Texture

Another portrait from the same thread as the last one. This expression was just too good. :)

Zombie Me

Probably won't get to finish this CHOW on time since I've still got two POW (Panels of the Week) pages to clean up and I'm going out to dinner tomorrow and Saturday, but I'm going to have to finish this one up sometime because hey -- it's not every day you get to be undead.

Aah, I had a great idea for a Hallowe'en costume this year but I don't own quite enough things to pull it off. I was going to go as an anime catgirl, put a big stack of manga on my desk and "desu" at everybody at work all day. But the only anime t-shirt I own is this one and it's not exactly safe for work. And one ridiculous cat hat doesn't a catgirl make. Or hell, maybe it does! Maybe I should do it anyway.

Next year I'm going to get a fake beard and suspenders and go as a Bob. A Sysadmin Bob.

Elfin Face

A caricature from some photo I found on the web:

Today's Sketchbook

A demonstration of my retarded inking skills through random photo reference. The first face is just me trying to draw the actual individual features in the photo without any sort of attempt to put them together in a holistic sense.
The second face is using the features in the first drawing to make an actual character.

Dessins du Jour

Some more experiments in realism/not-so-realism. Pose from a photo and the subsequent messing around.


A closer look at the more cartoony version:



A girl from a photo on someone's blog:



And because I can't stop reading Go Fug Yourself (even though I'm philosophically opposed to fashion commentary... But then the authors go and post another picture of Bai Ling and I think "OMG Bai Ling, I have no clue as to who you are but if I just keep watching you I will have awful drawing material for decades.") I pushed the poor girl into GFY mode:

Cartooning

Here's a sketch I did last week of some random guy on Flickr. The photo was taken in full sunlight and the shadows were nice and crisp. I went with the stark, easy-to-ink look rather than halftones.


And then I tried to do a more simple, cartoony version -- not a direct conversion, but pushing the features and body in one direction:



An altogether beefier kind of guy, the sort of guy you imagine as a security guard or policeman of some sort. I cut the legs out of the picture because I screwed up the angle on them.