Game of Thrones sketches

I decided to rewatch season 1 of Game of Thrones before the premiere of season 2 next week, and do some sketching while I'm at it. These are from episode 2, The King's Road.

Harry Lloyd as Viserys Targaryen, the Beggar King

Lena Heady as Cersei Lannister, Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as Jaime Lannister. I think I nailed the infamous "Cersei face" in that drawing

 Nymeria, the direwolf

Mark Addy as King Robert Baratheon 

Richard Madden as Robb Stark, Alfie Allen as Theon Greyjoy

I can't wait for next week's premiere. I was instantly hooked after the series premiere; it was well cast, well written, and the production values were fantastic. I started reading the books soon after, and I caught up about 2 weeks before the latest book A Dance With Dragons was released. I liked the series so much I even bought the bluray set. It's a great purchase because it has so many great special features, especially The Complete Guide to Westeros. It's a series of short animated featurettes narrated by some of the cast that explores the lore. I'll most likely post another set of these next weekend.

Monster Draw sketches

I haven't posted in a while, again. But here are my sketches from tonight's Monster Draw, Terry Gilliam's Time Bandits. It still stands as one of the strangest movies I've ever seen.

 I really need to invest in a scanner, these iPhone pics just don't cut it. Anyway, I'll make sure to post something about my trip to the Walt Disney Animation Studios next week.

Hugo sketches

It's been eons since my last update. I got swamped with schoolwork during the last month of last semester and regular work during Christmas break, but here I am back in the saddle. Now, I should be posting stuff for my new project for class (an adaptation of Jungle Book) but I don't have a scanner at home, and I've only produced only a few pieces of good artwork for it. But I will be posting stuff about it soon, hopefully this week. But for now, here are some sketches of the characters from Martin Scorsese's Hugo. 

First up is the title character, tinker and professional urchin Hugo Cabret (played by Asa Butterfield). 

Next is Isabelle (played by Chloe Grace Moretz), the budding author

This next one is the grumpy toy shop owner, Georges Melies (played by the brilliant Sir Ben Kingsley)

 And finally, the Station Inspector Gustave and his trusty sidekick Maximillian (played by Sacha Baron Cohen). Gustave was my favorite character from the movie. 

I wanted to sketch Christopher Lee and Emily Mortimer's characters too, but that would mean less time watching the movie. I'll do it when I watch the movie again, which is probably in the near future because it was so amazing.

Anyway, the next update will be about Jungle Book. I'll have character pages, layouts, and hopefully a color script up.

Miyazaki

I've hit a nasty case of writer's (drawer's?) block tonight so I decided to try and loosen up. I drew a quick portrait of Hayao Miyazaki smoking a cigarette while walking through the streets of Paris (I omitted the streets of Paris in the drawing). Everything was done in Photoshop. I gotta say, I'm getting the hang of drawing digitally.

Ash and Pikachu

A quick little sketch of Ash and Pikachu from Pokemon. Just trying to get better on working digitally

Map study

This is a rough sketch of a map that I'm making for a friend on tracing paper with graphite and cheap colored pencils. The end product will be a mixed media piece with watercolor, ink, and maybe some gouache. It's mostly a map of our adventures in Minecraft, with some inside jokes that we've accumulated over the years.

Character generator sketches

I've having fun with this character generator (http://2dbean.blogspot.com/p/character-generator.html) for the past 2 months or so.  Basically, it gives you 3 or 4 words and then you try to design a character around those words. I've finally decided to upload some of my favorite ones.

This is my very first one. It's a hairy evil shaman viking

Colossal clumsy companion cyborg (Holy alliteration, Batman!)

Sleezy lazy unwilling hero dwarf

Excited witty judge superhero

Petite zany hero leprechaun

Glamorous friendly nurse genie

Glamorous cruel samurai

Handsome fierce avenger cyborg

Adorable disgusted detective human/animal hybrid

Brawny itchy sage fairy

Beautiful mysterious Mother Nature centaur (kinda... I used a deer's body)

Fancy calm mystic gnome

Filthy combative mystic

Zoo life drawings

Here's some sketches from a trip to the Oakland Zoo with Alysse (http://alyssespieces.blogspot.com/).

We caught the sun bears during feeding time. Lucky!

Some tortoises. Also caught them during feeding time.

An eland, who were in the same enclosure as...

Giraffes!

A dromedary camel. We got really up close to these guys.

A gibbon. This guy was really restless and was swinging from branch to branch.

A chimp

Rocky Horror sketches

Long time no blog. I've been super busy with school so I haven't updated in a while. Anyway, here's some sketches from the Drawing Moving Creatures event from school featuring The Rocky Horror Picture Show!

Lazy Tuesday

It's the last tuesday of my summer, so to commemorate this day I sketched a leopard taking a nap. Colors were done in Photoshop.

Stanford sketches

Here's a couple of sketches that I did during a daytrip to Stanford with my partner in crime Alysse (http://alyssespieces.blogspot.com/)

 Here's a pen/watercolor of a peaceful little redwood grove. There's also a totem pole behind the trees, but we didn't have time to sketch it.

And here's a sketch of a sculpture that's in the Stanford Museum (aka the Cantor Arts Center). If you're curious, it's called Celestial Hebe by Jean Colon, made in 1886 on marble.