Well here it is ladies and gents 
To me, this is an obvious fusion of Dave Devries’ (of the Monster Engine fame, google it) style into mine. I love his stuff and it’s so damn fun to paint like this. All digital this time. CS4. Not 100% finished, but that’s not the goal yet.
I’m still totally counting yesterday’s painting as my daily whatever-you-wanna-call-it, but did this as well. The sketch was already kind of started. I just took it a little bit further. Yesterday’s sketch me become today’s digital painting.
Decided to give things another go with the acrylics, so here it is. The ear is complete crap and I’m still not entirely enthused with the whole thing in general, but once more, I learned a lot.
I’m starting on a new simple painting today to see if I can’t break out of the box a little bit. I started out with a sketch today, which I busted out during a bout of frustration with myself.I was trying to stay a little looser, and I still have a ways to go, but I figured I’d leave well enough alone. It was just a sketch after all.
Next, I scanned it into PS and started playing with the colors. Just random crap, trying to stumble on something different. After some moments of screwing around I thought I had something interesting going on. So what do I do? Started smudging the hell out of everything to see what would happen. The result is below. I could try to take it a few levels further to try and finish it, but I stopped myself. I wanted to do a real media painting, not a digital one. I’m pleased with the outcome simply because it’s so far from mos things that I do.I like the idea of the color sketch, but I’m sure the painting will look pretty different.
Wish me luck.
So, in lieu of a sketch today, I got the itch to paint.
I wish I hadn’t :/ Blech. All the more reason to try again, no?
-Acrylics and colored pencil on watercolor paper.
Almost under the wire, but here’s today’s sketches. Trying to play with motion.
Here are today’s sketches just like promised! How’s that you smug bitch. You know you like it. The top ones are leftover from yesterday, and I did the bottom ones while looking at one of those reference photo books for comics. Man, I don’t like drawing so straight from reference. At least for the purpose of these sketches. The purpose is supposed to be more free and get crazay. When I look at photos, the drawing seems to lose their juiciness. This is despite the fact that I tried to apply some Walt Stanchfield teachings and not to copy the figure but to get the gesture in there. I took it too far and the drawings got too finished. Sorry Walt 
. Ah well, something to improve upon.
My wife and I have struck a bargain of sorts to get us both creatively motivated, so I’m going to start doing daily sketches. We don’t really plan to start until next week, but I had some time today – too much lately. Every two weeks, I’ll be putting up a new finished piece. Maybe using my previous sketches, maybe not.
It’s just sad that I don’t draw as much I’d like to. My wife and I figured we’ve kind of been squandering our talents, and we’d like to change that. It’s also hard to find time for my own stuff, or to be motivated enough to sit at the drawing table for fun. I love drawing, I miss drawing. This is my solution.
The daily sketches won’t be about anything in particular, but they’ll most likely fall into figure studies and such. Man, I got rusty.
Here’s to having fun and drawing!
-Jon
Well everyone, as it stands right now, it seems I’ll be attending the C2E2 Con in April! I don’t know if my table number will change, or if this is even correct in the first place, but it looks like I’ll be situated at table A338.
This will be the first time getting a table at a con and it’s something I’ve wanted to do for a looooooong time.
If you’re going and want to stop by and say hi, I’d like to put some faces to some names. Seriously, if you don’t stop I will hunt you down. I have ways of finding you.
It looks like I’ve got to get my ass drawing ASAP here.
Be on the lookout for some updates and art!
-Jon
I finished this on Thursday, so it still counts Something I did for fun, and learning, while looking for more work.
Original artwork by Olivier Coipel and Mark Morales. Thor (c) Marvel Entertainment
