Sketchbook scribbles

Here are some sketches I did. I'm feeling more and more confident with pen on paper as I practice. It also challenging to make a mistake and somehow correct it even though ink isn't really forgiving, mind you, sometimes it can't be fixed :P
Anyway, I hope you enjoy the sketches, some are photo ref. some aren't. I'm also enjoying conceptual work, I might try it some more and see if I pull some cool stuff from it.

Class stuff

These Images were drawings I done in art class. All traditionally done with various mediums. I wasn't the biggest fan of using traditional stuff at the time but I've grown to understand it a lot better now. These are a bit old but it's good to post things like this up so it shows a background of what I was doing and where I'm coming from. I also enjoyed life drawing class, I learnt a lot which I think is an essential piece of learning if one is the get good with drawing human anatomy.

Anyway, McQueen out!

FTM Comic

Done this whilst looking at varies comics on some websites and I came across a odd comic which involved a Man trapped in a Woman's body and a Boy trapped in a Mans body. Thought that idea was funny but the transman idea was a little more serious, so I decided to take something of the sort and create something new. This image didn't take too long but really it was just scribbling and a bit of fun using a lot of the texture brushes. Anyway, Hope you like the style.

~ McQueen

Master Chief Speed Paintings

Believe it or not, I'm not a "Halo Fan" but i do enjoy sketching Master Chief now and then. I just think he is cool, even though I've played all the games since I was a little younger, I feel now that I've grown out of the Halo Universe and pretty much the Halo games in general. I mean, I've been over it a long time but it hasn't stopped me from sketching the Chief.
I still think he's cool and I hope I get around to doing more of him.

Here are a few styles I've been working on and of course, none are that flash and all but you get the point. Simple strokes used efficiently and with a lot of loose ends :P

PS: These aren't that recent, but like I mentioned, i hope to be doing some new ones soon.... maybe.

~ McQueen

Quick Dino Fight

Yeah I saw a similar image on a website about dinosaurs, so I wanted to do something but from my head, which really it would look somewhat similar but I rather like doing dinosaurs sketches.

Black and White sketches

Wolf Tatt

Yeah I wanted to make a tattoo so I found a nice photo reference and drew it out. it's very sketchy if you zoomed in and saw all the terrible line work but ultimately it's not something I ever wanted to stick on my or anyones body.

Dinosaur sketch

Yeah I decided I wanted to do a sketch of some dinosaurs, so I did some line work.
Really this would of took me very little time but when you're watching TV and sketching at the same time, it feels like it's taken you forever to draw a single line.

~ McQueen

Landscape sketches

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More landscape speed paintings. The snow peaks I had done a week or so ago.

It's very difficult trying to achieve as much detail with minimal brush strokes as possible. I wouldn't mind if my paintings looked a bit more convincing for 30 mins work, but I guess I'm not hitting the right "spots" yet. I also don't think my colours are complimenting each other and my mark making looks very underdeveloped. Perhaps I should spend more than just 30 mins on a painting but I am not really good at detail to begin with.

The landscape work I do is all from my imagination which would be easy to know that I don't have much of one because, my landscapes are always either dull or ordinary.

So I'll leave it as that, and I hope you all have a great Easter.

~ McQueen

Dinosaur Illustrations

These dinosaur paintings where done last year in '09 when I was eager to paint something prehistoric. I referenced these from another illustration as it's hard to find a other sources of Dinosaurs, each one was around an hour and a half. I'm guessing it would take me maybe half that time now or maybe just an hour.

It really helped me understand colours as the colours used in each dinosaur vary from one another. The highlights may not be in the best place but even now I'm not good at placing highlights or shadows sometimes.

I've been meaning to more dinosaur paintings but not in this style. I really enjoy painting loosely as possible and enjoy the texture brushes thoroughly . However, it seems that the more texture bruhes i use, the less effective my painting gets. So I'm just going to stick with standards brushes like I use to and maybe improve some on my brush strokes.

Landscape speed sketch

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I spent about 30 to 40 mins on this painting. I'm just trying to learn landscape as best I can. Which means I'll be posting (hopefully) a lot more of these kind of sketches.

They are going to be very under developed because 30 mins is just clearly not enough time to fit everything I can. The main idea isn't to have a realistic looking landscape but to achieve for my self a very loose style that signifies my technique of painting.

Munin, who is a talented artist (who is found here http://munin-sketchblog.blogspot.com/ ), has given me tips on how to manage my brush strokes and colours. Thank you Munin. Btw, I tried very hard to stick with only one brush throughout this piece, towards the end I added a few texture brushes for effect.

Here are my steps, like mathematics working out :P

Gesture Drawings

Ok, i've been working on a lot of gesture drawings to work up my anatomy. I'm particularly practising the female anatomy. above are sketches done between 2 - 5 minutes. The drawings that have more tone in them are the 5 minute ones. mind you, these aren't new sketches.

The very first one (bottom left above the crossed legs) is Xia's of idrawgirls.com and I've learnt heaps from his style and advice. These sketches were references from real photos from google when I typed in 'models' and 'female anatomy photos' etc.

So I hope you take a look and learn a thing or two yourself from these sketches.

~ McQueen

Cartoons

Well I finally done these cartoons I've been working on the past couple days.

I think I had done each one 30 minutes at a time, which would include a rough sketch, than new layer, and use some nice dark lines and shaping the sketch together.
It was fun, but my imagination is pretty weak. Sometimes I can't get my head around things like angles and proportions. I mean, I've studied human anatomy (not thoroughly) but enough to know the right proportions and get a nice look to it at least.

I had wasted maybe 30 minutes in total on these drawings but I think I at least learnt something. Anyway, the cartoon characters are actually my cousins, friends. It's really just as basic as I can make it. Colours, shapes, position and some tone.

McQueen out.