Joan (Mad Men) character sketch

I've been itching to start drawing again for a while, but have finally gotten off my ass and did it this week (after a couple false starts over the past few months, that I quickly abandoned).

My goal is to sketch a character from a show I'm watching, at least once a week.  No hard-and-fast rules, or anything.  Just whoever strikes my fancy.  For my first I did Joan from Mad Men, which just started up its new season a couple weeks ago, and is as strong as ever, so far anyway.  It's not a striking likeness to the (incredible beauty that is the) actress, but I still liked the picture enough on its own merits.   My excuse is that I am doing the character and not the actor, but whatever, it turned out to be a nice little sketch anyway.  Next maybe I'll do someone from Game of Thrones.

This is still Sketchbook  Pro (now on my Nexus 7, not my iPhone, so I get a couple more inches of room).  Pretty much just used the pencil and marker tools (and lots of erasing).  I have never really worked with color much so this was a good learning experience.


enjoy.

bat-girl!

she's always been one of my favorites, so here is an animation-y take on her. this was also one of my early attempts to get used to the stylus on the iPhone. i took to it pretty quickly, since it combines a lot of what i enjoy about drawing with pencil, and allows me to do pen-and-ink pics without a lot of the limitations and pitfalls of working with pens and brushes directly.

the thing!

yet another superhero request, but what fun to draw. at some point i need to do one that is a bit more reminiscent of the old kirby or byrne things, since i took this one a bit more cartoon-y.

"another 'round, sweetheart"

i'm not entirely sure why this manifested out of my iPhone sketching hand, but here you have it. it's no one in particular, just a character study i guess.

another hero request

this one was a request that came from my brother-in-law after i had posted a couple superhero sketches. i was doing these from memory (and it's been a while since i perused a capes book) so Hal is a bit off model, but still i think it came out OK.

(one of) my first iPhone sketch

got a sketchbook app on my iPhone, and this is one of the first things I did with it. i had one or two pretty terrible sketches that aren't worth posting prior to this, so this is what I think of as my first one. this was before i bought a stylus, so it's all done with my finger.