From my sketchbook

[ravenf6]

Dashe: That's how I usually do works like this, sometimes with a wooden mannequin for basic shape reference. While the top-heaviness was not intentioned, my purpose was to try and draw the 'B' armor without creating a lot of smudges and erasures- those tend to mar the final results like in some of my older works.

Alas, for all the toil I put into Mega's 'B' armor, only one person really took notice. In the words of Goemon Ishikawa XIII, "Once again, I cut a worthless object..."

I have taken your advice to consideration, Dashe, and have started experimenting with non-photo blues pencils, I have made two test runs using them. They're great for doing rough rough sketches and setting up for finishing up drafts. In finishing up those lines, I used fine-tip pens so that I can clean up the rough lines, leaving the desired line works:


My first test was a basic doodle, I wasn't going for anything definite and found myself drawing this- myself, working on something (right), and somewhere far away, my shadowy chronicleer character, Grey, is doing the same. I used the NPB a little too hard- you can see patches of blue everywhere...:24: Very rough, but I was able to do the lines without messes of erasing, as in my previous works.


Halfway through the 1st test, I doodled this one. More or less, we see Grey at rest in an alley.Compared with my first test, There isn't as much blue, and I had a better grasp of what I wanted to do here- so the lines were quicker to do than the last one. Odds are good that you'll notice a lot of white lines in the colors- when I first tried using pens to darken my lines, I found that conventional pens don't work well over npb pencils. In response, I used fine-tip pens, which were better suited for the job.

While both tests turned out rough, they turned out to be a success for me: A success in testing npb pencils and pens. My plans regarding future works are to polish up using the aforementioned pencils and continue use of my pens to finetune my works.

Granted, some things need hammering out, not bad for a day's work, I'd say...

[Avegodro]

My apologies for not taking the time to comment on your take on the armor. I have to say that it was an awesome job good sir!

These latest sketches are awesome looking as well. Though I'm a bit envious that you can scan your entire sketchbook, most of mine are to large for our scanner. ;D

Seriously though these are great artworks ravenf6.

[ravenf6]

@avegordo: Sometimes, it's a problem scanning the pages- sometimes, the pages aren't lined up, and fuzzy patches appear as result, but given how long I've had this scanner, it does me more good than harm...

I have one for tonight, but more of a work-in-progress: after this weekend's iscribble sessions, I spent a little time working on a little something inspired from it:

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Mikey inadvertently inspired this one, so started off with two smaller drawings of Raphael- one as he's usually seen (left), and one in costume (right)... thought I will say- hair/wigs isn't working, so far... then the bulk of the work consisted of me with Raph perched on my shoulder. I liked the idea of possibly using the bird as a future avatar that I drew this. This was done with NPB pencils as the last two, but the difference here is that I scanned the work in black-and-white, so the sketch lines are invisible, leaving only the finished lines. Looking at the results, I found this to be unusual- the shoulders are rather long, but going form this and the way I ended up drawing myself... it looks (very)loosely like something done by CLAMP.. which is odd since I've never intended to draw it that way. Which is even more so since I haven't read xxxHolicxxx and Tsubasa in the longest time...

While I would have liked to color this one, my printer's rejecting my ink cartridges, so I'll have to address those first before moving on to the next step. While not a work I took seriously, this was interesting to experiment with, and I'm starting to grow fond of the plump little blackbird.

Hopefully, I'll get the ink issue resolved soon, then I might put up a colored version of this up in a future post.

[Dashe]

It's so clean! No more sketchy lines!

[Mikéy]

By jove, i've he's done it!

If you could fit something that beautiful down to the 100x100 limit, I'd be amazed. Apparently, I was right too; Raph would make the perfect partner-in-crime for you.

You should include him in your next comic. AND Volnutt. Don't forget him.

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[ravenf6]

Funny how things worked out, Mikey. For I have here, the final results of my 3rd test in NPB pencils. The latter of which holds a useful property- when scanned an printed in greyscale (black-and-white) the sketchlines vanish. Combining this with my fine-tip pens leaves only the finished lines, and a clean, unspoiled look. It is through this, I set the stage for my coloring and here are my results:

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The colors really come through, they are clean and unobstructed by erasures and previous mistakes. From this, I have taken a step above what I have done with my first two tests, and these results are well worth it.

My digital tablet arrived yesterday, so I may spend time practicing with it, but that's not to say I done with my sketchbook, I find that things are getting most interesting, indeed..

[Deleted]

Your art really looks great. I really liked checking all of them out.

I really liked how nice and clean your work looked now.

[Avegodro]

Raphael looks sharp ravenf6, your work does look cleaner like Steffie said. Can't wait to see more of you work.

[ravenf6]

It's been a long time since I've added anything here. School was not kind to me this past quarter. :06:

I've been getting back into the habit of drawing, and today, I have something unusual. A work-in-progress, one that I've stared out with non-photo blue pencils:

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Watching a bit of Rurouni Kenshin, today, I felt the need to doodle this little scene. Kaoru ends up drunk after an insult from Megumi and goes through an emotional spin-cycle, much to Kenshin's fear. FIrst, angry, than crazy, and- in this case, self-pity: Kenshin tries to comfort her (though not with much success )

Having drawn Sanousuke, a long ways back, it was hard to approach any of the other characters, but since the scene was done in chibi style, it was more malleable for me to work with. Kenshin was easy to draw in this style, though his hair gave me trouble for a sec. Karou was a lot of fun- she turned out pitiful, but very funny. ;D

My next step is to ink the lines, and fix the background(got pretty lazy on this part), and add color to it.

