Forgot One

Hey all, I forgot to post the iPhone sketch I did earlier today that inspires this evening's doodle.

Playing around with Sketchbook Mobile X.

First!!!

Well well well, good evening everyone.

I finally found the time to get a sketch done. I know, I know. You've all given up on me, and are about ready to start tearing me a new one. But let me first explain my recent absence.

I landed a new job contracting at a game company in downtown Seattle. And to help save some extra money (as well as my sanity) I joined a vanpool with some new/old coworker. But that means that I'm out the door by 7am and am usually getting home around 7pm. Which doesn't give me much time to visit with the family, eat dinner, get my daughter ready for bed and read her her stories before I have to pass out and repeat the next day.

I do have a plan to revamp my blog though. I was inspired by another artist online, who drew a comic that I really enjoyed. And will probably be starting my sketch-a-day up again, but this time in 'pencil on paper' form. Once I get the sketchbook I want.

Or option 2, try my hand at doing some sketches on my phone or on an iPad if able.

So stick with me. I'll be starting up regularly again soon. Especially since the ol' tax return should be deposited any day now.

So until then, enjoy a quick sketch I did this evening at home with my Bamboo and Sketchbook Pro.

Peace.

More Updates: The Slacker Files

Good morning everyone.

Well, what can I say. I've been severely lacking with my sketching and blog posting. I have been working in an occasional sketch here and there though. Especially lately. October always gets me in the mood to draw scary stuff, monsters or other related things.

So today I bring you Shinobi, faces, Vampirella, a werewolf, and a gung-fu sword movement study.

Enjoy. And hopefully I'll be back with more updates next week.

Trying to Get the Band Back Together

Good afternoon everyone.

It's a beautiful, sunny day here outside of ninjaboy's honbu dojo. The GF and our daughter are out of town for the day, and I'm taking some time before I have to start running errands, mowing the lawn and doing some housework before I go out to watch UFC 150 with some friends this evening.

And so, I decided to 'finally' post some sketches that I had done but never got around to posting for various lame reasons.

Work has finally slowed down for me and so I think that I'll be able to get back on track with my original 'sketch-a-day' intentions.

So without further delay, here is another sketch dump. These have been created using a mix of CS3 and Sketchbook Pro.

A LONG Overdue Update

Good evening everyone.

I'm finishing up the last of my 3 days off from work, and have a 'decompress' day to myself. I was able to get some laundry done, did some cleaning, installed a new weather seal on our front door, and managed to finish Uncharted: Drake's Fortune. What a fantastic game. I'm really looking forward to starting the second game in the series.

But before then I have some new demos to play.

I'm getting off the point, sorry about that. After I finished the game and some chores I realized that I have not updated anything new to this blog in quite some time. So I would like to fix that right now.

I have been doing some sketching in my laptop from time to time, though not as often as I would have liked due to continual crunching at work. But at any rate, here are some new sketches. Hope you dig em'.

Who is this? Where am I? What's going on?

Well well well. Lookit here. Someone found their way back to the internet and actually managed to update their blog.


I hope I didn't cost some of you out there any money (placing bets that I have completely abandoned this project). But if I did, well, shame on you for betting against me.


And not offering me a cut.


Anyway, I have done some sketches. Not much, but some. It has been a crazy ending portion of a year for me. Work has been, chaotic and unpredictable as of late. And one of my family members has just been diagnosed with cancer and is undergoing surgery tomorrow. And that's just a few of things worth mentioning.


But I have done some sketches. And since I'm sitting here at work waiting for something to reproduce, and then will be on the phone with my family for the next little while, here is a small dump of them. I have an actual physical sketchbook page to add to this as well, but I haven't taken a picture of it yet. So you have that to look forward to.


Anyway, hope ya'll dig these sketches. And I'm hoping to get some more done on my holiday break.


See you tomorrow.

Appologies

Wow. I'm at a loss for words. I have seriously neglected this poor blog o' mine.

I mean, seriously. If it were a child, CPS would have been called and it would be taken to a safe place, where it would receive warm blankets and hot food. While I spent some time in a hard, cold cell awaiting my fate.

