Krueger: Day 77

Freddy Glove

There are things I like about this Freddy Krueger glove, and things I don’t. I’m glad I was able to add some white to the blades as they now have a bit of dimension to them. The bronze metal fingers I did yesterday still look great. The leather glove itself didn’t turn out so well. I couldn’t find any decent pictures online of actual leather gloves to get the details right. I had to wing it as I went along as copying exactly what was in pictures just doesn’t work well for me. Something that looks good in photographs doesn’t ever seem to move over well into drawing. For me at least.

It still looks pretty good though. But I’m disappointed overall. It’s strange, I’ve always been terrible at drawing clothing. No idea why. Maybe I don’t have the brain for understanding how clothing flows.

Anyways, it’s done! I can move on to something new. I’ll have to figure out what that will be tomorrow. I think maybe it will be something small to take a bit of a break from these multiple day drawings.

Facebooktwittergoogle_plusredditlinkedinmail

Make it a Challenge: Day 76

Freddy

I’m starting to regret coloring in the blades, though it still looks decent enough. Honestly though, the main reason I colored in the blades is I made a few mistakes with the ink when I was adjusting the length of each blade. I pretty much had to color them in for it to look right.

Hey, what do you know, that actually does look a little like bronze where I colored there today. I’m surprised. It took a long time to do to get it to look this way. I’m happy with the results.

You know, when I look back at when I started over 75 days ago, I can really notice a difference in quality. Or maybe it’s effort. I’m not really sure. Either way the drawings I post are noticeably increasing in overall quality. I definitely recommend to anyone out there that if they want to get better at doing anything, and this should go without saying, do it every day! Do what I’m doing, make it a challenge and do it every single day for a year.

Facebooktwittergoogle_plusredditlinkedinmail

Nightmare on Elm Street: Day 75

Freddy

I grew up watching a few of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies, and I always loved how unique they were compared to other slasher horror films. You know, “bad guy that just likes to kill other people” type movies. I think A Nightmare on Elm Street is the only horror movie series I really like.

I like how this drawing turned out. Though I do have to increase the length of one of the blades, I think. It should look better when I do that. Other than that though, Freddy’s glove turned out pretty good. Hopefully when I color it tomorrow I can do a decent enough job.

Facebooktwittergoogle_plusredditlinkedinmail

I’m Afraid I Can’t do That: Day 74

HAL 9000 Complete

“I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.”

I love how this turned out! Oh so much. I love how the speaker at the bottom looks, I love the fantastically creepy eye in the center of the page, everything looks perfect. There were a lot of things I was worried about while I was going along, but again… I’m surprised how great everything looks. I’m so happy with it.

I haven’t seen 2001: A Space Odyssey in a couple years, but I plan to watch it this Halloween. I have a cousin that has yet to see it, and we’re planning on doing a movie marathon on Halloween. I think HAL is the only character in the movie that shows any real emotion! Those future humans are so bland and uninteresting. I think that’s just the type of future Stanley Kubrick imagined.

I sure did put a lot of effort into this picture though. My back, my neck, and my wrist are quite sore. It took forever to draw all those tiny little squares at the bottom, not to mention coloring all that black everywhere else.

What should I draw next? Hmmm…. I think I have an idea.

Facebooktwittergoogle_plusredditlinkedinmail

Space Odyssey: Day 73

HAL9000

Well, I was planning on taking a break from the Halloween themed characters, and I sort of did, but HAL9000 is one of the creepiest “characters” ever. And I don’t think it’s just my opinion on that. HAL9000 is no doubt the character with the most emotion, ironically, in that entire movie. That movie would be 2001: A Space Odyssey, of course.

I won’t go as far as to say that 2001 is my favorite movie. Which a lot of movie buffs have said. I’m no movie buff. But I appreciate good artistic direction! And 2001 is almost a silent film with a lot of really interesting situations. Followed by even more interesting questions!

The inking on this picture took FOREVER. Turned out great though. Also, trying some new settings on my camera and it did take better photos, but I’ll have to mess around with it some more in the future.

Facebooktwittergoogle_plusredditlinkedinmail

Birthday Girl: Day 72

Spook Complete

Oh man, I really need to get back to my sleeping schedule this week. Staying up late all weekend has seriously put a damper on my drawing time. Starting tomorrow I’ll be doing my drawing early in the morning again. At least before noon!

This guy turned out alright. As I’ve stated before, I’m not a fan of the colored pencil at the bottom. Should of kept on using the ink as I planned. Ah well, another learning experience!

I might take a break from the Halloween theme tomorrow. We’ll see how I feel then, but right now I’m struggling a bit coming up with unique ideas. Every day I want to do something vastly different than the day before, and that’s getting difficult. As I said, we’ll see how I feel in the morning.

Also, not sure if she ever reads my blog (but perhaps someday she will read this post, who knows) I just want to say happy birthday to one of the most wonderful people I’ve ever had the pleasure of knowing. Happy Birthday, Meggz!

Facebooktwittergoogle_plusredditlinkedinmail

Fire: Day 71

Spook

What a super busy day. Just got home from watching the hockey game and it’s already 10:40pm. Going to be a really quick post as I spent an hour (during the intermissions between periods) inking the fire behind the character I drew yesterday. Not a very productive day really. However, I like how he’s looking. Besides that a lot of the color in the photo was lost because it’s so late and I only have the lights in my apartment to illuminate the paper. Tomorrow should be better!

Facebooktwittergoogle_plusredditlinkedinmail