Inktober this year will be nothing elaborate

I was going to skip inktober (because of upper deck) and instead decided they made good warm ups. My rule for this batch is don't waste time. Strictly doodle level for this year.

All done.
Some fun stuff. Some complete losses.

The color blind artist prepares

So I paid 18 bucks for these sharpies.

But before I can use them I need to sample the cap color so I know what the hell color I am using. Then use that blue masking tape holding the markers in alignment to make a cigar ring on the marker so I can write the color on it.

So I don't make bright green instead of yellow super heroes.

I've marked them up.
Now I'll put them in different cups.
Way too much pink for my 18 bucks.
I'll use it to blend a bit on some warm stuff.

Feel free to tell me where it is all wrong.
If you can read it.

Rough, then grid

Bonus thread item 

SketchUp used as art aid.

Super rough, then I made a grid to match parts, then I moved other parts to better match the grid. Then I'll light table. Got three to do. Moon colony type cityscapes.

I worked awfully hard on this to have it be this yuck.

But I need to move on to the Marvel card project.

3rd time is the charm. 

Communication breakdown of sorts.

Never having the space scale and setting firmly in my mind.

The big deal was I never conveyed the space was entirely enclosed.

We'll see if this one works.

He's ready to pass his deadline on it and just forget this one.

Going to bring up all 3 at once.

Terrible Tomb of Terror arrives soon

Kickstarter for the issue I am in is about to commence.

I look forward to having this thing in my hands.

My Bernie Wrightson moment has arrived 40 years late.

new freelance gig

I'll be doing some Upper Deck art. 

The original sketch cards that get done and inserted as bonuses in sealed boxes.

No NDA yet but I've been told not to yack it up or provide details so I won't.

I look at what there is of this school of art and it tends to be a bit amateur hour.

I'll do my best and hopefully get some keepers as portfolio items.

The pay is nothing enviable. 

They send the paper, just like doing comics.

example of what I'm talking about

Added this to show Tom Moon that I created one of my grids in Elements.

SketchUp and a Custom Shape for grids

Following this tutorial on youtube

I created a custom shape.

A 360 degree star that really makes great grids.

The lower grid is for a fantastic underwater city.

Updates later. Even if it doesn't turn out fantastic.

Tumblr post where I also talk about the shape tool.

Bah. I could not do it all digital. 

It just went too far south as far as I could bear.

Traced it to clean it for clarity.
Also of note, I changed grids. It needed a horizon line.
The complete top down was very blah.
 Final color version misses grand scale by a mile.
But I hit a mental cut off point for hours spent.
Have I mentioned before I make 40 bucks apiece on these?

And as far as using my sketchup help for the bar scene,

Not when I luck into the perfect ref by googling. Color scheme and all.

Hopefully I get color done on both by no later than Tuesday.

SketchUp aid for the heck of it

I thought the bard piece was a gentle poke at cosplayers.

Setting was described as 'a small town.'

Just the wrong century in my mind.

Communication.

The one of the Bard on stage reminds me of doing art for computer edge back in San Diego, Blue Sky days.

SCIFI

This made me think of the sci fi paperback illustrator that depicted eyeballs on a gargantuan scale. He was big in the 60s.

I'll find an example of who I'm thinking of and add images to the thread. .
Mine needs some drama contrast.

ENWorld freelance

Paul Lehr

Schadenfreude

Sketchup as a visual aid.

I'm dabbling with sketchup. Getting medium competent with it. A great FREE tool. But what I like most, vs doing the actual modeling, is importing useful things I don't want to model. Cars for instance. Also, the little standees, always facing the camera, are better than perspective for scale.

The bottom one is afterthought edits I'll never do to the original. Might drop them in on photoshop layers.
I've decide 50mm is probably the best all purpose lens.

Below-from the sketchup warehouse- Wayne Manor. From a search for room interiors. I'm getting an itch to start setting up quickly realized previz for a comic project.