Look at this, but not too closely

I think I made her too glossy in my final touches, but this is as much as I can work on one woman's face.

I MUST MOVE ON! *holds sword up and towards the right of the screen*

*Exit Stage Right*

I'm surprised at myself

Wow, I'm speechless. When I started working on this, I did not expect to make such progress. :D This is awesome! I'm getting the hang of this! More!

Of course, it isn't perfect. But I'm just surprised I got this close. Very happy.

Glasses

Working on this. Showed the sketch to my sister and she thought this is a nice point to stop, but the objective is to paint, which is my weakness.

Attempt 2 at Something Different

This is too advanced for me.

Back for good

I'm back! New comic work coming soon. Nothing amazing. I don't know, this has probably been the longest art block I have ever had. Anyway, this is my latest attempt at painting. Used a reference.

I've always found skin color challenging. So I'll be working on a series of such paintings to get better at it.

Bed rest

Tea and cake

Its kinda fun to experiment with Indian clothing :D

Peas

Whenever I eat peas from the pod, I'm sent back to those times with my uncle, Dr Mamu. :D

Line-up

I don't know. Just practicing forms and shapes, I guess.

Tablet game addiction

My life has a mission again. @_@

Yesterday

My brother was home and I didn't get the chance to draw a lot. I've been sleeping too much these days, its messing my whole system. :(

Also, I am supposed to do a million different things, which ideally I would get done within this month but me being me, I haven't been able to get off the bed. :/ The brain is working so slow these days, its unbelievable. VERY hard to concentrate on anything. Doesn't have to math or rocket science. Brain's slow for regular stuff too. :'(

Quilt

and that sweater.

Lamp light

Just drawing. I was never good with optics.

Dump

it all here.

Step 1

to drawing again and beating the block: just sketch. Anything. Purposeless.

The bet

So Amal and I have been having trouble with studying and drawing, respectively. Must be obvious, I haven't updated here for so long. So this morning we made this bet. Or bet-like agreement. We would both try studying/drawing today. If she fails, she pays me 50 bucks. If I fail, I pay her the same. If we both do not fail, we order burgers. :D

Yeah we gonna get fat real soon. :|

EDIT: Forgot to add a lot of blood so updated that. :D

Tommy Miller

I've been doing a lot of reading lately. All five books of A Song of Ice and Fire series. Then the Spenser novels. :D Somehow, Spenser inspires me to draw more than a fantasy like A Dance with Dragons. Maybe because A Dance with Dragons inspires people to paint and I'm horrible at painting. :D

Trooper Tommy Miller walks into Spenser's office in Small Vices and they have a fight. Spenser breaks Miller's nose with his knee. Afterwards, he sits him on a chair and gives him a wet towel to hold to his nose while it bleeds. :D

Ah, this book. It always makes me draw. ^_^

High Heart

I have been busy with many things the last few days, none of which needs to be discussed here. -_- I'm a worrier. I worry. I'm still worrying. Anyway, the good news is I finally got myself the Wacom. The bad news is I'm scared of it. :|

Also, due to some complications I can't use it on the PC where I am more comfortable drawing and where I have my CS5. Instead I must draw on the laptop, which has Photoshop 7 and a screen that I'm not very satisfied with, color-wise. -_-

I'm reading A Storm of Swords. There hasn't been much of a storm of swords anywhere in the book, except maybe at the Wall. While traveling in circles between Riverrun and King's Landing, Arya Stark comes to a haunted hilltop called High Heart where she meets an old dwarf who has green dreams. When I read the woman's description, I drew her. ^_^

 

More lined paper

Here are some other sketches I made for the comic I'm planning. Lately I haven't had the time to do much since we've had house guests, my mom's still recovering and almost every electrical appliance that we need to use daily got busted in this high voltage surge our area had while we were still at the hospital. Then my internet connection stopped working, so that took a week long to get fixed.

I was trying to get some character sketches settled. Like I said, I've already decided what characters will be like. But I need to get the style I'm going for set. :) I'm going to crop the girls on the bench and work on their tones, just or practice. ^_^

Hospital sketches

Mom had some stones removed. Spent about 3 days in the hospital.

The ones below were made around the Surgery Operation Theater. Quick sketches of people who walked past.