Pencil Kings Sketching Contest - Day 21

Ehh this one turned out so/so. I screwed up little bits of the eyes/nose/lips. I might try to fix it up tomorrow or the day after just to give it some final polish.

Last picture, though, for the sketching challenge. I think the next one is the character sketch up... or something like that. Look for more updates in the near future.

Pencil Kings Sketching Contest - Day 20

"Call to John meow"

Soooo unfortunately due to my trip to Beijing sorta' cutting into my submission/drawings, I ain't gonna' win jack-shit at Pencil Kings. I'm still gonna' finish the 21 sketches, though.

I spent a bit more time trying to work in some pores, but I'm trying to figure out how to add face lines without it looking as obvious as it does. To the youtubes!

Thinking about doing a daily/weekly draw session where I screen-capture my shit so people can watch. Maybe add some musics. Just an idea I'm kicking around.

Pencil Kings Sketching Contest - Day 19

Robert Patrick ala T1000.

I'm heading to Bay-Jiiiing this week and didn't have as much time as I would have liked to work on this. So far I just have the outline and practiced doing the Riley Rhythms (I think that's what they're called). Gonna' finish this when I get back.

"Call to John meow"

Pencil Kings Sketching Contest - Day 17

First cat... ever? I was playing around with a fur brush for this one. I think it's good at making a plush effect, but I need to find another one for shading.

Anyways. Meet Pawnd. James Pawnd.
Courtesy of r/cats

Pencil Kings Sketching Contest - Day 16

His name is Michael Westen. He used to be a spy.

With the last two drawings I've been trying to focus more on the texture of the face. I don't quite get it yet, but I think I'm on the right track.

Pencil Kings Sketching Contest - Day 15

Ripppppleeeeeeeeeeey.

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Watched Aliens tonight. I know the face isn't quiiiiiite right, but I'm fairly happy with it.

Pencil Kings Sketching Contest - Day 13

Totally mismanaged my time this day, so only managed to fart out a quick Robocop trace & shade.

Pencil Kings Sketching Contest - Day 12

Working on this one today. It's at about 75%. Gonna' work on it some more tonight and then work on something else tomorrah.

Pencil Kings Sketching Contest - Day 11

Did this one after a long day of work. From the movie "Gamers: The Dorkness Rising".

Later I'd like to go back to it and fix the values on the face (he looks more like a zombie to me), but this is what I farted out on that particular day. I just thought the face was hilarious.

"I'll be shifting your alignment to chaotic eeeevil"

Pencil Kings Sketching Contest - Day 6

I lost track of time on Day 5 so I just did a terrible filler drawing. Day 6 I drew a rose (always wanted to learn how do draw flowers, so I figured this is as good a time as any). I'd love to learn how to draw trees/bushes/grass/nature scenes in the future, so this is a humble start.

I'm still trying to think of what I'm going to draw tonight, as my only plans are working out (5x5 baybeee) and doing my Day 7 drawin's. Thinking I might do an old school knight in armor, mebbe.

Pencil Kings Sketching Contest - Day 4

"Swear to me. Swear to me that everything you said about the Fireflies is true"

Final scene of one of the best games I've ever played.

Ellie from The Last of Us.

Pencil Kings Sketching Contest - Day 3

"I won't scatter your ashes to the heartless sea. I won't see you end as ashes. You're all diamonds."

"We're not burying them at sea? What then?"

"We'll make diamonds from their ashes. Take them into battle with us."

"A shining light, to our brothers in arms. Even in death."

One of my favourite scenes from the game, and also one of the most heart-wrenching ones in a game that's filled with them.

Pencil Kings Sketching Contest - Day 1

Alright so for the chance to win some sweet swag from Pencil Kings, they're having this sketching drawing where you have to draw every day for like 20 days I think. The face is from one of my favourite scenes in "The Gamers II: Dorkness Rising". 

I'll be working on a variety of things. Just recently I've been playing the hell out of Metal Gear Solid V: Phantom Pain so I might sketch a few characters from that, plus other childhood games and the like.

"The four elements, like man alone, are weak.
But together, they form the strong fifth element....
Boron."
(face while staring into the fire)

First simple laaaydy shading

Figure Drawing #1 Attempt #2 (4)

Alright so this one turned out pretty m'okay, I think. Gonna' try moving on to another figure drawing next. Maybe on uh... Thursday? We'll see. Summer's been busier than I expected :<

My fingers hurt - Figure Drawing #1 Attempt #1 (3)

I refuse to share my first two attempts <_<'

This one turned out pretty well though.

