I Dunno What It Is...

...but it's what I drew today at lunch.

I think it's a gardening robot from the future...

Stolen Scribbles

The first hour of work was ridiculously quiet. Here is a quick sketch from the timespace between the two customers we had:

Work It

I was on the phone with the "help" desk last night three times from 7 pm to 8pm. This is how I spend my time on 'hold':

Media: Black ball point (top), and then blue sharpie, light blue highlighter, and blue ball point.

And this is what I scribbled out during a couple of minutes during the dead early hour this morning on the large Boogie Board:

 

It's been a lifelong habit of mine to fill in the gaps of time with random scribbles!

Conference Call Notes

I had a regional conference call at work today. Most of the information had already been passed down to us at our district call yesterday, so I had lots of time in between the aural spaces to fill in some visual space:

Drawn with a black ball-point pen, and then colored with the usual highlighter markers near at hand.

Ken's Dark Thoughts

Ken was expressing his dark tendencies with a Thanksgiving metaphor.

Margins

Nick left a pair of head sketches laying around where I could find them. So I photocopied the page and embellished them with a black pen and a few highlighters!

Co-LAB-o

I arrived at work to find a post-it note scribble by Nick: an alien woman's head. So being the collaborative-yet-conscientious fellow I am, I decided to draw a body for the poor creature (while on hold with the help desk), and at the same time leaving Nick's work untouched.

I slapped another post-it note under the woman's neck, drew part of a body, and then attached both yellow squares to a standard sheet of printer paper to have room for the rest of the figure:

 

 

Fast-forward to a later phone call with the same help desk, and I took the time to color the image with a few handy-dandy highlighter markers, thus completing yet another 'lost minutes' creation... Thanks, Nick!

 



Note-Taking Scribble

I can't not draw while I am listening to a lecture or participating in a meeting (or in this case, a conference call). Is it wierd that I usually have colored pens around no matter where I am? Great for that metallic sheen!

Wolvie!

I've been practicing on my iPad using the app ProCreate. It's been pretty awesome and keeps me jazzed about drawing. At first I was going to attempt to draw myself as Wolverine as a sort of belated Halloween-themed drawing. But then I just kind of drew Wolverine instead.

I intended for him to be grimacing, as a Wolverine should, but someone pointed out he looks constipated. But hey, Wolverine has normal problems too, right?

Lost Jedi

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, there was a Jedi Knight named Kenzor Moh. He was able to stay under the radar during the Great Jedi Purge (Order 66), and had many adventures off the beaten path, away from the main battle theaters of The Empire vs. The Rebellion.

However, he and a certain bounty hunter did cross paths, while hunting down the same sentient (among other things) on the remote temperate world of B'Nee...

Priceless plant crystals found!

Hunter or hunted?

Confrontation...

Team-up?



Showing the bounty hunter the place of death of their mutual quarry (a tragic fall).

Nick-As-Cyborg (New Teen Titans)

I cannot draw bodies. But I draw a mean portrait. Here is me as Cyborg from Marv Wolfman and George Perez's New Teen Titans.

Boogie Borg

A quick sketch of me as a cyborg for this week's challenge (on a Boogie Board, natch):

Cyborg Nick 1

I was working on this this morning. I don't think it's adventurous enough. Which is why I've challenged myself to draw myself as Cyborg from the New Teen Titans era.

First Class: Finale

Wow, I finally made it through this long two-week (and then some) project. Note to self: solo (or maybe the occasional duo) character drawings only for awhile, and without so many updates! I was definitely feeling some mental fatigue at times through this, but I am mostly pleased with the results.

Cyclops leads my ideal version of the original X-Men against a mutant-hunting Sentinel: Iceman, Colossus and Nightcrawler (along with their missing 5th member, a female character to be named later - I could never decide between Siryn and Aurora as I was drawing) - characters with easily-defined, impressively visual power sets.

Tell me what you like, and what you might have done differently! Or just leave a quick note about who your 'Original Five' would be, if it had been up to you.

Post-O-Lantern

The first of many Jack O'Lanterns this season! This one was done on a post-it note on my lunch break at work. The usual suspects (black pen, highlighter pens) were the tools used, and the drawing was photographed on the following digital camera settings: "indoor", and the extra-spooky "underwater":

First Class: Home Stretch

Colossus has taken so much time to ink that I am rapidly losing interest in this project (haha). I even erased Siryn, and am going to stick with four X-Men. I'll fit another Sentinel in the background, or just throw another mountain back there.

A few more inks to go, and then it's color, and then finally finished. I think the next few projects will have just one main figure on which to focus...

Late Night Exercise

I drew this just now as I sat at my computer. I decided to sketch something off the top of my head (inspired by one of the 'to and from break' photos of Christina Applegate on "SNL" earlier tonight), and then limit my choice of coloring tools. Here is the result:

 

 

I sketched her out in pencil first, and then erased the pencil after inking with the three Uni-Ball pens. Nothing fancy, just a fun exercise...

First Class progression

I spent Friday afternoon drawing another rendition of my First Class team. I think Nightcrawler's face came out the best. They don't particularly look like students haha. I intend Psylocke to be in her British form,
though maybe an affinity for Japanese culture. Like an otaku haha.

Cyclops is Cyclops.

Fly on the Wall

Ah, the things one can do with post-it notes and highlighters...

This fly landed on my steering wheel in rush-hour traffic a few weeks ago, and I finally got around to drawing it. I kid you not, its head was even greener than how I portray it here, and its body was a shiny brass & bronze (and not yellow & orange). Its wings were crystalline, but all I had was a blue highlighter with which to approximate it. I'm sad that the photo I took on my phone at the time was so blurry, but its image definitely is perma-burned into my brain. These two images show off different filter effects from my camera:

First Class: Detail 3

Nightcrawler 'blacked in', Colossus 'armored-up' and Iceman inked:

First Class: Detail 2

More inking (and some erasing!):

I also did some refined pencils on Iceman (along with changing the direction of his left arm), and made the Sentinel's fingers thicker (they seemed pretty feeble in the initial drawing).

First Class: Detail 1

Just a quick initial inks post (I worked on the left side of the scene), since I will be gone all day tomorrow (this is far from completed):

First Class: Pencil Draft

Here is the rough outline for my ideal team of 'original X-Men'. I went with my favorite 'true' originals, Cyclops and Iceman; my two favorites from "Giant Size X-Men" #1's international class, Colossus (Soviet Union) and Nightcrawler (Germany); and second generation mutant Siryn (Ireland).

In my universe Professor X went international from the start, collecting teens from around the globe. Other background notes unique to my world: Siryn is Sean Cassidy's daughter, but he was never a mutant; Jean Grey, Wolverine and Apocalypse do not exist; time travel is impossible; and other team members (who join within the first year of the team's genesis) not seen fighting the Sentinel robot include: Sunfire (Japan), Aurora (Canada), Frenzy (USA) and Quicksilver (Romania).

Inks, and then the final colored image will follow as time allows.

First Class-in-Progress

A brief lull allowed me to consider Cyclops, Havok, and Nightcrawler as three of my original X-Men.

Plaid Strut

A non-superhero/sci fi/fantasy figure: dark and light spaces, with plaid!

 

 

As you can see, I screwed up her left arm. That aside, I am happy with the attempt.

Boogie Bored - Robot

Using one of the store's Boogie Boards (a modern-day Etch-A-Sketch) I turned the Brookstone Rover into a robot: