Belle Sketch - Step by Step

Here's a look at how I made this sketch-

The sketch is drawn on 11 x16 Canson Mi-Teinte Paper.  I start off with Col Erase Scarlet Red Pencil for an initial rough in and then use a Pigma 02 Pen to nail down face details.

More drawing with the Pen

Once the drawing is set, I begin using Copic Warm Grey 1 and 2 to nail down the values.

Now Copic Warm Grey 3 and 4 to push the values on Belle and then use Copic Cold Grey 1 and 2 on the metallic elements.

The final touches.

Copic Cool Grey 3 and 5 and White Prismacolor Highlights on the metal.

White Prismacolor Highlights and Col Erase Scarlet Red on the flesh.

Copic Warm Grey 5 to hit the darker values.

Faber Castell Pitt Black F to refine the line art.

The final art.

Detail 1

Detail 2

TD

Spectrum Fantastic Art Live Kansas City May 2014 RECAP 2 Harley Quinn

Kinda fun thing to show - I did a quick Harley Quinn sketch on a jam piece and I had one of the guys at the table just take some photos while I did it - ended up being a cool little time lapse (thanks for that!).

Rough in with a Col Erase Scarlet Red Pencil.

That's an amazing Steve Rude Batman I'm messing up...

Roughing in values with Copic Warm Grey 2 Marker.

Defining the drawing with a ZIG Mangaka Flexible Pen.

I like the fistful of drawing implements...

Pigma Graphics 1 Pen

Harley!

More to come…

TD

Spectrum Fantastic Art Live Kansas City May 2014 RECAP 1 Wonder Woman

Had a great time at Spectrum Fantastic Art Live Kansas City May 2014.

Here's a look at how I made one of the few sketches I actually had time to do there!

Rough in of sketch.

Light Blue and HB Lead on 11 x 14 Strathmore Bristol.

Using Copic Warm Greys 1-4 to rough in the values.

I rarely work on white paper for my con sketches so it always takes a second to remember how the grey Copics will act...

Used Copic Warm Greys 6 and 8 for the darker values. .8 Micron for outline plus  CWG 8.

Used a little Pro White for the highlights.

Black was Copic Black.

Details of sketch.

More to come!

TD

Hero Initiative X-MEN 100 Project Cover Step by Step

Here's how I created the Storm drawing for the  Hero Initiative X-MEN 100 Project Cover.

Drawn on a Blank Hero Initiative X-MEN 100 Project Cover

Roughed in drawing with Col Erase Scarlet Red Pencil and then started adding value with Copic Warm Grey 1

This is about a 1 minute of drawing time - I sat and looked at it for a couple of minutes before deciding what I was going to do then - BOOM - drew!

After adding more greys to all flesh with Copic Warm Grey 1 and 2, "drew" in face and hair with Copic Multiliner .1 Pen

Continued 'drawing" in the rest of the figure with Copic Multiliner .1 Pen

Detail

Finished initial line drawing

Used Copic Warm Grey 3 and 4 to establish values and correct drawing

Used Pro White on Storm's hair to cover logo.

Let dry overnight.

End of stage 1

Elapsed time - about 15 minutes

Now that the Hair is dry I start drawing - I used a .8 and 1 Micro Pigma pen that could draw over the white out,

I also did started added some white highlights, secondary light source and corrected the hair with WHITE OUT. 

Boldened up the outline of the figure with Pitt F pen and Copic Warm Grey 4

Started roughing in the background values with Copic Warm Grey 3 and 4

Detail

Continued detailing background and added some more little X-Men with Plane and signed name

Added a secondary rimlight to the backside of Storm plus SFX on clouds with clouds.

Final Piece.

Elapsed TOTAL time - about an hour

The artwork will be available for auction for the Hero Initiative.

For more info go to -

http://www.heroinitiative.org

TD