Random traditional and digital sketches that are all over the place

I guess I still have a soft spot for blogs even though I don't upload mine that often. I have my feedly account with over 400 art blog subscriptions, and I still think they are an amazing resource for illustrations, paintings and goodies straight from the artist's hands. So in an effort to keep it alive, I'm updating my old sketch blog with some new-ish sketches.

Most all of these are last year's. Some were really quick sketches without any aim, some others I put a lot of effort into. I didn't arrange them chronologically because no one cares, but I did separate them into a digital and traditional batch. 

Digital

This one started with me wanting to draw something with a ton of movement and energy, so the jumping guy happened. After giving him the ultraman-esque mask and suit I decided to expand it into a whole scene, and wanted to exaggerate the energy with someone on  the receiving end of the K-Pow! After the B/W version was ready I decided on a very quick triad color scheme mainly because I never use it and I have to say, I do kinda like this one a lot.

This one's straight up made for Egoraptor's #cutiesaturday. Nothing too special about it, but I kinda love the theme of cute girl taking care of hardcore mechanical stuff. 

This digital sketch started with a buff silhouette, but I wanted to dress him in something a little more uncommon, hence the cargo shorts, wifebeater and jacket. The anchor was a weird weapon choice but there you go...

I actually put a lot of time into this one. Is based on an old RPG character (10 to 11 years old?) I had called "Wrok Hurt". This one's reimagined of course, with updated armor, weapon and a loot carrying Komodo dragon 'cause why not? I grabbed a ton of influence from Will Kirby (@chamonkee in twitter), specially when adding the pouch details. The sad thing is that this is not even close to how good his stuff is, but I did learn a lot from looking at his stuff!

A retro space lady. I love this minimalistic approach at drawing a girl's face that Mingjue Chen and Britnney Lee do incredibly well (which I personally believe stems from the amazing Mary Blair).

This is my attempt at that, with a "retro-futuristic" spin that I love with light-bulb lasers and all.

I like this one.

This one actually took me a little while as well. I wanted to make a plausible vehicle, flexing my industrial design muscle. At the time I was working as a toy designer at Lanard Toys, and this was an attempt to mix what I had learned into my personal stuff. I actually think this one came out really well, I wouldn't mind having a toy of this Mad Max-like pig/threaded motorbike combo.

Hahahaha! This one's not a sketch. It was a christmas gift for my younger brother, aptly named "Merry F*ckn Christmas!".

This one. I thought of this one while in a meeting. For some reason I do get some pretty good/different ideas when I'm in meetings. I come up with themes, poses and ideas that I wouldn't normally come up with on my own. Now that I'm looking at it again, I think the head is too big and the upper portion of the leg too long... but I like the pose and the costume. C+.

Traditional sketchbook

From here on is my traditional stuff! Pencil, ink and paper. I do put more effort into these because is harder to erase and after you finish it stays like that. No liquify, no hue/saturation, no ink-erasing. I believe you make more progress learning from traditional because of this. But that's just my opinion... 

Nice! Did this one to celebrate 500 likes in my facebook page! Ink, orange ink, markers and gold gel to finish this one off. Robots and animals. Still love the theme :)

And shortly after I got 500 followers in Instagram, which I celebrated with a pizza delivery boy fulfilling his duty, because most milestones are celebrated with pizza. 

I was asked to gift a drawing for a raffle to raise funds towards the worst wildfires in Chile's history. Still faithful to animals and robots, I decided to go with a Chilean Puma and a couple of Kingfishers shooting water blasts with a firefighter robot. It took me 3 attempts (because I smudged the previous 2...) but I do like the final result. 

This one's just a sketchbook spread, with some ancient rock temples and watercolor characters.

And she's a Bobba Fett inspired bounty hunter. To be completely honest... I like the little robot the most. I should use it for something else...

This one was super fun, actually. Started with a very "elastic" pose, added an oversized bomb-thrower, some space goldfish and rockets and there you go! I like how this page looks. I took a some inspiration from Tank Girl when adding little details here and there.

