More Recent Marker stuff

Okay, at least now we're getting to some more recent stuff (for better or worse).

These are mostly studies I was doing while looking at golden books and trying to play around with marker and coloring techiniques using a very limited palette. I definitely think I learned a few things that I can now apply to my own work while doing these. They were also pretty fun and felt worthwhile at least which was a nice change. I plan to do more of this sort of thing and keep exploring on what seems to be a smaller simpler scale which seems to help when trying to break bad design habits and form newer better ones.







This last one is actually a somewhat old initial character design I came up with that I was pretty happy with and want to explore much more. A pretty rare thing these days.



And here's a few pages of of more recent randomness. mostly floating heads which I draw way too often. I was doing good for a while and was drawing full bodied characters. But when that becomes a bit of a struggle to do well, I all too often find myself slipping back into the trap of just drawing all kinds of random decapitations. I have to start making an extra effort to break that habit for good. But sometimes I guess it's hard to want to go further and invest time into a body design when I'm not really pleased with the head in the first place. I mean when's the last time you looked at a character and thought about how brilliantly the body was designed, but it had a real boring head? if the head and face aren't working a bodies definitely not gonna save it.





Well that's all I have scanned for the moment... But I do still have a stack of older and newer ballpoint pen sketches and doodles that I plan to scan and post soon too. Hopefully by the time I get those up I'll have another fresh batch of stuff that's shareworthy and I can be back to more regular updates.