Some Summer Sketches!

I've been lazy summer, not gonna lie. I've been keeping up with my sketchbook, and doing lots of doodles with my tablet, but haven't made a legit illustration yet.

I'm thinking about making something for the fantastic Tommy and the High Pilots, and giving them a print when I see them on tour. I made this thing for them a few years ago:

ANYWAY here's some of the digital things I've made this summer

Summer!

Gatsby comic

Lucy Liu/Joan Watson!

Duck Ballerina Lady

By hair my business (◡‿◡✿)

doodled while watching LotR

Fire Lady Monster!

Quick cover for Malinda Lo's "Huntress"

Nichelle Nichols!

Some Doodles

Just some musical-related doodles

Kind of going back to Jesus Christ Superstar as my go-to listening material, especially the broadway revival with Josh Young's Judas! 

The "Masquerade" sequence of "Phantom" is one of my favorite parts of the show. SO many awesome costumes, great choreography, etc. My favorite costume is the monkey with cymbals. 

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Sweeney Todd: The Tim Burton Movie In a Nutshell

I ADORED this movie when I was in eighth grade, it inspired me to do SO much (now embarrassing) fanart. I now feel the film is better in my memory; I much prefer the stage show. In fact, this doodle was inspired by the latest revival (though now closed) in London. I can't stop listening to it!

A little Cosette doodle based off the iconic illustration:

wow so I recently have gotten into "Jesus Christ Superstar", after YEARS of mericlessly mocking it because i mean it's called "Jesus Christ Superstar". 

But then I gave it a listen and WoW its actually really good. 

As promised awhile ago, here's a process post!

Russell Crowe as Javert!

Ok here we have the lineart. Beneath this is a plethora of crappy sketches trying to get the anatomy somewhat correct.  For this I used the custom brush stumpy pencil. As you can see I have my reference images to the right. I scrapped the taco hat because I just frankly hate it when Javert has the tricorn and I do what I want.

OK base colors! I do each color on a sperate layer beneath the lineart. I use a custom brush I made myself. It's kinda like watercolor but not really. 

OK here's where stuff starts looking better.  I add the details to the colors, using the same brush as before.

OK here I added the "halo" and the text. The text is hand written, which I'm insanely proud of to be honest. 

OK now I added the texture. To me, it just helps things look a bit more unified and colors look blended. I use a black and white water color texture that I set to overlay on top of all the other layers. I then adjust the contrast, as the texture usually makes the image look a bit too bright. 

A viloa! We're done! Hope you found that informative, whoever you are.

Just some fanart for the new Les Mis movie! The trailer looks phenomenal and I cried just a bit a lot.

I'll get back into posting more art from this past year. Soon! Might do another doodle post, since that's most of what I've done this summer in terms of "art".

More doodles!  A lot all of them are Les Mis related.

Colm Wilkinson (the original Jean Valjean) is playing the role of the Bishop in the movie!

Murrius Ponderpcy

A Cosette doodle that I used to experiment with a lineless style. I had fun with it, and I liked the result.

Some book!canon Javert. 

"You could not see his forehead which disappeared under his hat, you could not see his eyes which were lost under his brows, you could not see his chin which was buried in his cravat, you could not see his hands which were drawn up into his sleeves, you could not see his cane which he carried under his coat."

Like most artists, I find myself doing a lot of self portraits. Here are some.