Repost from SDR—Captain N12 Pin-up
Just a repost, you can read the full rant here. This is my pin-up contribution to the upcoming Captain N12 issue No. 1 coming this July 2009 hopefully by our little do-it-yourself indie release for Super Debil Robot Comics. A little background, Captain N12 is the creation of Mr. Tom Perez and he is a mysitical underwear and condom for spandex wearing Cebuano Superhero (as indulgingly conjured and intended by the mind of his creator) and if you are intrigued then hopefully you’ll get a glimpse of him sometime soonest.
Sketchercise Thursday 3
Lady Tron's gonna kick my shiny behind for this Fail!
I was playing a tug-o-war in mind whether or not I’m gonna post this piece today but I posted it anyway for the lack of better judgement on my part. I am recently reading a Majestic TPB and came across Lady Tron in them pages and got me thinking, she looked easy enough to draw and stuff, with all the cyber crap 90% of her body is holding, yeah, I can pull it off. Unfortunately, no. I sucked at drawing women or cybernetically enhanced women for that matter. I make up a thousand excuses before I venture in with pencil in hand when it comes to drawing women. I tremble at even the thought of drawing one but every once in a while I save enough courage to actually do one and as always I FAIL miserably. This is not even a full body sketch. I even cropped out the lower half of her body just to compromise on posting this.
Well, I promise to do more sketches of women now and then even if I sucked and even if it kills me. I’ve done this self imposed sketch-a-day program to help me conquer my lineart weaknesses so help the gods that I would atleast try sketch practicing drawing women in order to be more whollistic. I just can’t draw only men and weird thingees exclusively, that would be impractical. For some time in the future I would have to draw women whether I like it or not, much like backgrounds, and hands and feet plus the lineart would be too gay, unbalanced without them. Hopefully I can upload a more decent one other than this. For now you’ll have to contend with commenting on this one.
Self – deprecation/observations:
1.Her neck is too long and skewed.
2.The leather jacket flaps are way too large to a point of dragon wings and wrong shading/lighting effect for it.
3.Cybernetic parts would’ve been more metal like than actual.
4.Her damn hair is supposed to be punk rock. Not teepee-like.
5. Boobs.Boobs. Boods.Work on it.
Nuff said. 
Sketcheroo Thursday
- Ghost Rider weird version
So its Thursday, and on with my self-imposed Sketch-a-Day futility. I was gonna do the Joker but opted with the Ghost Rider today and failed as you can see here. Thought drawings a skull on fire was simpler than a grinning clown, fooled me.
Note to self:
1. Fiery skull head is looking to detached than the original.
2.Cross-hatchings!cross-hatchings. They are not just lines, they add depth.
3.Left leg is humongous and unnatural.
4.Shadows!shadows!shadows. Same as note 2.
5.No reason to be sloppy and lazy just because this is a sketch. Work on it full time.
6.Ghost Rider outfit is looking gay. The black cloth texture on arms are missing.
7.Next time google/rummage files for some reference on whatever I am sketching and not be lazy as note 5 is implying. It helps.
Sketcheroo Wednesday
Long Live the Bat
This is day two of my self imposed sketch-a-day program. Although way too late, this is a tribute piece to the original Batman who died recently on Final Crisis issue no. 6 fried in the hands of Darksied nonetheless (correct me if I’m wrong, low memory me). I just want to draw him today so I ended up with this one, pencils over hurried inks as usual. Trying out the Uni Pin that I get to buy today using it together with the Sakura Calligraphic pens. Also, sketching it on a recently purchased sketch pad Berkeley, cheap and good, getting the hang of it. I don’t know if the paper on the sketch pad was intended to be inked on but I did it anyways.
Getting comfortable with the style that I am currently pursuing akin to that Kieth and Wayshack guy and terribly doing it. Notice all cross-hatchings in chaos mode flying in all directions specially visible on the arms part, lighting effects in disarray and inks hastily done. Well, forgivable because its just a sketch, I guess. I will fine tune this hopefully on future sketcheroos when procrastinating come a-knockin’.
I am just pumped up now. Hope I can graduate into sequentials soon because that’s what I am aiming at but not even tried to do even now. Just doing pin-up sketches for now. Comments highly appreciated.
