Another Thor Sketch

I did another sketch of Thor. He's one I really like sketching freehand with a marker pen.

Concept Sketch: Scout

I like to do concept sketches -sort of detailed doodles. They are almost always ink pen sketches. This one is a sci-fi scout. He looks like he's not necessarily human...

Ink Sketch of Thor

I did this a couple of days ago. It's a freehand ink sketch of Thor (coloured in on the computer). Once again, it's not pencils but it's done the same as I do my pencils, just with a 1.0mm ink pen.

I've said before that I'm not very good at inking. In this case (sketching freehand with no pencil construction), I'm not bad. It's only when I try and ink my own pencils that I get dissatisfied. For some reason, I lose a lot of the feel of the original drawing whenever I ink over pencils. And I'm NOT going to give an example...

Some Character Sketches

I've been working on a comic character for a few weeks now and here are some sketches that I've done.

Sarah

This is a character sketch I did while working on storyboards a few years back. I had to render the background to cover up the rough photography (I didn't have a scanner then and I took a very bad photo of the sketch to get it onto my computer).

A Gladiator Sketch

I did this one a while ago too. Free-hand ink-pen sketch of a gladiator and coloured in with some felt-tip markers. I did this one when I was reading a lot of Wilce Portacio/ Art Thibert Marvel comics, and also when Jim Lee was drawing for Marvel. I was trying to copy that style of hatch and cross-hatch that those guys were using. I also was drawing much smaller heads back then and much bigger bodies (remember "Bishop" from X-Factor? -good example of what I'm talking about).

I know it's not pencils but...

"Oracle" sketch

I did this one a while ago actually -when I had a drawing tablet. It's just a sketch of the human head basically, but he kind of looks like a blind oracle.

Having a go at a Marvel Spider-man Cover

Ok, so I've always wanted to do a comic book cover. A few days ago I had a crack at a Spider-man Iceman issue that I have at home. It's all pencils and I may change the "Iceman" figure a bit, but it's mostly how I want it.

My backgrounds were never anything special (as you can see), but I will be working on them from now on. And I will be working on my, uh...(oh God...) ... inking too! Actually I'm working on lots of things (um, composition, proportion, perspective... all those handy little things that my teacher in school told me about and I didn't listen to because I thought that art had nothing to do with comic art!)

So any pro artists looking at this will have to forgive me for my mistakes. When I say I'm self-taught, I mean it.

Drawing again!

Well, I'm drawing again. It's been a LONG time, believe me. I'll stick with what I know best for now and that's (you guessed it) - SUPERHEROES!!! So here's a sketch I did of the irresistibly cute, Rogue.

I'll have to check some recent comics to make sure that that's still her uniform, etc. I'll probably do a few supers for starters, and then after that, some comic heroes and then maybe some super-heroes and then...

Anyway, I'm Andrew Von Dinklage and I'm a (very rusty and long-time out-of-practice) comic artist.