I just thought you TPoH readers might appreciate seeing my scribbley prep drawings
actually that’s a lie I just regret not being able to capture the same ‘marginally-traumatized-child’ expression in the clean up drawing as I did in the top right sketches :/
So today’s warmup sketches included some Lutece doodles so here you go. Robert is pretending to be a chauffeur because I would have loved Booker and Elizabeth to get into the back of a vehicle of some sort and then have one of them turn around from the driver’s seat come on that would have been hysterical.
Also you cannot seriously tell me that Rosalind never has trouble pinning up that hair.
More Lutece studies between boarding work.
I’m trying to get around that tricky corner of caricaturing without slipping into my default settings.
Very lazy Lutece sketches. Because oh no complex sarcastic people who play with reality and grammar be still my beating heart.
Someone asked me if I ever do studies of hands and well
yes
yes I do
also that doodle in the corner is from me mishearing someone saying breakdance, very bad puns resulted
More YesMary/Mary scribbles done between comic work.
Because Mary is a badass that’s why.
Also guess who finds sarcasm inexplicably attractive oh wait that’s right everyone.
pretty much always but I’m bad at tutorials and I’m tired so here have a bunch of WIP screencaps or something
so yeah first get that diggity darn basic sketch down, here I pushed Fred’s pose to look more like the cartoony double-bounce step walk I reckon he would have but his proportions are pretty humany so he’s not too different structure wise
needed reference for how the cuff would crease so I took a shot of my own sleeve (egads whodathunk you can use yourself as reference)
I tend to draw things a few frames after the reference if it’s moving; it’s a habit from animation, but basically to get away from that stilted rotoscope look that some heavily referenced pictures get I try to ‘animate’ the picture and draw it as if it’s the next key frame in a sequence, so here the coat has been pushed forwards by Fred’s hand and the folds are following that through
slapped on the rest of them clothes because ain’t nobody wants a naked android strutting about, also he’s not going to be on a catwalk in the picture so I threw in some blustery wind to help that hair and action line out. You’ll probably have noticed that I also leveled out the floor so his feet are both more duck-toed and at a different perspective
throw in a loose map for the lighting and there’s your goddamn scribbley-ass sketch. After this I red line it and fix all the mistakes I’ve made before going to inking and yes there are a metric shit tonne in this one but I’m hella tired so this is as far as I got :|
hope that helped somehow but yeah, reference; it’s great, use it, but don’t copy it, copying leads to dead awkward poses that your character wouldn’t do and really you don’t learn as much from copy pasting even if it’s by hand
More of the really intense writer and people waiting for their artisan coffee …
The man at upper left was involved in one of the most aggressively bohemian conversations I have ever had the privilege of eavesdropping. I don’t remember any of the specifics now, only that I finally had a practical application for the word ‘louche.’
I sketch the characters (and often the backgrounds) in pencil and then scan it in to finish it in photoshop. I don’t draw massively huge things but it depends on what I’m drawing I guess?
anyway here’s some next page-ish sketches next to my tiny pudgy fingers for reference