Character Development

I've gotten big into Marvel lately, though I imagine with the Avengers and whatnot I'm probably not the only one! Was sick most of the week so I watched nearly every film with a Marvel tag on it and have even started reading some of their online comics and admiring the artwork. Some of them are really amazing!

I always wanted to bring my own ideas and characters I have made up to some sort of life for my own amusement so I have decided to do so with the spare time the summer has given me! Below are a series of figure sketches I have done to try and get good at drawing a human figure in a variety of poses!

My first attempt at sketching figures, keeping the poses fairly simple.

A later attempt at figure sketching, making the poses a little more diverse and playing a little with perspective. I also made the shape of the figure less bulky as I wanted it to look more athletic and agile.

I also redrew a pose I liked in particular and and doodled with it. Added a bit of a cape just to practice drawing material draped off a figure and add some effects. The character I have in mind has contorl over the air so thats the direction i was going when I was doodling! ^_^

Added some effects and a cape. The design of my character will not have a cape but he may wear a cloak (similar to the ones in Lord of the Rings) from time to time. I also tried to ass effects to seem like hes controlling the air or at teh very least has power of some sort coming from him xD

I am hoping to get good enough to create any pose I can think of and then work on building proper details and costumes etc. when I am happy with my progress on the figures poses and dimensions. I have plenty of stories and such in my head already so I'm just trying to develop my drawing to a point where I'm happy I can illustrate them proper ^_^

Just Bob!

So I have recently discovered you can make additional pages other then the main home one! Considering I've been following and reading blogs on this that also have multiple pages it is probably something I should have discovered ages ago but whatever ^_^

I have decided to add a gallery page which will be comprised purely of sketches that appear in my blog, along with the link to each sketches corresponding biog post!

Below is a sketch I started last night as a bit of an exercise  purely for the sake of getting used to drawing faces again. Its been over a year since I have tried to accurately draw someones features and I haven't done so before with a mechanical pencil.

For the exercise I asked Robert (he lets me call him Bob as we are close) to do a quick pose for me. As he had his Iron Man facial hair on as hes currently filming Iron Man 3 I thought it appropriate to also do a sketch of the Iron Man mask alongside him.

Bob isn't smiling as he was a little upset that he could only visit for one night due to my hectic schedule. He even offered to put filming Iron Man 3 on hold but I couldn't free any time slots =(

Also this is not fan art. I am not a fan, Bob just happens to be a very close friend of mine....