Despite work being pretty crazy lately, I have been albe to fire up CS3 form time to time. I didn't get a sketch finished, but I have been working on a sketch of the character Shi the past few days. A minute here, two minutes there.

I have plans for the sketch that hasn't gotten realized yet, but I am hoping to get some time on it tomorrow. Perhaps while my daughter is taking a nap. We'll see how that goes.

Till then, hope you all have a good evening and a great weekend.

Cutter

Hi again. It's me. Ninjaboy back for another sketch for you.

I know, I know. I missed my sketch yesterday and I feel bad about that. But I managed to get the sketch that I was thinking about yesterday done today. Well, not really done. But at least put down in pixels and posted to the internets for you all to look at.

The sketch is of the character Cutter from the Elf Quest comic series. My brother and I were really into this series a long time ago, and he had all four of the original hardback trades. Which he let me take care of for him.

Hope you all dig the sketch and I'l see you back here for another sketch soon.
I have my martial arts class to watch (foot's still far from healed) tomorrow night, so I don't know if I'll get my sketch done tomorrow or not. I'll try though.

Have a good night.

Two Sketches for this Monday Night

Hey there everyone.

Well I spent the weekend with a cold, and a sick daughter, but the family and I did manage to have some fun when we could.

But it is now way past time for bed, so I'm going to make this quick.

Here is the sketch from last Friday. It is of the character Briareos Hecatonchires from Masamune Shirow's manga Appleseed.

And today's sketch is another inspired by Frank Miller's Sin City. It is of Marv and his goddess, Goldie. Or at least, the memory of her.

Hope you all dig the sketches and I'll see you back here tomorrow.

An update and a snafu

Well, hey there everyone.

I meant to post my sketch on Monday, but completely got distracted and forgot to pull the laptop out to post it.

So I was going to post it yesterday, along with a new sketch. But not only was it my daughter's b-day yesterday that meant that we were having a lot of fun but I also had a hardware problem with my laptop that resulted in my MacBook rebooting its self.

Before I saved my new sketch.

Awesome.

I'll try to get that picture re-sketched today if I get the chance.

But in the meantime, here's the sketch I was going to post on Monday.

It's of one of the comical Marvel heroes, who apparently is one of the most badass in the universe. Squirrel Girl.

However, as per Saul's suggestion I tried to sketch her in the visual stylings of Frank Miller.

It was really different trying to do this style digitally. I find it easy to do in traditional media, but after some more time I'm sure it will be just as easy to do in pixels as well.

Hope you all like.

A Week Condensed into One Post

Hi again.

Well, I didn't get any postings done this week. And a bulk of that was due to the fact that we were once again getting a different internet provider at home.

Another factor was me having enough time to do a fast sketch (almost) every day this week, but the next thing I knew the day was over, and I had to leave.

So here is my week-long backlog of sketches.

First, is based on the elven archer from the upcoming game Dragon's Crown by Vanillaware. I was a big fan of their previous game Odin's Sphere and am planning on playing their Wii game Muramasa sometime in the near future.

Next up is sketch of Solid Snake, inspired by a conversation I had at work on Tuesday about game pacing. It's no secret that MGS was, and still is, my favorite video game.

Wednesday's sketch was a super fast, and very sloppy scene of Spider-Man battling his nemesis, Venom. I realized that I really haven't been doing much more than sketches of a figure with no environment, or actual story. While this may have worked for the old Marvel Universe Trading Cards, it really starts to look one-dimensional and boring for a blog.

Thursday's sketch was going to be a rendition of Ayame from the Tenchu game series. But I only had a very short amount of time to work on the sketch, and was planning on re-visiting it later to finish it up.

Sadly, Friday was super busy for me and I ended up not working on Thursday's sketch any more. Nor did I work on a new sketch for that day. Bummer. And I was doing so well too.

Oh well, depending on how long my daughter's nap is today, I may get some more work done on the Ayame sketch. Or I'll just start a new one. But we'll see what happens.

Have a good weekend everyone.