Quick Warm-up sketch.

This is generally how my drawings start out life, as a very quick and rough sketch. In these quick sketches I mainly concentrate on Gesture, Anatomy, Perspective and Silhouette.

I then draw over my sketches on a new layer refining the drawing and adding more detail in a more finished clean line style. Sometimes I feel that the first sketch that I do is often the one with the most life in it. This year I resolve to try and keep the looseness and vibrancy of these initial sketches in my work.

This one was completed in about 15 minutes or so while I was warming up this morning. I kind of like how it came out, hopefully I'll come back and do more of a finished version later.

Ruff warm up sketch "Victorious Boxer!"

I should probably put some feet sticking into frame of the vanquished boxer or something similar!

Geoff 

Viking Sketch MkII

Yesterday I posted a sketch of a Viking which I had fun drawing. After coming back to him this morning with some fresh eyes I noticed a few things that I wanted to change, mainly about his pose. Which when I looked again seemed a little stiff and not so interesting. I also received some really great comments and feed back so I decided to re-work the sketch a bit before I went ahead and spent a bunch of time painting him up.

I also received a request to show my working ruff drawings which include my construction etc. When sketching on my Cintiq I tend to redraw and refine over and over making a new layer for each sketch. In this process I tend to loose allot of the ruff feel of my initial drawing which I am trying really hard to rectify.

Anyway here is the new version, a progression of all of the sketches from the first to last, and a side by side comparison between were I was yesterday and where I am now.

Thanks for viewing,

Geoff.

Viking dude MkII

Viking progression. Please excuse the faint one in the first version.

Side by side comparison of yesterdays version and today's.

Viking sketch

Been doing some drawing on the Cintiq again, still trying to break out of my usual drawing style and come up with something that I like. Getting there I think, pretty happy with this sketch will have to sit down and get some painting done at some point.

Enjoy 

Geoff

Viking warrior dude.

Fun Sketch

I have been working in Maya allot over the past few days and needed to draw something to get away from looking at Vertices, Edges, Poly's and Ngon's.

So I drew a bug thing. 

Quite like how it looks, probably because its something completely different from what I normally draw. Drawing took about 10 minutes and was a nice break from 3D land. Probably should develop it a bit more and paint it up at some point.

Ta Geoff

Bug thing.

Cintiq Sketching

Well its certainly been a while! As mentioned in my last post from bloody ages ago I have been really busy with home projects a new little addition to my family and freelance work. This year I resolve to post allot more often. 

As you may have also noticed I have been making a few changes to the look and also to the name of my blog. The look will continue to evolve for a while but the new name and URL will be staying the same (I think).

I was lucky enough to get a new Cintiq 22HD to go in my newly completed office space this year and I have decide to make it a personal goal to get much better at drawing in general and more specifically drawing digitally. 

As I have been away from the drawing desk for far to long my hand seems to have forgotten how to draw which has been incredibly frustrating, but at long last it seems to be coming back again. Lately I have been playing around with a few different styles of drawing characters and this is the first sketch that I am reasonably happy with, hopefully there will be more to come!

Long skinny leg guy.

I may add colour later.

Ta Geoff