Sketchbook!

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Finally I can show what I've been doing!

You can now buy my sketchbook over at Indyplanet.com!

Click HERE to check it out!

EXCLAMATION POINT.

If you can't tell I'm pretty excited about it. Check it out, let me know what you think by hitting me up on here, or on my Twitter and Facebook:

Twitter- @Private_Joker

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The King Jester

Just a quick post with my latest pieces.

For Wonderful Women Wednesday, I drew the daughter/clone of X-man Wolverine, X-23.

And for Todays' Martial Theory Thursday I decided to draw another one of my original characters, from another story (separate from the story I've been eluding to in previous posts). This time I've drawn a character that I will simply call "The King's Jester" for now. (Ooooh, mysterious). Until tomorrow!

New/s

Today is Monstrous Monday, but I will be making that post later today.

For now I'd like to post some stuff from the weekend, and talk about some news.

For Fanart Friday, I did a quick sketch of one of my favorite characters growing up, Vegeta from Dragonball Z. It just felt necessary.

For Sequential Saturday I did another piece of my original character, Sean, from a graphic novel I'm developing. Classic case of "guy punches a hole in the Moon."

Now for news. Now that I've had a situation that has been looming over me for the past few months seemingly blow over, I have decided to start back up on developing a pitch for my comic (with the character featured above). So while I still want to do these daily sketches, they will likely be less refined than they are now, as I'd like to start spending more time developing that project.

Most importantly I'd like to start getting alot of practice on full-size comic book boards. I'm not sure how this will affect my daily themed sketches, but all practice is good practice, so I may be posting up more sequentials and less themed sketches.

As for my videos, boards are pretty large but I may be able to adjust my setup to capture my process on those as well. For the tutorial series, it has taken a pause for the moment as I try and get everything situated.

Updates as I get everything cemented.

The Return

So, I spent the week in Utah visiting my grandmother. I never, ever though I would enjoy my stay there as much as I did. The scenery out there is seriously amazing. The mountains and cloudscapes were pretty insane. Nothing like the smogfest that is the Inland Empire. It's always nice to get a view of what the Earth was like pre-civilization. Very cool.

While I was there I kind of stayed off the internet, but you know how it is in this day and age, I gotta have my technology. So I was playing Final Fantasy VII on my psp. I miss this game so much. Probably my favorite RPG ever with my favorite characters. I especially like playing through after playing through most of the follow up games (Dirge of Cerberus and Crisis Core, though I never beat either), and watching Advent Children a billion times. I just love seeing the characters in their original setting, and now that I'm grown and can appreciate the game design and narrative a whole lot more. Even though there are some bad translations here and there, the overall script for the story of the game is so modern and fun. I totally forgot how much cursing and just flavorful language there is. It's more relatable then all the medievil old english fantasy we're so used to.

Also It's cool to go back and appreciate characters I originally didn't like, like Yuffie. I don't know why but back when I first played through the game I didn't like Yuffie, I thought she was annoying. I guess I just wanted her to be more of a badass ninja, but now she's probably my favorite character just because she's so fun. Plus her Limit Breaks are the shit, who knew? I have my ancient Brady Games guide from back in the day, so I'm gonna 100% the game, FO SHO.

ANYWAYS!! Since I missed out on Wonderful Women Wednesday, Martial Theory Thursday, and Fanart Friday. Not to mention today is also Sequential Saturday. So because I'm totally nerding out on FF7 (if you couldn't tell by my rant above), I decided to make up for each day that I missed, plus today by drawing a quick sketch for each day!

For Wonderful Women Wednesday, Yuffie!

For Martial Theory Thursday, Cloud Strife!

For Fanart Friday, Tifa!

And for todays Sequential Saturdays, Cloud vs Safer Sephiroth!

That's it, until tomorrow.

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So, it's Cool Dude Tuesday again, and I'm pretty tired so I don't have much to say. Today's dude is my favorite villain, The Joker. If you're wondering which Joker is my favorite version, it's the one from the Batman TAS series. Mark Hammill FTW. Until Tomorrow!

Structured Sundays

Sundays themed drawings will be all about structure, meaning that I'll be trying to either learn something new or work on some basics.

So for this week I didn't have anything special planned, and thought it would be cool to draw from reference, and something from wildlife. I decided to draw a rhinoceros for no particular reason.

I used one of the first images that popped up on google for reference. So credit to the original goes to...whoever.

Something new I'll be starting up is that instead of my "Sketch This" video series on my youtube being random, I will be doing a video on one of the themed drawings throughout the week. So I'm kicking that off by filming todays "Structured Sunday," though the video is still uploading so it'll probably be up tomorrow with my Monday theme reveal!

 Until tomorrow!

Sequential Saturdays

So, I wasn't sure what piece to do for today (Sequential Saturday).

I knew I wanted to have a short fight.

And I kinda wanted to do a tribute to a comic that inspired me.

I decided on Dragonball Z, and while I thought about drawing a Goku vs Vegeta piece for a bit, I decided to turn this piece into a spinoff/tribute. Originally this piece just had a nude (what I call "blank") chick in these poses fighting against this giant fat guy. Since she was kind of powering up anyways, I just made her super saiyan with some of the old school saiyan armor and threw in some obligatory Akira Toriya style rocks in the background. A good way to start off Sequential Saturdays I think!

Until tomorrow!

Fanart Friday!

I'm pretty excited for this one.