Seeing as how this turned out, I would like to attempt these two drawn in their 'normal' style, as the case may be. Never thought they'd turn out this good, but the comedy helped me get over my cold feet.

Not much to offer, considering how long it's been since I've updated, but I hope you guys like it.

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Really like the picture of Kenshin and Kaoru. Love's Kaoru's teary face and Kenshin's nervous expression and the huge sweatdrop on his temple.

[ravenf6]

While my last school quarter didn't give much inspiration, I was able to channel my skills into one of my major assignments. For my spanish class, I had to give an oral presentation, with a powerpoint presentation- I chose to use drawings for said presentation, showing what happened to me on a bad day. The result was a series I did, highlighting certain incidents:



This page described two incidents- the first being cutting myself while shaving for work, and the other being my boss ordering to do a mountainload of work on that shift.....

The only quips I had with this series was that I had to juggle these with stuff for my other classes, so the drawings have an inconsistent quality to them. Despite that, I was able to get the ideas across like I wanted to.

I'll upload the other pages in the project series in due time. OTher than that, I should get started on inking the chibi RK pic I did last time.

[Mikéy]

...Huh. Not very often that people share their school projects. But still, it's not very often that people do drawings for their school projects either, so... You just found a shiny pokemon!

So far I'm really liking what I'm seeing, even though both situations were much to your dismay, you portrayed them pretty awesomely. How many more pages are there? Knowing me and my bad days, I'd probably have two or three completely filled notebooks by now.

[ravenf6]

Mikéy: Yeah, despite how rotten that day was, I enjoyed putting a comedic spin on this project.

Which brings me to piece #2 of the spanish presentation:



This page describes two incidents-

Top: I was hurrying to clean the bathrooms, but I slipped and fell. I remembered the many times Charlie Brown failed to kick that football, so I drew this in the style of the Peanuts comics as a form of tribute.

Bottom: I had so much work that day, I couldn't take a lunch break. Needless to say, my stomach did not approve... :20:

There's about a few more pages I did for this presentation, including one or two I had to cut. I'll add some of those, next time.

[ravenf6]

This was an old one inspired before I went on my vacation, last year. Odd times on another forum, I sometimes grumble, imitating Gollum from Tokien's Lord of the Rings books, so the suggestion was that I'd try drawing myself in a like manner.




At first, I was thinking to adapt from the Peter Jackson films, but when I picked up the old Rankin & Bass version of The Hobbit, I found that this interpretation was closer to how Tolkien imagined this despicable, almost pitiful frog-like creature.

After getting the initial design down, I added some details- ragged clothes, hair, and a sketchbook to finish the full effect. I never thought it would turn out so well...


This next one, I doodled during a break, last quarter: I tried a bit with Ruber, the brutish, scheming villain from Quest for Camelot.
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His design was rather different, a bit more ugly and near cro-magnon like , but I found it appealing. Just about every sneer, growl or like reactions says about about him without the need to be overly obvious. Plus, not many villains can claim bragging rights of punching a dragon. I might try doodling his griffin, someday, if I feel up for it.

I've been scanning some old stuff in, lately, but uploading them may have to be put on hold until I get get some school-related work sorted out. But I'm looking to get back into the habit of drawing stuff.

[ravenf6]

Once again, it's been months since I've updated..... School was a beast, this past spring. But that's over for a while- I'm taking summer off school, so I've been getting back into the habit of drawing things.

First off, this was my entry for the first Neo Devroom contest: I had three ideas in mind, but due to numerous school demands and time constraints, I was only able to produce one entry: the Blizzard Cannon:

My initial inspiration for this weapon came from my MML OC, Loki: His weapon, the Frost Arm gauntlets produced and utilized use ice as a weapon . As I was brainstorming, I was thinking "What if Trigger and Roll met Loki sometime, and Roll ended up making a similar weapon somewhere down the line?" So that ended up being the basis for my entry.

Though it didn't make it to the finalist stage, I was happy that I was able to get an entry in for the contest itself- 10-14 page essays have no mercy on college students.... :11:

Next up is something a bit different. About last year, I started getting back into the old Hanna Barbera cartoons, starting with Wacky Races. I doodled this bit last year, if I'm not mistaken: i643.photobucket.com/albums/uu153/ravenf6_tc/WackyRaces-lines.jpg

"...and in first place, it's the Slag Brothers, Rock and Gravel in the Bouldermobile, with Sgt. Blast and Private Meekly in the Army Surplus Special in 2nd. Bringing up 3rd is Dick Dastardly and Muttley in the Mean Machine. Oh, what a race, ladies and gentlemen...."

( I couldn't resist doing the racing announcer styled commentary for this one.. )

This was my first time drawing in the Hanna Barbera style, but I'm quite pleased with the results. I plan to color this and upload it at a later time.

Not much for an update, given how long it's been since I dusted off this thread. It feels good to draw stuff again, so I hope you guys look forward to what I've got in future updates.