Halfway there.

Now it's ready for colour.

I've had Step By Step from the Backstreet Boys in my head aaaalll damn day and posting every step of this piece is not helping at all.

Step By Step,
oo babehhh,
Gonna get to you giiiiiiiiirl.

Help,
Ren

Oh boys... !

I've started noticing how most of my favorite artists to check out do comic books, or at least post comic pages. Then I started wondering if there was a connection to the fact that their such great artists and the medium they chose.

After thinking about it, I've decided to give sort of a purpose to my drawings, or just drawing in general. I'm going to try and draw in a more comic style. So, as often as I can do it, I'm going to try and draw as if I'm making a one page comic... maybe two. Since I'm not much of a writer, I've asked my friends to write some shorts for me, but this one was all Ren.

Cheers,
Ren

The Dr sees all... in COLOUR

Yay. Well, this one took a little longer than I thought due to sicknesses, wedding plans, not being here, and other excuses... err, I mean, reasons.

Hope you likes,
Ren

Baby steps

So here's the cleanup version of the Dr and my fiancé hanging out behind my back. I didn't have time to scan it all in and patch it all together nice and neat like. But you get the idea.

Next step, colour.

Cheers.

Someone has a crush on someoooonnne

Meeka's ( my fiance ) asked me to do a drawing of her and David Tennant ( a.k.a. Dr. Who ) so I finally sat down in front of the drawing board tonight and got this clean-ish rough done. I think I like it but the final verdict will have to wait 'till tomorrow night... or the day after.

In any case, hope you enjoy.

Salut.

Oldy

I was going through my old stuff, looking for short short I did a while back. I couldn't find it. But I did find something totally different that I did some years ago for an idea friends of mine and I had about the life and times of a lazy kid... we never did anything... probably 'cause that lazy kid was mostly an amalgamation of us.

Eep.

Seeya.

Naughty Spidey in Technicolour

After a fun-filled weekend with the inlaws and my lovely wife-to-be, I was able to squeeze in some time to colour Spidey in action.

The cat in this piece is my cat in the pose that I see him in most of the time... with jaw gaping, thinking he's interesting to the rest of the world.

I resisted the temptation to blur Spidey in his speedy pinchy move 'cause I got yelled at by my peer for being blur happy.

Happy now :D

Cheers.

What would YOU do with super powers?

Hiya folks.

Since I don't really have the time to finish a drawing this week and I haven't posted any rough stuff yet... here is some rough stuff.

I've been looking at the meriad ( I think that's how you spell that ) of wicked, wicked artists on Blogspot. When I find someone I like, I try to steal what I can from their styles. It obviously never ends up exactly like their's ( they're good for a reason ), but you learn soooo much doing it. So these 2 are "inspired" by Mathieu Reynès and Florian Satzinger. I HIGHLY recommend checking them out.

Cheers all,
Ren

Kuta attempt numéro deux

So after checking out all the awesomeness that people did for Cheeks' contest, I realised two things. Holy crap they're good, and they all did their's in their own style as opposed to Cheeks' ( ish ) like I tried to do.... soooooo.

Needless to say that I got back on the drawing board and came up with this piece.

What do you think?

Cheers,
Ren

Kuta : A Cheeky Contest

Sean "Cheeks" Galloway has a contest going on for his Kuta character. This would be my first attempt at an entry. I think I'll only be able to make another one which is too bad 'cause this is fun.

Hope you liiiiiiike.

Ren.

Particle Man

I was just introduced to the whole Particle Man song by They Might Be Giants. It screamed to be sketched. So instead of going deaf from the screaming, I thought I'd give it a try.

Hope you like it.

Cheers,
Ren

Particle man, Particle Man

Doing things a particle can

What's he like? it's not important

Particle Man

Is he a dot, or is he a speck?

When he's underwater, does he get wet?

Or does the water get him instead?

Nobody knows, Particle Man

Triangle Man, Triangle Man

Triangle Man hates Partical Man

The have a fight, Triangle wins

Triangle Man

Universe Man, Universe Man

Size of the entire Universe Man

Usually kind to smaller man

Universe Man

He's got a watch with a minute hand,

Millenium hand, and an eon hand

When they meet it's a happy land

Powerful man, Universe Man

Person Man, Person Man

Hit on the head with a frying pan

Lives his life in a garbage can

Person Man

Is he depressed, or is he a mess?

Does he feel totally worthless?

Who came up with Person Man?

Degraded man, Person Man

Triangle Man, Triangle Man

Triangle Man hates Person Man

They have a fight, Triangle wins

Triangle Man

Scooting away

Work has started up again so I don't have the time I'd want to put on drawing anymore, but I'm still pushing forward... just a little slower.

I became a gradient and blur whore in this one. I may have overdone it, or I may not... I'm kind of tired right now and can't really tell.

On that note, good night everybody.

Cheers,
Ren

Get that girl

I thougth I'd play with gradients for colouring and shading on this one. Here's the cleanup too. Why not, right?

Now to go enjoy the beautifull day outside since I've been hiding out in my cave for the past couple of weeks drawing up a storm.

After that, mooore drawing ( who am I kidding, it's like a drug ).

Cheerios,
Ren

Bloody

I'm still playing with the new Photoshop ways. I'm starting to get the hang of it but now it's taking that much longer to figure out what I want to do with a picture since my options are that much more varied. And with taxe time, a house to tend to, a cat that can't live without my attention, and other distractions, single drawings are taking more time than ever before.

Hope you like though,
Ren

Potty humour

One of my good friends at work ( Steve Cheyne ), who is also a Photoshop guru, gave me pointers at how to paint in Photoshop.

This is a quick doodle I made to try out his technique and make sure I didn't forget too much of it. Apparently I didn't. It wasn't cleaned properly to really get the full use of his colouring method but I understand it enough to use it.

I only realised after how relevant the drawing was. We've all been faced with the fearsome unknown, and this is kind of how I felt getting lectured on a software I thought I knew enough to get around... nah!

Thanks Steve, wherever you are.

Cheers,
Ren

Dr Who?

I decided to start the blog off with some drawings of the good Dr.

"Who?" you ask?

Yes, that one.

I'm trying to mature my style to something that's simpler and fun to animate. I'm a lot closer to it than I used to be, but I still have some work to do to be at a level I'm happy with. I look at these and realise that I need to work on my basic shapes and proportions push them even further ( especially when it comes to the lady shapes ). Any comments and criticism is greatly appreciated ( I AM doing this to improve myself in the end ).

'Till next time.

Cheers,
Ren

Zzzzzzzz..rraahhgfs..... wha... what?

Hello all.

I've finally decided to utilise this thing people keep talking about. I think it's called the interweb? I've just been given a couple of weeks off and decided to reinvent myself and my style... so I stole from the artists I admire most ( Sean Galloway, Cyril Pedrosa just to name a couple ). And now I'm ready to start posting things as they come. My wife-to-be ( titaniumhip.livejournal.com ... that's not her name, but her blog adress ) will eventually forget who I am but will hopefully forgive me due to the amount of TV time she's going to gain.

So as soon as I find my scanner chord, I'll be in business.

Cheers,
Ren