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Sketches to Improve my Inking

I've lately hit a conundrum. I really enjoy doing my comic digitally, but lately due to Inktober and me just messing around with ink, I've started to fall for the feeling of traditional once more. I know this is a huge leap, but I plan to do the next book all in ink. There is a feeling that I just can't replicate from my ipad, no matter how good procreate is. What is art if not the feeling it gives you, right? Sure you can create a visual spectacle with little to no trouble digitally, but the fe...

Mastering the Anatomy of the Arm and Hand

The best way to begin drawing a complex form like the arm is learning to simplify it to it's most basic shapes. The shoulder is a round triangle, the upper arm is a simpler cylindrical form, the forearms are cone shaped, and the hands can be simplified to look like mittens. Once...

Enter: Zatoichi the Blind Samurai

I hope this got you guys a little more excited for whats to come in Volume 1. I'll be posting an anatomy tutorial this weekend, so stay tuned!

Fabric Folds: Pants and Sweaters

Something many artists, including myself struggle with is being able to draw fabric without having to guess and make up where folds might or might not appear. What I tend to do is study a specific pose like how you see in the example above, and I repeat it until I feel more comfortable drawing it. The reason I did this demo was because I drew a character with their legs outstretched and I was not happy with how the folds were done, so I spent around an hour and a half just repeating it over and ...

Chimpanzee Head Tutorial!

It's been a while but I finally got a tutorial out. I hope this is thorough and helpful. I have another one coming ;)

Page 22 Rough

I think I spent way too much time on the roughs for this page...hehe. 

Descent

I used to always create scenes where a character can traverse through. It's fun imagining a route for them to travel through. It also makes posing characters easier. I wanna do this more.

Late night session

I'm better at sketching the closer it is to bed time.

Music: Lo Divino from the upcoming Kings of Nowhere soundtrack by eyelovebrandon

https://soundcloud.com/eyelovebrandon 

Building Characters!

Yay! Part 2! For this segment, I wanted to show the importance of using simple shapes in building complex characters. For the first character (let's call him Big Bruce), I wanted to make a big, bad, bodyguard kinda fella. Big Bruce is an army veteran. He saw some dark shit, and kept his mouth shut about it. He's lived life working under bad people, and all he knows is that bad people pay well. Big Bruce is the guy you go through to get the mastermind villain. For his face, we gave him a large...

Mugen process video

I hope y'all enjoy the vid!

Mugen (W.I.P)

Im currently having a go at one of my favorite characters from any show, Mugen. I can't wait to show you guys the finished version. For now, here's an almost done sketch. 

Character Creating!

I was commissioned to draw two characters based on certain qualities and traits. I had some fun figuring them out. I'd like to know, what kind of a person do you think the girl and guy are? Happy-go-lucky? Spiteful? Slacker? What's their names? How old are they? It's fun to just guess who someone is based off your initial impression. 

Head Tutorial Part 1.

Merry Christmas! I wanted to give you guys something that helped me when it came to making comics... learning how to draw heads and faces! This is the first part to many, where I'll go into detail on the process of building characters. I personally struggled with drawing faces that didn't all look the exact same. To change that, I learned to use simple shapes and markers, such as triangles for the nose, dots for the eyes, and lines for the eyebrows. This way by just placing t...

Kings of Nowhere, Page 9

Hey guys, recently I reorganized my pricing for the previous posts, changing "Reginald's" to "Basilisk's". I realised I promised you all tutorials and I wasn't providing it. I will be posting more pages from my comic because that is what this patreon is about. I am also working on my first proper tutorial on facial design and anatomy for developing characters. Thanks for your support guys. I will make sure to not disappoint!

Kings of Nowhere Sketch Session

These are just but a very few of the characters from Kings of Nowhere. Every so often I gotta spend several hours just drawing them out over and over so I don't forget how they look.

Trunks Process Video

For all you lovely patrons!  

Music

Moods - Love For The City

Trunks Tutorial

Trunks was always a favourite character of mine on Dragonball Z. For this piece, I really wanted to grab his ready to fight attitude. With the rough, I tried to capture the liveliness of his pose, his pissed off glance, and the accuracy of the folds in his clothes.

With digital pencil lines, I try my hardest to be extra sensitive with the thickness of the lines. Less pressure equals ...

Trunks tutorial releasing tonight

Hey guys! I just wanted to let you all know I will be releasing the step by step detailed tutorial+ video tonight on this marvellous character. 

Garden XYZ : Step by Step with walkthrough

This piece was done as a commission for @eyelovebrandon. He was looking for a Satoshi Kon Opus inspired piece. He wanted random elements in there to help fortify the chaotic atmosphere. I wanted to do something similar but with my own take. I went with him centered in the middle, surrounded by animals and people that would kind of act as his posse, as if he has his own show or manga, ...

Character Building

These are early passes at creating the Moreno family. Bili Moreno, Toni Moreno, and Annabelle Torres. I try to play with as many emotions as I can just so I get a better feel of the character and whether I like how they look after the 5th time drawing them. It's crucial to enjoy the features of that specific character, because in the process of creating a comic, you will be connecting to them more than you could have ever imagined. It's best to not get bored of them, so play around with it as...