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Mother of Dragons, Stormborn, yada yada yada.

// May 25th, 2012 // No Comments » // 365sketch

And this is my Daenerys Targaryen. It’s more stylized than Jon Snow, but I like the style of this one too. I didn’t even try to go for Emilia “eyebrows” Clarke’s likeness of her character, instead just pulled from my head and took inspiration from the character rather than the actress. Also I didn’t know much about the dragons, but wifus says I got them down pretty well, she knew which ones I intended them to be without me telling her. Continue Reading

You know nothing Jon Snow…

// May 25th, 2012 // No Comments » // 365sketch

I’m a big fan of the Game of Thrones show on HBO, and wifey poo is a big fan of reading the books (I read the wiki, that counts, right?), so I did drawings of Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen. This is the Jon Snow I did. He’s one of my favorite characters, because there’s just something interesting and tough about him that I like. I really think I nailed Kit Harrington’s likeness though, I’m quite happy with the direction of this drawing. Continue Reading

Random O’Doodles Rule!

// May 25th, 2012 // No Comments » // 365sketch

So I doodle. A LOT. It’s how I can stay focused when people are talking, oddly. Here’s just a collection of a bunch of those doodles done when people are talking and I need to be listening. A lot of these are fun whimsy, or shapes that escalated into other things and characters, then because of a lot of talking, turned into detailed characters and something with interest. Hope you enjoy seeing them! Continue Reading

A Good Start

// May 25th, 2012 // No Comments » // 365sketch

Here’s a bunch of doodles and characters I’ve started but just sort of stopped because part way in I just sort of lost focus on where I wanted to go with them. I’m hoping each of these eventually turns into something, and maybe some of you have some ideas? You’ll notice a couple are Jack from Mass Effect, and one is a solemn Commander Shepard, I want to finish those because I have a direction, but at the same time, I’m not really feeling it with those ones as much as I want to. Continue Reading

Tali and Miranda

// April 5th, 2012 // No Comments » // 365sketch

Like the rest of the world, I’m a fan of Mass Effect, and after finishing Mass Effect 3 I decided to do some drawings of a couple characters. I wasn’t the biggest fan of Miranda in ME2, but in ME3 her diversion was sweet and sad for her, and a touching little story. Tali is another menace altogether. How can anyone not love Tali through the whole series? She’s a pretty phenomenal character, and while she wasn’t my FemShep’s love interest, I did hear some of the audio clips of Tali if she were, and they were certainly rivaling the heart-string tugs that Garrus had going on. Anyways, I drew Tali sans helmet, but rather than based off that shitty stock photo job, I based it off DeviantArtist Nebezial’s interpretation of Calisto-Lynn’s Quarian concept. To me, this is what a Quarian should look like.

Skeletor, Rule 63

// April 5th, 2012 // No Comments » // 365sketch

Rule 63 is an internet adage which states that for every fictional character, there exists a counterpart in opposite gender. I saw an image of a girl at a comic con recently dressed similar to my drawing. Needless to say, her female version of Skeletor inspired the artwork.

SWTOR

// April 5th, 2012 // No Comments » // 365sketch

I’ve really neglected putting anything up in a long time, and I need to fix that. This is the first of 3 posts going up today, and I hope to have more posts in the near future. I’ve been drawing like crazy, but haven’t been scanning. Time to kinda go back and rehash over what I’ve done. This particular drawing was inspired by playing SWTOR with the wife, and it’s our first level 50s, her’s was a Twi’lek Sith Inquisitor, and mine a Human Sith Warrior. Good fun that game, it’s got a lot of potential for greatness. Continue Reading

HUGE 44 Drawing Art Dump!

// September 28th, 2011 // No Comments » // 365sketch

So yeah, I’ve been busy, this is probably 3/4 of what I’ve done since I ended the sketch challenge, the rest is even more bare frames. I’ve gotten into this thing of busting out a bunch of poses, then gradually going back through and filling them in. Some art turning out to be really awesome. Well, here’s the gallery below, let me know what you think!

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370. BOOM.

// August 7th, 2011 // No Comments » // 365sketch

I decided to do some color work this morning, and this was the result after about an hour, hour and a half of painting. It’s really rough looking still, but I really like it, and I think I’m going to leave it rough, it’s a nice style for the action in the shot.

369. Damnit Bill!

// August 5th, 2011 // No Comments » // 365sketch

I got an email from HBO earlier about True Blood (fantastic show btw) and I looked at Stephen Moyer, aka Bill Compton, King of Louisiana, and thought “hey, I can draw him.” Well I did, then I proceeded to eff it up. I had it, about half way through it looked spot on, then after a few more minutes, I don’t know what I did, but I completely lost the likeness. This makes me mad, so I’m going to try this one again soon. Continue Reading