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Challenge: 05 Wolverine — tydesign
Drawing by tydesign. Here's a depiction of his sketch:
"I know I say this every drawing, that I’m quite happy with whatever I’ve done at the time. It’s usually because it’s an improvement over the prior week. This week is no different. I’ll go into detail.
1. Technique. I have found and started using a nonphoto blue pencil (Prismacolor col-erase, on sale for 59 cents at Blick) that is really hard to make a line with. Why is this good? Because I’m heavy handed and usually have a hard time erasing my blue line pencils when I need to. Not so in this case. Oh, but wait there’s more. Yup after I get a loose sketch down with this pencil then I switch over to the mechanical pencil (you’ve seen it the prior week with Iron Man and in my Venom in my photo albums). I use the pencil lighter than I used to (thanks to constant reminder from Jeremy and Emily to lighten up, hahaha). The mechanical pencil is filled with Pentel .05mm blue lead, which is really quite dark and provides great refining and detailing line.
2. Pose complexity. I think my poses are getting better and more dynamic. This usually means more foreshortening, more planning, more predrawing poses (before I tended just to ‘go for it’).
3. Scene depth and complexity. Most of my previous drawings (minus the digitally painted Cyclops and Hulk) are in a nonspace. I usually draw the figure and plan to add any scene elements in a Photoshop montage sort of way. Not cheating, but not developing my skills either. Here I’ve added trees in the back, rocks in the mid ground and Sabretooth’s hand in the foreground to make the scene that much more dynamic. I tell ya I was sorely tempted to add a masthead and type bursts just to make it more comic book like. I sure do miss those days, the past typography of the Gold and Silver Age of comics.
Special thanks again goes to Emily who pushed me to finish the trees more than I had and to resolve the Sabretooth hand better in space. Everyone needs someone to bounce off their art on."
Challenge: 05 Wolverine — tydesign
Drawing by tydesign. Here's a depiction of his sketch:
"I know I say this every drawing, that I’m quite happy with whatever I’ve done at the time. It’s usually because it’s an improvement over the prior week. This week is no different. I’ll go into detail.
1. Technique. I have found and started using a nonphoto blue pencil (Prismacolor col-erase, on sale for 59 cents at Blick) that is really hard to make a line with. Why is this good? Because I’m heavy handed and usually have a hard time erasing my blue line pencils when I need to. Not so in this case. Oh, but wait there’s more. Yup after I get a loose sketch down with this pencil then I switch over to the mechanical pencil (you’ve seen it the prior week with Iron Man and in my Venom in my photo albums). I use the pencil lighter than I used to (thanks to constant reminder from Jeremy and Emily to lighten up, hahaha). The mechanical pencil is filled with Pentel .05mm blue lead, which is really quite dark and provides great refining and detailing line.
2. Pose complexity. I think my poses are getting better and more dynamic. This usually means more foreshortening, more planning, more predrawing poses (before I tended just to ‘go for it’).
3. Scene depth and complexity. Most of my previous drawings (minus the digitally painted Cyclops and Hulk) are in a nonspace. I usually draw the figure and plan to add any scene elements in a Photoshop montage sort of way. Not cheating, but not developing my skills either. Here I’ve added trees in the back, rocks in the mid ground and Sabretooth’s hand in the foreground to make the scene that much more dynamic. I tell ya I was sorely tempted to add a masthead and type bursts just to make it more comic book like. I sure do miss those days, the past typography of the Gold and Silver Age of comics.
Special thanks again goes to Emily who pushed me to finish the trees more than I had and to resolve the Sabretooth hand better in space. Everyone needs someone to bounce off their art on."