Space Pirate Captain Himilaya Proctor

I still draw, I swear!  I do amateur (aka: learning the ropes still) 3D modeling too.  I just don't find most of my work worthy of posting is all.  A few things to my Instagram profile now and then even!--though their resizing algorithm is rather garbage for pencil drawings...

So as of late my usual wish-I-was-a-comic-book-artist styled work has been total fucking ass.  Something has caused  my brain and hand to be at civil war and refuse converse with the enemy and it's been both a creative dump and a frustrating mess with only one crumpled sheet of paper over a lost temper thankfully.  The rest is just leered at and imagined on fire as I laugh maniacally.  Somehow during a frustrating night I tried this rendering method and the warring factions of my brain and hand signed a cease-fire agreement for now.

Anyway, for the past two weeks I've only been able to render doodles like this for some reason.  Which is weird specifically because this exact style is the one I have NOT been able to do properly (okay, with a few decent exceptions numbering under 10, and I'm not kidding) with pencil since I started carrying a sketchbook with me 95% of the time 14 years ago.  Charcoal is easier to do this with since it's more controllable in its innate messiness and smoothness, but specifically my pencil shading and rendering skills have always been runner-up at best.  It's a brave new frustrating world on normal sketchbook paper (60# probably) and 2B/4B graphite with a kneaded gum eraser to dab away highlights.

The black outline was added because it looked too plain and trying to shade all that area in pencil would have been a giant smudgy mess the instant I closed the sketchpad.  Slightly tweaked the contrast as scanning, and adjusted a tiny spot on his right-lats from a spec of something on the scanner glass.

Eight of eight

Cafe drawings of people's heads while trying to be sly.  The sly factor messes up the perspective a lot while pretending to not be totally staring at someone's head while one hand vigorously sketches.

Done on a leftover bit of bristol board a friend gave me.

Boar

I realized I draw too many people and went to Google to find images of animals to draw from.  Only found photos for two of those on my phone tonight, though I'll do more later since they're surprisingly good exercises.

Buckteeth

 Related ideas, though the panel set (drawn by campfire on New Year's Eve with a beer in one hand) gets read two ways: A slipper devil or... someone grabbing a specific element of nature.

Euphemism used in hopes you smack your forehead.

Iron Mens

Three states of a loose and fairly quick drawing I did at my usual cafe haunt.  Basically I was having a miserable time trying to draw something of my own creation and was about mid-way through Iron Man Essential Vol.1 (first 32 or so issues from the early to mid 60s.)

While inking it I saw some issues and felt it would be fun to scan and do just a little clean up to the drawing, then I think what happened was that I was having trouble inking and blotched some quick yellow and dark blue to help me out... then I added more highlights and detail and worked on the shadows more and tried to fix some of the background... Oi.

The background and perspective look like afterthoughts because it was at the very start of this doodle.  I just wanted to loosen the cobwebs and practice some more stylized linework--oh, and hopefully speed things up, which sadly didn't happen.

UPDATE: It was brought to my attention that the sidewalk goes through Iron Man's left leg, and it does.  This was caused by putting the background linework onto its own layer via cut/create layer, and then just moving it around until I was pleased with the positioning.  With my nose to the grindstone (my tablet) the two lines looked like lighting detail.

So why don't I spend the 2 minutes updating the layer and re-saving/uploading the files?  To bring up the importance of a second or even third pair of eyes.  Most of us aren't grand masters so it's rather helpful to have another set of eyes ask you why you did something that looks out of place.  If you can't justify it reasonably, you probably need to fix it.

Missed one

Was playing a lot of Dark Souls if you recognize the head shape. The character I was thinking of has brain texture on the head piece though, and I just forgot while off away from my computer.

And, yea, friends doodle on my paper along with me. Wasted space if they don't I say.

Catch-up Day is finally over.

There, just slapping the last two on the same post because I can. And the little samurai girl wouldn't make as good a solo post--and the T-Rex did?--as the ninja and their ice cream stand.

This concludes our post string for today.

"Hmmmmm indeed."

Had crabs and fezes on the brain this day. Spent a handful of hours on this drawing and chatting between cups of coffee over a few days, so I have no clue the actual drawing time.

And, yes, his legs probably wouldn't tuck neatly under him. I know... sheesh.

A Tree!!!

More concept art ideas. Spent 4-5 hours on the bottom one... not sure if that's good or bad to be honest. Both were fun to draw though, and all three are of the same idea.

The nose

These were probably drawn two months apart, but looking at the scans they seemed in need of pairing.

NO KETCHUP!

Good or bad, I have the urge to scan and post all drawings of warrior chefs.

Second drawing was on the same page, seemed fitting to pair them when scanned too.

T-Rex with enhancement

I think it was a day Reddit/Imgur posted a bunch of tiny hands jokes about T-Rex's.

Quick gestures

Needed to do a page of gestures to loosen the wrist and the mind. Small ones, but still a good warm-up I need to do more often. Might've been the same day as the previous post actually... I don't date most of these in my sketchbooks.

Two ladies

Tired of flailing drawings of sexy ladies with screwed up torsos, I default to drawing Rosie the Riveter-esque blue collar women, the opposite of what you'll find in Cosmo. It's for humor, but it's creepy how much easier they are to draw.

The other chick was a goofy minigun drawing, but it looked tolerable when I cropped the bottom half off during scanning.

Three doodles on the same page I did when wondering how one would go about designing a space environment for a comic. Got sidetracked when I realized I'd drawn FemShep from Mass Effect giving a debriefing from a Wing Commander game.

"Science!"

For some reason this day I kept hearing a friend of mine say "Science!" in his cartoon voice in the back of my head. This drawing was the result... except for the brat in the corner. The people I was with said it looked like Professor Membrane from Invader Zim. So I fumbled a poorly drawn Dib without looking up what he looked like.

Today I'm uploading about four months of doodles I made hanging out at a cafe and sandwich chain I frequent. Rather than make a giant single post they'll be mostly 1-2 drawings per post and a short description.