Harley Quinn & the Joker - Rough games

Well, good evening! I'm in a wonderful mood as this is one of the most ambitious drawings I've done in a while, mixing media I thought I'd never use in paper, like acrylics... I was always afraid normal paper wouldn't stand it. It turns out I was wrong and it looks awesome!!!
On the top you can see a re-touched version, while the one on the left is a picture of the original drawing (I seriously need to by a scanner).

I wanted the pencil lines to remain so that's why I haven't painted over them. Also mixing media and styles was pretty fun ^^

Anyhow, I went to the cinema to watch "Suicide Squad" and I liked the soundtrack and Harley, of course, so on Friday afternoon I was listening to it when "Criminal" from Britney Spears came in... and this image came to my mind. So I sketched in the course of three or four repetitions of the song and decided I wanted to make something awesome with it... So I got crazy and coloured it, which you might know by now it isn't something I normally do.
I wanted Harley to look scared, but at the same time have a slight smile that she's almost forcing upon herself to show Joker she trusts him, whilst I wanted the Joker to have a sadistic look. The perspective was hard and not sure of it as I would have rather have the Joker to be slightly bigger that he came up to be, but I'm still pretty Ok with him.
I honestly hate the relationship of these two characters being romanticized, so she's got some cuts and bruises, not too many though as I didn't want to be gruesome, just enough to show he doesn't treat her nicely, and he should as she is slightly afraid of whether he'll hurt her with the knife or not.
Hher body and shadows were pretty fun to do, specially hands and feet are things I?m really happy with. I should point out that all of this came out of my head without needing any reference image... which made me pretty proud.
I enjoyed designing a new outfit for her as well.
I might do more of this in the future.
For the time being I hope you guys like it!! =)

Pin-up for Conor

A friend of mine is a massive Barcelona fan and loves Eva Mendes. So for his birthday what better present than a drawing of Eva Mendez wearing the colors of his favorite team? =P

I had to do this drawing in an hour, hence why it isn't one of my best ones, but he loved it and I'm very pleased with that.

She looks close enough to the actress and the proportions are good, although for some reason people kept asking me if it was me... I feel flattered, but she doesn't look anything like me... anyhow, this woman was tons of fun to draw even though I couldn't spend as much time as I could have liked.


The most importat part: he liked the present =)

Shattered Gargoyle

Another drawing done while I should be studying... (I passed the exam anyhow).
This one has sort of a story behind it. It always starts with the face, and for some reason this time I just wasn't able to picture her eyes. I put a blindfold and worked around it sketching easily her upper body and right arm. Once again I was unable to see her left arm, so I started working on her legs. When I had the whole sketch done I started going into detail... and decided I wanted her to be naked and be some kind of gargoyle... so I started to do sharp and thick lines... and then, when I was doing the right thigh I decided to do a scratch... and then on the chest, and face and arm. Suddenly I couldn't draw her left arm because she had none, I started to draw cracks and pieces of her missing, so were her eyes and everything.
I'll some day come up with a better and more detailed story, but basically this was a gargoyle meant to protect villages from evil. They are immune to destructive magic because of their skin, but one sorcerer used magic to change the nature of her skin from marble to thin porcelain. She's no longer solid stone, but a porcelain carcass that can not sustain her own weight. Her hair and wings are not made of stone or otherwise she would not be able to fly so easily or have free movement, so that's why they are not broken. Everything else is colapsing, startign with her eyes than the sorcerer broke with a blow to her face with his stick.

Defeated warrior

Her sword just got shattered in pieces... she's been kicked to the ground after her last big battle.
I enjoyed making her armor look weary and, as you can see, trying different positions for her.
Although in a surrender mode, I still think there's some hope left for her... or that's what she thinks, one last chance with the pieces of her sword as a small knife... who knows?

Struggle between science and fantasy

So in this page that I found today you can see my struggle: while studying to be an Engineer, I'm always wondering if I would be better off as an artist. This strange fairly-looking sketch was made while studying electricity (as you can see for the math). Both the math and the sketch are rough and were done fast... and none are outstanding, but they are pretty good taking into account the time I took to practice any of them
(I got the highest grade in my class with a 85% in this subject while studying for it only for two weeks and the drawing isn't bad either and took me five minutes)

Learning to use Gimp

Guess who's learning to use Gimp

I still have a lot to work on this cat lady, but I wanted to show it here since it's been a while since I last posted anything. I did it this afternoon on my first attempt to use this program... so I'm pretty hapy with the result so far

Crazy Sketch

I was bored in class today, so I did this in an hour of presentation. Yes, it's a demon eating pop corn and a weird guy with a katana giving her a drink

The Last Battle of a Warrior Angel

Unfinished drawing of an angel warrior in her last stand. She was supposed to be missing one of her wings and be holding two big swords while standing on a pile of corpses. Whenever I find a drawing too old for me to be able to finish it properly, either because I no longer have the spirit or it isn't my style anymore, I try to come up with the date, but I don't even bother to sign it.
In this case I can even see my flaws: her head is too big for her body, some wounds aren't drawn properly, I wasn't sure about the design of her clothes... etc; but I like the design, the wings were coming up pretty decent, I think I was trying to make her look Japanese (not sure)...
The thing is that I really believe that if this was meant to be a good drawing, I would have finished.
Still, I hope you like the idea.

