Hellboy Doodle - SotD 126

Bonus Sunday sketch! Now, I will make sandwiches where the only topping is bacon. Good day.

Sketch-a-day 054 Cheat?

Did these awhile ago and just got them back. They were in-class assignments during comicbook class. I can't remember what the theme was. I want to say "Soldier". Either way, it was treated entirely seriously, and not seriously at all. A.k.a... just how many swords can one guy get away with, and the VERY sudden inclusion of robot legs.

Hellboy/Spawn Crossover

What I worked on today. Took quite a bit longer than I thought it would. Shouldn't have waited till the day before. But! I do like it much more than anything else I've done for comicbook. Has  slew of problems that could use fixing. We will see if I can get to them tommorrow. 

Assignment was to take two comicbook characters, same series or different, and put them together into one splash page of sorts. Basis that it could be a potential portfolio piece.

For now, I sleep and worry about the massive amount of film and lit homework I have, and the rewrite I have to do to save my grade. Essays. I. Hate. Essays. Really paying for some slacking off in there right now. Big Time. On top of that, english exam next monday.

Sorry for the lack of updates. Haven't done anything worth posting. Bit of a slump the past few days. Seemed like every mark was a bad one.

Comicbook Cover Finished, Finally

So its 6:45 on the dot as I type this. A new day that I have greeted, and prepped for all through the night. This all nighter stuff. Is getting old. Just got back for goodness sakes. 

If you've seen the previous posts, you are probably going "Michael, wasn't this red before?" and I would have to say yes. "Yes, it was". But I sat down yesterday and after almost 2 fruitless weeks of staring at it. I was sick of that stinking red. And I was more sick of the oils. So we have here a painting that is half oils, half digital. Started digitally painting at 10 o'clock. This one took awhile to finish up. I'm a bit loopy right now. So glad though, that this is out of the way. Especially since I've been running around singing about the end of the world and the AOI show.

The same AOI show that now has a blog! GO. Visit it. Be free. 

aoishow.blogspot.com

I am really sleepy. I had to edit this three times. Sorry to those that follow. 

Comic Cover Still Continuing Part Duex.

Edit:

Got a better picture in this light, especially since the liquin has settled down a bit. The monster doesn't have teeth yet. Which are the main selling concept of him. Think snake teeth, and shark teeth combined. Nothing has changed since the previous picture. Gonna start popping out the figures tonight.

Just plugging away at it, pushing, pulling, ruining... adding red like a crazy man. NOt really sure where I'm going with it yet. Which is probably bad.

Comic Cover Still Continuing.

Still chugging along.

Everytime I get sick of painting I'm gonna take a picture. Wish it was early though, so I could get some good light. Still don't know what or if what colors are gonna happen. They'll be de-saturated... but I have no idea. I like the idea of this kind of golden monster... dunno. 

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Little Update: Did another hours worth of painting this morning after I woke up. Hopefully once I kind of start to render out some things, the strong ashley wood appearance will fade. I love the dude, but I don't want to be him.  Still having alot of fun doing this one though.

The beginnings of my comic book cover, for comic book class. It features hex and the monster from my previous comic book page, just duking it out. Hoping in the end to leave this one really really loose, but really going in and tightning up the important stuff. To give almost a false focus. I won't be doing it in the stye of the comicbook pages. Tommorrow, gonna wake up and paint some more on it and continue "drawing". This is the first time I've done a technique like this. 

First I gestured it all out, no pre sketch on the board. Then just took paint rags and started to take away, rub out, and add turp. Then said "o.k." and wiped it all down again and glazed the entire thing with a almost black brown and started over again, repositioning things where I wanted them. Then started to take away again. Don't love it yet, but I think it's a good start, and I'm really excited to detail out and fade, and really push and pull things. Taking awhile, getting used to oils again, but what more fun way to start? Technically a finger painting.  

So I guess I lied about the stories, as I will most likely be posting progresses of this. We will see.

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Today's sketch isn't much of a sketch, its my comic-book homework due tomorrow. This one, once it got moving was a ton of fun. Forgot how much I love drawing monsters, and moreso tails of monsters. Characters are based loosely off of the character concepts given in class, along with a script. It'll be interesting to see how all the pages read together. Every student in the class was assigned a page. Good first assignment for the semester. Interesting, but easy. Got all the basics with it. Next up is a cover contest for it. Excited for that. 

P.s. don't make fun of the last panel. I know it's weak. 

Final ComicBook Page

Just finished this up tonight. The second comic book page of my 13 wives story. Technically not the second page in the whole story, but for the class, it is the second page. It's annoying to me that I can't ink it. I really, really want to ink it. It would be so much easier to read without that visual noise. Lemme know what you think. Not a whole lot happens on this page, it's mainly just a intro page for this character.

The other page is in the mega-post, just a tiny bit down the page.