Baby Owl!

Dice, Camera, Action: The Eggo(TM) Crew

A sketch of the mini waffle crew!

Dice, Camera, Action: Healing Kiss

A mermaid, and a flustered Evelyn!

Simple pen/ink over a pencil sketch.

Dice, Camera, Action: "Death"

The Waffle Crew met Death last evening. An old and faceless thing. I kept thinking, "Death from the Endless would be pissed if she got stuck with this form during her mortal sabbatical...."

For once, I was really satisfied with a sketch of Death and Dream!

Critical Role - Season 2: The Birds Are Still Out (also, Oglin Hornsblower)

Critical Role s02e02:

Beau gets arrested.

NPC Bookseller Sketch.

Inktober: Cute Animals

Here are a few more Inktober sketches, featuring cute animals!

Inktober: Comics

Here are a few comic-themed sketches from last month's Inktober!

Warm-up Sketch: The Dice Camera Action Ritual

Chris Perkins and the Dice Camera Action "Waffle Crew" have been killing it on their Twitch D&D game every Tuesday night. In a recent session, the party had life or death choices for three of the four party members involving a ritual with a costume and a shady ally dressed in an ominous ritualistic outfit.

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Warm-up Sketch: Duke Zalto's Hammer

In the D&D 5E adventure, Storm King's Thunder, the evil Fire Giant lord, Duke Zalto, brandishes a unique great maul. The head of the weapon is hollowed out to include a prison for medium or smaller creatures. 

You can get a partial glimpse of the maul in the adventure art, which led me to curiously sketching the following:

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Warm-up Sketch; Waffles vs. Stairs!

Once more, a sketch inspired by the WotC Dice Camera Action Twitch stream - another super fast ink-over-pencil sketch of Waffles the baby Owlbear.  This time with her friends, Stinky and Juniper!

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I made a mad rush to finish this while the stream was still on - which is still not a good reason to use thick pens for thin whiskers! For me, the fun of doing it more than made up for the bits and pieces that are odd, or just a bit off.

Warm-up Sketch: Waffles, the Baby Owlbear

Another sketch inspired by the WotC Dice Camera Action Twitch stream - a super fast ink-over-pencil sketch of Waffles the baby Owlbear.  Groooooo!

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Quickly done or not, was that there is much potential for going VERY cute with the owl eyes (you can make the eyes huge, puppy dog-esque things, round out the head, etc.).  I had that in mind when I started, but I accidentally ended up steering away from that when I did the rest of the sketch.  

Warm-up Sketch Series: Wolverine

My last posted sketch turned into three sequential All-New Wolverine (X-23 for those that don't realize Logan has been dead in comics since 2014) warm-up sketches.  We had Laura go from the Monkey Style flip into two Changquan inspired stances.  As I said a few days ago, she has the real potential for some amazing combat panels.  The toe claws could add a whole new visual layer to many Capoeira and Changquan moves.

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These are all pencil sketches into ink (a weird combo of different pens/brushes).  Lettering and level adjustment done in Photoshop after the scan.  I probably should have redone the middle panel; you can see the levels adjustment is poorly done.

Here are the individual scanned sketches from the final two panels:

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Warm-up Sketch: Wolverine Somersault

I rarely draw my favorite character, Wolverine (Laura Kinney/X-23), because I never quite seem to do her correctly.

My motivation to try again yesterday: I am always interested to see more sequential action panels with her, since she has a wealth of possibilities to draw from.  A vast and diverse skill set + flexibility + acrobatics are a recipe for some excellent visuals.

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Warm-up Sketch: Grung Wildling

The Grung appear on pp. 156-157 of the great Volo's Guide for D&D 5E, and I am somewhat desperate to use them in a campaign at some point!  No idea why he is posing like Hulk Hogan however...

"Whatcha gonna do when a Grung goes Wildling on you!?"

Warm-up Sketch: Captain Marvel

There is something about Ruby Rose that makes me think she is the perfect reference for in-comic book Captain Marvel's face.  It has to be the short hair and sharp features.

This ended up somewhere between Carol Danvers and Ruby Rose, but that's OK too.

Overwatch: Sombra and Snowball

Blizzard's store leaked a pic of Sombra today, confirming her look based off of another slip up a few months back.  The image and pose makes it appear as if she can control omnics and other robots.

¿Quién es Snowball?

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Inktober #14: Bamboo

This Inktober prompt is "Tree".  I took a shot at imitating sumi-e with various shades of grey marker.  The result was serviceable, but you lose the ability to effectively mesh practiced stroke and end result.  For example, the you lose the ability to plan and use the natural drying of the ink on the brush to create lighter areas.  With marker, you have to jury-rig a similar look.  That said, not bad for a first attempt.

Inktober #13 "Scared": Stranger Things

Today's Inktober prompt is "Scared", and my first thought was a sketch of Winona Ryders' Joyce Byers from Stranger Things!

The marker I used for the grey ink did not behave as well on my sketch paper as the heavy black ink marker from a different brand.  I'll have to dig into supplies to see if something works a bit better, or it is back to black ink and crosshatching.

Inktober #11: Transport

Look, I have no idea how "Transport" turned into a guy in a hazmat suit strolling along with a container of radioactive rice, but I enjoyed doing it!

Inktober #10 & #12: Titania and Gabby

Two Marvel characters for these two Inktober sketches.  The first prompt is "Jump" and the character is Titania.  I got a lot of this wrong: jumping is more She-Hulk's thing, the pose doesn't denote any comic book style action, etc.  I just wanted to do a little tribute to Josh Williamson for making Titania as awesome and powerful as she always should have been ('80 to the present) in his Illuminati run.

My Error: I didn't capture the motion or action properly.

The second prompt is "Worried" and the character is Gabby from All-New Wolverine.  I attempt was to get her when she (off-screen) hears the same water bombers Laura hears.  OK with context, but I didn't capture a strong enough look when you look at the sketch with out context.

My Error: the emotion isn't enough with or without context)