Nov 12-14: Graphite Bane

I've spent the past few days working incredibly slowly on my bane drawing.  I do it in like 2 minute increments in between phone calls.
The metal tubing isn't as bad as I thought it would be.  Basically,  all I have to do is draw uniform lines, erase the middle and use a stub around the edges to create the illusion of a cylindrical form.  Again,  I'm choosing to ignore all the rules of lighting.  I think it looks better this way.

Ive decided that I like drawing weird mechanical things.  If my proportions are a little off, it's ridiculously easy to fudge shading or add some vague shape in the mechanics and it'll still look good.
The drawing will have to be gone over again when it's done in some darker pencils.  It's not as bold as I'd like. 

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Nov 11th pt 2: Random Ornaments

After giving up on the oil painting for the day, I decided to do some easy, mindless designs on ornaments.   You can't tell from the pictures, but they're actually brown, not maroon.  

The first ornament took all of 5 minutes and is just a squiggly tree with dots and sparkles around it.  The second ended up being awesome by accident.   I was attempting to paint a large Christmas star and it looked awful.So I decided to wash the paint off. 

This unexpectedly washed only the paint from the middle off, leaving a corona.  Oh it looked cool!  So I began to do this on purpose over and over again until I had some kind of metallic tie-dye going on.  Then I blotched it all over with a paper towel dipped in paint.  Add a bunch of gloss sealant and it looks pretty awesome for a bunch of nonsense!

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Nov 11th pt 1: Inception Oil Painting

Despite my greater knowledge of oil paint this time around,  I'm still struggling.   I think that proportion has a lot to do with it.  When my proportions are off, it really doesn't matter how well I've separated light areas from the dark because I'll have to eventually scrape some paint off in the end.

So I began with widening his eyes and making them look more open.  Then I worked on his face, making it more brown than red.  Somewhere in the middle of it, I just couldn't stand how his nose was looking.   It was wrong.   I tried adding shadow,  taking shadow away, making his nostrils wider...it still looked wrong.   So, I did what I always do when this happens.  I switched to painting something else.  In this case, the background.

I'm adding blue undertones to the background because it's raining.  Also it's Inception.  The mood is gloomy.  Then I went back to the face...and measured.  I realized that his eyes are too high.  Like, half an inch too high.  Oh my cow.  And I'd made them DARK.  This will not be an easy fix. 

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Nov 7th: Graphite Bane

Started work on the lower mask today.   I also went through and darkened spots on his eyes and made them look more deep set.  The picture I'm going off of doesn't show what the very top of the mask looks like, so I'll have to go back to it when I find a different picture.  

I played around with light a lot in this drawing.  There's definitely been some ignoring of the reference picture and me adding reflection where I please.  There's times when eyes will seem dull in a reference photo and you really don't want to draw them that way.  I prefer depth and light.  Especially in my black and white drawings.

The lower part of the mask will most likely be slow going.  I just hope I can finish it in a week or two.  Starting to look good though!

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Nov 2nd: Graphite Bane

Slowly Bane is appearing through the paper.  I'm currently working on the tubing.   You really have to know your materials when you're drawing.   If I look at the tubing,  I know that it doesn't bend far, only has a slight curve, but is crimped by the fasteners on his mask.  Although it's not a very metallic material,  I'm adding exaggerated highlights because ...well... I can. 

It's difficult to get the sections looking uniform.  My favorite part believe it or not is the 4 holes in the mask.  I made them look so cool.  Stupid thing to be excited about, but I'm damn proud!

I know not to whine about the tubing sections because when I get to the part around his mouth ...well I might throw things.

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Nov 1st: Gotham's Reckoning

This drawing is going to be one that I want to keep.  I can tell.  During my down time at work I'll be sneaking in some drawing time.  For Christmas I've decided to draw Bane for my brother.   I'm not even sure if he likes Bane, but I know he likes Batman so this is what he gets. 

This won't be easy.  His mask has a LOT of individual little parts that will be a pain in the ass to draw.  But what I tell myself is that I've drawn transformers before ...I can do this.

Main focus is on...well everything.   You'd think the eyes would be the most important part since that's where the only emotion is.  But if the mask looks like crap, then no one can appreciate his eyes.

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