Zelda Characters Fully Color

A couple days ago, I did some sketch of the characters from Zelda Skyward Sword. After finishing some projects that I had line up, I decided to color the characters. So far I only finish Zelda:

Birthday gifts

I am finally comfortable enough to give my artworks as gift. I don't do it all the time but when I do I feel like I can pat myself in the back for trying to make something endearing for the people that I care for.

My friend b-day was actually last month, but I didn't want to post up pictures of her gift until she got it and she finally got it this month. I was VERY inspired by Brittney Lee paper art...I don't think I can ever do some of the stuff she does with paper...but she really inspired me to do paper art. So my friend gift was my first (and maybe only) attempt to do paper art. I love her to death. I'm so sad that I couldn't be with her in person for her 23rd b-day so the only thing I can do is to send her something special and one of a kind homemade gift.

 

Another gift for a different friend who b-day was actually today. She is an amazing and awesome girl so I really wanted to draw her something special for her b-day. I knew for awhile that I wanted to draw her with a stormtrooper (because she LOVES THEM!!!) it just took me awhile to figure out the pose and drawing an actual stormtrooper...it's quite daunting to draw a stomtrooper so prop to people who ever attempted to draw a stormtrooper. I hope I'm 85% accurate with the suit....star war fans don't kill me lol.  

Chibi: Black Cat

I'm not the biggest fan of drawing chibi characters because when I think about it I think about anime style...and...it's just not my cup of tea anymore. However, when I saw a post on the group design-a-character about drawing a chibi ver of a Marvel character. I just couldn't let that go, I like Marvel characters so I decided to do Black Cat. I don't know much about her beside the fact that she is a character for Spiderman. I just like her because of her white long hairs and black suit. So here is the drawing I did:

INK: Legionaires by Tom Bancroft

It been awhile since I inked something. A couple days ago I came across this post. I really like Tom Bancroft stuffs. So it's a real honor and pleasure to have the opportunity to ink a drawing done by him.

Before when I ink something I would go it traditional which would be brush and ink, but I wanted to try something new this time so I digitally ink this piece.  It was a great fun and practice. I just want to break my steps down a bit or my process:

1. So I used  Tom B.'s original drawing as a bg and change the pencil work to a different color that I can see better with black inking. Then I made a different layer (oh I inked on photoshop) and inked over that. I used the Pen Tool alot, because it give me perfect lines and then I just zoom in alot to erase the end of the pen tool lines to make it more like brush stroke. 

2. The inking took awhile because I was figuring out what I should do with the different shading colors that Tom shaded on the characters especially the two characters on the bottom. So I decided to color the suit black and the highlight white.

3. Once  I was done with the penciling it self, I wanted to do something with the background. The drawing seem like it was a space scene and you know what that mean, the background should be black and you can see how that didn't go too well with my with black inking:

I had to look back at some comic inking artist to see how would they deal with black inking on black background and I noticed alot just made like a white halo or white outline outside the black inking. So I decided to give that technique a try.

 

What is a space scene without stars? I added stars and maybe even a bit more from the original drawing, I hope Tom Bancroft would be okay with that.

 DONE!!!

HTTYD Costumes

Wow, it been awhile since the last time I posted. Okay, so halloween is around the corner, not one of my favorite holiday, but it's growing on me. A couple of days ago I rewatched HTTYD and decided to draw this thought I had during the movie. A toothless baby wearing a Toothless costume and I thought of halloween and..trick or treating...candy...pumpkin...okay so my mind wonder for a bit, but I still finish the drawing I was thinking of. Enjoy!!!

A project I will revisit to make it better

Over the summer I got to work with a student from AAU to help her redesign some of her character design for her thesis. This is some of the clean-up work:

I CHALLENGE YOU, ALIEN TOY!!!

I'm a big kid at heart, so I like to draw illustration of little kids playing, so when I got a weekly challenge of to draw a Cowboy vs Alien theme drawing, I can't help myself, but draw this.