sketchblog of epic proportions

So my first and second sketches are pretty much always this awful. Usually worse, actually.

2008-07-02T19:50:32Z

That mess in the right-hand corner is the first thing I drew while planning this out. I drew the big bold sketch on a new layer right on top of that messy faded sketch (which is actually much larger). I'm going to do one more cleaner sketch on top of this one once I mess with positions a little more, and then go ahead and ink *that*. Phew!

Sheik sketch--

2008-07-01T13:12:02Z

Mannnnn I want to go back and play Ocarina of Time.

Nel sketch--

2008-07-01T04:57:12Z

A break from coloring things. Shinigami!Nel doesn't really make sense, since she'd have to be Neliel, but hey, she's cute. ; )

I need to stop submitting things to DA on late thursdays or fridays.

2008-06-30T04:55:38Z

ETA: All done! <3 Click through for big.

Clearly that's cutting into weekend time, when fewer folks are procrastinating at work by hanging around the internet. : )

I want to doodle for a while, but if I stop now I'll never finish their skin D:

INVISIBLE SWORDS?!

2008-06-29T04:09:01Z

...I completely forgot to show that layer before I flattened the image for posting here -_-

In unrelated news, I need to go back through my entries and add the espada project tag to a bunch of stuff. I'd love it if I could look at an entry preview on the editing tages page, but no dice. :[

I'm so excited about this--

2008-06-28T06:36:18Z

Still very sketchy, and the poses are a little wonky, but I worked out the composition and poses myself without taking any pictures waving a lacrosse stick around or anything! This is a new thing for me.

Out of curiosity, if you had to pick an arrancar to match up with each of the other folks in this Espada Project for a fight, who would you choose? I have some thoughts, but I'm looking for other opinions. I'm not sure about some of them.

Trying a new fair skin color combo;

2008-06-27T03:54:01Z

ETA: all done! :) click for bigger.

Jury's out on this one. I'm happy with it so far overall, though!

Yeah, it's the version that came with my tablet.

2008-06-25T05:02:57Z

Anyone know of a way to mess with/create speed lines in Photoshop Elements? /lame

... let's just consider that a fugly background. And eventually the lines will be swords! I'm just... working out placement.

Right, so I'm challenging myself here;

2008-06-23T22:22:21Z

Still heavily in the sketch stage. I particularly like Ichigo's malformed left index finger.

what an odd place to cut it off :/ hello, squarebutt!shinigami!grimmjow.

The idea is that he's pushing Grimm's sword away with just the one hand on his own sword? Not sure how clear that is.

Foreshortening? Check.
People interacting in the same space? Check.
Grimmjow's SL;dfjkasl;dfjas;ldfjka hair? ... UGH. Not yet even close to check.

Time for this peach to step it up? Check.

Hell yeah I've been taking pictures of my hands today

2008-06-22T04:34:23Z

Camera is full of me making fists. I think I finally figured out how that one should go!

ETA: Now with 100% more final composition and first pass @ lineart behind the cut.

w-what no butterfly wings?!?!?! I am so disappointed in your design hpim ~~: P~~

ETA:

No-hands disease claims another victim.

2008-06-21T21:52:18Z

hpim, I'm about to try and make some decent lineart out of that inky mess on the left. : )

Just when you thought the quality couldn't go any lower...

2008-06-21T21:46:22Z

Me + no scanner = massive fail in trying to show you realworld drawings. : (

Some of those are old, and some of them are ugly, but some of them I like. So you get to see them in their original context.

Color testing with markers == fail

2008-06-20T04:12:29Z

ignoretherighthandplease D:
Ugh I clearly need to find a scanner. Little!Nel is up on my wall now, looking pretty dang cute, but cameraphotos of her? Pretty meh. :/

A really truly sketchbook page!

2008-06-20T04:10:45Z

I have difficulty letting myself do big/ potentially messy sketches, even in a book specifically made for that purpose. Working on getting over myself ;)
+ a question: What kind of sketchbooks do you guys like? I'm about halfway through this one but am thinking of buying another one soonish since I doubt I'll be able to find one easily in Scotland this fall.

Yesterday's sketch is the faded layer under there;

2008-06-18T22:07:41Z

i-i have no idea what a cat skull looks like. however, this looks cute to me, and there is therefore a 95% chance that I'll be too lazy to go look it up.

clearly they needed to be sharing the heart speech bubble. or maybe the kitty should just be waving, and only ulquiorra needs one... what do you think?

clearly I need to finish this in a week, for cl_b wtfweds

2008-06-18T05:49:19Z

The request? Ulquiorra, being shiny happy. I asked for a reason. Because he has a new hollow!kitty, of course!

...how could I resist? :3 n.b. that kitty is NOT grimmjow. Just a hollow kitten.

I ditched the wings.

2008-06-17T14:13:17Z

Please see this entry for the sole reference I'm working from here. (EDIT: all done!)

Trying to decide if I should use this for speedpainting practice or just cel shade and be done with it. D:

This stuff has been kicking around in my head for > 3 years.

2008-06-12T23:00:18Z

I draw people in ~~hideous poorly fitting~~ bathing suits before I work out what their clothes need to look like.

So that's Claire (Clare? Clayr?), who you've seen previously. She's 18ish here. The dragon-looking thing sitting up on that mysterrrrrious thread is her guardian.

Here they are as I drew them back in 2005, when I first had the idea for the world these kids live in:

LOL especially at the boots, the plastic hair, and the sword (which was HEAVILY referenced from a picture-- I had no idea what the hell foreshortening even was at the time). Also the poor paperdoll dragon.

More apologies for quality.

2008-06-12T21:12:32Z

I'm really not even sure when most of these are from-- the chica on the btm right I drew today, though. You've seen her before.

Moar crappy!photo sketches;

2008-06-12T21:01:50Z

Not in a place with a scanner at the moment. Will repost/ actually do something with these once I find one : (

I drew a littlenel holding kon ages ago on Tegaki & wanted to revisit it. So cute~

Exceptionally bad quality today;

2008-06-11T00:55:47Z

No scanner. I sent it home for the summer. Thus, this was taken with poor laptop's built-in camera, which is less than stellar, to put it nicely.

If you could see it better, it would be more obvious, but this is a sketch on tiny cardstock of a scene from this NelielxTesla fanfic I wrote a while back. I was originally planning on telling it in sequential art form, but I got lazy and wrote it up instead. : ) I might do a bunch more of these; I've got pretty much zero experience in it and I clearly need to practice.

He would own, y/y?

2008-06-09T21:25:08Z

Ummmm excuse me while I figure out how rugby shirts actually look. Need to work on this.

Boring, but good practice

2008-06-09T03:51:04Z

Learning how the hell to draw Grimmjow kthx. fourteen of those damn teeth. grrr.

T-tegaki?

2008-06-09T02:32:19Z

I haven't been on in SO LONG, and it's mainly due to laziness-- without a pretty bookmarked blogs page, I went nuts clicking through my ridiculously long list every time I wanted to see who was up to what.

I should hopefully be on more frequently now that it's back up, though :B

Ughhh I really need to work out a better way to use these

2008-06-07T15:57:54Z

Still deciding on hair/ eye colors. Might end up blonde on the left and dark brown/ black on the right.