Strange

super quick doodle from class, first image was done on phone second was just a line over and messing about with colours.

Think I got my idea across better with the first one tbh

"Thank you, sir. I comprehend."

A couple of drawings today, laptop is still out of commission but I've hooked the scanner up to the net-book, no cleanup on this tiny screen. 

The second image is just for fun It might go along with last week ;) 

The first one is relevant to a news article I was reading, Google Voice Search a way to control the android phone with speech recognition, has been around for a while, hell I even had it on my G1 (Cyanogen ROM). Now that Siri for the iPhone has come out all polished and shiny and cool looking, Google are going to have to step up their game a little... I've read a few places that Googles answer to Siri is called Majel and it'll only be incorporated into voice searches at first. Now, the reason its called Majel? Well nothings confirmed but I'd like to think it's a nice homage to Majel Barrett-Roddenberry. The voice of Enterprises Computer in star trek, and I think it's brilliant so you get this nice doodle.

Zombie Survival

Laptop's still out of commission, it will be 'til after Christmas. Here's an image of a pet project that's rattling around my brain it's a secret for now though ;_;

I had to draw this whilst under attack from the new kitten, she's all teeth and claws. If it moves she kills it, if it doesn't, she kills it.

If I survive the next mauling I'll post some pictures/drawings. I'm hoping the laptop is up and running again soon I could do with getting back to Photoshop.

"If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits eighty-eight miles per hour..."

Ok so a bit of a quick update this week, me and my friend Myles were chatting away on Saturday morning, and I was talking about how I didn't want to be stuck in one style, for example I always start with the same shapes for faces and heads. And I've been thinking about it since. My problem seems to be that there is no thought to my characters personality, who they are? what they do?

So I end up just starting, not really thinking about height, weight, are they scary? goofy? moody? nerdy? These are all things that eventually I want the drawing to portray before someones even read a word. big friendly eyes, little beady eyes, messy thick eye brows or tidy plucked ones; they all make a difference.

So earlier today I figured I'd try and change it up a bit, even if it meant things looked goofy so here is the first three I did. I deliberately kept them quick so I didn't have a chance to go back and change them or think too hard about it.

Anyways I want to end this before I get too in depth, it's maybe a topic I'll cover another time, but next time you doodle someone think about who they are and try to exaggerate the bits that show that.

Q Fan Art

Q 's a character in Street Fighter III: Third Strike He's one of my favorites to draw, and play as. His background is a mystery, don't know if he's a good guy or a bad guy, all we know is that he is around whenever a major disaster happens. I'm not a fan, it feels like the idea guy took a half day...

Co-worker: "Hey guys? I, uh, think we need a boss."
Idea Guy: "What? another one? Just chuck something in we'll make it up later."
Co-worker: "Is that a good idea? I mean won't they notice?"
Idea Guy: "Nah, they love that stuff, just say he has something to do with disasters, they'll do the rest."

It's true Street Fighter players love to figure out what parts are cannon, and what characters back stories are, but do you know what they like more? when the continuity isn't screwed over whenever capcom feels like it. *cough* Charlie *cough*

Alchemy it's like... alchemy, for alchemists?

I play D&D on Monday, and this Monday I started a new campaign as my first ever alchemist. Normally a little eccentric alchemists tend to  create potions and bombs, always tinkering with new formulas, my characters mind has maybe deteriorated more than most and after a few too many bad ones his common sense could be better, but don't get me wrong, the mans still a genius.

Now back on track, I couldn't help but sketch him, I even ended up inventing a wee gizmo for him, it keeps track of the daily formulas. The first Image, is a really quick colouring just so that I could jot down what's in my head. The second image was drawn earlier today at work, the glass vials he has are bombs, he mixes them and throws them to do damage and the third image, that's just a doodad. 

I prefer the robot. All hail the overlords.

This weeks it's... well... I'm not sure if I'm honest. I drew this on the bus and decided to scan it in and clean it up. I think it would have been a lot easier if I had an eraser. No really, I drew it all in pencil then over with pen, only to realise I had no eraser, so that was a lot of time spent cleaning up in Photoshop.

Its just the flat colours; no highlights or shadows, this is always my first step when I colour something.

I'm going to go with steam punk(ish) mercenary, although there's a quality about the original I really like, it was going to be a robot.

Anyways, I'm off to bed, so see you next week!

Ahoy! I see land! Of course you do, it's below us...

Yeah you get to see the messy pencils

So Sue's already told you it's theme week, and this time I get to draw something flight(y?) here's a quick sketch of an airship, my friends moving down to Manchester and had a leaving do, strangely exactly when I'd planned to clean this up. It's another one on my to-do list, I'll upload some other sketches I have, there were a few designs, I was playing with a wee fleet of airships.

I'll  probably do another version just to sort out some of the lines that don't quite fit and maybe some perspective fixes.

I think this would be a fun place to explore, a floating city of civilian airships.

Good luck and catch me next time.

Edit: Apparently I'd set this for tomorrow so here's the update.

Attack of the stickmen!

So I've not had the chance to be as near my laptop as I'd like but I made a couple of fast drawings, I got a new brush pen for my birthday and wanted to try some scribbles to see what happened. The first two images were done in about a minute the second one was a little spaceman spiff inspired and the third one was originally a pencil sketch I made at work.

I like this pen a lot, but the ink isn't nearly as black as I'd like, when it runs out I'm going to try and use some nice ink (another birthday gift from the same friend) and see what happens. I may just buy a fine inking brush it would probably get me closer to the line thickness I'm looking for and give me some practise.

Here's another little thought for the week, I've noticed my figures and poses are sometimes really poor. So I'm trying to draw stick figures when I can see if that helps, I'd recommend other people go back to basics if something isn't working. I don't have any taught experience so I could be wrong about it, but I find it helps me.

I think after this I might start linking people to the blog, so again, feel free to comment or advise on anything here.