Thoughts… or the ramblings of a fool

I guess you noticed it took me about 6 days to complete the last five when I did the first ones in just a day. Unfortunately, after I did the first five, I got the case of the stomach flu. Nasty thing to have I assure you. I’m still recovering as of this post, but I’m well enough to finish off the free sketches.

Here are the last five. All characters depicted are © and ™ their respective owners and none of these images are to be used anywhere without permission.

Thanks to all those that submitted their characters for my consideration.

I found myself under a dim cloud, suffering from a condition that can only be decribed as artist’s block, and to top it off be insulted by someone who thinks with his ass than his brain.

How did I react to all of this, you may ask. Simple. By giving away ten free sketches.

Here are the first five. All characters depicted are © and ™ their respective owners and none of these images are to be used anywhere without permission.

The next five to come.

Now this is something that just boggles my mind whenever I encounter it.

To those who don’t know, I run a forum site for budding illustrators who wants to pick my brain and others on the field of comic book-style illustration and pinup (generally) and to better improve themselves and their craft.

Whenever a new member asks me a particular question on, let’s say, drawing hands, I often first ask that I see a sample on how they do it themselves so that I can better assess their skill and thus give them the appropriate advice.

But they tell me that they don’t have a scanner for them to transfer their pencilled images to the computer. Now why is that? I know that some prefer to be purely a digital artist (meaning all their sketches and doodles are directly done using a tablet and a graphics program), but if these individuals can afford to buy a tablet, why not a scanner?

I cannot imagine my work without a scanner as part of my arsenal. Its the first thing I bought right after I built my first PC. During my time, scanners are a bit expensive, but I managed to get one. Now, there are alot of very affordable scanner devices out there.

I, myself, own a Canon™ Lide 25 scanner. Its cheap and it works for me in dealing with transferring my pencils to Photoshop™. I bought mine at around $52 US. That’s how cheap it is, and it works for me.

So I got to ask, in this world of digital art, why don’t you own a scanner?