Robots and Animals! Again! a little fox and a giant rat in a mech-suit battle. I want to develop the centerpiece further now that I'm looking at it again. I think the use of SFX is pretty effective in this one. I definitely want/need to explore that more!

The remaining ones are Inktober attempts that I clearly failed to keep up to 'til the end of the month... as usual. To be fair, I was transitioning between jobs, finding a new apartment, studying for my driver's license, taking the test and driving exam, getting health insurance, getting boxes, packing, moving and losing my sanity. Everything worked though! And I have a great job drawing and painting which in the end, is what I've always aimed to in life. I'm pretty happy right now :) 

Adventurer kid with his fish-in-a-floating-submarine companion. And headphones. 

I always thought of this guy as a generic minion in a bump-mech suit. Is what would fill the boss' army in this non-existant robot world.

Valentine's correspondence with a pink-haired futuristic rollerblade mail-lady. I actually like this one a lot :)

Ha! This guy was borderline cheating. I still wanted to deliver that day's inktober, but I was horribly swamped and dealing with a ton of things (as described above). So I scribbled this face. Is alright, I think.

I remember exactly when I came up with this guy. It was a window of tranquility, I got myself a cup of coffee and a pastry and thought of a tattooed dude with a full time job. It actually felt awesome to have time to dedicate solely to my sketchbook. This one brings good memories. 

Minion Mech number 2. I like this design a lot, from the shoulder pads, the hatch to the chunky sword and skull deco. Feels pretty functional. 

And this was the last sketch of this specific sketchbook. I wanted tattoos, swords, pink, animu, headphones, pouches and shoulder pads, and is exactly what I did. I drew it in the last day of Inktober and also happens to be the last drawing of this post.  

If you read everything I truly thank you. I guess that's a little peek into the past 5 months of my life. I've drawn a lot more, but I haven't pictured or scanned everything in my sketchbook, and I also cannot share most stuff from my previous and current job. I have been practicing more though, trying to get better, polishing anatomy and color, which are two major dents in my arsenal (is that an expression? I hope so).

Hope you all have a magnificent day, week and month.
Cheers!!

DW

Pigs, Tengus, Jetpack Kids and Space Frogs

I love double spreads and speed lines. Tried them both in my sketchbook, and as you can tell by the amount of scribly lines, I was really uncertain of what I wanted. Still, I'm pretty happy with this one!

Pigs are actually one of my new favorite things to draw now. They can vary so much in shape and expression, which makes them super fun to draw!

Overconfident expressions

Some Tengu sketches!

A little inking

This is a bit old and is the picture in my business card. I feel I can paint better now, but I still kinda like the design. Next one will be better!

Gorillas, Goblins and Grumps

I've been playing with inks, acrylics, styles and photoshop.

This is Barry from the Game Grumps, a Youtube channel. He seems super cool and makes me laugh a lot. I decided to use him to practice some rendering.

I've been thinking about space gorillas and space adventures... I'm pretty sure I'll do something about that in the near future.

I don't think I played with acrylics in my sketchbook before. This is my first try.

And a random sketch, heavily inspired by Anthony Holden. That guy can draw!!

Ok, back to work!

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Sketch Batch 2 + Inks + Colors

More sketches! Plus some inks and color drawings. I have a twitter and instagram now, where I think I'll be posting more casually.

My twitter account: https://twitter.com/DWalkerG

And my Instagram: http://instagram.com/donwoka/

Cockatrice sketch

Hello Twitter!

Dentist chairs

Soccer things

Megamanesque n.1

Pop and lock!

Megamanesque n.2

Facial expressions

Megamanesque n.3

(I like) turtles sketches

Hope to see you around!

Poster Illustration

So!! It's been a while. I've been waiting to get a green light to post this, and I finally got it.

This is the poster for a short stop-motion film by my friends Anuardi and Madow. They already did one before, and it was very cool.

