A few days ago I found one of my old notebooks tucked away in my room. Its a grid-design, top-spiral bound note book that I used back when I was in driver’s ed to kill time (nope, not a single driver’s ed note in it – lol, so maybe THATs why I had that accident about 3 years ago). I was “in my prime” as an artist back then. Sad, I know, considering the quality of drawings. These days I’m not even this good, since I don’t practice often 😦 I really should get back to it.
Just for fun I thought I’d upload the scans here so you can see them. The highlight of the bunch is the 3 pages of comic-intro that I was making. I’ve always wanted to make a comic / manga but I often get stuck trying to figure out a good plot. After looking at these pages, I feel kinda like I want to restart PROJECT PEACH (which btw, was inspired by my love of peach-buns from the Chinese buffet! lol).
So… here are the pictures… lol. Tell me what you think of my mad16-yr-old drawing skills (other than the obviously lack of understanding in regards to human anatomy). At the time I was trying to move away from manga style drawings… with a mediocre amount of success. Unfortunately, this notebook is from the time right around when I started to develop serious symptoms of narcolepsy… I pretty much slept through the last 2 years of high school and stopped doing everything.
- Hurrah for uni-boobs!
- Pirate-elf? Or Elven pirate?
- Peach – It begins
- Thats supposed to be fire and smoke coming out of the bottom of the mother tree
- Peach 3 – um… lets not talk about that last image (pencil part)
- This is absolutely my typical style
- Marshmellow hair and scary eyes
- A great way to kill time and use grid-paper
- Probably the only “finished” pic in here
I like your sketches, you do facial expressions well, they look like they are thinking rather than blank faces which can happen a lot of the time and I like the concept of your comic, cute!