Zombie Coconut

While I was sitting at my computer last night checking my email, twitter, some forums and blogs. I was inspired to do this sketch. Zombie Coconut. Inspired by Justin and Bianca's Fresh Like Coconuts site (FLC). It came out pretty good for something that originally started as a rough pencil doodle. Then I started to get into it and tightened the lines some and inked it in. Had to use a fine point Sharpie, since my regular Sharpie went AWOL on me. Added a maggot friend on his head too.

Think I am going to take this into Illustrator and simplify it a bit... tone down the detail a little and give it some color. May even try a mini painting of this.

Character Sketch

Found these 2 sketches a few days ago in a pile of papers pressed within a sketch book. The first one was my initial detailed design, in pencil, for this character. I know I had some really loose and rough thumbnail pencils that I worked on first, but those may have been on some small pieces of scratch paper. I seem to use those, since I have them on my desk at all times. I try to recycle some of the waste paper from the printer/copier. Should really use my small sketchbooks more often... some of these pieces of paper get discarded afterwords. Especially if they have writing or phone numbers on them from notes or messages.

I knew she was going to have 6 arms (thought about 4 too) and armed with guns and blades. Her look was going to be very Amazon warrior-like with some hi-tech pieces to the uniform. She was part of the Strikforce team I posted in a previous sketch I did. That's about all I had as an idea for her at the time. It is quite a few years old and I vaguely remember some of the other characters that were created for this. Think her name might have been Shiva or Armada or Riot... Shiva sounds more familiar though.

The second one was going to be a much tighter, stylized pencil study of her with design tweaks. Only thing is that it was abandoned... never did finish working on it. Not sure why...

Strikeforce

As I mentioned in a previous post, here is an old sketch I found cleaning out an old portfolio. I had to photocopy it to reduce it down so that it would fit on the scanner. Can't remember how old it is... maybe 15 years old or more. It's in regular pencil, on 11" x 17" paper and in an unfinished state. This was an early idea for the characters there and a few have changed since then.

I've come to notice something going through some of my sketches... I seem to have quite a few of them. Some in a rough state, others in a completed state. To top it off, I never do anything with the ideas either.

Unfortunately that's not the problem with this one. I drew this on the beach at a huge family outing. See the blotchy spot toward the top center? That's where a bird decided to add it's own handiwork to my drawing and that was the end of that. I did wipe it off, but that's the stain it left.

Kraken

Occasionally I will sketch/doodle things on pieces of scratch paper, while I'm on a phone call or taking a break from the computer, at work. A lot of them are on small pieces and usually with work notes on them. Not too often do they turn out as detailed as this one.

Kinda had an idea for a character like this for a while now, but really wasn't sure about the look. May be one day I'll get the rest of him done. For now it's just a head sketch for a starting point.

Grimshaw

Going through some old files I came across this sketch I did a few years ago. Haven't done any pencil drawing like this in a long time. Forgot about how much I liked this guy, so I know I'm going to have to do something with him. Just have to find the time now...