Gordaen’s Blog

This is the first bit of art that counts toward my goal of 40 pieces of art. It turned out far different from what was in my head because I didn’t want to take the time to plan it out. Instead, I essentially scribbled as quickly as I could. It was a [...]

This one isn’t anything special, just my playing around with the charcoal sticks that I bought a couple of weeks ago. I actually created this one on Christmas Eve (so it doesn’t count toward my New Year’s Resolution), and I discovered the need for charcoal paper. The sketchbook doesn’t have enough tooth for [...]

I came up with a whole bunch of comic ideas quite a while back, but I never got around to trying to create any of them. I just couldn’t decide the medium that would be best. Well, I decided digital would be best, but I had no luck creating anything where the art [...]

After playing around with the charcoal, I decided to do a pencil drawing. At first, I couldn’t decide what to draw. I didn’t want to do a regular face, but I wanted to keep improving those skills, so I ended up going with a/the predator. As always, the scanner missed a lot [...]

I did two quick, rough charcoal sketches today. I was really just learning how the more expensive “artist’s charcoal” handles compared to the cheapo stuff I had used before. This new charcoal is excellent. It’s hardness is considered medium, but it’s definitely much harder than the other stuff. The sketch [...]