All right. I agreed to participate in the “Make Something Cool Everyday” concept a while ago. Well here’s the thing guys. I’ve been drawing SO MUCH everyday that I don’t have time to update this page haha. Not that I’ve gotten any hate mail over the lack of MSCE posts . I have a good handful of half started tshirt ideas (most of them are now failed daily submissions) that I’m keeping in reserve for potential derbies. It would be nice for once to not have to stay up until 2am on a Friday since I had something already in the works. Well, I figured I’ll post something up that may or may not end up as a shirt someday (I’m debating if I should color this without tshirt restrictions or not). This is the initial sketch I made over lunch . . . Not sure what’s got the little imp/demon’s attention on the lower rock. I’ll work that out as I go Though suggestions are welcome!

Now onto the inking stage. While I’m doing that I’ll be trying to decide what style of coloring I will do (style is ALWAYS the hardest choice for me so I tend to try a lot of them).

So I decided after a bit of doodling that it’ll be a happy imp and he’ll be fishing in the lava of hell. No real point to this piece. It’s more a test of art styles. Here’s another snapshot of the drawing. I picked cranberry so it helps with the “hellish” colors without being outright eeeeevil looking.

I kept working at it and figuring out colors and exactly what I wanted to do (without really knowing what I wanted to do) . Here’s another snapshot. I really look up to the artists that can draw a design without relying on outlines. Sometimes I enjoy emphasizing the outlines but sometimes if you pick just the right colors and style you can get away without them. The “lava fish” is the closest complete thing so far on this design. I also think I figured out a few new techniques I’ll use in the future . . .

Make Something Cool Everyday. It’s a lofty goal, and one I’ll fail on occasion but I think it’s an awesome idea. Here’s what it is courtesy of Adder at shirt.woot.com.

“MSCE is “Make Something Cool Everyday,” and it’s a project I saw a number of artists pick up early on in 2009 (among the most notable I saw was Brock Davis, aka Laserbread). It’s no different from any other timed activity… If you’ve done NaNoWriMo, or FAWM (february album writing month), or even seen some of the personal challenges in the Threadless blogs (365 days of slogans, the year-end 20 before 2010 challenges) you’ve got the basic idea. Just make something. Every day. Preferably cool.”

More MSCE info here

Couple of my other shirt.woot buds are trying this out too, you can find their links on the right. This will be interesting (and hopefully NOT all consuming).

And with that said, here’s not one . .but TWO characters for today.

Sketch

Not sure how I’ll arrange this in the long run (I might just look into expanding my sketch gallery, we’ll see).

~Cheers