RogueDK's art dump

[RogueDK]

I have to ask, how did you learn to draw buildings and environments with so much detail? Was it life drawing or did you study photos? I think Alex Ross is the only non-technical artist I've seen who can render buildings and environments with as much ease as you. You make drawing complex architecture look rediculously easy!

Hey thank you for thinking that I draw my scenes with detail but I can name several artists that go crazy with scenery that are better than me. Jim Lee tops the list. His Batman scenery and architecture are simply fantastic.

All I can tell you is to practice perspective and give your panels and pinups life. I hate comic artists that don't take the effort in "filling in" a certain scene and the reader is left looking at panels with alot of negative space. An artist is his/her own director of storytelling and that's one thing that editors pay close attention to.
The misconception alot of aspiring comic artists think is that cool fight scenes and exaggerated muscles in dynamic poses will get you jobs and that's just not entirely true.

The average viewer of a comic book can sometimes take for granted the little things that you can draw to make a pic come alive...good editors appreciate it.

Trust me, I'm still trying to get better at achieving certain effects. I hope that helps you.

 

[RogueDK]

Here's the pinup I did for my client's character some weeks ago. A digital rustic look to the white space was added to give it a worn design somewhat...

Here's a colored version of the Forge pic I did by an aspiring colorist who needed the practice to hone her skills. Personally, I thought that she did a good job. I wish her much success as she progresses.

 

[B-man]

cool colours on the Forge pic.

 

[RogueDK]

cool colours on the Forge pic.

Thanks. I felt that she did a good job on it. She can only get better as time goes on.

 

[E-Man]

Here's the pinup I did for my client's character some weeks ago. A digital rustic look to the white space was added to give it a worn design somewhat...

Holy **** that looks cool!

 

[RogueDK]

Holy **** that looks cool!

Thanks, E! Yeah I kind of saw it as a t-shirt design when it was completed. I mean...I'd wear it. t:

 

[Jumpin' Jack]

Now that's a T-shirt I would wear every day!

 

[RogueDK]

Now that's a T-shirt I would wear every day!

I'll make sure that I tell him . I know I'll be begging for one if he makes any for his first convention. XXL. XXXL in case it's that fast-shrinking cotton after the first wash. t:

 

[KAD]

Sort of an afro Doc savage very Shaftesque loved as lines love it even more now.

 

[RogueDK]

Sort of an afro Doc savage very Shaftesque loved as lines love it even more now.

Thanks, KAD.

From how it was described to me, it's a nice spin on the classic heroes of yesteryear like Savage & Indy but with an urban vibe.

Can't wait to see the first issue on this whenever it gets produced.

 

[RogueDK]

Well my first pinup of 2010. I did this a couple of weeks ago and just took a cellphone shot of it to share. Inspired from watching a Phantasm marathon one weekend so I doodled a little something.

Hope you likes.


"Boooooooyyyy!!!!"

 

[Jumpin' Jack]

Don't know why but his face reminds me of Alfred Hitchcock

 

[RogueDK]

Don't know why but his face reminds me of Alfred Hitchcock

Interesting. Hitchcock? I suppose people see different things. Thanks for looking at the pic though.

 

[E-Man]

You did a Tall Man sketch?

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P.S. There is a Phantasm marathon coming on this Sunday on Chiller. All four movies. I'll definitely be watching.t:

 

[[A]]

cool

Actually, the old man reminds me of a young Borges.

 

[KAD]

Phantasm rocks and your piece does as well.

Wicked KEWL

 

[RogueDK]

Thanks, A & KAD.

Not many younger horror fans appreciate how much Phantasm rocks nowadays. Very underrated films.

Some of my younger friends had no idea who the Tall Man was much less saying who he resembles.

 

[E-Man]

You gotta wean the people on Phantasm. You gotta tell them that you'll give them a cookie if they watch Phantasm. If they say it sucks, then you don't give them their promised cookie. If they say it's good like a normal person who has seen it would, then you give them the cookie. Cookies control people.

 

[RogueDK]

You did a Tall Man sketch?

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P.S. There is a Phantasm marathon coming on this Sunday on Chiller. All four movies. I'll definitely be watching.t:

Just saw your post, E! LOL, thanks for that heads-up! My television stays on Chiller, don't know how that got past me. I love Phantasm.

Glad you appreciate the Tall Man so well. And you're right...that's the best way to lure people into its awesomeness.

 

[E-Man]

Oh yeah...I was wrong about that Phantasm marathon. It comes on Monday from 10-4 Central time during the day. Looks like my DVR is going to be busy that day.

 

[[A]]

RogueDK, check this out http://forums.superherohype.com/showthread.phpt=300469

 

[RogueDK]

RogueDK, check this out http://forums.superherohype.com/showthread.phpt=300469

Can't view it. Somehow the link is broken, A.

 

[Mattchew]

Well my first pinup of 2010. I did this a couple of weeks ago and just took a cellphone shot of it to share. Inspired from watching a Phantasm marathon one weekend so I doodled a little something.

Hope you likes.


"Boooooooyyyy!!!!"

Soooo good! That old guy always freaked me out. Phantasm II kicks ace, btw.

 

[RogueDK]

Soooo good! That old guy always freaked me out. Phantasm II kicks ace, btw.

Thanks, Matt! Yeah the 2nd one is my favorite as well.

I hate that they plan on remaking this movie.

 

[RogueDK]

Here's a cellphone shot of that page I was working on previously posted here. I really hate going over my own pencils so I winged the majority of these panels with pen, brush and a bottle of ink. Forces me not to make many mistakes to depend on an eraser. Watercolor with the grey tones...

I'll scan it later on as I progress with this story for clearer pics of some of them.