Hardware fail

So, my scanner’s on one of it’s periodical failures. Same as last time, the sketch will continue, but I’ll just have to upload them when I’m at my parents’ this weekend.

Sorry about this, guys!

Daily sketch #107 – Devourer of Souls

Ok, really, don’t ask how this idea came about.  But for some reason, I seem to have redesigned L. Ron Hubbard as a Galactus parody (Ellron Hubbar, Devourer of Souls), complete with Herald Silver Scientologist (he even looks just a teeny tiny bit like Tom Cruise).  I’ll leave you to decide what the “DB” stands for…I mean, “douchebag,” “dirtbag,” “deadbeat,” “dirty bastard,” the list goes on, right?

Enjoy!

Daily sketch #106 – Mercurial

So, tonight’s sketch came about in a weird way.  I was thinking of doing a JG Jones-inspired Marvel Boy sketch.  Something with a great sense of movement, and energy.  Something sizzling.  Then I spoke to my Californian friend Ted, who suggested Freddie Mercury.  And I thought, why not Freddie Mercury in a Marvel Boy-style athletic pose?  It could work, right?

I think it has, to some extent:

Daily sketch #105 – Flash and Zoom

So, last night’s sketch was, I admit, disappointing.  I couldn’t focus on anything, really, but couldn’t let the sketch go.  After all, the day I let it stop for a good reason is the day I open up to the possibility that one day I might stop it for a bad reason.

So!  Tonight’s is a bit more fun, and looser than my usuals.  It really didn’t take long to put together, as I was going more for feel than precision, and I quite liked the way it turned out.  Zoom, the psychopathic speedster, trying to outrun Wally West, the Fastest Man Alive.  I’ve been threatening to do a picture like this for a while, but I never managed to get the angle right.  After seeing a picture in the Flash Facebook group, I knew I had a winner.

Daily sketch #104 – Desktop

I keep my desktop cluttered, and heaving with stuff.  I haven’t drawn inanimate objects for a while.

These two facts collided together for tonight’s sketch.  Somewhat drunk, incredibly tired, I couldn’t think of what to draw, until I looked at the messy desktop and saw stuff.

Daily sketch #103 – Maverick

Tonight’s quick sketch is my favourite member of Wolverine’s supporting cast, Maverick, aka David North.  I’ve always loved the armour design, too.  It’s very weird, and shouldn’t be nice to look at, but somehow I enjoy it.

Daily sketch #102 – Quicksilver

I need a lot more practice at drawing people running.  Tonight’s pose is slightly lifted from a JG Jones panel from his run on Marvel Boy, but I think it serves it’s purpose well enough.

Daily sketch #101 – Omega Red

So, the second hundred has begun.  Time marches onwards.

Tonight’s is another request, from a university friend I haven’t seen in several years.  So Piers, as you asked, have an Omega Red:

Daily sketch #100 – Green Lantern

Wow.  I made it.  More importantly, so did you; and I mean that.  I’m really glad you’re here, looking at this.  Even more so if this is a repeat visit!  But yeah, still, 100 daily sketches.  It’s a pretty daunting figure, but I got there, and am really proud to have done so, given my prior track record for persevering with things like this.

Anyway, a little while ago, the suggestion was made the for the 100th sketch, I do a re-make of the very first daily sketch, in the style I’m currently employing.  So here I present both of them together, so you can see the difference for yourselves.  Personally, I actually laughed a bit when I looked at the older one.

As per usual, click to enlarge.  The second one is worth it.

Daily sketch #99 – vanity fair

So.  One hundred tomorrow.  A century of daily sketches.  It doesn’t really seem real that I got here.  I didn’t think I’d make a week.  But here I am, and forward I intend to keep moving.  The daily sketches were started out as an experiment – as much to see if I could keep going, and to give me something to keep going for: a rather elegant cyclical loop.  As I reach the one hundred mark, I feel that the experiment has been tested, the hypothesis proven, but I don’t want to stop.  Because I’m pretty sure you can see at least a small measure of improvement in there, which I’m not going to give up.  I have something like 60 days until my university course starts, and will be running the sketch until AT LEAST then.

Today’s is a drawing of a picture taken of me; the original was a fantastic photo taken by my father, who really is rather good at these things.  It was fun trying to convert a fully tonal picture into one of lines, but I think I did ok.