Today’s sketch challenge – Image/Todd McFarlane’s Haunt http://outcaststudios.com/forums/index.php/topic/11273-daily-sketch-challenge-vol16-49/
I used the 2nd Print Cover to Issue #1 as reference http://www.comicbox.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Haunt1_cover_2ndPrint1.jpg
For those interested the rough sketch below took about 20-30 mins, I haven’t drawn him before and kept wanting to turn him into Spidey / Venom;)
Another fun sketch challenge today – Ghostface from the Scream movie franchise. http://outcaststudios.com/forums/index.php/topic/11272-daily-sketch-challenge-vol16-48/
Was surprised noone had submitted this for the challenge yet given the mask was modelled on Edvard Munch’s painting The Scream but here is my crappy homage to that painting and the film – just over 60mins in Sai.
Today’s challenge was to do a sketch of the great Lon Chaney Jr – horror stalwart and sometime Wolfman/Frankenstein actor. http://outcaststudios.com/forums/index.php/topic/11270-daily-sketch-challenge-vol16-47/
I wanted to do something a it different so I used the following as reference http://waffyjon.blogspot.com/2007/05/genre-movie-image-of-day-frankenstein_29.html and http://www.listal.com/viewimage/444407
Each sketch took about 30 mins so 60 mins in total.
Well I was going through some of photos for sketch challenge over at Outcast (the one i ended up submitting images of my dad and granddad for) and found this image of me and my brother taken back in the 70s – probably 76 judging by the rosy tans
anyway I thought I would have a go at sketching it and this is the result. Too late sadly to add to the other submissions for the challenge but felt I should finish it and thus complete 3 generations of the family [link]
Done entirely in Sai.
This weekend’s challenge over at Outcast was to reimagine a public domain character [link] using one of the characters from PDSH [link]
I browsed through the characters and came across NoMan [link] – Anthony Dunn transferred his consciousness into a series of artificial bodies to try and become immortal – he became founding member of T.H.U.N.D.E.R. and gained an invisibility cloak.
In my reimagining, Anthony Dunn is a scientist working on invisibility and phasing technology to allow infiltration of enemy facilities without causing damage. While still in the early stages of testing Dunn was bombarded with unstable energy from his phasing generator which caused his body to being to erode away into dust. Unwilling to give up on life just yet, Dunn managed to reach another piece of experimental equipment within the lab, managing to transfer his consciousness into the formerly lifeless body of a battle droid.
Forced to live within the artificial body Dunn continued with his work, hoping for a way to reconstitute his own body and return to it. Unable to stabilise the phasing process he abandoned this part of his project to concentrate on the invisibility angle, ultimately creating a suit that was capable of bending electromagnetic energy around itself. This effectively left the wearer invisible to most forms of detection.
The government was unwilling to test the suit on another person and so Dunn (as a robot) was forced to test it. Instead of returning to the military base he was working from, he used it to escape in order to be free to continue his own agenda while using the suit to help others when he could as NoMan
Well I saw this sketch [link] by Monet88 [link] and was so inspired by the pose and style that I decided to use it as a reference for my own Valkyrie image.
Here we see young Brunhilde leaving a Frost Giant Camp in Jotunheim after having defeated them as a right of passage into adulthood. In accordance with tradition she has blooded her face as proof of her accomplishment.
I liked the basic pose and style of Monet’s interpretation of Ultimate Valkyrie, so this is as much a homage to his image as to the Marvel Comic character.
Today’s sketch challenge was the Deep Ones from the Cthulhu mythos by HP Lovecraft [link]
Time: 20-25mins
Well I finally got this finished (well as finished as it is going to be). I was reminded the other week of going to see the original Spiderman movie (with Nicholas Hammond) back in 1977 and thought it would be fun to do a picture inspired by that movie costume.
Wanted to capture that haunted/hunted feel that Spidey often has with the Bugle trying to turn everyone against him. Drawn and painted in Sai – time taken? Far too long 😉 Enjoy.
I wasn’t familiar with today’s daily sketch challenge [link] subject so here is the low down –
Matthew Macgregor is a descendant of Scottish outlaw Robert “Rob Roy” Macgregor, the protagonist is a stubborn and grumbly retired Pinkerton in the Zuda Comic series High Moon and demonstrates a degree of ritual psychometry. He carries a pair of pistols with the words Gáe Bolga carved into the hilts. His bullets of choice are Blaine Bullets. Mac’s history shows a past with James Bowie, Abe Lincoln, Allan Pinkerton, and Marie Laveau.
Time taken about 45mins in Sai. Looks a bit too crocodile dundee to be honest but hey ho…
Selene is the main protagonist in both Underworld and [/i]Underworld: Evolution[/i], portrayed by Kate Beckinsale and also by Beckinsale’s daughter, Lily Mo Sheen, in Underworld: Evolution in flashback scenes as a child. She is loosely based off the Marvel Comics character of the same name.
Today’s sketch challenge was in keeping with the vampire theme started with Bela Lugosi yesterday
Completed in Sai in around 45 minutes using the following reference of Kate Beckinsale as Selene [link]
#dailysketchchallenge today was Bela Lugosi [link]
I chose to use a Dracula reference to do my sketch. Took around 40 minutes in Sai.
#dailysketchchallenge today was Eric Powell’s The Goon [link]
I used a painting of The Goon by Eric Powell as my reference for this sketch. Time taken around 60mins to get it to this colored stage.
Due to yesterday being such a long and almost pointless day at work and not being in a position to have the data I need today – I am not in work. So I have taken the opportunity to do another submission for the weekend challenge over at Outcast [link]
Done using Droemar’s tutorial [link] and this reference [link] (found by Jay Kay over at outcast)
Most of the image was done in Sai as normal, but added the clouds and water in MyPaint. Roughly 2hours work I think.
I had a long day at work and while I was waiting for some processes to finish running I doodled a random picture of a runner but using abstract shapes. I liked it so I took it home and recreated it in Sai. Was going to post it white on black background, but decided to paint a sort of fire effect instead and think it turned out ok
The weekend sketch challenge from Outcast is Wild Kingdom [link] and as I have already been playing around with sketching a horse for a piece I am working on, I thought I would do a bit more practice before work.
I found a great tutorial here on Deviant by Droemar [link] which I have been using for reference.
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