~ New Years' Sketch Resolutions... ~

... Resolution - other than to make better scans of my sketchbook - is to actually get better at sketching all around: composition, lighting, human form, etc. To really loosen up, even in the more realistic pieces, if possible. (Looking at the above, I've got some ways to go on that front.)

Claire Wendling's been known to completely redraw a sketch from scratch several times over until the look and feel of the thing catches the balance she's looking for. Good idea... another reason why I shouldn't run off posting anything I've done several months remove, just to look like I'm making progress.

Looking at the first color sketch-up I did of the Wehrmacht characters above (the post before this one, below)... well, was done several months ago. Caca. Hence the redraw above from scratch. As much of an excuse as this is, Cintiq's a pain to draw in; and being on work hours doing these studies doesn't help much. I will say though, looking through this book's helped alot.

Anyhow, more recent stuff from the sketchbook below:

~ Mega Dump... ~

..Or post, as is more polite. Some profile pages drawn in Cintiq, sans rambling story text. I like how these turned out.

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And some WWII sketches from... eons (months) ago.

[First pic deleted, as per the rule of not posting shyte drawings.]

Colors turned out ok on this one.

This one... I really tried to make the lighting as balanced as possible. Considering the number of light sources, and forcing the balance so that the eye's directed where I wanted it to go... Eh, needs work. Fire's a pain to render in daytime settings.

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Some Boyar Bots. Da, Cintiq:
And our favorite heroin having LOTR dreams involving said bots. Must be the drinking milk after midnight.

~ Stalingrad Boards... ~

(Continued from the last post.)

(Maybe a line here in the 3rd panel from the scar-faced lieutenant like: "Heh, I keep forgetting - the point of all this is to go home - right?")


(Yelling at the lieutenant in the 2nd panel: "What the hell are you doing?!"; Lieutenant: "Not enough time for him to reload and shoot straight." 3rd panel: [shot ricochets of wall] "See?")

And off they go to a presumably worse position than this, with the Lieutenant on a death wish binge.

So the sequential got past the 3-panel mark. Hoorah for pushing myself during work hours... I mean... after work hours... Yes.

As one coworker knows, there's a color piece that kind of accompanies this. Will see if I can channel the ghost of Rembrandt or Sargent over this next week and get the thing done.

~ Robots and Germans... ~

Because the two are interchangeable at times. The parts, I mean.

The Armored Core and Front Mission series have been getting some heavy rotation at the house lately. So, naturally, these wind up on my work warm-up sketches...

Was trying to come up with some different approaches to legs and feet, since I tend to use the same balance and shapes in this area. Hard to break out of that while thinking in terms of mechanical functionality at the same time:
Everyone loves robots. Just look:

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And a quick something revolving around Stalingrad. Don't know if it'll go past these few panels. I tend to do these as warm-ups to try to get the cinematic blood flowing through the brain:

~ Ende ~