Le Dungeon de Art, Design & Cool Stuff
Hello, I'm Aileen O! I'm a lot of things, but primarily, I'm an art student, studying comic book illustration.
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My latest assignment: The clothed male figure drawn in ink. I chose Alucard from Castlevania as my subject (originally designed by one of my favorite illustrators Ayami Kojima).
Lesson Learned: I used to ink exclusively with pens but I discovered by trial & error that the secret in rendering shiny black surfaces is a No.2 round brush.
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The comicsverse never really stops talking about Power Girl. The talk never dies down, it just sort of floats above everyone’s heads for a while. Then, when she appears in a new outfit, the talk descends like an avalanche & everyone’s ranting about her again! That’s cause she never seems to show up in an outfit that’s JUST RIGHT, so I’ve decided to put my 2 cents in.
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I finished rendering/shading my Ascension drawing in pen & ink. I did not plan lighting as much as I should have because instinct just sort of took over. It’s the first time that I used mostly solid blacks on a picture so I’m not really sure if everything looks right -
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CATWOMAN - a femme fatale, a whip-wielding burglar with a taste for high-stake thefts. She’s got style & skillz. She even uses her love-hate relationship with Batman to her advantage! I don’t think there ever will be a she-villain as dangerous as she!
Batman & the building are plotted correctly on 3-point perspective but I’m not so sure about Catwoman. That’s cause I did not plot her position mathematically. I just laid her on there by a guess. It looks ok to me - what do you think? -
Drawing fan art instead of drawing assignments. I am a bad-ass that way. Mwahahaha!
I saw a small corner panel by David Finch in Top Cow’s Ascension & thought it was a very good composition so I tried it out for myself. The scene is basically the same, but I changed the vanishing point & eye level so that the figure looks as if he’s heading towards the viewer instead of upwards.
The shaded parts will be covered in solid black ink so I did not bother to draw an outfit on him.
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Here’s a drawing I made of Spawn. It’s a dynamic pose I saw Greg Capullo do in one of the pages that’s impressed me a lot. I hope I’d get to be as good as Mr. Capullo in the future - I know it would take a lot of talent & time but that’s my dream.
I’ve been re-reading Spawn since last month to suck up some inspiration out of my favorite comics. After reading up to issue 100, I decided that my favorite story arc would have to be “Immortality”, issues 51-54. Todd MacFarlane’s writing + Greg Capullo’s art + Danny Miki’s inks = PERFECTION.
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Last Sunday, I met fan favorite comic book artist David Finch at Fully Booked through the efforts of its director Jaime Daez. It was the coolest! The wait was long but it was all worth it - I mean, how often does one get the chance to meet someone as great as him? FINCH IN THE FLESH, YO! \m/
Dave Finch is the author & illustrator of Batman The Dark Knight. Other projects under his pen & pencil are Cyberforce, Ascension, Ultimate X-Men, Avengers, Fallen Son: The Death of Captain America & Moon Knight. -
We’re positioning/plotting dynamic figures in perspective now. It takes a lot of brain power & problem solving but I think I’m getting the hang of it after a whole day’s work!
Here’s a scenario I cooked up just to make the page interesting. There’s typical pre-battle drama unfolding here - Feel free to laugh! Nyaha-ha! -
A page from my sketchbook! Drawing “super” figures in motion. This is more fun than drawing still figures, I’ll tell you that!
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I sketched in several more figures. I felt that the previous drawing did not quite capture the scene I want to portray. So, I’m dividing the picture into comic panels.
- Panel 1: David & Goliath; worm’s eye view from behind David
- Panel 2: Goliath from David’s point of view
- Panel 3: David from Goliath’s point of view
- Panel 4: Audience’s point of view
I’m confident with all panels except the first. There’s something not right about it - I just can’t put my finger on it…
