First; our sketch. Kronk. Enough said I think.
Second; I've decided to take one of my sketch and make an honest to Kronk piece of art. I've redrawn it, inked it and scanned it. I'll be coloring the piece in Photoshop, the printing it on canvas and framing it.
I'll post pics as the work progresses.
...and misses.
Sometimes I have to remind myself that sketching is about experimenting and that not all experiments can be successes.
I have so many idea for webcomics that I'll never find the time to do.
Today, and for as long as I keep doing daily sketches, I'm opening up the feature to viewer requests. The catch however is that, in a transparent grab for followers, I'm only accepting these requests from Twitter. The process is simple, starting at this very moment, anyone who follows me @jfdubeau can reply me their request over Twitter. Each day when I sit down to do my daily sketch I'll look at the requests from since my last post and pick one. If a request keeps popping up I'll give it more attention unless I've already done it in the past.
The goal is twofolds; to make the feature more interactive and fun for myself and anyone who enjoys it and to attract more followers.
Now, why do I need more followers? Simply put, if I ever want to publish a book, whether through a publisher or by my own means, I need to have an audience. That audience must be composed of people who enjoy what I do creatively. Sketches and writing are those things and I'm trying to attract, slowly at first, as many people as possible.
Hopefully this feature doesn't fall flat. Remember; the more successful dumb little things like that are, the easier it becomes for me to come up and develop more interesting and involved free content for you.
Cheers,
Apart from the ear being misaligned I'm pleased with the resemblance.
Part of something larger I might never really get to.
Happy with the mischievous look on her face.
Went to see Star Trek tonight. That's my excuse for such a quick sketch. Speedy it might have been, I'm satisfied with the results. I should play with that style more maybe?
The movie was good. Better than good; excellent. I have to hand it to J.J. Abrams, he managed to capture what was core to the series and give every character the amount of screen time he deserved. He was threading hallowed ground with this movie and was obviously aware of it through his efforts. Without going into details, the movie manages to retell a story without retelling it.
Also, anyone doubting that Abrams can handle Star Wars needs to see this film. The first act contains a scene that with very little imagination could be transplanted directly into A New Hope and feel right at home there. It almost feels like the man was stretching his muscles to see if he could handle the style properly. To which I say: Nailed it.
As I said yesterday, today I have two sketches and an announcement.
First sketch is practice for some work I'm going to be doing soon involving armored super soldiers.
The second is a character from something I wrote. I wonder if my wife will be able to guess who.
The announcement is that starting this coming Monday, I will be taking requests for sketches on Twitter. I'm still sorting out my account but when I do anyone will be able to @reply me a request with #sketch-a-day to send me ideas.
Did my sketch but forgot it at work. So instead of nothing, I fished something out of my archives. Enjoy!
Tomorrow: two sketches and an announcement.
Funny thing about sketching, sometimes you don't end up quite with what you wanted.
... This was supposed to be a ballerina.
