Shellhead pencils - inking went all wrong

May 29th, 2008

Shellhead pencils 2008 - Lee Sargent

Oh well unfortunately this scan is all that’s left of this drawing because I stuffed up inking it.   I wanted to use a light brown pen to do all the actual shadow and I just completely ruined it, the pen was not very good at the same time which is still my fault as I didn’t test it before hand.

I should have drawn all the shading in pencil first but I was going for a much more natural feel.

It is a real shame actually because I really love the drawing, it is probably closest I feel to my natural style - Iron Man’s movement in it felt natural as I drew it and because it’s a chunky character thanks to the early armour it lends itself well to the style.

I may still try and resurrect the image on a different drawing.

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7 Comments

  1. MC

    Or on a shirt… ;)
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  2. Lee

    MC - I was going to chat to you and the others about that, I’m concerned about the use of the character on merchandise as I don’t want Marvel goons showing up at my door and permanently blocking lolcats from me thus reducing my life to soul-less wreck with no joy or laughter. Or they of course could just take some sort of legal action - it’s a crazy world out there.

    I’ve yet to find a suitable explanation on derivative works and to what extent I can derive an income (however small) from my work based on a property.

    So I’m holding off for the second, just while I work some of that out.

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  3. Arjan

    the chunky armour somehow reminds me of Magneto.
    I once enlarged and colored a picture out of the Warcraft 2 manual..and made a t-shirt of it..but of course I kept it for myself instead of selling it ;)
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  4. MC

    The reason I suggested putting it on a shirt was because you said you were going to redraw it (and thus, you had an opportunity to tweak it in ways that make it your own).

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  5. Lee

    Arjan - maybe it’s the pose that reminds you of Magneto?

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  6. Lee

    MC - I think this is the path I’m going to have to go down anyway if I want to put MY art on t-shirts anyway - I’m working on my own graphic novel for Little Robot comics and once I’ve locked down a few designs for that I might bring them out.

    In the meantime I might work on some generic imagery to put out there.

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  7. MC

    Just so you know though… their designer also allows you to make text-based shirts on the fly.

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