359 days of sketches!

Super Brian Charles! This is a quick drawing of the main character for a platform game I'm working on in flash...And when I say "working on" i mean "lazily animating and scrounging up codes". I started the project after playing New Super Mario Bros. on the DS.

360 days of sketches!

This is a sketch of the GroundUp studio mascots Nu and Star. I asked GroundUp's Senior Mascot Correspondent, Henry, for some information about the characters. He said "One of them is Asian and the other one is Black" so I worked with that :P

361 days of sketches!

Here's one I did for my buddy Keith. He had a toy line and designed this sort of urban ninja guy called Katana (its actually a lot cooler than that, but i don't want to let cats out of bags). We batted a few ideas around relating to the property, and when I went home, I sketched this up. Someone else saw it later and spun her own story out of it. Kind of like a modern day fairy tale that i won't tell you about because it is also not my property... I feel like that bill from the Bush administration that was practically illegible because of all the redacting :P

362 days of sketches!

This was a comission i did recently. The client wanted a girl holding up her fists to count from 1-10 and to be able to edit the hands in order to show different fingers.

363 days of sketches!

A lot of my friends (particularly the ones who quit drawing after college) have "Dark Detective" superhero stories that they'd like to tell. Mostly they come off as fan fiction or revamps of the more popular dark detective superhero who will remain nameless at this point. I tell people "make you're own character for that story! Think of how you would personally handle that archtype and let me tell you, creation is a slippery slope!".

Here's an example of one such creation. Don't have a name for it yet, and haven't really settled on a costume, but I wanted to try it with really dark eyes in the mask. Read the notes on Gary Frank's Batman: Earth one sketches, where he mentions that he's going to make the eyes "visible" through the mask for a fresh take on the character. I thought "That's the dumbest shit i've ever heard. Batman aint Captain America...but now that I think about it, what if the eyes were soo hidden that it frightened people? Like the abyss staring back at you." Anyway, this is my first take on this idea.

364 days of sketches!

Been watching a lot of Southpark lately on southparkstudios.com and sometimes they break model for special actions. One of these is crying. When Cartman cries, he opens his mout really wide, and I wanted to draw it. He didn't really survive the transition to my style, but it was fun anyway :P

365 Days of Sketches!

So 2010 begins and I have a goal to post on my blog every day this year with drawings from my sketchbook. That being said, here is a sketch of two characters from my upcoming League of Defenders comic. The tall one is Amazona, and the bespectacled one is Whizz Wilson. I actually did this a little while ago and intended to color it before posting, but my inking pen broke...really! stuff like that happens :P