January-March 2014 Inked Drawings, Sculpture.

Here is some inked work and sculpture I have done from January 2014 to March 2014.

I posted the works here in the order of completion

March 2014

Here is the source material for the little guy on the left. He is a Star Wars Kenner Luke Skywalker X Wing Pilot with a creepy finger puppet on his head. He lives in my bathroom with his bear bride.

I recently flew into Massachusetts, for my Nana T's memorial. The napkins on my Alaska Airlines flight had some cool Northwest Native American art.

A daily angel confirmation "Yes I Love You"

This one got good feedback in most places, I decided to make it a write your own caption. Write your captions in the comment section.

 I sculpted a plasticine head for drawing reference of Jack Maggot. I have some more web comic inked pages ready to scan now.Get ready for web comic updates soon.

I show the progression of the Jack Maggot head here. This bottom image being the earlier state. I'm still working on this one, but I have already used it for reference when working on my web comic.

I started this sculpture in the beginning of February 2014.

This head is from the end of January. I was tired from the Viking vs Space Invader drawing so I wanted to get back to the familiar multi eye heads I have been drawing. I may sculpt one of these multi-eye heads at some point.

Viking vs Space Invader 95% Complete

I am still planning on using some half tones in the checkerboard behind the space invaders.

The inscription on the blade says "Endless War"

This stage of the drawing has some of the Viking, his shield, some knot-work, background all inked in.

I had to lay out the pencil line-work for the left side Viking at this stage. On this drawing I started using a Prismacolor Ebony Pencil from my stained glass days. This pencil can leave very dark graphite marks when you build it up on the paper. This made it easier to see how the penciled areas would end up looking when filled in with ink.

I needed to redraw the Viking on the left. He was drawn on trace paper to visualize him better. My pencil lines were unclear and I was getting lost in the messy pencil image on the bristol board. I marked out the knot work behind him so I could begin to figure out how that would work. Then I flipped the knot work vertically to mirror the section on the bottom behind the Viking on the left. I used Saral Graphite paper to transfer the drawings from the tracing paper onto the bristol board.

Approximately half way across the drawing. Here is a detail of the Viking splitting a Space Invader's head.

A lot of ink fill in work at this early stage. Getting to the fill in is harder than I would have thought. The details needed to be clearly inked beforehand.

Stage one inking, I chose to move right to left so not to smudge the pencils.

The drawing is all roughed in at this point. The thumbnail is on the bottom left of the page. On the bottom right are some brush pen samples to test the grey brush pens.

The thumbnail has the viking with an axe.