Takeover - Initial sketch vs. line-art vs. finshed piece & Aliens

First of all, I'm so so sorry for not posting yesterday guys and also sorry Alex for ruining your statistics. I know I suck. Ffs Alex runs this blog now for so long and has missed how many days? Two? And I've to do four days and already mess up. Sorry.

But: I do have an excuse. I was already running late (yayy, procrastination) and than my internet connection died, but because it was already quite late, I couldn't ask my brother to fix it. 

But on a positive note: As you can see my internet connection works again and so I'm here with what I wanted to show you yesterday aswell as the stuff I had in mind for today.

Part 1:

I decided not to start all over with the Sick Puppies cartoon-thingy, because when I looked at it yesterday I decided that I needed some fixes here and there but wasn't as bad as I had initially thought.

Do you also sometimes feel like your drawings lose a lot of character and life when you turn the sketches into line-art and then into a finished product? Sometimes I think scetches look so much cooler and energetic than the finished drawings...Maybe you can see what I mean:

3. Finished drawing.

2. Line-Art

1. Sketch

For the people wondering why the characters don't have faces and why it's only 'area-shading' and not detailed shading: I'm currently trying to find my own cartoon-style and an the moment I really like the simplified style.

But I have to say I don't like this drawing because the people look rather stiff and not as dynamic as I wanted them to be (especially the guy on the right.) Wow, they look like a 10 year old kid drew them. Damn.

Part 2:

As some of you might know, I love drawing aliens and I've recently been using them as a kind of warm-up exercise. These are some of my favourites:

 So. This is it for me, tomorrow you'll have Alex back :) And then you will finally get more organized posts again and not my random and chaotic stuff.

And sorry for all the talking btw, I just love explaiing what was going on in my mind while drawing etc.

Christina

Takeover - Cartoon style and days on which you shouldn't pick up a pencil...

 Do some of you also have those days, where you really feel like drawing something, but nothing turns out the way you wanted it to be and you just get super frustrated? Yeah, right. Today was one of those days for me. And I figured the best thing you can do in those situations is just stop and try again tomorrow. But since I promised Alex I would run the blog for a few days I can't leave you without a drawing today, so I'll just show you my failed attampt compared to other drawings that turned out the way they should. I always think it's interesting to also see an artist's worst drawings and not only the ones that turned out good. So here ya go:

This is what it should look like:

Sidenote: I gave this to the band yesterday at their concert and they said they liked it! (Or they were just being polite, but whatever :P)

Just line-art, but you get the idea.

 This is what it looks like:

 Sorry for all the band-related stuff by the way, I know it's probably quite uninteresting for you. Tomorrow I'll hopefully be able to show you a new, better and finished version of the Sick Puppies drawing but on Wednesday (the last day) I will show you something that has nothing to do with my band-obsession, I promise ;)

Aquarelle Comics

Don't you also just love comics in aquarelle colors? I love how they give the pictures so much more character and style :D

By the way people I have to ask you this-do you think drawing comics, or redrawing comics as I'm doing right now is actually creative? Because I feel like I'm copying other peoples work and where is the depth in that? Do you guys think that if you actually made up scenes partly with these characters that would be worth a shoot, or do you think it is better not to reuse them? Tell me what you think!

xoxo Alex

Scrooge/Dagobert Duck

Hey everyone :D
So I looked up the name of this character from the Donal Duck comics in Englisch and no...I'm so sorry. but noooooo! Scrooge? I mean seriously? that is way to mainstream for disney! nAaaaah-he is going to be Dagobert (the German name for him) in my head forever...

By the way-I'm not just drawing all these cartoon characters just because I think they're call and I have no other ideas!! :D Something bigger is growing in my head and these are just sketches where I'm trying out the different characters :P

By the way-they always look really simple, you know with few lines and everything but actually-it takes a long time to draw them! 

xoxo Alex

Cinderella in a Baseball cap

Hey guys!
After yesterday's snowhite in a hoodie-today I have Cinderella in a baseball cap...Something is growing in my mind around cartoon characters but I can't figure it out quite yet...

xoxo Alex

Snow White with a Hoddie

Hey guys-sorry I'm so late today :)

this was just an experiment with snowhite :D 

xoxo Alex