Marvel Comics' Electra!

I spent about half my workday today messing around on the Cintiq at the studio.  Such a nice little machine.  I tried out Manga Studio for the first time today.  Its a lot better than I expected.  It was pretty easy to use, other than a few backwards shortkeys and such.  It was really great for pencil sketching.  And surprisingly good at inking.  I did all the B/W for this sketch in that program.  I’m really thinking of doing more of my gruntwork with that.  I switched over to color Electra in photoshop.  I am still having trouble converting colors from the Mac to my PC at home.  I suppose it would just be easier to get internet at the studio.  But then I would have the internet… and nothing would ever get done.

-Will

girl – digital sketch

I came into the studio last night and one of my studio mates Syd, had brought up his Cintique for us to use.  I gave it a whirl, its pretty good.  Definitely something I could get used to.  I think the colors need to be set on it though, because every other monitor I looked at this on the sketch looked way too dark and too red.  This was about 25 minutes in photoshop.

-Will

Demon Cloud digital sketch

One of my absolute favorite artists in this world is a French artist that goes by the name Bengal. I love his colors and I am completely in love with the way he draws women. So much personality!

Anyways, I always told myself when I started getting better at color and digital painting that I would try and reproduce some of his drawings. I just love how eccentric his colors are – So spontaneous and free.


I took a stab at this one, though I don’t think it was successful. I like what was going on in her right thigh there, and some of whats going on in her face. But overall I wasn’t happy with this. Especially with her hammy feet. I really need to get back to a figure drawing group. I did have fun with this though. I may try a few more Bengal sketches this weekend.

-Will