THERE WAS THIS geezer over on DeviantArt signing his cartoons as MegaTigerTron. He's still there but under the different monicker and THIS particular inspiration was picked up from one of 'girlie drawings' that's no longer there...

Anyways, El Tigre did a nice rendering with a pose challenging enough for me to try to understand it through this study in red, blue and 0.7 mechanical HB pencil exercise. It's the very same sketch, only scanned four times throughout the progress. I am not implying anything - the least being who did a better version but the lad's written praise made me feel really proud.

And the shown stages actually represent the very approach I have to the figure drawing.

I wish it could always appear and be this easy..!

THIS WAS SHOWN before as a series of individual drawings. Here's the whole process in almost a comic strip form. Truth to be said, I need to re-scan and re-colour the cover for the sake of acknowledgement of my PhotoShop improvement... back in the day when I did this, believe it or not, I couldn't fathom how to letter the damn thing digitally, so I had to paste-on physically the letters [logo and title, not dialogues done manually with the marker I used to ink the figures] sent to me by John Gallagher, the writer of this never drawn extravaganza who's also provided me with a rough thumbnail sketch for the cover that I managed to displace for good... Sorry mate..!

Is this what they call 'meme'..? I don't know what on Earth is 'meme' but I got an impression that the monicker concerns the 'collage' sort of thing... or something.

So here is the POWER KIDS work in progress, step-by-step presentation. If this is the aforementioned 'meme', then it is.

Wish I knew how it's pronounced...

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http://www.lingocentar.com/

I know 'twould have been better if I've shown this on time when it was appropriate. But, as they say, 'better late than never'. So, POWER KIDS again, only this time trying to participate in Hallowe'en celebration for the first time [in Serbia at least]. All pencil [2mm F lead in Mars leadholder] and tweaking in Photoshop after scanning the A4-sized drawing. The lines were darkened and some 'Filter' solutions were applied.

When it's ten minutes after midnight, then it must be 'yesterday' when I did this convention sketch, borrowed from a young lady who asked for a sketch of HERSELF as BatGirl [ (c)DC/WB ] so I can scan it for unleashing it upon the breathlessly awaiting world.

I have to admit my inability to 'capture the likeness' is a stuff of legends... but I hoped for the excuse that BG is not 'a real person' plus there's a mask -- excuses, escuses ...

Anyway, Tanya loved the sketch and I wanted to share this convention sketch done at the 8th Belgrade International Comics Salon that finished today, on Sunday. Drawing shall be returned to Tanya. It's done on A4 sized rough paper with HB 0.7 technical Pentel pencil and assortment of markers.

Some sketches I've done recently, posting them on Deviant Art first. Ordinary A4 printer paper used with Col-Erase light blue pencils or 3H graphite Lyra 2mm lead in Mars-Staedtler or Caran D'Ache leadholders/clutch pencils. Tweaked a thing or two in PhotoShop 7.

The character of Soviet SuperWoman is created & (c)Olga Jezhova and I drew this for her, with her permission.

A Wee Demo - NOT the Tutorial

WORKING ON SEVERAL projects at the same time sometimes disperses the attention and ability to control all aspects of what's being done. Take THIS situation for example - do I have to put an extra 'mature' filter because of the 'beast's nature' displayed in the illustration or do I behave like this is the business as usual, like before..?

This is the very same drawing, the one and only of the newest incarnation of my intrepid Nurse Florinda, co-created with a person insisting for now to remain strictly anonimous. But, that very same drawing is scanned as the blue rough, then black graphite clean-up [H lead, 2mm in a lead holder/clutch pencil over the kneaded eraser 'paled' blue sketch] and finally coloured visual of the 'inked' version.

Truth is, there were NO INKS whatsoever. The graphite clean-up lines were darkened in PhotoShop prior to the colouring process and that was it.

The 'comic strip tier' format is the attempt to create a demo or tutorial 'template' with samples of personal work plus lettering, which in this case happens to be a free font from Nate [Blambot] Piekos - www.blambot.com