Tag: concept art

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Alex Heberling

[Image: a sketchbook page of Audrey, a young woman of color, in various head poses.]

I’ve been thinking about Audrey quite a lot lately, and I decided I wanted to base her features off a different branch of African descent.  (Before, she was loosely based on Gina Torres’s features.)  I really want to see this sort of androgynous, broad, rounder face more often, and it’s pushing my drawing skills in a way that the Torres edition does not.

Most of this sketchbook page was an attempt to get the facial features looking like real life, since I have never drawn a person of color who looked exactly like this before.  Then I tried to inject my personal style into the top-right and bottom-middle pictures, to mixed success.

Need more practice!  And more photo references.

I’m not totally decided on what to do with her hair, either.  I like the cropped-short look of these sketches, and they do fit Audrey’s personality; before, she had long curly hair like Gina, but I’m thinking her hair would be a completely different texture than before, so I don’t think she’d fuss with a lot of hair, it being the apocalypse and all.

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Alex Heberling

[Image description: A pencil drawing of Sami, a medium-skinned girl with black hair in a ponytail, wearing lace fingerless gloves and a slip.  She is leaning on a vague wall with her hand and is halfway turned away from the viewer.]

I drew Sami again at work last night.

GUYS GUYS I have the first issue outlined. XDDDDD

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Alex Heberling

[Image description: A pencil drawing of Sami as Hue Spectrum, who wears a black and white costume with bracers, tall boots, and a skirted leotard-ish thing.]

Here’s this thing I drew today on my lunch break! The new Sami in the old school Hue Spectrum uniform. I haven’t yet decided in what capacity the uniforms will be in the new version of the Hues. I’ve got ideas for variations on the basic costume that differ from girl to girl.

Sami is from my upcoming comic series, The Hues.

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Alex Heberling

[Image description: An illustration of Samhita, an Indian-American teenager sitting with her knees bent towards her chest and her hands resting on her ankles.  She’s wearing a baggy grey hooded sweatshirt, rolled-up jeans, and heavy black boots.]

Pressure sensitivity restored! Huzzah!  And this is officially the very first, completely finished piece of Hues concept art.

I haven’t done a piece in my signature style in a VERY long time.  It feels good!  I’m not even at the place where I can decide what style I’m going to be using for the comic pages, but I may just throw caution to the wind again and do everything in this style like I did with Garanos.  If you haven’t read Garanos, you should follow this finely crafted link and read my epic fantasy comic: http://www.garanos.com

LINES ARE FOR CHUMPS, HMMPH!

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Alex Heberling

[Image description: A pencil drawing of Samhita, an Indian-American teenager sitting with her knees bent towards her chest and her hands resting on her ankles.  She’s wearing a baggy hooded sweatshirt, rolled-up jeans, and heavy boots.]

A picture of Sami I drew on Friday while I was out working at the coffee shop!  I’m going to work on a colored version tonight while I think up ideas for tomorrow’s Alex’s Guide.

I based the pose off this stock image by SenshiStock.  I find it useful to just browse through her gallery and find something to inspire a drawing.