Sunday, or as I call it, getting Friday's Sketch Done Day

Hey everyone out there who still remembers that this corner of the internet exists.

I finally got around to cleaning up my Hercules sketch for @Sketch_Dailies. I found myself creating layer after layer trying to get it cleaner and cleaner before I realized that I need to put this thing to bed. And get myself ready for the same.

Anywho, I'm really liking the idea of having a topic selected for me to sketch every day so I'll be trying to keep this up as long as I can.

See ya'll next time. Hope you dig.

Thursday & Friday in 1

Hey everyone. I worked some OT last night and forgot to post my sketch. So here's my Thursday & Friday sketches.

Well, good afternoon everyone.

So much for my posting a sketch every day. That really didn't come together the way I was hoping it would. But I did make sketches every day last week and today. And I'll even through in a guest sketch for a treat.

After my Trickster & Scotch sketches I decided to take a break from them and started working on something completely different. So I started doing a sketch that in my mind was to be named 'The Encounter'. I was more or less happy with the theme and general sketch of it (first sketch) but when I came back to work on it some more the next day I realized that I was falling out of love with it rapidly and could no longer work on it, so at the end of the day that sketch never went further than sketch two.

On Friday I worked on a sketch of things not going well for someone that tried to get the drop on a powerful young woman who is expertly trained. As well as dressed for a very exclusive night out.

And today's sketch is of some type of fantasy General, or some sort of Commander letting the stress of the impending combat situation get to him. The booze doesn't seem to be lifting his spirits, and the invitation of a comfortable bed with some warm company is being met with indifference. Let's hope that things end up working out for him and his party.

And the Guest Sketch Treat was done by my friend/coworker WB. It shows Trickster & Scotch fighting over the highly sought after keys to the motorcycle. Whoever has the keys gets to drive, while the other has to ride in the side-car. It also has a second sketch of the pair on said motorbike, and looks like Scotch lost out on getting the keys this time.

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.

Sketch Dump

Good evening to those of you out there who happened by my digital dojo tonight. I hope you all are well and having a splendid time in these final hours of a very beautiful Friday (here in the Pacific Northwest).

I'm very sorry to say that I didn't get my sketching or blog posting, done as originally promised this week. But I did manage to sit down with the ol' Bamboo tablet and rapidly aging stylus to do two pages of random sketches.

The first was done yesterday during my lunch break, while the second was done today during one of my regular breaks. In between working on document outlines and reading project documents.

I hope you all get a kick out of em'. There was some fun stuff here. I was particularly entertained by sketching the minotaur head on page 2.

So until next week. Have a great weekend.

Monday Fantasy: Choose your own adventure

Good evening. It's time for a much overdue Monday Sketch.

I had a super busy Monday as my project had to send out a major milestone today. But the good news is that we got the builds out the door before 6pm. Which was great for me as I have been having some trouble with my foot lately (weird pain in my heel, along the inside of my foot) and it was seriously agitated today from a lot of running from my cube, to my temps desks, to my producer's and lead programmer's offices.

By the time we were done with our tasks I was ready to not move around for a while, so I fired up CS3, started listening to the Final Fantasy Tactics soundtrack and began sketching.

I ended up sketching a young night looking at an old map. I really only spent around 10 minutes on the sketch, but I have an idea of the environment in my mind right now. He's in a forgotten portion of a castle's library. Looking at a map leading to a legendary treasure and realizing that a new chapter in his life is beginning at that moment.

That, or he's looking at some form of inkblock nude pinup he found in his Lord's chambers. Perhaps of the Lord's wife? Or mistress?

I'll let you decide what this story is yourself. And the fact that he doesn't have a face should help you come up with some great versions yourselves.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy and I'll see you all back here tomorrow (hopefully).

What a Week it Has Been

Good evening out there in internet land.

I'm finally catching some time to update this ol' blog of mine. My absence lately has been largely in part to some rather big news at work, resulting in me now working for a new company and a sea change in the type of games my company makes, as well as a change in how we go about making these games.

There has been a lot to get educated on so far, with a lot more to come. And of course this is on top of continuing work on the project that I was already assigned to. So my free time has been rather sparse as of late.

Tomorrow I'm going to go to my martial arts class that I have now missed for an entire week, so that coupled with work doesn't lead me to believe that I'll be getting a sketch done tomorrow either.

So to make up for the previous lack of updates, and another one tomorrow, I'm finally posting some of the sketches that I've done recently.

Hope ya'll dig 'em and I'll try to get some more done in the near future.

Have a great evening.

Monday and Tuesday, Sort of Friday Too

Good evening anyone out there that is still coming around to this blog.

Sorry for the continual lapses in my updates. I started to do a sketch on Friday of Soka and Suki from Avatar: The Last Airbender. But I didn't get much farther than some quick gestures, so I fleshed out the forms a little more on Monday.
Suki's right arm is crazy long, and I didn't feel like spending a lot more time trying to fix the layout. But I like the concept of the sketch and will probably re-visit it again in the near future.

Today's sketch is inspired by the upcoming Pixar flick, Brave. The teaser trailer looks pretty awesome. I'm a big fan of Scottish lore and love those settings, so this movie looks to be right up my alley. Plus the colors are amazing.

Anywho, I might finish this one up some more tomorrow. Or I might work on something else all together. We'll see what happens.

Have a good night everyone.

Tripple Shot

Well, guess what. I finally got around to posting to my blog.

I have three sketches for your viewing pleasure tonight. The first is a sketch of Conan I did on Saturday when I had a few minutes. This one was done in my sketchbook.

The second was an outline for another drawing of the Cimmerian, rescuing a princess. But when I looked at it again this afternoon I realized that it looked almost identical to the Marv and Goldie sketch I did the other day.

So I scrapped that idea and moved on to today's sketch of the Barbarian in the process of rescuing the princess.

Hope ya'll dig the sword & sorcery sketches. And I'll see you all back here again next time.

Darnit!

Well blast! I totally spaced on updating my blog last night.

So here's my late update from last night. I did a little more work on the previous sketch, fleshing out the adventurer in the foreground, as well as roughing in the monster behind him.

Not a lot of new work, but enough for an update.

If I get the chance to do another sketch today I will. But seeing as how I have class tonight, I probably won't be able to get one done and posted. We'll see though.

Setting the Scene

Good evening out there in internet land.

Today I decided to work on another sketch that was more than just a figure posing in a positive field. So since I've been thinking about D&D again quite a bit today (to get my mind off some other sad news in the family) I decided to do a sketch of a character not exactly having the best of times during an 'encounter'.

I would like to work on this some more tomorrow if I can. But I do have another cool idea for another sketch (thanks for the suggestion Saul) that I want to get done later this week.

Anyway. Hope you all dig the super rough layout.

Have a good evening.