Le Dungeon de Art, Design & Cool Stuff

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.

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 -

The roundhouse kick kicks butt effectively. In my opinion, a super-heroine who cannot do a decent roundhouse kick is lame. Changing how the arms are positioned doesn’t lessen the powerful imagery of this kick.

Horned demons are cool. That’s all I can say about this page off my sketchbook.

From flight or a high jump, I believe this has got to be the best way to land. I drew it in my sketchbook as a reminder. I haven’t quite decided how the other arm is positioned so I drew in 2 variations.

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!

Medusa, the drawing project I’m currently working on. I think I’ll have to rearrange the snakes on her head as I ink - so they’d somehow seem to be moving WITH Medusa, not AGAINST her.

sketch of an acrobat, about to swing out… experimenting with worm’s eye view

more fighting figures, women this time… “Don’t let her get away!”

drawing fighting figures. The big guy in middle thinks he’s got the upper hand but he really should watch his back!