And I still need to learn how to texture those ink jobs

The kid looks ok on this drawing but the overall picture needs more texture. I'm going to continue playing around with this picture and see if I can make it.

And finally a couple new sketches

This one was done as a birthday present to someone really special. Even though she is still mad at me for all those things I did I managed to work on it and achived some good results. As anyone can see I'm begining to have a good control over the brush strokes and I'm begining to notice all the work that needs to be done beyond geting the brush strokes right. In the next sketches I'll probably work more on textures and feathering.



And this one was to be a aniversary present but I've finished it quite a long while afterwards.

And a couple more really old sketches

The sketch of Julie Newmar as Catwoman was made more than 10 years ago while I was teaching english and basic computing. I still remember carrying the drawing board around everywhere I went so I could sketch everything. The inking was done a few years latter.

The other one is a sketch o Cloe from Smallville TV series from the first or second season if I'm not mistaken.

And a few more oldies

I just can't believe how many old sketches I've had laying around the apartment. The muscle guys I remember doing during in my freshmen year at colledge and the girl, if I'm not mistaken, was made a couple years ago.

A couple couple's old sketches

A couple more old movie sketches

And now some woodcarving exercieses..

I've done these study and woodcarving printing in my college days.

And I'm still digging old stuff..

Since last post had a sketch o Marvin I decided to post other sketches based on movies.

Digging out some old stuff.. again..

As I was cleaning up the apartment I found some old sketches I did using technical pens. Among them were some studies of those wooden figures I have laying around and a few movie images. I've selected a few to post here.

And the Quilombola series is still running

During a week long event at the Quilombo Ivaporunduva I've managed to finish a couple of sketches I've had laying around the house for a few weeks.

ps. I still need to get a scan of the sketch I gave Patrícia Camargo as it is the only one missing here.

Family Portrait

It has being a long time in the making so I decided to finhish it off. It is a portrait of my father, gramma Gertrudes and my mother.

Another request

I do not believe the result is what she intended it to be but it was everything I could do today. If I get the time I will try again tomorrow.

ps. All those new brushes are paying off: getting better at controlling line width.

Another one on the Quilombos series

I've traveled again to a couple quilombolas communites last weekend and now have done a few more sketches, even though only one is postable. I'm ashamed to admit that I do not remember the name of the person in this drawing but as soon as I can figure it out I'll post it with a more finished inking job. As always the line widths are bugging me but I can sense that I'm a lot more relaxed with the brush.

As requested

LTSP Quilombo Brotas

About a week ago a friend invited me to acompany her in a business trip. Even though it was more work than play and that almost everything that could go wrong went wrong it was a quite enjoyable trip. I got to know a few very nice people involved in social/digital inclusion and cultural empowerment.

As usual I've made a couple of sketches of the team that failed to bring up a LTSP network in the tiny timeframe we had available. I shall finish Fred's sketch soon since he is the only one missing, besides me but that is another matter entirelly.

Mozart Couto's blog

While doing some research for my talk about FOSS on multimedia development, specially design, I found Mozart Couto's blog which is full of nice stuff, especially about how to use the gimp to color comic books.

http://blogdodesenhador.blogspot.com

Some old inking exercises I've being playing around with

Since I've bought Gary Martin's The Art of Comic Book Inking I've being playing around with the sample pages from the book. These pages are pencil art from the book which I've inked and began coloring using the Gimp and my trusted wacom Intuos 2.

I hope to post completelly colored versions of those pages soon.

ps. During the time I was trying to ink these pages I was strugling with the brushes I had available. Now I've settled for a cheap brush: Tigre #0.

Since I'm digging old stuff..

Since I'm digging out some old drawings here goes a few sketches form the X2 (x-men 2 - the movie).

Another one to the series

Still needs a lot of work, especially on line widths and some textures but it getting somewhere.

A old friend asked for those a long time ago

And I've kept them laying around the house for all this time. So, posting old stuff again.

ps. she still owes me a beer.