Giant Monster Redux and a Goblin
Posted By Scott Hallett at 12/12/2008 4:57 PM

I had started this picture a few weeks back for the topic "Giant Monsters" at Drawer Geeks, but never got around to finishing it. Sort of plugged away at the inks over a few lunch hours recently. Came to some interesting conclusions about my art and where I'd like it to go after completing this one, but we'll see what happens with that later.


This was a character sketch I did after reading a friend's comic treatment. I'd love to be involved in this, but I have to be true to my prior commitments.

Labels: brush pen, Drawer Geeks, giant monsters, goblins

Witch
Posted By Scott Hallett at 11/20/2008 10:01 PM

This is for the topic "Witch" over at Drawer Geeks. This was part of a challenge with an artist friend (Steve Ogden). The challenge was to finish the piece in an hour. I drew the original drawing in about 1/2 hour, then about an hour on the photoshop grayscale. So I guess I succeeded on the drawing, then failed in the Photoshop. One step forward...

Labels: brush pen, Drawer Geeks, grayscale, Photoshop, Witch

Giant Monster!
Posted By Scott Hallett at 10/24/2008 11:16 AM

This is for the topic "Giant Monsters" over at Drawer Geeks. Probably the first time I've slammed together colors without looking back and nitpicking. Not that I'm saying it's perfect, but it was a good experiment. Done with brush pen, pen and colored in Photoshop, in about an hour or so.

True story, I got the idea to give this monster piercing blue eyes after hearing Stephen Harper described that way. I'm just sayin'...

Labels: brush pen, Drawer Geeks, giant monsters, Photoshop, Stephen Harper

Ents
Posted By Scott Hallett at 1/31/2008 4:06 PM

This was my original sketch for the "Lord of the Rings" topic at Drawer Geeks, but I ran out of time. I decided to finish it because I thought it had promise. This was done with a brush pen and Photoshop. The things I tried to focus on this time were limited palette, and no fancy Photoshop tricks such as blurs or fancy brushes. This was done using the pencil tool and a few gradients. Often times I get caught up trying to add more bells and whistles and really eat away my time.

Labels: brush pen, colour, Drawer Geeks, Ent, Lord of the Rings, Photoshop

Star Belly
Posted By Scott Hallett at 11/30/2007 6:54 AM

This week at Drawer Geeks the theme was "Star Belly" with an open interpretation. This is what I came up with. I tried to use this as an opportunity to try out new things and new methods (such as using a brush pen, spot blacks and speeding up rendering). All in all I was pretty pleased with the results. Let me know what you think!

Labels: brush pen, character design, colour, Drawer Geeks, Star Belly

Coffee Table
Posted By Scott Hallett at 10/25/2006 7:32 AM

I did this sketch yesterday while sitting in a coffee shop at lunch. It was done with a brush-pen with India ink, and completely different from how I work. I was actually stumped in sketching, and just picked up the pen and drew what was in front of me on the table. Very unplanned, and the majority of it done in one stroke. Let me know what you think.

Labels: brush pen, coffee shop, sketch