I loved the concept, so I kinda went overboard with the line drawing. 

I hope you like it, I still have a couple of projects that I to get green lit before posting, but I'll try to upload some other things on the meantime.

Have a good one!
Salud!!

Daniel

200 Post!! Ha!!

So!! It's been veeeery long!! 

I've been working a lot, painting, drawing, sketching in various projects, and I've been wanting to post here many many things. But there was one thing that didn't let me do it... and it is a very silly reason actually, but here it is: This is post 200.

It doesn't sound as an excuse, but in my head I thought I wanted a big post, something with many things to show (to my three followers), so I started piling up drawings and never finding the correct moment between projects to post something... Until now.

So here you go! Sketchbook drawings, posters, illustrations and others. Hope you like them!

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So I've been sketching a lot, and I decided to add watercolor to some of my sketches. It is kind of a big deal for me because I've been sort of afraid of color and watercolor because it never does what you want to... but little by little, me and my super cheap watercolor set have been coming to terms and we've fooled around doing little things here and there...

 I also almost never do fanart, but I decided to change that. I mean... if I want to draw a character that I like, why stop? Sure, is the equivalent of making a cover of a song or just imitating someone else's idea, but if you give it a twist it can actually be pretty cool!

So here're some Dragon Ball redesigns

 And here's an angry Mario!

Ink practice

And some other watercolors

These guys here are from the bart and the Caltrain. I actually have a ton of these... I think I should probably make a post specifically about people I sketch in the streets =)

I drew this after watching the first Neverending Story... And now I know why I felt it was so creepy when I saw it as a kid. Not only the scary wolf, the menacing clouds, the faces sharing the same heads and the heartbreaking horse drowning... There was also Falcor winking at Atreyu which REALLY freaked me out.
Well, I think that nobody who watched the movie didn't think of this:

After seeing the amazing Jake Parker and Mike Yamada drawing cute animals driving robots, I kinda wanted to do the same. I was thinking of Gorillaz' Murdoc and FLCL's Haruko at the time, so I added a Bass guitar. I wasn't sure about the composition (I still don't know) so I did a bunch of thumbnails and a robot. Let's see if it works in the future!

And a character lineup, just for kicks, for nothing in particular =)

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I sent these two sketches to the AAU Springshow and the second one was selected which made me quite happy! 

I sent over 15 pieces but 4 (well... the 3 pages from the Invincibeard comic and this sketch compilation below, which makes it only two things) got in the show. At first I was a bit "meh"... but after being there and seeing all the work over there, I was blown away and very greatful that I was selected.

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This one was for my Goddaughter. She's having a Math Olympics and I made the poster =)

There are two versions, with and without the confetti. I had a bunch of ideas, but in the end I went for the one that the lovely Ana Aranda suggested me. She's awesome.

Here are the steps to get to the final thing.

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This one's good! 

I made the artwork for a card game! It's a regular deck of cards and I had to redesign the court, aces, pips, jokers and even the back cards to make them Elemental-like. It took me quite a long time, but I like the results. Here they are!

Back Card

 Aces

 Jacks

Queens

Kings

 Jokers

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This was a cool project. With a group of friends we redesigned the classic children's book "Color Kittens" to make them a contemporary TV show. I did the character design of the two main guys and some other paintings. Here's the character design sheet:

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There's a Kaiju competition going on on Facebook, and this was my "cartoony" entry. I had that dinosaur with a mug lying around in my computer and I finally took advantage of it. I'm working on a more "realistic" one at the moment too.

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So, this is it! My 200th post! I will post more often from now on, I swear. Is the main reason why I bought a scanner! Also, I like blogs and feel that they don't get enough love. I'm subscribed to over 400 of them and is a great way of keeping track of what your favourite artists, illustrator, photographers, designers and friends are doing.

Ok, that's it for today! 

Have a great week everyone!!

Cheers!

Daniel