Archive for August, 2010

Hellboy Sketchercise: The Baba Yaga!

Monday, August 9th, 2010

This week’s Sketchercise is The Hellboy Universe and the character I’ve sketched up is The Baba Yaga, a scary old Slavic hag who rides around in a mortar counting dead people’s fingers and eatin’ toddlers. She’s a hoot and a half. I actually wasn’t that familiar with her but fortunately Brandon forwarded me this link where you can read her particular Hellboy encounter in full:  http://www.darkhorse.com/Features/Animations/12/Hellboy-The-Baba-Yaga

I drooded this one here with a Japanese nib (Nikko 357) and a pot of ink on Bristol. Used markers for all that blackground.

Sketches from Last Night’s Meetup

Friday, August 6th, 2010

Like Brandon said, last night’s turnout was really crazy. Lots of talented artists (as well as some non-artists hanging out) drawing cool stuff and talking about art.

This is what I sketched while I was there. Mostly just getting the feel for my new Pentel brush pen.

Sketchercise #3 – the Hellboy Universe

Friday, August 6th, 2010

What a great Sketch Charlotte meeting last night! I’ve been coming for over 2 years and I’ve never seen that many people…we had 15 show up! I have to admit I didn’t even know a good 5-6 people at the table. The drawing and conversation was so good I didn’t get a chance to get up and meet everyone. And the table set up didn’t really allow for it anyway. :(

Onto Sketchercise! #3 is my week and I’ve decided to choose anything and everything from any of the Hellboy and BPRD books! Have at it gang!

Here’s a little something to kick off the topic, a piece I did from last year’s sketchbook…Abe Sapien!

And yes, Tee, I’ll be doing a new sketch for this topic! ;)