Not-daily, daily sketches

I'm working on getting in the habit of creating warm up sketches and drawings, but I haven't been perfect in this goal. I'm happy with the results so far, though. It is helpful and it means I have somethings to post online regularly as I work on the other projects that aren't able to be posted yet.

The Wolverine drawing I did last week got me on a bit of an X-men kick. Here are a few others that I've finished recently.

Wolverine

The big news in my life is that I - after almost fifteen years - have quit my fire alarm sales job. I'm going to draw full time for as long as I can. Hopefully that will be for the rest of it, but we will see. I'm sure I will post more about that soon, but for now, here is a drawing of Wolverine I did today.

I'm trying to get in the habit of drawing and sketching before I begin the "real" artwork for the day. I will do my best to keep up with it, but I'm sure there will be days were time restraints keep me from following through.

Captain Marvel

Over the last few years I've incorporated digital methods and tools into my artistic process with increased frequency. One of the tools I use most is Clip Studio Paint. This has been my go-to drawing program. Recently I've been introduced to a new feature in CSP called "colorize" (thanks, Phillip Sevy!).

I do very little with color at this time in my career. I hope to start doing more in the coming months and years, but my plate is a bit full to give it any additional attention. The colorize tool is intriguing. I don't see it providing an avenue for a coloring option that is equal - or even close - to hiring a talented professional, still there is some potential here.

This is the coloring I created with CSP for a Captain Marvel drawing of mine. The coloring phase of this took less than ten minutes to do:

The "blur" around the character is something I don't think I'll be able to keep from happening. I could clean it up if I had to, but I think it's kind of cool. The color of her face got washed out for some reason. Not sure how to fix that. Alot of trial and error head of me, though.