Fanart Fridays will be my themed drawing for every Friday. While my other themed days may feature other characters occasionally, Fridays is where I will express my love for my favorite characters and franchises.

In honor of Fanart Firdays starting up, and also me buying Final Fantasy 7 off the Playstation Network to play on my PSP finally, todays sketch will feature the ultimate antagonist, and #1 Soldier: Sephiroth!

Until tomorrow!

Martial Theory Thursdays

Well, guess what day it is? You don't know?

It's Martial Theory Thursday.In case you never knew what the "martial" in "martial arts" meant, it means literally "war."

Martial Theory Thursday will be the day when I draw men and women in relation to violence, war, strategy, weaponry, martial arts, etc. We live in a violent world, and so I must draw violence.

This will help me study mostly action choreography, but also costumes and weapon design.

So the first sketch to kick off Martial Theory Thursday is one of a character who embodies the meaning of war: Big Boss himself (created by Konami for the Metal Gear franchise). Snake? SNAAAAAAKE!!

Until tomorrow!

Wonderful Women Wednesday

Alright, so following up on Cool Dude Tuesday, I'm gonna be drawing women every Wednesday.

Thus, Wonderful Women Wednesday.

So my first piece is a random piece, of some City Gals

My second sketch I actually drew a few days ago (cheater), but whatever. It's Cammy of Street Fighter fame (created by Capcom).

So that's it for today, more stuff tomorrow, should have a new couple videos as well as my daily theme sketch reveal for Thursdays. Peace!

Cool Dude Tuesdays

Sooo, I'd like to start doing at least one sketch a day, and have a theme for each day of the week.

Thus, Tuesdays will be dubbed "Cool Dude Tuesdays." On Tuesdays I will draw at least one cool male character, whether it be fanart or one of my own characters. To celebrate the first day of daily sketches, I did three sketches in pencil then did some super quick inks in prismacolor markers.

First, the master of Ansatsuken, and teacher of Ryu and Ken, Master Gouken (created by Capcom).

Second, the Dark Knight himself. (created by DC comics)

And last but not least, The Sharknife, created by Corey "Rey" Lewis.

See ya next time!

New Stuff

Some Sketches:

 Heihachi from the Tekken series

Some original characters (some parodies)

And my original character, King Grim

Instagram, Sketch This, Art Basics

So. I've been busy.

I started an Instagram account to coincide with my Facebook and Twitter accounts. I must say it is very convenient to take "stylized" pictures of my art. Auto filters are kinda gimmicky, but hey it's hip, it's cool, it's easy. I can dig it. Follow me or friend me to get see these pics as I take them.

Meanwhile I have still been working on my Sketch This and Art Basics Tutorials. My Sketch This for the week is not so much me sketching but more about my four step process to making a piece. Take a peek below.

In my Art Basics series I continue where I left off in the last video about One Point Perspective, by covering Two and Three point perspective. I have broken the Three Point Perspective videos into two parts, covering a Worm's Eye View, and a Bird's Eye View.

I'm not 100% on which topic I'd like to cover next. I may just cover the color wheel, and then move onto values and the like. We'll see. Until then, enjoy and let me know what you think!

OPP and Inking LOL

Today I've finished uploading three videos.

In my Art Basics tutorial series, episode 3, I am doing a brief overview of one point perspective. The next two videos after this will be two and three point perspective.

Not sure if I mentioned this before, but as I release the Art Basics videos, I'd like to accompany each one with a Sketch This video, where I show you guys and gals my art process, and what I'm thinking as I go about my business. Today's sketch this show how I take my pieces from a rough pencil stage and into the inking stage. The piece I'm inking is of an original character of mine, King Grim having himself some LOL's.

In the first video I discuss what tools I use, and how I go about planning to ink.

In the second video I pick up after I've done the first round of inks and have erased the underlying pencil. From here I decide the ultimate direction of the inks, and consider line weight and little details.

That's it for today. Feel free to comment on any of the videos, subscribe to the channel and friend/follow me on my Twitter/Facebook:

Twitter: www.twitter.com/private_joker
Facebook: www.facebook.com/bretnugent

So, today was a productive day. I got a few pieces done and recorded a few videos for my youtube channel.

While I wait for my videos to finish uploading, I'd like to mention that most of the time my personal sketches for which I am compiling for sketchbooks, concept ideas, etc. I will be taking teaser pictures of and putting them on my Facebook.

I'm going to reserve posting loose sketches and possibly fanart on this page. Basically anything I don't plan on using for publishing and the like will be shown here. Everything else will be available eventually in some other avenue.

Blogging: Starting Over

This isn't the first time I've started a blog. Once upon a time I had a blog going where I would post my sketches and also rant about my thoughts on life. This was during a phase in my life where I was learning alot about myself.

Well, things have calmed down, and while I'm always learning, I've learned not to be so outspoken and opinionated. I think they call that maturity...

Anywho, I've been going through a bit of a rebirth since the first of the year, and have been concentrating on my art more than ever. I've started using my Youtube account to post videos of tutorials of traditional art basic concepts, and also videos of my artistic process. I plan to integrate those videos with this blog, and also with my personal Facebook and Twitter accounts. The plan is to use these to help jump start a career in the arts, whether it helps me to get hired or as a way for me to self-publish and create my own businesses.

In the meantime, I'll leave you with my latest videos that I've made. Please feel free to rate, subscribe and leave comments about what you think and what you hope to see. Thanks for reading and stay tuned for future projects!

-Bret