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.

Meerkat

There is much fun to be had in adding  whatever comes to mind as dialogue.

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.

Somewhere Far Else

Based on a doodle someone else did that looked little to nothing like this, my imagination kept seeing what I drew here instead.

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.

Demon Baby?

Was reading the Lucipher comics and it featured a weird floaty demon-baby creature as a background plot device.  I drew this instead while thinking about how I liked my version better--because I drew it and added a cow.

Mega-Tank-Thing

Ink that bleeds has it's uses.

First of eight

Due to setting up an Instagram profile in January I stopped posting scans of images here for about two months.

Now I present to the universe, those same photos, only without the mostly-useless filters!  I incorrectly used different filters!  On a serious note, I dug up photos of 8 drawings I liked and am cross-posting them here since this isn't Instagram and is therefore better for this sort of thing.

A Scud doodle done mostly from memory.  I eventually looked for images of what he really looks like before I took a pen and waterbrush to it.

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.