Wishy-washy

What, a whole three days without any artwork?

Fiddling around a bit with water-soluble graphite pencils. Not really happy with the result, actually. May have to play around with this combination of media some more. I’ve been doing a lot of intense cross-hatching recently, and liking it, but that’s not stylistically appropriate for the particular project that this character is for.

I might be better off just doing the line art on paper, then applying pseudo-washes in Photoshop (or Painter).

( Sketch )

Glad I'm not limited to five posts a day

Am I the only one who, seeing the word “matinee”, thinks of “manatee”?

Oh, man...

I ain’t got no business being awake at 4 AM.

BFL: lower-body

Goddamn, still no 10s on the lower-body workout. It’s like my legs and abs can soak up whatever punishment I give them. I mean, it’s still effort, a level-9 effort is nothing trivial; neither is a level-8. But I raised the bar on three of my muscle groups today, and still no 10s. My calf muscles seem especially tough.

Eh, there are far worse things that can go wrong with a workout. And somewhere down the line, I ought to come out of this with really great-looking legs.

(  Lower-body workout numbers  )

More character designs

More character designs, along the same lines as yesterday. Corinne, the girl, now has an owl; her little brother Joseph has the raven. (Note to self: Need to Google up some owl photos for reference. And redesign Joseph’s coat.) The gray tones here are Pitt grayscale brush markers.

These are characters for a story that wants to be a physical comic, not a web comic. If I ever get it done, I’ll probably try submitting it to Top Shelf; I’m aiming for a tone not dissimilar to Three Fingers.

( Corinne and Joseph )

And I’ve noticed recently that I seem to be more comfortable drawing sitting up in a sketchbook than at a drawing table. This is probably not a good thing.