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'.

Catching Up

Well, my plan to stay on track with this thing fell off the rails a bit huh?

But even though I didn't post on Thursday or Friday, that doesn't mean that there wasn't sketching being done.

I got a page of sketchbook time in on Thursday, but wasn't able to get anything done Friday. However I did get a page of drawing done today.

I'm pretty sure that it might be hard to get my sketching done this next week as work is going to keep me CRAZY busy to make up for this week of snow days. Just a warning.

So, here is content for those days, just a little late.

Tuesday Mobile Update

Good evening everyone. Sorry about not posting yesterday, the plan to move my sketches over via my phone hit a small snag.

So, here is my sketch of Cammy from Friday along with a page of sketches I did last night. I have a few sketches going today that I will post before bed. It's been an interesting snow day here that actually kept me pretty busy. But I will have something to post for today before I hit the sack.

Hope ya dig the doodles.

Another Dose of Miller

No, not the beer. It's time for another sketch in the style of Frank Miller. I got to spend a few more minutes on my Miranda sketch today. And now it's time to post it.

I have been having a hard time finding a brush in CS3 that I like for this style, but this one worked a little better than the one I used earlier on the Squirrel Girl sketch.

Her face didn't turn out how I wanted it to, and that's mostly because I was having a hard time getting the 'digital ink' to do what I wanted. Were I doing this in traditional media I'm pretty sure that it would have been a lot easier for me to get the eyes right.

And I found it funny that even though she is from a far more technologically superior universe/time than ours, I still drew her with a 45. I guess it was the subtle influence of the Frank Miller art style.

Oh well, at least I'm getting something up tonight.

A Work in Progress

Good evening out there in internet land.

Welcome back for another installment of ninjaboy's sketch-a-day. I'm your host, ninjaboy.

Well I did manage to take 15 minutes today to sketch out the gesture for my Frank Miller - Miranda (take 2) sketch.

It's not quite as flowy as my previous/first gesture from yesterday, but it isn't a bad start. Hopefully I'll be able to start blocking in the fills tomorrow and get it ready for posting on Friday.

(I'm not confident that I'll have a sketch to post tomorrow as I have a busy day at work, then tomorrow night is my martial arts class and I'm usually pretty beat after that)

So until then, have a great night and I'll see you back here soon.

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.

Saturday is the new Friday

Blast! I missed my posting yesterday.

We had some friends over for dinner after work last night and I got caught up with that so I completely forgot to open my laptop.

I did get in a sketch yesterday. And it is of Vanessa from King of Fighters. I have always liked her design, though I haven't played her much in the games.

I was liking the sketch yesterday, up until I started working on her face. Then for some reason I just couldn't get the eyes to come together at all. And before I knew it, the 10 minutes I gave myself for the sketch had come and gone.

Oh well. Maybe I'll come back and fix this sketch up in the future.

Anyway, I hope you all have a great weekend. It's already sunny and blue skies here. Play hard and be safe.

Fighting Game Gals, Part 3

Good evening out there in internet land.

Just got back from watching class again and I wanted to get my posting taken care of before I forget.

Today's entry in the Fighting Game Gals line of sketches, is of Last Blade 2's Hibiki.

I played this game a bit years ago when I had my old Dreamcast. It was a lot of fun, and I loved the character designs. Hibiki was a particular favorite of my friends and mine.

I didn't get as much time to work on the sketch today. So I think I'll put a little more time into it tomorrow. Or at the very least some quick splashes of red.

See ya all back here tomorrow.

Ha Ha! Made it!

Well, I thought for sure I was going to miss another posting this week. After I put my daughter to bed I got sucked into adding some new content to my iTunes and completely lost track of time.

I already missed my posting yesterday. I wouldn't miss another one.

So here is yesterday's sketch.

It's of my favorite video game karateka, Hitomi from the Dead or Alive series. Honestly, I haven't played the games with her that much. But I love her design.
The sketch is very loose, but that's to be expected as it was my first sketch for the week and I only had a few minutes to work on it.

Today's sketch is next.

In keeping with the fighting game girl trend, I decided to sketch Street Fighter's Ibuki. The pose for this sketch was inspired by the opening scene of the movie Shinobi no Mono. I just recently picked up the series and am really looking forward to watching them.
You should all probably expect some more shinobi sketches in the near future.

Well hope ya'll dig the sketches and have a great evening. I have to get to bed. I'm sitting in on another class tomorrow evening and need to be rested.

Good night.