Another day, more sketching

Another doctor's trip, more work in the sketchbook.

When I draw with colored pencils, I have a tendency to ALWAYS do fully rendered shading. I made a conscious effort to avoid that on this one.

It was a lot of fun!

More Sketching

Since my dad passed away last December, I've been the "go-to" guy for driving my mom and brother to doctor visits. And lately, doctor's office visits mean sketchbook time.

Here's one of the pages that came from the most recent trip.

Sketchbooks for Sale

I have a couple of volumes of my sketchbooks for sale. I print these up for sale during convention season, but you can buy them here—through the magic of the InterWebs any time! Each book is a comic-sized volume, signed and numbered (limited edition of 500). Volume One is 40 pages and Volume 2 is 36 pages.

Each book will set you back $15 + $4 shipping (Priority Mail), or you can buy both together for $25 + $4 shipping.

I accept PayPal, but not credit card payments through PayPal. If I accept a credit card payment, they'll take a percentage on every purchase thereafter—whether it's a CC payment or not. So please, let's keep payments through bank accounts. My Paypal address is atomictikistudio at gmail dot com.

That's also the address to email if you would like to purchase sketchbooks but don't have a PayPal account. Email me and put Sketchbook Question in the subject line.

Playing in the Sketchbook...again

My mom's been having some trouble walking (pain in her right leg) so I took her to the doctor (and for x-rays). Everything's okay.

Here's what I worked on while waiting. It's from an article on Olympic gymnists in ESPN Magazine. I swiped the magazine in hope of finishing the picture (her extended hand is wrong and I need to fix that!).

The Ghost Materializes—In Ink!

Here's how he looks finished. I really wanted to put more drybrush in, but know that I'm prone to abusing that technique and give Jason some room to work.

Here's what Jason's plans are for the page, "I'm thinking lots of blues and greens overall with the red eyes really popping and casting some red light on the face..."

Tightening up the pencils on the ghost

Again, this page is the first time that we see the ghost in the story, so I want it to be right. Granted, a few things (like glowing red eyes) will be handled by Jason in the color stage of the page, but this page still really needs to sing on all levels.

At this stage, it's starting to develop...

Inks tomorrow.

Canterville Ghost page rough

Trying to get the right look for the titular character in The Canterville Ghost. He "died" in 1575, so that places him in the Tudor era. Making that era's clothes looked ragged (per the story), yet still period-specific is tough—you don't want this guy to look like he's wearing a ratty old bathrobe and jammies! And I opted to fray the leggings because who's afraid of a ghost in tights?

Tighter pencils will be up tomorrow.