EOC Sketchbook Challenge- Would you care for some Cheesecake? (May 2013)

[Andrew Tom]

Great month Monsta.  I loved everyone's old... and new takes on their characters.  This month I'm in charge so I'll just cut all of the pomp and circumstance and get right to it.

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OK everyone.  I haven't taken the reigns in awhile, but May is gonna' be my month.  I just came back from an awesome weekend at C2E2 (where I bought 2 sets of Copic warm & cool grays and Copic MultiLiner's.  Now... I'm ready to use them.  

So here's what we're gonna' do.  We're gonna' draw...

  Cheesecake

That's right fanboys and fangirls, we're doing good girl art in the styles of... and inspired by... such modern masters of the form as  

Adam Hughes  

Terry Dodson  

Arthur Adams

and Frank Cho  

Now here's the catch... like any good tease, you have to put spoiler tags on them.  Also, to keep in theme with the art of the tease, there can be NO nudity (This means that you can't show the naughty bits).  Make your drawings as sexy as you can, but keep it within the guidelines.  But most importantly HAVE FUN DRAWING!!

Lastly, I've already said that I believe that this month will set a record for most views in a month  .  But it would be SUPER COOL if we could knock down the "most pages record" set by the Spidey-villians month too.

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HAVE FUN!

If you're new to the thread here's how it works.  We're here to have fun and to sharpen our drawing skills.  All amateurs & professionals are welcome to participate.  If you want to submit a piece of artwork, here are the rules...Number #1) only post characters for the current month's assignment (a little spillover is OK from the previous month)...Number #2) You must be the artist (we're not looking for your original art collection, that's another thread)...& Number #3) (and most importantly) Have fun drawing.
  
December 2010 - Captain America (pages 1-5)
January 2011 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (pages 5-10)
February 2011 - Comic Book Couples / Gotham City Sirens edited by David Price (pages 10-15)
March 2011 - Spaceboy edited by Chris Neseman (pages 16-24)
April 2011 - Fables 100 edited by Vince B (pages 24-31)
May 2011 - Star Wars edited by Jason Wood (pages 31-43)
June 2011 - Justice Socitety of America edited by Gabe Hardman (pages 43-55)
July 2011 - Marvel licensed Toy comics from the 70s edited by Bean (pages 55-63)
August 2011 - Spider-man Rogues edited by Monsta (pages 62-80)
September 2011 - 90's X Characters edited by Lawrence (pages 80-92)
October 2011 - Comic book Monsters edited by Slurmo (pages 92-108)
Novemeber 2011 - Cartoons edited by Felipe!!! (pages 108-116)
December 2011 - Winter Wonderland edited by Gordo (pages 116-121
January 2012 - Kirby Classics edited by Andrew (pages 121-130)
February 2012 - Bluenote's Time Machine edited by Bluenote77 (pages 130-141)
March 2012 - Space Oddities edited by Unicorn Master (pages 141-151)
April 2012 - April Fools edited by leafinsectman  (pages 151-159)
May 2012 - Avengers Ensemble? edited by Andy! (pages 160-170)
June 2012 - British Invasion edited by Sim.Starkiller (pages 170-175)
July 2012 - Freeze Frame edited by JunBobKim (pages 175-179)
August 2012 - Teenage Wasteland edited by Nojforta, Jonathan D. Gordon (pages 179-184)
Sepember 2012 - "BAT-sploitation" edited by Bryan Boles (pages 184-189)
October 2012 - Monster Mash-up edited by Felipe!!! (pages 189-203)
November 2012 - Thank goodness, you TURKEY! edited by Dan Cardenas (pages 203-208)
December 2012 - School House Rockin' with VERBS! edited by Timothy O'Briant (pages 208-212)
January 2013 - DRAW THIS PAGE!! edited by Steve Bryant (pages 212-216)
February 2013 - Re-Creation! edited by Jon O'Briant (pages 216-219)
March 2013 - Just Imagine... edited by Harry Moyer (pages 219-223)
April 2013 - Monsta's Madness edited by Monsta (pages 224-229)
May 2013 - Cheesecake edited by Andy Tom (pages 229-

[JunBobKim]

I really hope people embrace this challenge. I know photo reference has gotten a bad name because a lot of LAZY artists stopped using photos as reference and started tracing. Pro artists like myself however have used photos as reference for centuries. You can come up to me at a con and ask for a matt smith or tennant doctor who and in front of you I will pull up a pic of them and use it as reference to make you what you want. 

I trained myself without classes to draw large sports portraits of athletes by drawing the images from multiple baseball cards and magazines. Its a great way to train ones eye. If you do it for the 15 years I have, by new I use models as very loose reference cause I can draw a body and face the way its supposed to look very easilly without reference.

Well, I knew this may not catch anyone's particular fancy. It may just require too much. However, I firmly believe it can help improve our abilities to draw. I guess I need to get the ball rolling too with my contributions too, but this month could not have fallen on the worst time for me to draw.... :'-(

[JunBobKim]

I also realized that I failed to post a sample of my challenge initially. Below are 2 samples of something I ended up doing on Jimmy Palmiotti's prompting, whom I also met at Dallas Comic Con 2 years ago. He challenged me to pick some photos from his "Sexy Monday (NSFW!!!)" thread he runs weekly on his blog and to draw from those photos to improve my drawing of females. Disclaimer: Jimmy does not post credits or the sources of these photos, and I had no way to figuring out the sources of these photos.

