Kevin Woody's Between Mars » sketches

Sweet new scanner

Woody — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 03:22:35 +0000

Well, now that APE is over I guess it’s time to focus on school once again. That is, while I also continue to work on my next comic that’s not on a deadline. So this semester I’m taking a plein air painting class again. I cannot describe how valuable this class is to me. It is invaluable! I’ve got a sweet new scanner that is SO FAST and make real good scans. My old one still works, and I used it to scan every page of “Pogonotomy,” but it took about 30 seconds or more to scan vs this new one taking about 3 seconds. AWESOME. Anyway, here’s a painting I made a couple weeks ago. It’s gouache, which I just started learning how to use. This is actually my third painting with gouache. The first two are really bad.

Umbrella Lady (better scan)

Woody — Fri, 29 May 2009 02:45:17 +0000

PS – Here’s a better scan of that last character sketch.

Sepia Test #4

Woody — Mon, 11 May 2009 09:26:40 +0000

Here’s the new one that I promised. I think I’m settled on this technique for the comic, of which 10 pages are penciled and ready for inking and (sepia) coloring. The final comic will be much longer than 10 pages, probably closer to 30 or 35. But I’ll get these first 10 done and posted before continuing on. They’ll be done in about a week or so. Until then, enjoy this lady with a parasol!

PS – I’ll post a better, scanned version of this one later. For now, you get the photo version.

Little Bearded Men

Woody — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 07:42:39 +0000

Study sketches for a comic I’m working on.

Better versions of those Ronin drawings

Woody — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 23:24:44 +0000

Sketches

Woody — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 06:49:47 +0000

Yeah, been a while since I posted. I’m working hard on some comics right now for school. I’m going to start posting sketches and stuff more often since the story work is mostly done and now it’s time for all the drawing work. So here’s some watercolor sketches of stuff I’m working on. Yes, I realize that his arms and legs are incorrect in the running image. I didn’t notice that until after I finished inking it.

F. Delano R.

Woody — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:03:01 +0000

Working on a WWII piece in class involving FDR. Here’s a quick caricature study I did today. This guy is super difficult to caricature. This is the third one I did and the first one that remotely looks like him.

Yesterday

Woody — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:00:41 +0000

These are all from yesterday

and one more

Woody — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:04:00 +0000

I bought these FiberCastell Pitt colored brush pen thingies a while back and I hardly ever use them. Time to change that!

Fun times with drawing!

Woody — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:50:00 +0000

Tonight was the last class of my anatomy class. :(

But it was a good class for learning and drawing! :)

Also, since this was an anatomy class and we studied a different part of the body every week, the final class tonight was to take everything we had learned and apply it to drawing a live model. So the following drawings are from that very live model I just told you about!

Here is the final drawing that I drew in class tonight just for fun:

And here are some other drawings from tonight’s class. The leg in the upper left was mostly worked on by my teacher, which is why it looks better than the others.

And here’s some drawings I made:

Doodly doodles doodling

Woody — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:34:00 +0000

One of my cousins got married recently in Palm Springs at a gorgeous house that they rented for the weekend. While there I pulled out my trusty little moleskine and sketched a few bits of the scenery on location.

And here’s a doodle from the other night.

Preliminary Sketch

Woody — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 09:17:00 +0000

A preliminary caricature sketch. Can you tell who it is?

Frazetta Study (wip)

Woody — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:34:00 +0000

A Frazetta study I’m currently working on side-by-side with the original.

The character’s right arm/pec area was done by my teacher to provide some help.

Wacom Tablet

Woody — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 09:21:00 +0000

This is my first time drawing with a tablet. This took me way to long for how much better the drawing could be.

Phuc is his name. He was the star of a comic I used to draw regularly a few years back at UC Santa Barbara.

Hmm, I think I need more practice/study of lighting and forms of the human head. Exercises like this one are great for noticing things about your work that you can improve upon! Yay learning!

Recent things!

Woody — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:53:00 +0000

Wow! These are things that I drew!

First up, my favorite drawing from winter break:

Next up, some ballpoint pen sketches/studies of Frazetta and I think two other artists.

Finally, an unfinished ink study of a drawing by Joseph Clement Coll. He is amazing! I could seriously do this kind of stuff ALL DAY for no good reason other than to want to be more like my new buddy J.C.C.

The outline was pre-printed onto some board provided by the teacher so that we had some kind of starting point instead of a starting with blank paper like he does when he demos for us.

Comic WIP

Woody — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 23:24:00 +0000