Today’s Sketch of the Day is for my friend Erin… Or, actually, a friend of my friend Erin!
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Hello hello all and happy Monday! Was away for the weekend (more about that in a blog post later today/tomorrow) so here’s another quick sketch out of my new red sketchbook- a li’l 4×6 Batman.
Rob
For my first day away during the Sketch a Day experiment, I thought I would share a bit of my process on a current job. This is page 5 of a new Flare story I am working on for Heroic Publishing. On this page I’ve tightly laid out the first 2 panels, as well as the “overlapping” element of Flare herself. I’ve chosen this layout for a couple reasons. 1: it looks cool, and that counts. And 2: her body language in the overlapping image echos her words/feelings in the top 3 panels, so I could have just drawn 3 “talking heads” panels, or done this to shake things up plus add a bit of tension.
In the third panel you’ll see that I’ve very roughly laid in a change in camera angle. Normally we see everything from our own eye-level perspective, so I try to play to that in my layouts to make things seems more realistic. But in this case, I’ve used the layout of the panel to draw the reader’s eye towards the lower two panels and away from the large figure, with both the placement of the word balloons and by making the floor of the 3rd panel basically a triangle. I will color this with the same tone as the wall behind the figures in panel 4, even if it does not wind up the same color. So as you can see, even in this early stage, I’ve got to be thinking about what will be the last step in the process, adding color, and how it can add to the overall effect and influence the design of the page.
This is also just a rough, so I reserve the right to change my mind about any and all of this!
I will post the completed rough for this page when, well, it’s completed! Just got the script the other day and 1-4 are as rough as the bottom 3 panels are here, but this page seemed most interesting so far to use for this example, so I did it up.
Hope you guys enjoy this li’l walk-through! If so, please let me know in the comments section below!
Rob
I have been attending a figure drawing session at Renaissance School of Art on Thursday nights so usually I will be posting a sketch or 2 from that on Fridays, but since I will be out of town tomorrow, and I rather like how this one came out, thought I should post this one first.
“Out of town?” you say? “4 days into Sketch of the Day and you’re going to miss day 5?!?!” Fear not my friends, I shall have a post for you tomorrow for sure!!!
Rob
My buddy Logan mentioned how much Luke Skywalker looked like Ollie Queen in my last sketch, so here’s my attempt at the Green Arrow himself!
Another sketch from my new sketchbook- Luke Skywalker from the Force Awakens. Did this one in my usual comic style rather then trying to get the likeness exactly right, and I kinda like how it turned out. All brush, with Prismacolor pencil for shading.
Might work it up as a sketch cover, since I have a stack of Star Wars blanks laying around… What do you think?
Thanks for checking out the site! The plan is to do a new “sketch” each day this year, at least during weekdays 😉 It may be something from my new “2016” sketchbook (the red one from the featured image) as this sketch of Myrna Loy is, or a commission I may be working on, or from a commercial project I am working on. If you have any requests, post a comment below!
If all goes to plan, I should have 260 of these posts by the end of the year… Finger’s crossed!
Rob