Skull Girls - Big Band

Just finished Cerebellum but really wanted to do one more...  but i wanted something a bit silly so....  Big Band!  Big Band giving a thumbs up!

As a silly nice wind down piece I think it turned out ok.  I didn't worry too much on this one.


Line Art:

Original Sketch:

 And for silly kicks and giggles, here's the color layer.  Kinda liked how it turned out haha.

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Skull Girls - Cerebellum

 I LOVE THE SKULL GIRLS ART STYLE
 I've followed the lead artist for years and have always been a huge fan of it.  I noticed that i find myself being drawn more towards more simple art styles.  So I figured why not draw one of the characters!?

Had a lot of mixed feelings when making this one.  Well into coloring it I just felt that it didn't look right.  I was missing something of the style and just felt pretty bad as I slowly finished it off.  I took a moment to really look at it and noticed the proportions were all off.  It's a strange mix of skull girls and more realistic proportions.  and the face just looked bad.  I think I was able to salvage some of the face but in the end ehhh..  I think the piece turned out ok.  I'm just glad I did something.  I'm also thinking that maybe the resolution that I draw on might be a bit to low.   I'm not the best with the technical aspect of drawing, but I think that is something that I will need to work out at some time.
Anyway, here's the line work:

 And the original sketch:

After I completed the piece, I took a moment to try a new sketch to "fix" the proportions and to really capture that style a bit better than completely missing the mark.

 I think it turned out so much better than before!!  And all it took was an extra few moments to sort out the sketch.  To be fair though, style was probably the last thing on my mind when I was doing the original sketch so i cant be to hard on myself.  But hey.  Ya live and learn!

Sam Rye Jack!

Sam Rye Jack!

Get it?  GET IT!?

Lines:

And the sketch:

APRIL FOOLS or something.
xD

SAMURAI JAAAAAAAACK

Guess what I'm still geeking out over.
Here's a hint.   it's in the title.. xD

Rather pleased with how this one turned out.  Had a bit of trouble trying to make him look like samurai jack.  I noticed that with trying to recreate any style in general.   hmm...  I need to work on this.

Here's the line work:

Then the sketch:

You can see in the original sketch that he didnt look much like samurai jack at the start.  I managed to fool around with it enough when doing the lines to at least help a little.  Still, more studies need to be done.  Especially with cloth/ proportions/ styles/ etc etc etc!  MORE TRAINING!

Silly Aku's Daughter

Been pretty crazy about the new Samurai Jack Season 5.  So I did Aku's Daughter.

I gave her a tail.


Had an interesting time doing this one.  the white outline proved to be a bit harder to pull off than i thought it would be.  But I did it!  haha
Also. I couldnt decide on if i liked the shadow or not, so here's one without.

 And the sketch.

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Buck Bumble!

I was listening to random songs and Buck Bumbles title theme came one.  
So I had to drop everything to draw buck bumble!!

Sketch.

Line Work:

Colors:

It had been bugging me that I haven't been drawing as much as I'd really wanted to.  So let's try to change that!

Piccolo Dance!

Random art trade with a friend.

He told me to draw Piccolo.  SO I DID

Ran into a few silly issues with this one haha.  I was playing with the layers and it ended up back firing on me big time.  It's hard to explain exactly what happened but this one piece ended up with far to many layers for just the line work.

Other wise i would have split it up to show off the sketch, line, then finished thing.  but meh.  mistakes happen.  ♥

Gesture Study things.

Did a few of these.  This is probably my favorite study method.  The first picture is drawn on top of the image, the 2nd picture is drawn while looking at the picture, and the 3rd is drawn from memory without the reference.

Pokemon Fusions!

Pokemon Fusions!
Did a few of these with my buddy Shaunzy.

I really like how they turned out haha.  A bit silly but it was a fun exercise.

Dr. Ivo Ropyrus

So I did this.

The original sketch:

First real drawing of the year.  It's so silly xD!  There's more context to this, but you'll find out soon enough.  (no it's not an animation, although now that i type this i do think that would be pretty fun xD)

Final Thoughts on 2016

I had a really interesting ending to 2016.  When 2016 happened I wanted that year to be "The Year of Focus!"  Setting everything aside to REALLY learn how to focus on my projects and and really grow into the artist and creator that I knew I could be.  But...  Something was really holding me back.  And I was really able to pinpoint exactly what it was.  That dreaded past that I had always avoided.  I finally decided to tackle that...  aaaannnd  I spent half the year working on that Draw My Life Project. haha.  Uploaded on Thanksgiving day Nov. 24, 2016

It was super scary to put all that out there.  But I knew it needed to be done.  Over my years of creating videos and managing this art blog I have somehow managed to really help people through their tough times in life and even inspire people to just create.  Be it fanart, videos, their own art, or anything.  It's just amazing to me that I was able to touch so many people in such a positive way.  And it just became more and more important to me to share my story on how the feelings are mutual.  They have all played a very important part of my life in helping me to really learn who I want to be and where I want to go as a creative person.  That video was my first BIG step in going in that direction.

After that video went live a very interesting thing happened.  The Brother and Mom saw it and were very proud of me for finally being able to talk about everything, and share it with my audience.  Then things just took a very interesting turn for the better.  Things have been really nice around here since that video was uploaded.  I honestly cant even recall the last time things have been this quiet around here.  I was really taken aback by their reactions and was not expecting things to suddenly calm down they way it had.  I was actually anticipating the exact opposite!

And that's where the year ended up coming to a close.  I was able to take some time to really look inside in a way that I'd never been able to before.  I've really set a good foundation for moving forward to 2017.

I've had my plans fail dozens, if not hundreds of times in the past, which makes moving forward all the more terrifying.  But it needs to be done.  I'm ready for success, and I know I'll never get there if I sit around doing nothing.

2016 Year of Focus ended up being the Year of Reflection.  So what does that hold for 2017?  Let's try the whole Focus thing again.  2017 is the Year of Doog!!!  ITS MY YEAR!

STAY TUNED!