Alice Madness Returns - Revision

Hey, hey, hey! Well, I'm pretty proud of this one, because of the change on perspective (my first attempt), the items I've drawn (I think I've never done a full set before, it was just characters, but never "decoration"), the character design and the proportions pretty much.
I was playing "Alice Madness Returns" while studying, so during my breaks in the library I started to draw this based on the game's character. As you can see there are some similarities, but I tried to make an original design of the dress and also of the things I've drawn surrounding her, that try to represent each of the things you might find in Wonderland.
It was so much fun mixing different media:
Corset's details are done with a blue fountain-pen, while the hair and he eye-browns were done with black pen, the boots, eye-lashes and gloves are done with a black Chinese gel-pen (not that the origin matters, but I found it on the floor one day and it's got Chinese writing on it, so I found it interesting), red and blue details with JANUS 2160 Faber-Castell, and all the other colours with mechanical pencil (with colour mines), and the shadows were all done with either 2B or 3B pencil.

Alice Madness Returns - Hysteria

So... a year ago I started playing "Alice Madness Returns" and quit after getting stocked in a part where I was dying every single time. Then I started last weekend to play again because of a friend, who showed interest on the game. I loved the hysteria skin the moment I saw it, although all the skins in this game are pretty neat. Honestly, the whole game appearance is awesome, but it's not exactly the kind of game I like. I think I play it for the story and the graphics actually.
Anyhow, I did this little sketch based on the Hysteria Skin from Alice. I hope you like it. I had a lot of fun with the blood

"Marilyn Monroe" for Victor

So again a birthday present for a friend. This time I took two Marilyn Monroe's pictures she had taken for "The Seven Year Itch" and combined them while putting a touch of my own. Both the faces and the upper section of the dress have been modified because I wasn't happy with the originals. Also the middle part of the dress is only "based on" the original photos, while I made the dress come a little higher than in any of the originals. Anyhow, I hope you like it as much as I enjoyed drawing this woman.

Black Rock Shooter

So, this is a drawing I made of Black Rock Shooter, but I didn't copy any existent drawing, so that's why it's labelled as "Original Drawing" and "Out of other drawings". I watch the OVA and the series this week, and I've fallen in love with this character. I don't know why, but it's got a lot of power, and so does the song it inspired. So that's why I had to draw her.
This drawing is awful, I know. I don't do manga. So this is a mixture of styles, and you can see where my flaws are: the hair, specially the ponytail to the right, the face, and the foot to the left. So, basically, I didn't fake good enough the manga style and the perspective sucks. Funny thing is that it wasn't meant to be an elaborated drawing, and that's why I post it: because it turned out better than I expected. A proof of how little faith I had on it is the fact that it was made at the back of some notes from last semester. You can still see what's written on the other side of the sheet.
Anyhow, this is what came to my mind while listening to the song and watching the images. So I hope you appreciate that it was just an experiment, although I might try to make an adaptation to my style of Black Rock Shooter. I don't know, I'm a little obsessed with the character now.

Sketch of Danielle

5/31/12 12:23 PM

 Instead of studying for "Industrial Heating and Cooling" I was drawing her. She is not finish yet, but I wanted to post her because I'm about to erase some of the things I had to draw to make her, and I kind of like the look she has now.

6/2/12 1:10 AM

 Just thinking why not to put her again before she's finish. I fixed her right shoulder a little.

6/14/12 10:46 PM

Ok. I didn't like how the hands were looking, so I fixed one and I erased the other one. She's almost finished. I just need to draw the hand and fix some little details and she'll be done.

NOW:

As you can see it took me a lot to finish her. I guess it was because I knew all the hard work was already done and also because I was scared to mess up the drawing by making a weird-looking hand or something. I'm quite proud of this drawing because of the perspective, the hair and the clothes. The arms look pretty nice, but the shoulders and neck are unrealistic, and, as always, the head is too big for her body. This time it's not too much, but still I think the proportions are not too well-done. This represents a scene from the book I'm always talkign about and I'll never write.

Guardian Mermaid

She protects the other mermaid I just uploaded here. I'm quite proud of this drawing. It took a lot to finish and was made during my finals of the first semester. I started the drawing studying for "Electric Machines" on Christmas break I'm not quite happy with the perspective.

Annika

And this is what happens when I'm in weird moods. Angels and fantasy worlds get eaten by darkness. Sci-fi movies and films are my favourites. She's been stock for quite a while actually, but I might finish her when I get back to the mood I was when I first drew her (kind of difficult, but I just need to remember what I was thinking). She's got quite a story ahead, and other that explains her actual condition stuck with so many cables going through her brain...
If you are wondering, the 25 is because I did her while studying for "Fluids Mechanics" and I like to number the pages I've covered studying. I didn't realice I was using a numbered sheet until the drawing was too advanced for me to do it in another page.