zombie n' ghouls

some of the index cards littering my desk space.

Gradients

I tried coloring with gradients, and it turned out. dunno if it turned out good but it's not nearly as bad as I expected it to look. I was inspired by a lot of James Stokoe's stuff, he uses gradients all over the place and it looks rad.


What I did was singled out different parts of the guy with candy colors using the paint brush, then used the magic wand to select those parts and then used the gradient tool. Pretty simple. and fun too. Especially when I'm bobbing my head to this crazy Gorillaz collaboration jam.

Also, I made a portfolio blog to apply for this comics internship (which I did way late so I didn't get in(but that's okay, cause I'm still gonna work on my stuff))
www.troydrawscomics.blogspot.com

There's some neat things on there, neat old things. Things that aren't on THIS blog.

PS. am I spelling gradient right?

Finally

Remember way back, I made a post a whole year ago on how I was drawing this Thor page? It's been sitting around penciled forever and between school, other things, and being just plain lazy ( and also afraid to let a drop of ink touch the page). I finally went at it.

There's something I'm not so proud of, like the rocks and cast shadows. And I didn't exactly hit the Walt Simonson style I really wanted to go for. But all in all this is probably the best comic art I got to date. Being it's on comic board and isn't a mindless doodle extracted from an index card.

Meat Can Rocket

Drew a panel from this Battle Angel Alita book I got from Goodwill. Drew it on an index card, scanned, blew up, inked, scanned, Manga Studio'd the action lines, posted on Blogger.

First time I used Manga Studio, it's nothing like Photoshop at all.

Prophet

I idly drew this on a notecard when I should've been doing something important. The whole day this notecard was staring at me and yelling "finish me! finish me!"

What is it is some fanart of the reboot of Rob Liefeld's Prophet by Brandon Graham, Simon Roy, and Richard Ballerman (can't find a website???). It's a pretty sweet book and it looks like it's going to some interesting places. It's about an "Astronaut" that's been asleep underground for a real long time, that surfaces with some kind of orders and a job to do possibly 10,000 years in the future from his time. It's a strange earth with mushroom men, 6-legged carnivore goats, and feral wolves with brain parasites. It's been described as Conan in the future, which inspired my drawing. It's only 3 bucks and it's 22 pages with no ads. Best money I've spent in awhile.

Anyway, here's the finished colored drawing. What I had in mind was Conan lurking through a cave or cult temple with a luscious babe behind him. (there's boobies)

Here's just the black, which I did entirely with a brush.

and here's the notecard drawing (and some other neat ones I have laying around on my desk), that I scanned and blew up to ink the above drawing.

Hourly Comics Day

I didn't know this was a thing? I'm gonna start updating here so I stop spamming the Internet.

Juicy Update

[If you're getting the sleek blogger image viewer and can't see the tiny beautiful details in these drawings, right click them then choose "View Image" and it should pop up in full reading friendly resolution.]

This post is probably my biggest one yet, as in there's more than one or two pictures; some of them are colored, some I'm really proud of, and others are just there. So far it's been a productive year, if sketching a lot is productive, and I hope it stays that way. My New Years resolution is to kick ass and chew bubble gum, and so far I haven't bought any gum. I had an awesome time back home for the holidays 'cause I got hung out with friend pals I haven't hung out with in ages, and learned to play Settlers of Catan. My advice for new players is to not go for the foreboding mountains in the middle that has a 12 thinking that it will become a symbol of power and suitable capital for your wealthy empire.

Anyway, enough about me and my life. Lets look at some pictures I drew.

So awhile back I bought myself a moleskin (moleskine?) book to draw in and I like it. It fits in my pocket which I believe is the point. Another feature I like is that I can take it out to bars and stuff and have something to do when I inevitably end up sitting there with nothing to say. But I'm worried this may come of as pretentious, like "Oh, excuse me. I'm going to draw in public because I'm sooo artistic and junk." Here's some of the best doodles I got in there right now.

Yesterday I bought more index cards. I've found out I like index cards. They're just the right size for a simple drawing, maybe a large thumbnail. AND I can write notes and junk on them then lose them in the clutter on my desk. Here I believe I subliminally copied Marian Churchland when I was drawing this goblin guy. I like goblins. Oh yeah, I busted out the water colors on that last one. I'm starting to like water colors.
This next one here is the product of a moment of divine "I really wanna draw right now". Which I wish happened a lot more often. Really this drawing is all about Ganon and I think I drew two pictures in one, divided by the horizon line in this crazy warped perspective. Also I inked the whole thing with a brush, I'm starting to get comfortable with a brush. And this drawing is pretty tiny for using a brush, it's just under a foot tall so inking Link and Zelda was like defusing a bomb.
This is the best storytelling I have ever done. Plot wise, it's lacking because it's just two guys fighting. And the dialogue's pretty cut and cry. But with the panel arrangement and pacing it reads really well, and even I get disapointed when I read it because of the cliffhanger ending. This "strip" is a product of sitting around in the living room hanging out with people while I idly doodled in this notebook thing that was just laying around.