When the shit hits the...

Pencil Kings Shading Challenge - Week 2 - Old McDonald Had A E-I-E-I-O (waitwat)

Pre-blend

Post-blend

Fairly happy with how this one turned out. Spent about two hours on it. Gonna' work on it again.

Attempt #2 pre-blend
Tried to make the guy look older.

Aww yeee. Found some new planes and sheeeit. Gonna' let it sit for a few days and then do attempt #3. Return of  the Old McDonald.

Took me a long time to finally finish my third attempt. Some things I liked more, some things I liked less. Gonna' be updating much more frequently now that it's Summer vacation :D

Pencil Kings Shading Challenge Week 2 - Skeletor's Portrait (sorta' finished)

Blended the shades and tweaked some details.
Still not perfect, but I think this Skeletor attempt looks decent.

Pencil Kings Week 2 Shading Challenge (crazy medusa brain hair man/lady)

Alright so I've been touching up this image with some helpful feedback from the Pencil Kings community. Next drawing I'm doing is a skull, and I'm going to be doing a new thing. Shading it once, then shading it again from scratch, and then comparing the two pictures and doing a third from scratch, followed by a fourth one from scratch upside down. 

Shit's about to get cray-cray folks.

Original attempt

Touchup #2

Pencil Kings - Shading Challenge (Week 2)

My Wacom Cintiq arrived today. Wooooooo.

It has actually made shading significantly funner.

Yeaaah I've got a lot of work to do, but.... ehhhh. I think it looks okay. They have a bunch of statue faces to practice this shading stuff so I've got enough to keep me busy for the next couple of weeks (pretty much spent the whole evening on this watching that stupid goddamn Enterprise show. It's so terrible, but perfect as a tv show you can easily ignore while completely following).

Milla Jovovovovovich - Fifth Element

I love Milla Jovovich, and it's mainly because I saw (and loved) The Fifth Element as a youngin'. Nowadays, I watch all her stupid zombie movie sequels with blatantly ripped off scenes from other movies and don't even care because she's in it. I'll watch anything with her in it just because of my childhood heart-on.

I decided I'm only going to spend a few hours max on each drawing. I don't wanna' go into obsessive detail until I practice fundamentals (see; basic human anatomy and figure construction + proper shading, etc etc) some more. Plus, I'm noticing I get bored of working on drawings pretty quickly.

Schedule for me will be; Do a drawing, look at drawing and try to figure out exactly what I'm terrible at, look up youtube and other drawing tutorials, attempt to apply improvements, do another drawing and figure out what else I'm bad at. For this drawing the focus will be on (laaaady) face, hand, and hair I think.

#4 Adam (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

I've been re-watching the series and it is not aging well. I have no other comments at this time.

Adam seems like he'll be fun to draw, though. Don't you love the pectoral floppy drive? His O/S requires 20,000 disks. Reformatting is a paaaain.

TOM'S



After that modelling picture I realized I needed to stop drawing everything on a landscape (aka sideways) mural. Also, I decided to slow down a bit and just focus on getting the basic skull/body anatomy down first before I started everything else.









I am still not 100% how do draw a skull. I sort of have the basic idea, but.... yeah. Cropped the picture to make it more zoomed.











Fiddled with the skull to make it more skully.












Drew over the outline I made and added some details. Face is a little derpy. I was actually surprised how much the finished face resembles the skull (see; super noobpiphany) aside from the Bruce Campbell-esque jaw on steroids.

Adam clearly works the shit out of his traps. Dayummm. Dragon Ball Z physique.






Added more details and cleaned up a few things. Gonna' start coloring soon. No idea how to do the weird wrinkly texture of the skin so I just drew a bunch of maccarone lines for the green pec part. The wrinkles for the Harvey Dent part of the face turned out well-ish, I think.

I have a bad habit of drawing stuff too small, so I've been using photoshop to blow up the size of a few things (the mouth I redid, and I'm gonna' do the drive tomorrow). It really is an amazing program.

Angry arnold face

+ 40 minutes (watched an episode of Buffy while shading and making small adjustments).

I never realized how much real estate the shnozz takes up on a face. Redid the mouth, but I really need to learn the planes of the face - think that would be suuuuuper helpful.

+35 minutes

~40ish minutes