Truth or Daire

You may remember Belladaire from one of my earlier posts. I recently took the time to try and recreate one of my favorite original characters. She is essentially a fem-Al Capone. Posing as a dignified lady of luxury is part-time schtick. The truth of the matter is that she has her hands on the pulse of much of the shady dealing in the crime world. This pick is a bit out of character for her as she is the type to see this kind of behavior to be "undignified". On the other hand I made sure to give her a "Your going to pay for this", scowl.

Makoto

I had some good vibes going today. So I made a push to get another sketch done before the end of the day. Well, I failed since its well after midnight. I'm still feeling good, none the less. I wanted to do a Makoto sketch. I did a drawing of her a while back where I made her younger and cute. None of that happened today. I wanted to make her more feminine. Makoto is built like a dude. No Joke. Go play Street fighter 3, third strike and you'll see. Anyway I still wanted her to be somewhat tough looking but still not so Brute. I didn't bother coloring. It would have taken me another day and I'm just happy with how quickly I turned this around

Elena Pt2

I've been really indulgent lately. On the other hand, my day to day work has been stressing me out. So at least I can have fun with my sketches. It had been a long time since I played around with this character. I just really wanted to draw her upside down. Thats the honest truth. I had no other inspiration other than that. I'll prolly get another one in before the end of the year.

Isabelle

I just wrapped up a sketch for a guy whose a fan of my artwork. I have been busy lately, but I've been trying to commit to getting some sketches done. I don't often get people asking me to draw in my style so I saw it as more fun than extra work. I think the real challenge was trying not to go to far. I mean it is someone's wife we're talking about. Adam Hughes had a rant about how "not" to draw a guys girlfriend. I think that there's a sketch of it up somewhere.

Scotland Turnaround

Erica has been nudging me on to get a turn finished for two of my older sketches. I had a talk with her last week and decided that if I just set aside some time, I could get at least one of the two done. I've also got to get caught up on a fan request. More on that later. I been seeing a lot of cool posts on AAC. Need to get started on one of my own. Although I had hope to make Kurenai my first post. It was about a few days before I joined so I hesitated. Kinda seems past the point to add it now.

Red Ninja 2

A while back I did a sketch of one of my favorite ninja of all time, Kurenai. From the ill received game "Red Ninja". When I decided to go off the deep end I, of course, kept her in mind. Also, there was a posting that I came across by some folks at Udon. They had a project where they took an old sketch and redrew it. The older sketches were like 6 years ago. I saw some pretty cool stuff come out of that project and was inspired by it. Sadly, my senses have recovered and I think its time to act more civilized. No more cleavage windows and girls with little to nothing on for a while. Although I may try to rough out a few pieces for that sketch book. We'll see.

R. Mika

Yeah, I went off on a tangent "hard" this time. Just taking another crack at that R. mika costume re-design. I originally planned to have her making some comment about not being in street fighter 4. After the "Powah Grrl" sketch, I just didn't want to make a trend out of it. It was fun, and it's urging me to sketch up some other characters I wanted to revisit. If get the time soon, I already know who I'm going after next.

Sketch book Cover

I'll admit that I was starved for something "Big Ass". After that last sketch, I sat back and thought to myself "what to do next". I had this plan to draw Power Girl for a couple months now. She's already known for being top heavy but a size in apple bottom jeans never hurt in my book. Everybody's got there own interpretation of her. I considered using it as a cover to my next sketch booklet. That is "If" I get enough material ready for Dragon con. We'll see how it goes from there.

Just warming up

I been MIA for a long time now. Sorry the part time grind and the small gigs I have going on have been eating up a lot of my sketching time. OK. I'll admit that when I got the chance to sketch something the first thing that came up was CHEESECAKE!! I'll prolly be rolling out another one or two soon after just to get this out of my system.

Johnrokk Reel 2009

I haven't made up a new demo in years. My only other demo is one that I made shortly after joining Wild Hare. Gotten lost some where in the shuffle, I can't begin to think of where it is or find half the materials for it. Well out with the old I guess. Some some of the projects featured date date from as far as when I first joined Primal. Much thanks to them for letting me use those files. It was such a hassle back in the day to get anything from Wild Hare and if I ever see anything I did from Radical it'll be a long time coming.
A buddy of mine Casey suggested that I start this up and I had it finished sometime mid January. Its was about time and I haven't posted anything in what seems like an eternity. Looking to make some changes as far as my work habits are concerned. Not a new years resolution mind you. Just trying to reach a balance in my Work schedule and my personal projects. Hopefully I can start posting more frequently.