Spencer is actually pretty good at Hearthstone. I drew 2 comics today, but I’m only posting this one. The other one involved roommate drama & eating toilet paper.
I bought a new sketch book a few weeks ago along with a brush pen. What resulted was this doodle of Finn the human with a huge pencil.
I've been sick this past week and haven't drawn very much. However, I've started to focus on drawing the human figure. Right now I'm learning about different muscle structures and blah blah blah. Here are some doodles:
Personally, I'm a fan of the skinnier Spider-Man. I grew up watching the 90's television show where he was way too buff. I'm okay with him being buff as an adult, but as a teenager he needs to be skinny.
Hopefully next week there will be more art to post. A limited run 'reboot' of MSJAR is in the works. More details later.
-Aaron
Yesterday the teaser trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man came out. It seemed fitting and ironic that yesterday I also wore my favorite Spider-Man shirt. I'm super excited for this movie. I was too young when the first Spider-Man movie came out and I honestly I wasn't a huge fan of Toby's Peter Parker.
Today I did some Spider-Man doodles. Spider-Man is my favorite superhero, but I can't draw him very well. I look forward to my first figure drawing class so I can at least start to pretend that I know how to draw the human body.
Here is the trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man!
Let me know what you think in the comment section below.
-Aaron
I haven't even finished thumbnailing the secret project and I am already working on character designs for a follow up comic.
These are just quick doodles to get some ideas out. I want him to look hipster-ish. This hair style was inspired by Matt Smith. I wasn't using a reference and just going off of memory, but for (d) I use a photo--I don't like it as much. (a) is still my favorite but this character will have to go through a lot of editing if Daniel decides to use him. I want him to look quite different from the other characters, so far he looks pretty different.
This is this the main character from the secret project.
The project's writer has finished the first draft of the script and we are in the process of editing and thumbnailing the comic. Next week I might post some thumbnails. I really enjoy this project so far. It will be a stretch to be able to finish it in time, but it is going to be a great learning experience.
I have started to use a bursh to draw with. My drawings are usually really tight but this brush focres me to be more messy--I love it! Let me know what you guys think of this guy's face. We went through quite a process to finally come to a face we felt was true to the character.
-Aaron
P.S. I finished the Scott Pilgrim book series last night after I took my Stats 121 final. I'll post my thoughts on it later. I am still trying to decide how I feel about the last book.
Just a quick doodle I drew. Working on character design.
There has been a lack of updates lately. School has been crazy and any free time for drawing has been spent on pre-production for a secret project I am working on. I will post more art soon. Right now I am just trying to find the right art style that can tell this story properly. I really love the idea for this project and there is a very high possibility of me actually finishing it because I am not the only one working on it.
At the end of last semester I finally got around to watching Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. The movie is based off of a six book comic book series by artist Bryan Lee O'Malley. I loved the movie's visuals, and soundtrack, but it is a PG-13 movie. So it isn't for kids. . .sorry. The comics combine the video game world with comics. For example, whenever Scott defeats one of Ramona's evil ex's they explode into quarters. The movie combines the video game world, comic world and movie world all in one.
I just recently finished the second comic in the series: Scott Pilgrim verse the World. This comic has my favorite few pages in comics. When Evny (one of Scott's evil ex's) calls Scott, Bryan Lee O'Malley uses the same panel format for at least four pages, but it is the most captivating few pages in comics.
I can relate to Scott because I have dated someone like Ramona Flowers and also someone like Kim Pine. It drives me crazy reading these comics because I want Scott to end up with Kim not Ramona. In my own life I was stupid enough to leave Kim Pine. I guess you don't know what you have till its gone.
Anyways, I'll rant more about this later. All of the artwork in this post are studies I did experimenting with O'Malley's style.
just the line art
added digital colors
I really enjoy drawing in this style. I usually use small pens but for these I got to break out my thick, bold pens and I even busted out some ink and brush (not pictured).
-Aaron
Update: Tomorrow there will be a new vlog posted and I just finished writing a third LA comic so hopefully I will have time next sunday to draw it. I am thinking of starting up My Skinny Jeans are Red again as a daily strip, let me know what you guys think.
So after I got that lovely rejection letter from the department of Visual Arts I went and took an exam--and got 100%. Needless to say I had a much better day than expected and to top it off my boss baked me a cake. It was a good day!
I hadn't took anyone--but I actually quit My Skinny Jeans are Red. Most people just assumed it was on hiatus so I rolled with that--but the truth is I'm pretty sure I quit. But I couldn't leave the stupid comic alone. The character designs were getting to the point where you can tell who people were without me telling you and the strip was evolving. To keep this quick--I am drawing MSJAR again. So far I have only written out two story arches and the art is messier than the newer comics.
I can promise you guys at least seven more strips. That's all I can do right now.
For those of you that are wondering the sketch dump is a bunch of drawings of Mike Allred's character Madman in the Adventure time style. I haven't read any Madman but my 2D design professor loves him. I think the art is interesting and the character looks cool, I just don't have the money to buy comics.
So there is this awesome tumblr called sand-attack created by the talented Emily Partrigde. It is a blog where you draw pokemon with your eyes closed. I had just done a extended blind drawing for my 2D design class so I figured I'd give it a try. Above are my attempts of drawing Ivysaur.
This is what Ivysaur is suppose to look like. If you're a pokemon fan I recommend submitting something to sand-attack. You never know, your drawing might get onto the "best of" page!
Here is a sketch dump for all of you loyal readers. We were talking about sin and death in my Book of Mormon class this week so I drew some zombies. I like zombies. I was going to do a zombie comic in high school but it never happened. There was a friend of mine who loved writing ideas and stories for comics, but he couldn't do the drawing himself. He had this plan to hire several artists to illustrate different character's struggle through a zombie infected world. Ultimately all of the different characters would meet up and make a survival group. He shared with me the ending of the story and it completely blew my mind. I was either going to draw the inmate's story or a trumpet player's story. Unfortunately, the project never got off the ground. But I would still love to draw a zombie comic!
For whatever reason I always draw gargoyles in my art history class. Last semester we ended with the Gothic era so it may spring from there. I like the skinny one perched on the skull.
In my 2D design class we talked about how a few months ago Marvel killed off the Human Torch. Instead of just rolling with three members of the Fantastic Four they added Spider-man as their fourth member and are called the Future Foundation now. They all have new suits, click me to see. At first I wasn't okay with Marvel doing this. But now I think this is a good thing. It is about time for some new heroes and new stories. My only problem is Spider-man still wears his mask. All of the other members of the Fantastic Four don't have secret identities, so Parker looks out of place with a mask on. I understand he needs to protect his identity so his family and loved ones are safe. . .but still.
