Cheesecake

I did these a couple weeks ago and I've been waivering back and forth between posting them but I figure I may as well. I generally tend to avoid drawing in Photoshop because when I do, I use it for silly things. This is no exception, these are all pretty cheesecakey and pin-up-tastic, but I had fun with them. If you don't do the Shakespeare thing, ignore the rest of the text, I tend to blather about things no one should care about.

Mercutio! If you can identify what all of his tattoos refer to you win bonus points.

Robin Goodfellow says Puck You!

One day when I have run out of serious things to do I will make a comic about these two and their antics.

Not gonna lie, I've always thought Emelia was kind of a stupid nag, but after re-reading Othello again (ssshhh, it was for class, ok? really...) I'm kind of entranced by her independent, no-nonsense bad-assery

I love Iago but I also love that she doesn't really put up with any of his bullshit.

But that said, I think they've got a very strange relationship that will be fun to play with.

Sketchdump

Self-explanatory.

Done in a 5" x 8.5" earthbound sketchbook with either .5mm 2B mechanical pencil lead or a .05mm Staedtler pigment liner!















I, like many artists, wish I could make a living off of drawing naked ladies.







Ben challenged me to draw 3 of my friends from memory, so from the top we have KJ, Jose, and Gwendolyn. Done without reference, so who knows if I got Jose's lobe piercing on the right ear?

















Sketches for a character design digital painting that I will eventually post (not here, though).





To go off on a vaguely relevant tangent: I've always been really interested in materials that artists use in their work (hence the blurb at the top of this post), and I try to experience new tools as much as possible in the hopes that I'll find the ones that fit me perfectly. I have a solid preference as far as sketchbooks (I don't usually use earthbound, my favorites are the cachet wirebound - they look like this) and mechanical pencils as well (though I've felt pressure recently to try out lead holders instead).

However, I've never been happy with pens. I used microns throughout high school, but I now ink either with a brush or with nibs and Higgins india ink. But I still like drawing with pens in my sketchbook, when a dip pen would be inconvenient. I use Staedtler pigment liners at the moment, but they have the same problems I've always found - ink is not black enough, ink opacity is inconsistent, the nib gets pushed back into the pen or becomes bent, the line width is inconsistent... I shy away from rapidographs because of nightmare stories about how they clog and are impossible to clean.

When I get some free money, I intend to buy up some pens that I have noticed other artists using around the internet - specifically the pilot g-tec-c / hi-tec-c gel pens used by Veronique Meignaud (see?) to draw her super intricate lines.

Other pens of interest: Pentel pocket brush pens used by Angie Wang (they have refill cartridges, which seems handy), Pentel Slicci gel pens, and Copic multiliners (the sp line is also refillable).