in posing. I think it came out okay (clearly I need to work on cloth, the scarf/turban is awful), but I think the pose came out pretty good.