Sketch on a Blank Comic Variant

Picked this one up off of eBay, blank.  But it arrived bent and creased.  I was pissed.  Anyway I thought I would use this one for my first comic book cover sketch.  It is very different than a sketch card but it was an okay experience.  Definitely something I want to do more of.

Alexander Frolov

I am a hockey fan, but I don;t seem to do many sports-related sketches or sketch cards.  I am trying to change that.  I have done a few baseball sketch cards and this is my first hockey sketch.  Alex Frolov was drafted by the LA Kings but never really achieved all that was expected of him.  He is playing for the NY Rangers now.

Another page from the sketchbook project

Another page from my The Sketchbook Project Sketchbook.  FALLING.  I am really loving this, I think I am getting better and quickly getting wrinkles in fabric. 

Another page from The Sketchbook Project

Here is another page from my sketchbook project FALLING.  I am working in some greys to distinguish parts of the structure from other parts.  I hope it works.

The Sketchbook Project 2010

I have finally started my sketchbook for The Sketchbook Project, put on by The ArtHouse Co-Op Check them out here:   da'lsdkj'adijja'dkmc'ad

The rundown is this:
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Thousands of sketchbooks will be exhibited at galleries and museums as they make their way on tour across the country.

After the tour, all sketchbooks will enter into the permanent collection of The Brooklyn Art Library, where they will be barcoded and available for the public to view.
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I ordered my sketchbook and picked a theme of 'Nightmare' so everything in this will have to do with that.  My first sketch is the one above, falling.

30 Days of Halloween - Day 8

Okay, I do have the sketch doen, but I finished it so late that I cannot scan it tonite.  I will post the image later.  I am working at the Screenwriters Expo in LA this weekend, so I don;t have a lot of free time.  But I did do one, it is an evil pumpkin.

*update* 

It is Monday and I was able to scan the card finally.  Here it is:

30 Days of Halloween - Day 1

I wanted to do a "__ Days of ____" project.  I thought Halloween would be a great place to start.  I am going to do a halloween-themed piece of art every day until Oct 30.  I am hoping some interesting work happens during this. 

Won't you please join me in the journey into the Macabre?  Muah ha ha!

Today is a sketch card of my son on our first door-to-door Halloween trip.  Some of the houses really spooked him, but he had just turned 3 so I totally understood.  He had no idea what Halloween was, "They just give me candy??"  It was the most wonderful he had ever imagined.  :)

Work in Progress - Darth Vader

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

New Piece - Tusken Raider

This is a new piece, a Tusken Raider.  I really find sandpeople challenging to draw.  The wraps and fringe makes it difficult, but when it works, it always impressive.

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.

Boba Fett - Work In Progress

I am doing a cool new Boba Fett piece, I am really loving it.  It is based on reference from the Ken the "ElvisTrooper".  That guys takes some seriously great pictures.  I would love to color this, but my color skills are basic at best. 
I would love to find someone that could color this for me.  If you know anyone that might be interested, please contact me  ccthorne@socal.rr.com

Watercolor Wolverine

I am really enjoying working with watercolors.  I have done a few flowers and a Clone Trooper, but this was interesting to do.  I just started putting colors down and figured I would ink out a figure after.  What do you think?  I think there are some spots with too much black but I think is has some feeling, some movement, some action. 

Sketch Card trading - Oran Parker

I got a note from another sketchcard artist named Oran Parker, (Check out his site http://www.oranparker.com/ ) who wanted to know if I would trade cards with him.  After checking out his stuff, I said Yes right away.  He requested Beta-Ray Bill, Abe Lincoln and Hawkman.  None of which I had any experience with, but I thought this would be a great deal.  I had a bunch of things going on travel-wise (see Korea blog-post) so I wasn't able to get to them finished right away.  I saw the cards he did (see his blog post about the trade) and I knew I was going to need to up my game.  Anyway.  I did one of Abe Lincoln "Vampire Slayer", A raging Bill, and Golden Age Hawkman and Hawkgirl.  I did the Lincoln on tan card stock to give it a vintage feel.  I wanted the Hawkman to still feel Golden-Agey so I tried to do it in that style.  I just wanted Bill to look as pissed off as I could.  I did an earlier one, that I will post later, but in the pencils stage, I creased it doing some erasing and so I had to start over again.  I actually did another Abe, but I didn't like the feeling, so I redid it and I think this one is much much better.  I hope he likes them!

Couple of sketch cards

I just got back from a vacation to WA. and a trip to Korea.  I am still tired.  lol  Anyway, these are a couple of cards I did right before I took off.  HR Puffinstuff and Gandalf the Grey

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.

Quick Alien

Just a quick Alien for a message board contest.

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.

A couple of new Sketch Cards - Iron Man and Clone Trooper

 

A couple of new Sketch Cards I did recently.  Mandalorian-Style Helmet of "Captain Rex".  And an Iron Man head shot from Comic Con.  These are available for sale, contact me.

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.

 

I did another watercolor sketch yesterday.  Of Cad Bane from The Clone Wars TV show.  As wild and uncaring as I was about putting on color and how much, the sketch came out surprisingly satisfying to me.  Then I took a pen to it and I am still getting used to it, I can't decide whether I think it is an improvement.  Yesterdays sketch was different, the watercolor was terrible and the pen improved it.  But this one, I actually think the watercolor sketch had some good feeling about it and I think the pen changed than feeling.