Another Inked Korra Sketch

Hey again,

Just thought I'd upload another inked sketch of Korra I did.  Trying to practice my inking when I have a spare moment, as I much need improvement with it.  No real black placement this time.  Thought I'd tone it down a little and just got for mostly line and a little shading.

Hope ye enjoy! 

Chris 

Model Hand In Development and Static Shock Project

Helloooo everyone,

A couple of different things to show today.  First up, some in progress shots of my clay hand model.  Nothing fancy on the camera work, but I think you'll get the idea.  Here's some shots from different angles.   So far, the basic shape of the hand, sans fingers is established with the underlying simplified metacarptal shape, as well as the knuckle pad, hypothenar and thenar. 

 Next up is some show of process for our first project in Visual Storytelling I. 

First up are the two sets of thumbnails I did for the four-page script we were given.  It basically consists of several thugs holding up a mall.  Frieda (a friend of Static) is trying to get him to come out of the bathroom, in which he is changing into his superhero garb.  After being threatened by one of the thugs, Static makes his entrance and takes them out. 

I did two versions of the scene.  The first set is on top, the second is on bottom. 

 We then had to work out a grid for the scene and show the placement and movement of the characters, as well as the position of the viewer in each panel.  I did the grid in Photoshop and differentiated scenes by the use of different colors.  Doing this grid made me feel like an architecture student, hahah. 

 And finally come the tight roughs themselves.  They aren't perfect by any means and if I take them to final pages, I'll change some things, but they're not too bad.  I didn't have as much time to work on them as I'd have liked, so hopefully I'll get more time for my next project in the class. 

 And I guess that's about it for now.  Hope ye peoples enjoy! 

As ever,

Chris 

Korra Sketch

Hellooo again,

This was a sketch I did...yesterday I believe.  First posted drawing of Korra from me (of the new Avatar series, The Legend of Korra)  It wasn't a favorite sketch of mine, so I figured I'd used it for some inking practice.  There ended up being a lot more dark space than I had originally intended, so it became sort of an experiment in hatching, crosshatching, and how to handle reflected light and chiaroscuro with ink.  I used threshold on the file in Photoshop so that it would be very clean (if a little pixel-y).  Very basic and, of course, much more practice is required, but it was an interesting experiment, and I like it more than I did the original sketch. 

Enjoy! 

Chris 

Quick Simplified Head Form Sketh

Hey all,

Nothing really fancy here.  I was just drawing a simplified head form and ended up going full out with sfumato and passage and other such things, hahah.  Not too shabby for a tiny pencil drawing I suppose. 

Enjoy! 

Chris 

Model and Écorché

Hey again,

So here are photos of both models I did for my Constructive Human Anatomy class last quarter.  The first, is a skeleton we were provided with.  During and after class, we put all the muscles onto this one. 

The second is a model I built up from scratch using clay, wire, and a bit of epoxy.  For that model we got to choose whatever pose we liked.  Mine is based on a pose which occurs in the middle of performing a martial arts strike called an omote shuto. 

I learned a heck of a lot in this class, and I 'm so glad I took it.  There's plenty of room for improvement on both models.  I fully intend to embark on another écorché in the near future so that I can make an even better one.  Also, since I'm learning how to build the hands and feet in Constructive Anatomy For the Hands and Feet, I'll also have those better represented on my next model.  I can't wait to get to Constructive Head Drawing! 

Well, that's all for now.  Hope everybody enjoys! 

Chris 

Digital Coloring Works

Hello again,

Herein are most of the projects I completed in Digital Coloring and Lettering Application, this winter quarter.  Unfortunately, I don't know the names of all the artists and/or writers on all the pages I colored, so I shall endeavor to find out what they are so that I may update this soon and give credit where credit is due. 


This is a page from Batman: Black and White, which is now, ironically, colored.  Unfortunately I don't know who the author or artist is.  One of our earliest projects in the class.  This and the following works were colored in Photoshop, primarily using the channels method.  

 These are three illustrations by artists I'm afraid I don't know the names of.  The focus of this assignment was lighting. 

 From the comic Will To Power.  Again, I'm unsure of the artist and writer.  This assignment focused on time of day and passage of time. 

 For midterms and finals, we were required to choose four pages to color. 

These two midterm pages are from the graphic novel Trailers, written by Mark Kneece and drawn by Julie Collins. 

 These two pages are pages one and three from my comic Eidetic, the entirety of which can be seen in my last post. 

 This page we had to color in class in two and a half hours.  This is what I completed in that time period. 

 This assignment was to focus on sound effects.  It's from a Spiderman comic, but I'm unsure of the artist and writer. 

 These two pages are from the comic Hellblazer.  I don't know who the writer and artist are.  We had to letter these pages ourselves, working from the script, along with coloring them. 

 These next pages were for my final in the class. 

The first two are from Jeff Smith's RASL, which he did the writing for, as well as the art. 

 This page is from my four page spy comic assignment from my environments class in the fall.  Here, I experimented with coloring right on top of pencils, rather than inks. 

 This page is from the book All Saint's Day, An Amy Devlin Mystery, penciled by Dove McHargue with Kate Kasenow, written by Christina Weir, & Nunzio Defilippis, lettered by Douglas E. Sherwood, and tones by Rashad Doucet. 

And so there are the majority of my works from Digital Coloring and Lettering Applications.  Next up, I'm going to see if I can upload some of my work from Constructive Human Anatomy. 

Until then! 

Chris 

P.S.  Since this didn't seem to want to show the whole image in my previous posting, here's the River Street Assignment from my Environments class again.  Hopefully it will work this time. 

Some Work From Last Year

Hello all,

So here's some work I did last year.  Fittingly it doesn't hold up to the standards of my more recent work, but I post it here to provide some perspective and for posterity's sake. 


  These are character designs for a Batman page I did for my Intro to Sequential class. 

 Here is said Batman page. 

 These are six comic strips I did for my Intro class.  We had to come up with six daily comic strips from a strip we'd create.  Mine focused around a young man (Mike), just entering college, and his roommate (Dan) a guy in his thirties going back to college.  Dan's not well off enough to afford off campus housing and ends up in the dorms.  Thus, hijinks ensue.  Below are the five other strips. 

 This is a five page comic I did for my final in Intro.  It's called Eidetic, and is about a magazine photographer who has bizarre flashes of different places in his dreams, which somehow manifest as photos on his camera, all with timestamps in the future.  Unfortunately, I didn't have the time to do the comic in as long a form as I would have preferred and by the time I finished the third page, I really ran out of steam.  Therefore I sort of disavow pages four and five, however I think the first three still have some merit to them.  I was especially proud of page three at the time, and I still take a shine to it. 

 This was my final assignment for my Drawing For Sequential Art class.  We had to use the area behind our class building as the setting.  It has a rather cool looking are below ground which I used here to show a mob boss being corralled into a trap by a rival mob boss and his men. 

 That's all the stuff from last year for now.  Next I'll put up a few things from my digital coloring class last quarter and a few other things. 

Enjoy! 

Chris