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Sketchin’ 7, 8, and 9

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Sorry for the dearth of posts of late but I’ve been away for the past few days (University is starting which means I have to help my daughters move into their new digs).

While I haven’t been able to post quite as much as I want to, I have kept up with my illustrations and here you get three for the price of one, a real bargain!

First up, Lauren Bacall…

I think the piece came out only OK.  As I mentioned before, that’s the way it goes with artwork.  You can think something is working and then it mostly works -or not- but when you’re done, you move along.  Which I did…

Here’s Charles Bronson from The Dirty Dozen, a film that was clearly the inspiration to the comic book The Suicide Squad and, therefore, obviously the movie’s inspiration as well.  Only The Dirty Dozen presented a coherent plot! 😉

When I started this piece, I thought I would abandon it.  It just didn’t look like it was “working” for me.

And then, like magic, it did.

I won’t say this piece is one of my favorites -it feels like it would benefit from color especially given how “simple” it is- but I definately captured the Bronson “look”.

Finally:

Ah, extreme success!

As I also stated before, sometimes you may just miss and sometimes you hit a home run.  Here, with this Christopher Lee Dracula picture, I feel I’ve hit a home run.

The image captures the frenzied, animalistic look of Mr. Lee’s Dracula, easily one of my favorite portrayals of the dark Count.  Love the feathering on this piece.

By the way, if I wasn’t clear about it before, let me do so here: All this was done using an iPad and an Apple Pencil on the Procreate program.  Though it may look like pen and ink, this is all computer images.

Enjoy!

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Sketchin’ 6

Shortly after finishing up the Robert Conrad picture, I took on another iconic movie image.  In this case, Steve McQueen from the movie Bullitt…

Art is a funny thing.  The Robert Conrad picture (you can see it here) I thought was a total knockout.  A complete success.

This one?

Not so much.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think its a terrible picture, but I’m not feeling Steve McQueen’s face here.  On the other hand, I really like certain parts of the picture, like the hand, body, and hair.  but something isn’t quite working on the face itself.  Perhaps its the eyes or maybe the lips.

The good thing about doing art is that once you finish a piece, you can go on to the next one and hope for better.

Come to think about it, that’s life, isn’t it?

You always try for the best but sometimes things don’t work out as well as you want.

Brush yourself off and go on to the next job/work.

With practice things will get better.

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Sketchin’ 5

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Though I haven’t had a chance this past week to do any iPad sketching, this past half hour I found and did this image:

Love the image…

And I think I have the whole “image size” thing figured out.

The gentleman in the picture is Robert Conrad who is best known for playing James West on The Wild Wild West TV show.  This particular image was taken from, believe it or not, a photograph of him when he was in The Battle of the Network Stars in the late 1970’s.

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Sketchin’ 4

Here you go, from yesterday…

Looks like I once again made the picture’s dimensions too damn small…must have been a slip of the finger when configuring the image size.  Once the image is “set”, the iPad you doesn’t offer information on the image size unless you double check it.  I consider that a lesson learned.

Still, I’m not too upset.  I like the above image but, of the four I’ve done so far, I’ve been lucky those that were too small are among the ones I’m less satisfied with.

Not that I think the above image is a complete bust but compared to the Raquel Welch and Nosferatu ones, it come next.

Anyway, the Phantom of the Opera!

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Sketchin’ 3

Last night’s work, a classic pose/photograph of the absolutely stunning Raquel Welch for the film One Million Years B.C.

Never saw the film and can’t say I’m all that interested in doing so (cave men type films, even tongue in cheek ones, interest me very little), but the image of Ms. Welch is one that’s incredibly iconic to people in and around my age.

Let’s see if I have the time for another tonight!

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Sketchin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo

So yesterday I posted a way too small image I made of Ash from the Ash vs. The Evil Dead show and, while it was near impossible to see the image to any great degree because of how small it was, I was encouraged by the results and wanted to experiment a little more on these types of things.

But, of course, with a larger image.  Here is something I did yesterday:

So that’s the image in black and white and, after putting in a splash of color and lettering…

I’m having a lot of fun making these quick little “inking” exercises and, if I have the time, I’ll do a little more tonight.

We’ll see!

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Sketchin’

Not to brag, but I finally broke down and picked up the new iPad and, with it, an Apple pencil.

To those who don’t know, I worked as an inker in comic books for a while back in the 1990’s and have always had an interest in improving my artwork.  The problem was that getting to the drawing table, using the pencils and inks and rulers etc., then cleaning it all up, became something of a drag.

Which is why I was curious when Wacom started to come out with tablet writers and, now, with the new iPad, you have something similar.  Here’s something I did last night (sorry for the very small size):

The size, alas, is what it is and I can’t do too much about it.  I’ll have to work with “bigger” sized files/images and this, a 20 minute (if that) experiment, didn’t come out too bad though I am bummed it was made in such a small size (all my fault!).

Maybe tonight I’ll take on another iconic movie figure…