The Hunger Games

Some sketches of the characters from the Hunger Games series. Great books, if you haven't read them I highly recommend you give them a go. Especially before or instead of the movie, it was pretty flat.

Hope you like them, be back soon with a few more finished renditions.

-Keith

a little colour

Decided to try some digital colours again since I seem to avoid doing them as much as possible. Sketching is good but I should probably "finish" something every now and then! Not that any of these is close to being finished :/

Threw up both the colour and the tones. Personally I like the tonal one better but when I really think about it I don't like either!

And some head sketches just to round things off.

Thanks for looking!

-K

sketch

Just a sketch for today that I like and wanted to share!

Thanks for stopping by!
-Keith

test this *now with sprite animation*

Some pieces that I did for an application to a games studio:

A few months ago I was applying to a studio in Montreal for a designer position and they had me do a test... that took a week. Crazy but I did it and surprisingly it wasn't enough time to complete totally! There were three stages to complete: a GUI design, a character design, and a sprite animation.

It's been long enough I think that I could post some of the art I did for it (I didn't get the job if you are wondering). Some of you may remember the post I had for the Pirate some time ago. She was part of the test and I think the best piece I did for it. I have a bunch of sketches that I did for the character that are in the pile of things to be scanned. So they should appear here some time soon :)

Hope you like and thanks for checking in!
-Keith

who the hell do you think we are?

Decided it was time to crack open the new sketchbook and draw something. So while I was watching watching the outstanding Gurren Lagann I did a little fan art of my favourite characters Kamina and Yoko! A special thanks to Karley for the inspiration/suggestion to watch the series!

If you want to check out the series you can watch it here: Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann

I have decided to do a lot more in the way of fan art since it was drawing comics that got me into this world in the first place. I am going to stick with the anime theme for a while and next up will be  a giant panda of sorts. If you have any requests for a particular character please pass them on!

As ever thanks for checking out the blog!

-Keith

mermaid

A sketch from a few days ago that I really wanted to share with you all. Since it wasn't digital it forced me to FINALLY get the scanner installed on the Mac. After the latest move the ubiquitous and overly reliable Dell is finally starting to wear down and will likely need to be retired soon.

I have a few pages to put together and post from the sketchbook and thought this would be a good place to start. But keep checking back as I will post others with a little more regularity!

Hope you like and thanks for checking out the blog!
-K

rocket!

Sketch of the day is Rocket from Sucker Punch. I am really happy with the way it turned out though I don't think I managed to make it nearly as cute as Jena Malone is in the film.

In any case I hope you like it and thanks for checking out the blog!

-Keith

questionable artwork

Recently I have made it a habit to sketch every day or at least doodle while at work and came up with this one today, which I really liked. I have every intention of tightening this one up and adding colours if only to do justice to some of the greatest comic characters ever. You can read all about them here questionablecontent.net

Thanks for stopping by the blog and be sure to check back later for the updates on the progress of the new sketch, I might even add a background!

Cheers!

-Keith

quality advertising

Typically I am the last person to a party but for once I am on top of a "trending" topic! In this case the lovely young lady that is the spokesperson for T-Mobile. Her name is Carly Foulkes and after hearing people raving about her (I don't have cable you see) I looked her up on Google and decided right away to draw a picture of her in her almost as famous dress.

Along the way I decided to challenge myself again to do some digital colours and I think they turned out quite well. I have to give credit to an artist I have admired for a long time who posted a step by step for his approach to digital colours of this style. His name is Xavier Ramonède and you can check out his killer blog here: sushixav.blogspot.com

So here are the drawings! Sketch was done in Flash, clean up in Sketchbook Pro and coloured in Photoshop.

Thanks for checking out the blog and I hope you like the drawings!
-Keith

broken

I had originally planned on doing a new version of the MGMT girl but while watching music videos on youtube I watched one of my all time favourites: www.youtube.com/watch_broken

So I drew this, it has promise but I think I can do better. I did two versions to practice shading as I want to do some more digital colouring, again has promise but could improve. Until next time I hope you like!

lookin sideways

A doodle that turned into a sketch that almost got finished. Hope you find it interesting.

If anyone can guess the inspiration then you win a super prize!

*hint search kids, its the one with 33 million views

NO!

I was going to call this post Epic Fail but he looked so forlorn back there I just couldn't do it. Poor bugger.

november sketches part 2

this is older than november but I like it so you'll just have to accept that lie


I am tremendously proud of this drawing, had a little zen moment while drawing it. I think it is one of the best things I have drawn... well, ever...

november sketches

for a change I decided to draw some men, only for a little while 'cause I mean who really likes drawing men?

not the best thing I have ever done but I like the sketchyness of it, which is something I think i have been getting to far away from with my drawing. this dude will probably carry a sword if I ever finish this... or maybe a gun, or maybe a gun with a sword on it...


and here is a cute little drawing of Harry Potter or Charlie Potter as i like to call him. Why? Now THAT is a story if you ever care to hear it.

watching paint dry

well not really but pretty close, sitting here watching renders go on the mac and thought I shouldn't waist time watching the bar cross the screen

so I decided to colour an old sketch I liked and see what I could do

spaceballs

decided it was time to post some real artwork on here

these are a couple of pages from the storyboards I did for "Spaceballs the Animated Series". The episode was called "Watchyourassic Park", hey no one has ever accused Mel Brooks of making classy stuff but they are damn funny.





someday I would really like to go back over these spaceballs boards and do a tonal pass or two... someday...