Over the past weekend I’ve purchased myself a tablet, which was one of the things I’ve been eyeing for a while on top of keyboard. So, for the past couple of days I’ve been playing with it and slowly getting more accustomed to its features. Lately I seem to be in a TF2 fan art-sort-of-mode. What I wanted to do was end up making a couple of drawings of the TF2 characters but making them more realistic face-wise while still keeping cartoon structures for the body. But as I was perusing the web looking for reference models (i.e., Stephen Colbert to reference as the Medic) I came across the idea of instead making art of our PANDA’s group with people being the characters that they enjoy the most.
So of course, I had to start out with Sean being the Demoman.
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Most of my graphics work the past few years has been more so typography and page layout work, and not so much drawings/paintings/illustration. (I mean, I’ve done them before, but with a mouse, and for the most part they’ve come out pretty crappy.) So I made sure I had a window open to those online videos of 5 min sketches of Spiderman and Jack Sparrow and kind of fumbled about from there. A number of times I found myself having to “fix Sean” especially in moments of, “Oh God! Oh God! He’s starting to look like Chuck Norris! Oh crap! Must fix! Ahhhhhh!”
It amazes me how the artist of the 5 minute sketches completed those works in a time span of 5 hours or less. So far, I think I’ve already spent about 8 to get to where I’m at at the moment. I decided early on that I would just take screenshots of my work along the way instead of screen recording/FRAPS-ing something that would probably be the length of 12 hours or so.
Preliminary Sketching
Skin Shading. (You can also see the pic I was referencing as well.)
Sean as Demoman is a test at the moment on whether or not I can actually pull this sort of art off. And if it all turns out well, maybe I can start drawing more PANDA’s.
