Inktober 2018 #21 Michishige Sayumi Short Hair

A while ago now (wow 4 years ago ∑(ﾟﾛﾟ〃)) Sayumi was rumored to have cut her hair short which was a big deal since she had always had her beautiful long and natural hair colored hair. As it turns out it was I believe a wig where Sayu and the other Momosu members had different hairstyles that they didn’t use.

And man let me tell you, she looked absolutely amazing. I was surprised by how short they decided to go with the hairstyle but it fit her really well.

For this piece I had decided to give the maru pen nib a try but it was so small and stiff so I couldn’t really get it to work. I had no choice but to give up since it was getting really late. In the end I used my G nib and some of my other pens. It went well for the most part but I feel I messed a bit on her chin and lower head. I could have played a bit more with the values and I’m pretty sure it would look much better. But overall I liked the way the piece turned out.

Here is the reference picture used:

I really want to give it another shot and do another one traditionally.

Here is the process:

That’s it for now.

Hasta la proxima,

-NUBE

October 21, 2018 0

Inktober 2018 #20 Breakable bottle

I came out of work late this day and had a meetup with an old high school friend I hadn’t seen in a long time so since I would be short on time I decided to take my sketchbook so I could make a drawing while we hanged out. We got some Topo Sabores (a Mexican soda) and saw that as a good fit for the prompt breakable.

Forgot to take a reference picture and pictures of the bottles online look really different so none this time.

Here is the process (even though I didn’t really take more than two pictures):

Hasta la proxima,

-NUBE

October 20, 2018 0

Inktober 2018 #19 Scorched Shin Gojira

Shin Gojira. I wasn’t too sure about the design and the movie itself when I started seeing the first images. And when I saw the film for the first time I was feeling contradicting thoughts since it was such a different take from the Godzilla we all knew up to that point. But after seeing it a second time I really loved it. And I kept liking it even more the more times that I saw it. I really loved that scene where we first saw it make his first atomic breath. The way it transitioned from smoke, then to fire and then to his condensed atomic breath was truly a sight and moment that really touched me. With that in mind, I chose that scene for the scorched prompt.

I’m actually I was able to do exactly what I wanted in this piece. I used the brush tip cover large areas and was able to control the values and textures. I made the fire with rough and irregular lines yet it somehow managed to still look good…

Here is the reference used:

And here is the process.

Hasta la proxima,

-NUBE

October 19, 2018 0

Inktober 2018 #18 Bottle Fiji Water

Aesthetic.

Reference used:

Hasta la proxima,

-NUBE

October 18, 2018 0

Inktober 2018 #17 Swollen Goku Bulma

Short update. Did this one rather quickly. It doesn’t look bad, but it could obviously be done much better. Some lines were in excess and give a messy look on Bulmas hair among other details. Really enjoyed working on it though.

References used:

The process:

Hasta la proxima,

-NUBE

October 17, 2018 0

Inktober 2018 #16 Angular Himiko Toga

Can’t really add too much description since I have to update a couple of them, but I mainly did this one since my brother really likes this character. It isn’t finished since I didn’t have much time but probably will be when I have a bit of time.

Here are the reference pictures:

Although I’m not updating the posts with these pictures I do upload them on my Flickr account when I upload a picture since I bulk resize and upload them at the same time.

And here is the process:

Thats it, will update if I do finish it.

Hasta la proxima,

-NUBE

October 16, 2018 0

Inktober 2018 #15 Weak Itsuki Takeuchi

Today’s prompt is “weak”, I had some ideas (mainly Shinji…, and Tomoko from Watamote though portraying that may be a bit tough since she is such a complex character) but in the end I don’t know if they would work or repeat too much of the same ideas. So I decided to look at some of the manga in my collection and then spotted my Initial D volume sitting there and remembered that Itsuki and his 85′ existed. He talks a big game but is… well… pretty weak. The perfect candidate!

This is the finished piece:

Here are the reference pictures:

And here is the process:

Hasta la proxima,

-NUBE

October 15, 2018 0

Inktober 2018 #13 Guarded Shinji Ikari

Oh, man. If you know anything about Evangelion and Shinji Ikari I hope that just looking at the drawing will be enough to portray the theme and what I was going for. Could have shaded it and add a bit more to the background, but this feeling of loneliness and emptiness I think fits well.

