Saturday, May 5, 2012

Saturday, April 28, 2012

Bishop

Anna's version here. Next: Cannonball!

Thursday, April 26, 2012

Colossus

Anna's version here. Next: Bishop.

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Magik

Anna's version here. Next: Rachel Summers.

Sunday, April 22, 2012

Boom Boom

Anna's totally radical version here. Tomorrow: Magik.

Saturday, April 21, 2012

Longshot

Anna's version here. Tomorrow: Boom Boom.

Friday, April 20, 2012

Magneto

Daily X-men: Magneto. Anna's here. Tomorrow: Longshot.

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Mirage

Today's mutant: Dani "Mirage" Moonstar.

My wife's lovely version here.

Next up: Magneto.

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Domino



See my wife's version here.

Next up: Dani "Mirage" Moonstar.

Monday, April 16, 2012

Sunday, April 15, 2012

Siryn



Our second X-Men sketch. This time it's Banshee's daughter, Banshee. (Also called Siryn, for those who find familial name confusion unamusing.)

Anna's delightful sketch is here.

Next up: Quicksilver. (Whose name must always be written in italics.)

Saturday, April 14, 2012

Havok



The Mrs. and I have decided to draw the X-Men. Every day or so, we'll pick another one out of the hat to draw. Today's is HAVOK. (They'll generally be pencil sketches, but it was faster to drop the black and the circles onto this one in P'shop.)

Here's Anna's Havok.

Tomorrow: Banshee's daughter SIRYN.

Friday, April 6, 2012

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Steed



Next up: Purdey.

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Process

Here are some prelims for recent pics I've done, starting with the "Witch Hazel" pic from my Cartoon Redheads blog.

This first one is a rough to get the feel of the overall shape of the figure. I establish the simplest outside edges first, and then carve out the negative spaces (such as where her legs part), like cutting into a pie.



I did this next one to give myself an idea of what the main lines would look like. As you can see, her feet didn't line up at first. I later decided that it would look better if the toes of both her feet all followed the same arc, which you can see in the final version.



Here's my first attempt at her head, followed by the version I ended up with, in which I tried to make her look less "Sabrina" and more mischievous.



Here are a couple of hat designs. Chuck Jones's original design was more cartoony, so he got away with placing the hat on her head like a coin on an egg, but since my version is slightly more realistic, I had to figure out a sensible way to fit her hat onto the dome of her skull without intruding on her bangs or ponytail.





And here's the rough of my Viveca Lindfors portrait. (I didn't end up doing a rough for the Lisbeth Salander portrait. The final versions of realistic portraits take longer than the finals of cartoon drawings, so I don't always have time to mess around with roughs beforehand.) In this rough, I'm getting a feel for the three-dimensional shape of her head, and the shadow pattern.



And that's that!