That Thing I Drew That One Time...

[Jesse]

Just want to thank everyone who encouraged me to quit being lazy and make an art thread.

This Joker piece was actually the first thing I drew with my Wacom pen back when I first bought it in 2008. I won't post that original version because I think it's crap but it is over in my deviantART gallery for those interested. Years later I would come back to it taking the constructive criticism I'd received and redraw it, cleaning up the line work and muting the colors a bit. I'm pretty happy with the end result and I think it's one of the creepiest things I've ever drawn. Hope you enjoy it.

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and here's the cleaned up line work before I recolored it.

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and here's a work in progress screenshot.

 

[MrSharigan]

Very cool!
Love how you show the original image in photoshop and what it became

 

[Jesse]

This William Hartnell portrait was one of the first traditional pieces I had done in a long while and was drawn looking at a still frame of the actor. Initially I was worried it didn't look enough like him but it has since grown on me.

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[Jesse]

This watercolor on canvas was painted looking at a still frame from the movie Sleepy Hollow.

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[ComicChick]

nice work. glad to see you took the advice and made a thread

 

[Jesse]

My most recent traditional piece is this portrait of the lovely Betty Grable drawn from a photo reference.

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and here's a work in progress photo. I ended up redrawing it twice as large on a better piece of paper.

 

[Jesse]

Originally I had drawn this Betty Boop dressed as Wonder Woman with a Pigma Micron pen and Prismacolor markers on marker paper. When I scanned it I didn't like how the pen had bled a little bit so I digitally inked it in Photoshop and used the clone tool to even out the markers. I generally don't draw cute but am really happy with how this turned out.

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[Jesse]

You Wanted the Best, You Got the Best! KISS!

Originally I drew this with colored pencils way back in the day but years later I came back to it and digitally inked it in Photoshop. I left the eyes white because I thought it just looked cooler that way. The faces were drawn from various posters I found in Metal Edge Magazine.

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[Jesse]

Another older piece Gillian Anderson and the Creature from the Black Lagoon were drawn with colored pencil and ebony pencil respectively. The reference used was a photo shoot from Rolling Stones Magazine. In hindsight I wish I had been able to include more of the Creature.

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[Jesse]

I originally sketched this Spider-Doppelganger with a ball point pen on paper, scanned it and then digitally inked and colored it in Photoshop. The pose is loosely inspired on The Vitruvian Man by Leonardo da Vinci.

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Here's the line art before I colored it in Photoshop.

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and because I wanted to see what the character would look like wearing the Venom symbiote

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Here's a process gif animated in Adobe ImageReady

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[Jesse]

Cesar Romero drawn with pen and ink and colored with Prismacolor markers.
Reference was a still frame from the Batman TV series.

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[Jesse]

My latest digital piece Yvonne Craig as Batgirl from the Batman TV series painted in Photoshop.

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Here's the line art before I colored it

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and here's a work in progress screenshot.

 

[ComicChick]

great job on the costume shading

 

[Jesse]

Another older piece Bob Dylan drawn with pencil from a photo reference.

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[Jesse]

I drew this Beavis and Butt-head with pencils and then inked it with a technical pen using stippling and erased the original pencils.

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[Jesse]

This is a reproduction of the cover artwork on the Atari video game cartridge Q*bert. Originally this was a old pencil sketch which I inked with Pigma Micron pens. I ended up digitally reinking it and coloring it in Photoshop. It was a lot of fun to work on.

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[Jesse]

This is another reproduction of the artwork for the PlayStation video game Brave Fencer Musashi. Drawn with pencils and then inked with a technical pen with the original pencils erased.

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[Jesse]

Originally I sketched this May Parker Spider-Girl & Miles Morales Ultimate Spider-Man piece in BIC pen. After scanning it I then digitally inked and colored it in Photoshop. These are two of my favorite Spider-Man costumes and I really enjoyed drawing them. In hindsight I really should add a cityscape background to add more of a web-slinging feel to it.

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[Jesse]

This Simpsons family portrait was drawn with pencils, inked with a technical pen and the original pencils erased.

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I was able to scan my original pencil sketch, print it and then add a little more detail to it.

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[Jesse]

Since I currently don't have access to a computer with Photoshop or a scanner I will continue to post older pieces until I get a chance to do some new stuff. Originally this Steelheart from the cartoon series SilverHawks was a pencil sketch drawn way back in 1997. A few years ago I found it, then inked and colored it digitally in Photoshop. There are a few other versions in my gallery for those interested.

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Here's a process gif animated in Adobe ImageReady

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[Jesse]

This Carnage & Spider-Man piece is a very old illustration that was originally sketched in pencil, inked with a technical pen and then colored with Prismacolor markers & colored pencils. Years later I would recolor it in Photoshop as well as add another character from a different piece. All three poses were drawn from looking at a pages in Amazing Spider-Man #379 and Venom Sinner Takes All #3 respectively.

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Here's the originals as I mentioned they were two separate pieces.

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[Jesse]

This is another reproduction of a much older piece originally sketched with pencil. Within the last few years I inked and colored it digitally in Photoshop. There is variant version in my gallery for those interested. The reference used was a Lady Death 1995 Trading Card.

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Here's the process gif animated in Adobe ImageReady

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[Jesse]

I drew Shaggy and Scooby-Doo with pencils, inked them with a technical pen using stippling then erased the original pencils.

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[Jesse]

This Cheetara pose was originally sketched in ballpoint pen, then digitally inked and colored in Photoshop. I decided to draw the classic version as well as the newer Thundercats cartoon design. I'm not entirely happy with this running pose and plan to do another version.

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Here's a process gif including both versions that was animated in Adobe ImageReady

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[Jesse]

This is another older piece as well as another reproduction. It was originally sketched in pencils and then inked with a technical pen. The reference used was a panel in Spawn #31.

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