Work in Progress - Darth Vader

A work in progress, Darth Vader with his "angels", Darth Sidieous and Qui-Gon Jinn.

Jedi Clone Lightyear Cosplay

This is a pen and ink drawing of my son when we went to Free Comic book Day at Brave New World Comics in Newhall.  I was really happy with a lot of the fabric texture, but it is really difficult to get the "feel" of the fabric with pen and ink.  I would love to heard what you think of it.

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.

Watto and Qui-Gon

 

This is a sketch I did the other day, I am trying to get better with the Copic markers I have.  I was getting really frustrated with the piece in the middle of laying down the colors, I was just adding color after color and I thought I was really getting away from the look of Watto.  But I stuck with it and I think Watto and Qui-Gon came out a lot better than I expected.  I love surprising myself.  What really got it going for me was laying down the inks afterward.  I started with the jacket and the inks really made it pop.

Sketchcardiness - Jedi Youngling

This was something that I thought you never seen much off is Star Wars sketchcards, a Jedi Young-ling, totally innocent, not knowing that there is a guy named Darth Vader coming to kill him, maybe he has felt the disturbance in The Force, but just doesn't know what it means...poor kid.

Battle of the Darth Sketchcards!

 

These are two more Copic Marker sketchcards, Darth Vader (episodes 4-6) and Darth Maul (episode 1).  

Sketchcard Madness - Kit Fisto

This is a sketch card of Kit Fisto, I think one of the coolest under-utilized Jedi out there.

Darth Vader Sketchcard

New Luke Skywalker Lineart

Here is a sketch and the line art from the sketch. I think I might try inking this with the computer before I start with markers. I have to say, I love the sketch so much more that the line art, but I think that is because the sketch has some shading and the line art has nothing but...possibility. I am stretching...growing...I hope... LOL

More Star Wars Universe!

A couple of more sketches of the Dymanic Duo of the Star Wars U. Han Solo, inked. and Luke Skywalker from Return of the Jedi. Not comfortable with the inks yet, I am still in a "feeling out" period. But I was pretty pleased with the first effort on the Han Solo sketch.

Luke Skywalker

My sketch of Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker. Took about 45 minutes and done with a #2 pencil.

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.

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.