Superboy 2

I've been on a Superboy kick lately, thanks to Young Justice (the comic series). Last night I got some away time from the computer after finishing my weeks work, and decided to hop on the old drawing table and use the old pencil to draw something on paper for a change. The result was the younger version of Superboy.
I inked this with my Kuretake brush pen, which is a pure dream to use. And it really got me thinking more about changing up my work flow from all digital to a hybrid flow, where I would pencil digitally in Manga Studio, then print out my art as light blue lines (so they will be easier to get rid of in Photoshop after inking) and inking with brush and ink on paper. A lot of artists use this method and I've done it on occasions.
Penciling in Manga Studio (or digitally in general) would be a plus because of all the changes you can make in half the time to the structural drawing. All I need now is a big enough printer and scanner.
 

Red Fire Guitar

I'm no Picasso or Van Gogh, but I have been known to slap around a bit of paint traditionally here and there. I was going through some older files the other day and came across a scan of this painting I did back in 2006. It was done in Acrylic paint on canvas paper. Such were the days before the digital craze took over :)

Doom, Dr. Doom To You!

Here's another suggestion from Twitter for today's daily warm up sketch. This time the subject was Dr. Doom. Of course, you will notice he is completely different. That's because instead of taking the usual route of just drawing the character we are all familiar with, I decided to draw him with no reference at all, and try and bring something new as far as his design is concerned. And to be honest, I kind of dig' tis whole idea of redesigned Chibi versions of comic characters. May do this again some time in the future. Hope you dig'

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Kid At Swimming Pool

Well, I was supposed to wait to post this on Friday for my Friday sketch thing I previously mentioned, but I can be somewhat impatient. Also, it doesn't make sense to wait till Friday to post a sketch when daily warm-up sketches are a part of my work routine. So, I'm going to dump the whole Friday sketch thing and just post like I normally do. Beats waiting around for Friday to post anything.
This was another idea suggested on Twitter for the Friday sketch. Kids at Swimming pool. I could have drawn lots of Kids at a swimming pool, but this is the image that popped in my head when I read the sketch suggestion. And I was going to add a caption, but I thought in the end it did not need one.
Sketched and inked in my sketchbook. Inked with my Pentel Pocket Brush Pen.

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