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Working on a T-Shirt Design
I’ve been sketching, but I’m not sure I’ll be able to post everything. I have my Kubert class to work on, and I’m also creating another t-shirt design. I’ll link to the shirt when it goes up for voting. 
Phrike Ink
Had some time so I inked the drawing of Phrike. I probably should start working on my “class” soon though. 
Kubert School Unboxing
My Kubert School correspondence class package arrived today, and I thought I’d do a little unboxing!
The box itself is actually pretty cool looking!
First inside there’s some various papers. A return policy, a note to make copies before sending assignments in, a supply check list, and a guide for how to use the Ames Lettering Guide.
Under that is the class book. It’s hard cover, spiral bound and a massive 11×17! Flipping through a little, the book seems to alternate a page of instructions (front an back) and a piece of bristol board for practice.
Under the book is a pack of 11×17 “assignment boards.” If you’ve ever seen blue lined comic art boards. This is the same thing.
Next up is the 11×17 return envelope to send your work in.
An 11×17 piece of cardboard with instructions on how to send your work in. It also acts as a backing board for the package.
Behind that is a catalog for their art store. Comic sized (of course).
And finally we have all the art supplies and class DVD! I won’t go through all of it, but looks good.
My New Office
I wish the photos did better justice for the colors. The red just isn’t right and the taupe is way too light. I’m real happy with the way it looks!
More Heads
House is still being painted.
Faces
My house is being painted, so I’m not really able to sit down in there now. So to meet my goal I tried to do a number of heads.
I love seeing people’s sketchbooks where they have a page of sketches, and nearly every inch is filled by something… I honestly don’t know how they do it! My sketchbooks always have one thing per page, maybe a page has a phone number on it… or a list of World of Warcraft crafting mats… they are frankly quite boring to thumb through.
It’d be great to get better at that, but at least this blog is helping me get more drawing in.
Phrike Pose 2
It’s pretty clear that I need the most practice with full body drawings and poses. I think this one kind of turned out, but it took way too much time to get it how I wanted it. I ended up redrawing most of this, several times.
I don’t think I have enough time to do full body figures everyday, so I’m afraid I’m going to have to start posting more progress sketches like yesterday and today. As long as I do a little bit each day I think I’m moving my goals still.
Phrike Pose
OK, I’m good for the day.
I would have liked to have done more drawing today, but SketchBook Pro was acting up. I guess it’s a known problem with Lion. It was lagging like crazy, then started putting pencil strokes down when I just got near the screen. Supposedly they have a patch coming out soon, they just have to get Apple to approve it for the App Store.
So I went back to drawing in Manga Studio Debut 4, which is also a great app. I miss the move/zoom reticule from SketchBook Pro when working in Manga Studio… but Manga Studio makes it way easier to flip and rotate the canvas around while working in it. Manga Studio is also more forgiving when it comes to inking.
Anyway, this is a WIP sketch of Phrike. Her right arm just wasn’t working… and the legs need work. I’ll probably pick up from here tomorrow.
Phrike
A new version of the iPad sketch a couple days ago. The character’s name would be Phrike. A soldier with Moros.
Almost done with the script for issue 1 (of 5)!