Einar's railroad pencilogue

**Einar** · 02-05-2011, 08:48 AM

A sketchpage ending up in the idea for a bloody cyber-soccer team.

Taking me the anatomy is good for a non-ref drawing, although the girl's hands are deliberately left as a mess and her feet is omitted completely:-) I am really playing with the idea to get a bit distracted from direct practice and design a team on that basis.

**Einar** · 02-05-2011, 09:00 AM

I have grown liking speedies, now I usually use them as warm ups. Here are a few, references are usually from the late (?) Muscle Sketch Group.

(ok, this guy is not from the MSG, but I have found him with google on the keyword 'athlete')
--

(the girl is non-ref, but the idea came when I browsed Morganza's sketchblog:-)

Usually I cannot handle the time well and have problems from not measuring part distances beforhand (so a lot of redraws), but sometimes I finish within 15min.

**Einar** · 02-05-2011, 09:09 AM

.....NSFW.....

Continuing with the pelvis region I figured out that nude pics usually 'focus' more on the pelvis parts, so it is easier to find good references. So nude speedies, all after photos found on the net:

**Einar** · 02-10-2011, 06:05 PM

Hey There,

Here is a collection of pics I have missed to post in time for PJ weekly regulars. All of them are non-ref pics.

Weekly sketch group:
Lorna, WSG #189 (first attempt to fix up things a bit with my brand new tablet)

Power Girl, WSG #190

Public Domain Character Sketch Group:
Black Diamond as the Amish Protector Gunslinger, PDCGS#1

Princess Pantha, PDCSG #2

Microface, PDCSG #3

Red Ann, PDCSG #4

Lancer redesign, PDSCG #5
I am really happy with how that one turned out. I must say that it's the best piece I have ever had. But I am still not on good terms with the left leg, you just can't see the bend there....

**Einar** · 02-13-2011, 05:33 AM

The Birth of Iron Maiden in PDCSG #006

I struggled very long with foreshortening trying to figure out how these arms, legs, etc. should shrink. The right arm (left in pic) is not the best, but hopefully I can get away with that forshortening this time.

Character background
Charlotte knew nothing. She was an ordinary schoolgirl fidgeting around boys, painting her fingernails pink and watching Dallas. But the mysterious Overlord was secretly watching her, and found all the abilities in her he had needed: power, agility, cunning intelligence(?) and the most important - purity. And a shiny day turned into the darkest of nights when a great black car appeared from nowhere and took Charlotte.
When she opened her eyes again she found herself shackled at a dark place, menacing machines shrieking all around pointing razor sharp, bony fingers at her. Frozen with terror she saw an iron mask, a mask of the worst nightmares decending upon her to be connected to her face once and for ever.
She was to become the liutenant of the metal forces, the grimm Iron Maiden.

**Einar** · 02-18-2011, 08:34 AM

Black Venus in PDCSG #7 and an attempt on rendering latex-or-wathever-suit

**Einar** · 02-19-2011, 06:55 AM

As it seems I tried this week to draw faces of people from different nations without reference. So here is my original concept for Black Venus, but it is rather a practice for face drawing. And in the end I added two clumsy skulls in Photoshop just to make her more or less fitting for PDCSG subject Fantomah.

**Einar** · 02-27-2011, 04:05 AM

Just a few sketchpages from this week. One is to practice a bit this shiny dress thing, obviously with photo ref, and the other two are just idle-minded sketchings from days when I had no concept in mind. And the stepping woman has some problems around her hip against my best efforts, so it helped at least to get myself back to practicing with direct references. :-)

**Einar** · 02-27-2011, 04:58 PM

This is not the direct practice part I was talking about, but I couldn't miss WSG again...
(I always write Imperium instead of Empire.... WH40k seems really hard-wired in my thoughts:-)

**Einar** · 03-02-2011, 04:17 PM

I have got back to practice using direct photo ref. Nearly two month ago I collected a bunch of gymnast pictures for reference, and now I am onto them. And I must say they make good ref with interesting and challenging poses.

Two speedy attempts here (most of the 15minutes was spent on that closer arm of the girl and it still looks unnatural... - just for excuse, it is not really natural in the original photo either)

And a speedy start that turned into a practice simplified (quantised) rendering.

And another semi-speedy drawing, using D.C's recetly posted reference pics from MSG. (Good stance, not just muscle)