Man, what a weird drawing of Bugs!

I will likely talk about this stuff tomorrow. Now that these are done, gonna move on to trying to make solid drawings out of John's quick doodles of Kaspar.

Another magician

Shrunk spaces, ruined some angling... Man, John's right, spaces are very easy to shrink. I will try to be more conscientious about this as I continue these studies.



The next half of this post, I need to emphasize that
I DID NOT DRAW THE FOLLOWING IMAGES! I am just practicing inking with a brush! Basically tracing!

I am only uploading these so I can keep track of my progress.

So I've always had sort of a weakness for inking. I mean real, physical inking. I can do digital stuff just fine because I feel pretty good about understanding the rules for it, but I have somewhat of a shakey hand. When I draw I kind of press hard, so using a brush sort runs counter to what I'm comfortable with.

But real, brush-and-pen ink has always been so beautiful and special and organic to me. And I want to get good at handling real, more delicate mediums. I figure, well, why not now, and why not just use rote practice until I feel confident? It's almost 100% technical skill that I have trouble with, so just inking really good drawings should be a step in the right direction. I've done probably about 20 of these print-out studies in the last couple of days and I'm finally seeing some very meager beginnings of getting comfortable with the stuff. I'm just using a brush pen for now, for training wheels.


As a note, isn't this Ed Benedict drawing of Ricochet one of the most beautiful drawings you've ever seen??

I'm sorry, Mr. Benedict, for sullying such a nice drawing. I'm still so shakey. The hands don't describe their forms at all, and the feet are also very jittery. Lots of mistakes, but almost all of them are out of complete inexperience with this stuff.

Another beautiful Benedict drawing

Me trying to ink again. I screwed up the tail pretty badly. This is really hard, but I think it'll be worth it once I get better.

I think I may have done Snagglepuss before Ricochet, if it matters. Anyway, so, this is the first time I've ink-practiced that I haven't been TOTALLY humiliated to show (I started intentionally practicing yesterday). Hopefully there will be more, and there will be visible improvement as I get more familiar with using a brush to make lines.

3 day's break and I get rusty!

Problems...

• The center line on the cranium off (too far to the left)
• Mallet too wide on near end
• Trunk of body too small, not solid enough
• The hat and carrot are off, but I did not notice this at the time (woops)

tried to fix them for the next step.



Man, I can't let myself go so long without rigorous practice. Stiff and yucky. I'm off to do another that will be better.

Anthony's dad again

Notice that I changed how far back the smile stretched in the finish. Why did I do that? I'm a yutz.


Ren doesn't hold together very well. I accidentally made the folds of skin underneath the pectoral muscle way too dark and big and attention-grabbing.

Not my best. These are tough, but I figure the more I do, the easier drawing will be (whether or not I can immediately perceive it).

More Anthony's dad

This one was more complicated, but less successful.


Clumsy beginnings... as the picture progressed I kept skootching Ren and Stimpy themselves closer (as they are supposed to be) but I did not skootch them enough, ultimately.


Finish is a bit too thick and dark... this one is actually drawn smaller than the other Anthony's dad study I did, which was a mistake because it's obviously a bigger picture...


Angles, angles, angles!!

because he was DEAD

First rough... scanned for problems, fixed some issues.
Got a rough that felt good, solid, somewhat accurate.
Added details, solidified lines.

Finish

• Left arm should be thicker and more manly
  
• Right hand should be smaller (namely the palm-shape less elongated)
  
• Details should wrap tighter on gut
• Pec muscle should be larger
• I made his chin too big, which stretched out his face; I compensated some cranium details to match. woops.
• Long story short, watch proportions.