Goddess Warrior:



Hunt-her & Her Cycle:



Let me stress, you DO NOT have to take this challenge to the full extreme (unless you want to) or even fuss with so much source credit, research, etc. Main thing is to stretch yourself a bit and have fun! Click on my images to see a larger version.

[Harry Moyer]

Great topic Jun!

Admittedly, I was a little hesitant at first, not sure what I could contribute, but I think I found a solution. Not crazy about it, but it was a fun exercise and hopefully I can do more this month.

[JunBobKim]

Great topic Jun!

Admittedly, I was a little hesitant at first, not sure what I could contribute, but I think I found a solution. Not crazy about it, but it was a fun exercise and hopefully I can do more this month.

Harry, that is right on the money of this exercise! First of all, where did you get that photo... 'cause it's TOTALLY awesome. I love how the photo is cropped and the middle figure seems almost a giant slouching to fit into the photo.

I think you did an excellent job of interpreting the faces (I shoot myself in the foot because I have a hard time abstracting the features) and were dead on capturing the pose of each figure. Excellent!

In fact, it would have been even more fun if you took the same photo and dressed them up as Fear Agents, or Ghostbusters, maybe... hint, hint. ;-)

[Harry Moyer]

Thanks Jun!

The photo's from The Art of Jaime Hernandez: The Secrets of Life and Death. A great book for sure. 

[Bluenote77]

Here's my first attempt.

I really liked a photo that Pat Loika put up in the EOC photo a day thread. So I hope that he doesn't mind that I borrowed it!


And my version with water soluble graphite and brush pen.

[PozrDu]

Admittedly, I was a little hesitant at first, not sure what I could contribute, but I think I found a solution. Not crazy about it, but it was a fun exercise and hopefully I can do more this month.

Your sketch almost looks more realistic than the photo.

[bryanb]

Nice topic Jun Bob.
I've been reading some old Master of Kung-Fu lately, so here is my what if they made a Master of Kung Fu movie starring Bruce Lee and James Garner:

reference:

[Jon O]

I really want to read those Masters of Kung Fu books.

I actually use photo ref moderately often on Awful Lot.  Here are the photos and page I did today. Credit to the marketing department for So You Think You Can Dance






And I did a quick Comic Curve about the page if you want a little more process:

http://www.strips4.com/comiccurve/

[JunBobKim]

Here's my first attempt.

I really liked a photo that Pat Loika put up in the EOC photo a day thread. So I hope that he doesn't mind that I borrowed it!

And my version with water soluble graphite and brush pen.

I really like that! I'm glad you chose a photo with such dramatic lighting. I really like the fact that you took some chances and reinterpreted the shadows in your rendering. Great job!

[JunBobKim]

Nice topic Jun Bob.
I've been reading some old Master of Kung-Fu lately, so here is my what if they made a Master of Kung Fu movie starring Bruce Lee and James Garner:

reference:

That would be a totally badass movie! :-) I like that handlebar mustache and working in that iconic Bruce Lee stance! Great job.

Was this done with traditional tools or digital?

[JunBobKim]

I really want to read those Masters of Kung Fu books.

I actually use photo ref moderately often on Awful Lot.  Here are the photos and page I did today. Credit to the marketing department for So You Think You Can Dance

And I did a quick Comic Curve about the page if you want a little more process:
http://www.strips4.com/comiccurve/

What a great idea! Talked about a perfectly fitting use of the photo references. Those extreme poses of dancers would be nearly impossible to draw only from imagination, unless maybe if you were a dancer. I'm gonna try to check out process post as soon as I get some breathing room! Great job!

Thanks, all of you! You're doing a great job!

[bryanb]

That would be a totally badass movie! :-) I like that handlebar mustache and working in that iconic Bruce Lee stance! Great job.

Was this done with traditional tools or digital?

Yes it would be, and it would have been technically possible, I looked it up. I even looked up their heights.

I did it traditional but after I started drawing I ran out of room and had it laid out wrong   so I drew each character on a different sheet of paper and then stitched it together in PS.

[Devilhand]

I will try to get a better image of the actual drawing, but here's the Freddie Nova, the model from tonight's Dr. Sketchy session holding my illustration of her:



She chose me as the first place winner so I was all giddy and mentally disorganized in the positive vibes that followed and forgot to snap a picture of the image.

[Mr.Shaw]

The source photo (with a bit of touch-up to make it mostly SFW):

The drawn pic:

My pencil quite literally exploded on me halfway through, so I finished using just my brush pen. It was nerve-wracking.

[Bobgar Ornelas]

really nice!

[Devilhand]

Huzzah! Thanks to Dr.Sketchy Cleveland people and Freddie Nova for setting me straight.

[Nojfotra (Jonathan D. Gordon)]

I used

to make

its 11x17 in copic marker under my pseudonym Cincinnatus that I will be using for my sketch card and comic work starting with my latest set for cryptozoic.

just realized I also used this in may for avengers month. There you can see it from blue line layouts.

[Eyemelt]

Great topic this month, and some fantastic variations on the theme so far. Hope to get a piece done before the month is out!

[Devilhand]

Here's the second stage of roughs for a mock cover I've had brewing in my head for a while. All chimp faces and nazi uniforms have been referenced.



Going to add more Nazi Chimps then lightbox it and finish it.