The Sketch a Day Thread!

[Lensing]

The title page for the comic is finished, I will add 2 more pages next week, fix the coloring add
some texture, have my brother proof read the dialogue and then send it to the contest.

I´ll take the day off today and take the train to Düsseldorf, visit little Tokyo, go to the comic shops,
eat some Ramen. Then I´ll go to Cologne with the train, visit some more comic and record shops.
I rediscovered traveling by train because we have that cheap monthly train ticket now in Germany.
49€ and you can take every train, bus, subway.

This is a sketch of me traveling to Düsseldorf. This is exactly how I look like in real life in
case you are wondering

[Kelheor]

@IndigoShirtProd I absolutely love her design

@Mallory thank you!
Maybe try different shapes? I know it sounds easier said than done, but maybe adding harder and longer shapes to the character will age them up, while not making them more realistic? Of course, it's hard to change the preferred aesthetic, really can't blame you for going with something you actually love the most.

@Lensing this sounds like super fun ^^ hope you had a great day!

This thread made me realize I haven't drawn my boys since... 2006 or something, so I felt extremely ashamed

https://forums.tapas.io/t/show-your-twin-characters/77590

[abigaillmartin]

Thank you for linking it! I just wondered if anyone else had twin characters. It was more than what I was expecting!

[abigaillmartin]

Also your twins look awesome! I love long haired dudes! ️

[Kelheor]

@abigaillmartin thank you! Gods I love them too hahaha. Sorry I thought your thread idea is just too good for my casual sketch xD twin characters are cool!

[Mallory]

Couple of studies (ish) based on photographs for shapes.

@Kelheor if I understood the criticism correctly, it wasn't that the characters looked too young, it was that the style looked too young/aimed at a "too young" audience. I think it was likely that my subject matter (contemporary for the pitch) meant there was less freedom to do fun things like heavy stylization (though I just read a really nice contemporary comic for the same age range with an almost identical style, so... I dunno, I'm confused).

Maybe I'm just overthinking it, and should just do what I like to do.

Also just for fun, I can't remember if I posted them here, but here are my twins from my pitch!

[kalmia]

I think I want to join this challenge! ^^
had a random burst of inspiration and sketched this, I really like it so i think i might turn it into a full piece

[Kelheor]

@hadleestt welcome, welcome!

Bros I am drawing last episode of the season

[Mallory]

Wanted to draw a friendly/tough old chap character. I think he’s a bit too much friend-shaped, need to make him a bit tougher-looking.

[abigaillmartin]

Awwww he’s so adorable! He looks like a more humble monopoly guy as if in an alternate universe or something.

[simonitropunk]

[Aleksei]

Love the game, but Gladio have just entered my most hated list. How dare him to shove Prompto. MY PROMPTO! I was so angry that instead of walking on the train and talking with people, I just went to the fartest place from Gladio, and stayed there until the travel was done. In the train station I went to speak with Prompto, who is kind of depressed, but I have not talked with Gladio. If there would had been an option to fire him, I would had taken it. I went back to the continent instead of talking with him and Ignis, haha.

[TethykaRinehart]

My giant realizing she's not really there +_+

[nathanKmcwilliams]

New comic in progress. It's gonna be a while before it's done but I'm aiming at ten pages

[irresponsiblepics]

Suffering from burnout..so what to do? Oh that's right start sketcing concept stuff near the end of my current "volume"

[DanielRKM]

Yeeeeeeeeeeees! Loving these sketches. I don’t know about you, but these sketches boosted my inspiration/productivity levels. Love the guy on the top right, feels like a sleepy gremlin from the Jim Henson universe.

[DanielRKM]

Penny is looking a little too cool for school (for having had snot in her hair 5 minutes ago). She’s a survivor.

[Aleksei]

Played episode Ignis, and oh god.
Now I know why people ship him with Noctis. I mean, he really loves his king. Before to me he was like 'meh, the other dude', but now I want him to be happy, and loved. They really did a great work on his episode.
I still don't talk to Gladio.

Also, keep trying to do new stuff here!
I want to do a new comic sometimes soon with this kind of aesthetic. Or something similar. Something very dark, with glimpses of light.

[TheCalystegia]

This seems like a fun thread. These are some manga panel sketches we're still working on.

[Lensing]

The contest comic is almost finished, I have enough time left. It´s good that I started early
this time.

Here is a sketch for a panel for an additional page which I will maybe put in the comic