I would like to clarify my description above. Space exploration is one of my interests. However, I could not help feeling that the technology looks complicated (in a not good way), so I never drew anything space-related (unless it is made up, sci-fi stuff).
SpaceX seems to strive to change this perception. This plus Andy Estrada's post made me realize that I should draw more space-related drawings. I hope this one is the first one of many more to come :)
Inktober is coming soon. I am looking forward to it. Last year I finished 7 drawings. I hope to finish more drawings this year.
(So I find myself adding more and more complexity to the drawings. Let us see how far I can sustain this.)
I went through one extra drawing step: tidying up the pencil sketch. I started with pose sketches during train ride as the previous few times. However, I found myself drawing poses I didn't like. So I consciously changed the gesture lines I started with. (See the right-most picture.)
I thought multiple lines, one roughly perpendicular to the other, may help. One would be the character pose, the other could be a weapon (I was thinking a staff). My first thought was a kid leaning backwards (to our right), holding a long staff. For a reason I cannot remember, I decided against this and drew the head on the staff line instead. The main gesture line turned into the legs outstretching.
(Bonus: You can see rectangles near the hands. My first thought was drawing fists. However, as I added more curves, I thought open palms would look more elegant.)
Next, while tightening up the sketch (see the picture second from right), I experimented with effects around the character to make the image more interesting. I wanted an element that had elegance and strength; and I decided a wind current so strong it could slash was the element I wanted.
Inking the character was straightforward. (See the picture third from right.) Inking the wind, though, was tricky. For this I used what I learned from my days of copying effect panels, such as this one, from the manga "Break Shot". I was impatient, so the wind ended up looking too solid.
Still, I was happy with how this one turned out. What do you think? If you have ideas you want me to draw, let me know in the comments :)
The next one in a series of children drawings I am working on. I am taking it easy, so the only theme I had in mind was drawing children in dynamic poses. I started with S-curves as gesture lines and proceeded to find shapes and forms. These led to this pose that looked like a flying kid braking mid-air. I had fun going though these loose exercises, so I will do more soon.
Let me know what you think about the drawing by commenting :)
