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Sketchbook to Screen: Exploring Procreate and Digital Coloring

Warrior Woman Digital Colors in Procreate

Coloring Adventures in Procreate with Green Haired Warrior Woman

I finally got the opportunity to mess around with Procreate. I bought an iPad this weekend, and the first app I bought was Procreate. I’m really excited to use it for digital illustrations. Or for coloring some of my older pencil illustrations.

Here’s a digital coloring in Procreate of a pencil drawing I did last year. The drawing is of Warrior Woman, Scarmother Vrynna from Legends of Runeterra. I found the image reference on Pinterest and really wanted to draw her in my sketchbook. Check it out in this blog post.

The colors I chose aren’t like the original illustration. I just wanted to have fun learning Procreate, so I gave her green hair. I tried blending the colors and added shadow and highlight. I am really enjoying Procreate and can’t believe it’s taken me so long to use it.

Weekend Drawing: A Quick Head Sketch Resembling Madison Clark

Unexpected Resemblance: Quick Head Sketch Evokes Madison Clark Vibes

I had some free time this weekend so I did this quick head sketch. I found an image of a lady in armor and was inspired to draw her. Even though I know she’s in armor, she looks like a cowgirl to me. She also kinda looks like Madison Clark from Fear the Walking Dead. This is ironic because Kim Dickens (Madison Clark) was in Deadwood too.

Drawn with my Pentel GraphGear 500 Automatic Drafting Mechanical Pencil, lead size 0.7mm.

From Mind to Paper: Capturing Ideas with Rough Sketches

Creative Chaos: Unleashing Ideas with Sketches and Loose Lines

Here’s a page from my sketchbook. I just drew whatever came to mind last night. Nothing to defined, just loosening up. Had fun getting a lot of ideas down as rough sketches. Characters like a flaming skull guy, a dark knight, and a day of the dead lady.

Designing Ale: Bringing the Fierce Warrior of First Legacy to Life

Meet Alejandra Ramos: Unveiling Character Design for First Legacy

Here’s a character design sketch of Alejandra “Ale” Ramos. She is one of the main characters for my revamped cyberpunk medieval goth comic, First Legacy. This is the first sketch I’ve done of Ale. I had a vivid idea of what I wanted her to look like in my mind.

Ale is a fierce warrior in her early 20s. She’s still in training but determined to prove herself. In First Legacy, she’ll be thrust into a quest to support the main character. Ali is dressed in leather, has shoulder armor, and wears a cloak. I sketched out her saber too, with a fancy handle guard.

Creating Chaos: Designing Dark and Dystopian Villains

Designing Villains: Exploring Futuristic Aesthetics in Sketches

Here are some villain’s head designs from my sketchbook. I’ve got an idea for some mid-level bad guys for my upcoming comic project. Sketching these initial heads is helping me flesh out those ideas.

The comic will take place in a Goth Cyberpunk setting. So I am trying to come up with characters that look futuristic and dark. These sketches lean toward cybernetics, space helmets, and gas masks.

Art of Observation: Refining Hand Drawing Skills Through Practice

Sketching Hands: Techniques Explored in My Sketchbook

Here are a few pages from my sketchbook where I’ve been drawing hands. Hands can be challenging to draw for me so I like to draw them whenever I am able. When I start a sketching session I usually start with drawing hands.

With these hand sketches I tried a few different techniques. I used shapes to form the hand and fingers. I also used contour lines through observational drawing. I really enjoyed drawing the bones of the hand too. I think they came out cool.

Artistic Vision: Bringing Medieval Armor to Cyberpunk in First Legacy

Character Creation Journey: Sketching Supporting Cast for First Legacy

Here’s a character sketch drawing for my upcoming comic project, First Legacy. I’m excited about this comic because I’m writing and illustrating it. Right now, the story is set in a Dark Goth Cyberpunk world. I’m still trying to work that concept together into a story.

This design is for a supporting character for the main protagonist. I haven’t named him yet, but I know where he’ll fit in the story. He’s wearing medieval armor, which will be interesting to make fit with a cyberpunk future. It’ll make sense in the story, though. He looks a little like talk show host Conan O’Brien; I think it’s the hair. lol.

Superheroine Strength: Marcio Takara’s Female Design Course

Marcio Takara: Female Character Design for Comics online course at Domestika

From Inspiration to Creation: Insights from Marcio Takara’s Female Design Class

I’m always looking for ways to better myself and my art. While on Facebook this week, I kept getting an ad for a figure class on Domestika taught by one of my favorite comic artists, Marcio Takara. I’ve been a fan of his for years, first discovering his artwork on Deviant Art and Tumbler. He’s drawn for both DC Comics and Marvel Comics. I really like his approach to drawing the female super-heroine form. Both feminine and strong at the same time.

I decided yes; I want to take this online course by Marcio Takara. The class name is Female Character Design for Comics. What’s very cool is that Marcio will actually look at and evaluate your character designs. The comic art course is broken up into several sections, these include tutorial videos by Marcio Takara and character design assignments. We share our designs in a group forum.

I haven’t finished the online course yet, but here are a few of my initial female character designs. A hard-knocks street-level hero, a martial artist/psychic character, and an alien or underwater warrior. I’m both having fun and learning in this class.

Creative Community: Participating in the Six Fanarts Challenge

Fan Art Frenzy: Diving into the Six Fanarts Challenge

I’m a little late to the Six Fanarts Challenge. What’s the Six Fanarts challenge you might ask? Well, it’s an art challenge put out by Visual Artist Melissa Capriglione on her Twitter account. The challenge is for artists to ask their followers/fans/friends for six characters to draw.

The artist then draws the six characters in a template of portrait boxes that Melissa Capriglione created and shared on Twitter. The fan art is done in the artist’s style. I do love a fun art challenge, so you know I have to participate too. I learned about the Six Fanarts challenge from other artists posting their work on Instagram.

I asked my followers on Instagram who I should draw, and these are the characters they suggested.

Alucard
Anne Shirley Cuthbert
Aelita Schaeffer
Batman (Michael Keaton)
Gekko Kamen
Kratos

Thanks to everyone who suggested these characters. I had fun drawing them.

Artistic Exploration: Observational Drawing of Armor and Swordplay

Finding Inspiration from Reference and Observational Drawing

There are so many great images and photo references on Pinterest for observational drawing exercises. I found a cool image of a woman in armor and her sword in a cool parry position and instantly wanted to draw/sketch her.

I had fun adding the details to this drawing with shadows and highlights. I really didn’t use much hatching or crosshatching, I used a lot of shading though. The armor was especially fun to draw with all the integrated metalwork on the shoulder and upper arm.

For an observational drawing exercise in my sketchbook, I’m really happy with how it came out. I can’t find the original images anymore or I would cite the source.