Had to make a quick one today since I get busy during the weekends with my other job. Also this is the second piece following the prompts. I was quite surprised at how fast I was able to make this drawing… （・□・）

Here is the drawing:

References used:

This is the process:

Hasta la proxima,

-NUBE

October 13, 2018 0

Inktober 2018 #12 White Whale RE Zero

Man, this week has sucked. My XP Pen stopped working properly and my cursor kept travelling over to my secondary screen every time I tried to use Corel Painter. And despite uninstalling the driver and reinstalling them I just couldn’t get it to work. At one point I gave up since it took too much of my time and decided to try out Photoshop. It worked there, but then the drivers crashed and my pen just refused to work. Only way to make it work was to restart my computer but that messed up my workflow since it happened so often. Then there was my vehicle that had faulty turn signals… I had to troubleshoot that for the whole week during my free times. It was a pain but I managed to find the source of the problem fixed today. So hey….. (๑ ˊ͈ ᐞ ˋ͈ )ƅ̋

Anyway, back to inktober, I was thinking maybe I should work with the inktober prompts after talking with my brother. So I decided to do just that. While talking with my brother I was reminded of the whale from Re: Zero. These were some of the most epic episodes. Really loved learning about Wilhelm van Astrea.

This is the final piece:

These are the references, (screen shots from the anime, ep. 20-21):

https://www.flickr.com/photos/darkcloudxero/44559562344/in/dateposted-public/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/darkcloudxero/44559562234/in/dateposted-public/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/darkcloudxero/44559562184/in/dateposted-public/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/darkcloudxero/31407543598/in/dateposted-public/

This one was inverted to fit with my drawing.

This is the process:

Could’ve worked with with the values of Wilhelm van Astrea’s clothes, but this simple shading should be ok for now. It’s rather late so I need to call it a day.

Hasta la proxima,

-NUBE

October 12, 2018 0

Inktober 2018 #11 Athena Asamiya

Started really late so not much time, need to get to sleep soon. But here is a quick drawing of Athena Asamiya from King of Fighters 99′. She was another one of the characters that I really liked/like using.

This is the piece, no shading just the outline this time:

Looks really rough and unfinished, but that’s alright.

I used both these as the references:

Here is the process:

A shame I didn’t finish it, but those are the struggles. I will explain what took so much of my time tomorrow.

Hasta la proxima,

-NUBE

October 11, 2018 0

Inktober 2018 #10 K’

SNK and the King of Fighters are by far my favorite fighting games, and I always felt that they had the better designs compared to their competitor Street Fighters. Man, King of Fighters. It just brings back memories from my childhood. I started with the Art of Fighting on my Super Nintendo. It was one of my favorite games that I played with my brothers back then. Then I later learned and played the King of Fighters (and of course Metal Slug) on the arcade machines that some people had in their houses or in the small shops. Those were some fun times (though it did eat up my coins).

Later when I was in fifth grade I had a friend who owned a Playstation and got to play the King of Fighters 99. This is the game I have the most fond memories of. That’s also where I learned about my favorite King of Fighters character K’. He has such a cool design and at the time it was quite uncommon to see a character with brown skin, which was a big deal for me at the time. Of course we (my brother, my friends and myself) all wanted him to be Mexican and since he had a mysterious background we used that as an excuse to make him so (in our minds). He had such a cool design with his white hair with his cool fire arm. His fighting style was also pretty cool, the way he walked and his moves, then there was the one inch punch… Point is I really liked using him, even if I sucked at using his move set.

This is the final drawing:

I’m thinking of using this smaller nib (I believe it’s a maru nib) to work with the shading and see if that makes it faster and easier than using the G nib. I can control it, but it’s all up to pen as to whether it releases the ink the way I want or it doesn’t jump as I shade.

I decided to give myself a bit of a challenge so I used a gif which kept moving so I had to really pay attention and remember what I wanted to draw. I believe this is from King of Fighters 99′:

Here is the process:

His face looks too clean, nice, kiddy, I don’t know. But I will fix that with the shading later.

All was going well, then I made a dumb mistake when I placed my hand on K’s arm and smudged the paper next to his leg. Somehow that smudge looks cool to me though.

That’s it for now.

Hasta la proxima,

-NUBE

October 10, 2018 2

Inktober 2018 #9 Leaf

Just something simple and fast so I can work on another piece. Funnily enough it was a rather tough piece. Not because it don’t have the skills but because the pen kept skipping and dropping not enough ink or noticeable droplets that messed with the values. Because of that I was forced to work with darker and darker values. A shame because I was aiming to try and get it to look realistic.

Here is the process:

While I was refilling this little container where I keep the ink I wasn’t thinking and allowed an ink bubble to burst which of course fell onto the paper. After ending the cycle of mistakes I go and make simple and dumb one.

I was actually planning to finish it at this point, but when uploading the pictures to my pc I saw that it would be an easy fix if I pushed the values further.

So I did and ended with this.

Hasta la proxima,

-NUBE

October 9, 2018 0