some sketches I did last week, practicing some female faces from the great Frank Cho. these are taken from Shanna She-Devil, which is actually a really fun comic read!
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I don’t know why, but it’s so hard to push my art’s boundary. I start off thinking, “ok, get ready for some really crazy, totally different from my normal artwork!”. and then when I’m done, I see it’s not all that different from my normal stuff. I think a major reason is because I want it to look good! so, from now on in Finn, you might want to prepare yourself if things don’t look so pretty! in order to get better, maybe things need to get ugly for awhile.
which brings me to the art tonight, facial expressions.
so, after the last few sketch nights and coming off of jamm week, I realized I am distinctly weak on drawing female faces, or at least making them attractive! so, as I’ve always done when learning, I start by emulating some of the greats. for this exercise, I’ll be imitating Dustin Nguyen, specifically an issue from Superman/Batman. if you’ve never heard of Dustin, do yourself a favor and check out his deviatart page where you’ll find great watercolors of Batman’s rogue gallery.
in this post, i’ll be showing you sketches from two sketch night’s, from November and December’s Mystery Sketch Theatre, hosted at The Geek Easy in A Comic Shop. and i have to say, it was a rough couple of months. it was very humbling to see such fantastic artwork from others. it was also a pointer to me that i really need to work on female faces. well, as always, we start off with the 30 second warm ups.
next up are the one minute sketches. if i recall correctly, i’m using the Copic multiliner 0.2mm exclusively here.
i really need to find my style a bit more. i’ve been told i have very clean lines. simple artwork without too much clutter. well, i’m not sure if that’s a good thing. i think i cut myself short because i’m afraid i’ll muck things up. well, that’s the beauty of these sketch night. i go ahead and try to experiment and see what happens. here are the 5 minute sketches.
i know for the sketches in December, i wasn’t getting the female face so i decided to focus on the ink shading. i think it turned out alright. next, 10 minute sketches.
and finally, the contest sketch of the night. in November, it was to incorporate a fairy tale. in December, it was incorporate a Christmas llama. yeah, you read that right.
needless to say, i didn’t win the contest. so defeated, i left early to cry in my pillow! haha, just kidding. one last sketch from November, focusing on the shiny latex.
so here we are about to begin the next page of Journey into the INKnown. so, what I’ve done so far is just in blue pencils lay out a page where we have hands looking through some old photographs, where each photo effectively becomes a panel. as of right now the panels are totally unscripted. but in order for this work, it’ll have to be a little different than the previous pages. here, I’ll have to work out the captions for all 4 panels (photos) in order to make sure I have room for them before I do any inking.
I’m also wrestling with how much detail to put into the fingers and the table backdrop. still trying to figure out my style, between cartoony and photo-realistic. well, sit back and enjoy as I experiment and find hopefully find myself.
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