Commander Cody in Watercolor

Watercolor sketch of Commander Cody from Star Wars - The Clone Wars.  I will be adding the ink work to it later.

New Vader Piece Started - Pencils

Started a new Darth Vader Piece last night.  I should have been working on other projects, but something inspired me and I just "needed" to do this piece.  (I love that feeling.)  Anyway.  Thought I would share the process here so here are the pencils I did last night.  I am thinking of monochrome, maybe black, white and one or two greys.  I may add a couple of figures to the top of the image, we will see.

More Comicforcures.com Benefit Sketch Cards

 

  

Two more cards for the Comicsforcures.com Cancer benefit auction.  Tusken Raider with Micron Pen and Primacolor Markers.  And a pair of Stormtroopers, inspired by a photo taken by Ken "Elvis Trooper" Tarkenton.  I love his work.

Ken Elvistrooper Tarleton - Fan art

A sketch of one of my favorate comic con regulars.  Ken Elvistrooper Tarleton.  He is way too cool for me to be drawing, but I dig this pose and wanted to draw it.  Pen and ink in my brown paper sketchbook.

Stormtrooper Sketchyness

Stormtrooper sketch that I actually inked.  I wanted to try out my white pen and this seemed to be a great one to try it on. 

Cyn Cummens lesson: Drawing the Lurmen

Star Wars Illustrator Cyn Cummens posted a new "how-to" on Star Wars dot com and I always draw these things. I don't know what a "LURMEN" is, it is in the Clone Wars Saga and I haven't gotten into those shows yet. But If Cyn is going to be teaching something, I am learning it. :)

My First Sketchcard Design!

So I finally got around to doing my own sketchcard design. Please, Please, let me know what you think. If you want a commision...I am game! Just drop me a line! Cheers.

Getting back to Fun Star Wars Stuff!

Okay so after the crappy couple of days of skething shitty heads... I got back into the Star Wars book. I ripped this one out after the lil ewok went to bed. I was really unsure about this before I started filling in the dark space. I wasn't sure it was going to work, I was having trouble with the mask and the belt but the hand, the hand felt awesome to do. I think I am going to try more of these perspective poses. This was my first real sketch using a prismacolor pen (thin on one side, broad on the other). I have to say, I really like the feel and delivery of this pen and I think I will be going out and getting more.

More You can Draw Star Wars Pieces

I am just really loving going onto the Star Wars Learn to Draw site. I know it is for kids, but I am getting a lot out of it. I had forgotten how just using basic shapes makes things so much easier to map things out, whether it is features or figures I am getting a lot out of it.

I have just fallen for the cute style of KATIE COOK, she has fast become one of my favorite artists. I got to meet her at the 07 San Diego Comic Con, completely by chance, I was walking through Artists Alley and she was nice enough to do a sketch for my new born son. (I will have to post a pic of that later). Anyway, I just love here style and I did one of her Leia sketches here:

Star Wars Caricatures

I was cruzing around on the art blogs and came across Tom Richmond's Caricature tutorial about the "5 Shapes" via Drawn.ca and got the bug to try some of the rules on some Star Wars characters. My first attempt is below.

Darth Vader 1

Darth Vader 2

Jango Fett

Clone Trooper

Drawing Star Wars

I caught on of Matt Busch's "drawing Star Wars" episodes and I was hooked. I watched them all and I checked the book out of the Library and I am so glad I did. I have been so inspired to get back into drawing. I started with out doing about a sketch a day.

I am trying not to get to ahead of myself, cause if there is one thing I understand better now than when I was an art student, is that you need to develop skills and build on those skills. Here are some of my latest sketches.