Sketch of the day: Cartooning Practice 1

I found a book called Fantasy Cartooning by artist Ben Caldwell at the book store in a bargain bin.  They style of Ben's drawings is awesome and so I am going to go through the whole book and draw everything in it.  Today I concentrated on the Hero portion of the book and drew a couple of full body heroes and then some closeups of Hero faces.

Bonus Art of the day: Conan O'Brien and Unicorn in color

I decided to try coloring my ridiculous artwork I did today of Conan O'Brien and a unicorn.  I used the program Open Canvas and I must say I like it.  I will have to continue to use it and see if I can develop better skills at coloring my artwork.  It almost feels like using markers and I really like that.

Sketch of the day: Conan O'Brien and a unicorn

Today I was given, as sort of a joke, the idea of drawing Conan O'Brien making out with a unicorn.  So I ran with it and actually drew it.  It's such a weird thing to draw but I have a feeling that Team Coco would love it if they saw it.  Sorry Conan!  Also I must say that I have hardly any practice drawing the profile of someone, so it was good practice at least.

Sketch of the day: FFIV Rydia

Today I was given the pleasure of drawing Rydia from the video game Final Fantasy IV.  I say pleasure because I really like how she turned out.  She is a Summoner in the story-line so I have her summoning Sylph, a summon spell that calls upon 3 tiny fairy-like creatures that drain the life from the enemy and give it to the party.

Sketch of the day: Grunt from Mass Effect 2

Today I tried to draw Grunt from the video game series Mass Effect.  He has such an oddly shaped body and head combo so he turned out a little weird looking.  But I kind of like it.

Sketch of the day: Mufasa

Today I tried sketching Mufasa from the Disney animated classic, The Lion King.  It doesn't look as much like Mufasa as it looks like a lion in general.  I like how it turned out, using a computer rendered version of Mufasa I found on-line as the basis for my pose I drew a line drawing version.

Sketch of the day: Mega Man X

Today I drew a sketch of Mega Man X from the popular video game series.  I really like how he turned out, I drew him in a little different of a style trying to make him a little more of my own.

Sketch of the day: Garrus Vakarian of Mass Effect

Today I did a sketch of Garrus from the video game series Mass Effect.  I concentrated on his face and I must admit that I think he turned out quite good.  Aliens are somewhat easy to draw, not being of human proportions and all.  We as humans can spot what is wrong with a drawing of a human because we see humans on a daily basis but aliens we don't know what they look like so a drawing of one could look like anything.

Sketch of the day: Alien Xenomorph

I missed yesterday's sketch due to something called life, so today I hope I make up for missing a day by drawing something very difficult for me.  Today's sketch is of a xenomorph from the film franchise Alien.  Another suggestion from my human suggestion box, aka Brett.  Today's sketch turned out okay but I ran out of room to make the hands bigger.

Sketch of the day: Ursaring from Pokemon

Today I was given the idea to draw Ursaring from the Pokemon series.  I took the character and made it less Pokemon-like and more realistic.  I like how her turned out, the face especially.  I used inspiration from one of my favorite artists known as Kuma.

Sketch of the day: Final Fantasy Bahamut

Today I drew a very technically difficult character, Bahamut the Dragon King from the Final Fantasy video game series.  He is almost always shown as an elaborately decorated dragon with gigantic wings.  I drew my own version of him but ran out of room for his wings.

Sketch of the day: Isaac Clarke of Dead Space

Today's sketch is of Isaac Clarke from the video game Dead Space... another suggestion.  I was not too keen on drawing him at first but I enjoyed the challenge.  I didn't get the proportions correct, but I like how his legs turned out.  His head though looks not quite right.

Sketch of the day: Chun Li from Street Fighter

Today I was given the suggestion of drawing Chun Li from the video game series Street Fighter.  More specifically her portrait from the game Super Street Fighter 2 HD Remix.  I need to work on face details so I thought it was a great idea and I like how it turned out.

Bonus Art of the day: Luigi in color

I decided to take today's sketch and play around with it in Photoshop.

Sketch of the day: Luigi

Today I sketched out Luigi, the sometimes forgotten Super Mario Brother.  I did him in a more realistic cartoony style while trying to stay true to the character.

Sketch of the day: Princess Tiana

Today's sketch of the day is of the Disney princess from the movie The Princess and the Frog, Princess Tiana.  Another suggestion from a friend.  I think she turned out pretty good, I just need to work on hands.

Sketch of the day: Dex Starr the Red Lantern

Today's sketch is of another Green Lantern character, this time it is Dex Starr the Red Lantern.  He was just a normal kitty that was engulfed in rage due to unfortunate circumstances.  Red Lanterns represent Rage and they can spit flammable acidic blood.  I took some more time on this one and really got into the drawing.  I am very pleased with how he turned out, the blood I need to work on.

Sketch of the day: Ch'p the Green Lantern

Today's drawing is of Ch'p, a member of the Green Lantern Corps. I wanted to do a super hero of some sort and was given the suggestion of Ch'p and I really like how he turned out. I used a few different references for his costume, deciding not to go with his bow tie and overall costume but a more modern costume.

Sketch of the day: The Legend of Zelda - Sheik

Another suggestion from a friend, this time it's Sheik from the Legend of Zelda series.  First appeared in the game The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.  She came out a little short and squat, I ran out of room for her legs.  But mistakes lead to better learning.

Sketch of the day: Street Fighter Cammy

Today's sketch is of Cammy from the classic video game series Street Fighter.  This was another suggestion from somebody and I am very glad they suggested her.  I think she turned out great!  I need to work on making better looking braids though.

Sketch of the day: FFIV Kain

Today's sketch is of Kain from the video game Final Fantasy IV.  I asked someone what I should draw today and they suggested I draw him.  Feel free to suggest someone or something for me to try my hand at drawing.  I would love the challenge!

Today is the first day of the rest of my art career...

This is a sketch I did today, the first of hopefully 365 sketches a year. I call him Warrior Bear. I am slowly learning and becoming a better artist but I know I could use a lot of improvement. I need to get back into the mentality of when I was a kid, I would draw for hours and just use my imagination in so many ways. This is the first step on a road to recovering my youthful imagination and mindset once again.