Sketch 16: Kaneki

Phew. That had surely been a long break. To be honest, I can't for the love of all beautiful sketches remember when was the last time I picked up a pencil and drew. Ever since the second semester of school started this year, I had been busy most of the time. Assignments, tests, preparation for exams, you name it. But I'm glad that I am able to once again resume this hobby of mine. Enough of my whining, on to the sketch!

Now, most of you might know what I have in store for you just from the title itself. But for those of you who don't, allow me to save that couple of minutes for you of Googling. I have been binge watching this anime for the past couple of days, and boy do I like it.

Tokyo Ghoul.

To sum it up, it's basically an anime about the interactions between humans and ghouls, and how they prey against each other. I find the artwork to be nice: not too complicated (D Grey Man, I'm looking at you), but contain enough depth to capture attention. So, as usual, I've transferred what I like on screen onto paper, albeit it's only a very simple sketch.

Equipment: Pilot Wingel 0.38mm, Pilot G-3 pen 1.0mm, Pentel Sharplet-2 0.5mm, M&G Vision 0.7mm, Eraser

So I started off sketching the basic outline using the mechanical pencil:

Ah, I drew the collar wrongly when I took this photo. I didn't noticed it until much later. No worries, it has been rectified :) Then with the Wingel, I inked the outline:

Aaaaaaand for the final touch:

My apologies if there wasn't enough details in this. Had gone rusty since the break. Will try to draw more :P Thanks for your time!

DFTBA!

Sketch 15: Ifrit

Helloooo there. Ah yes, yet another post. And yet another Final Fantasy summon. But not JUST any summon, but a very familiar face to most of you, I'm sure. Final Fantasy VIII being my first ever FF game, this particular character was, and still is deeply embedded in my memory. I just don't know what it is. It could be the distinct cave in which you explore to obtain this fella, or it could be his signature animation when you summon him. So much badassery; so much HELL FIRE.

And so I thought it would be fun sketching this guy, but it proved to be a challenge when you plan to actually draw fire using only black ink (unless it's Amaterasu, hah). But nonetheless, I did it and I had a great time doing so. 

Let's get to it then! 

Equipment: Pilot G-3 pen 1.0mm, Pilot Wingel 0.38mm, Zig Millennium 0.05mm, Mechanical pencil 0.5mm, Eraser 

Yup, the exact same arsenal of pens as the last post, except for one. I added in the Zig Millennium. I'll explain why later. So as usual I started out with a rough pencil sketch of Ifrit. This took me about 30-40 minutes. 

I just drew the outline of it's figure and I didn't really focus much on the details because I usually work on those when I start inking. So after that I started to ink the outlines and this is what I got:

As you can see I added in a bit of details. This took me about the same time as the initial sketch. 

Now, here was why I decided to use the Zig. 

Notice the 2 distinct lines? The thinner one was done with the Zig and the thicker one the Pilot. You might think that it does not make much of a difference, but trust me it does. After what seemed to be an hour or so, this was the final product :)

Hope you've enjoyed this sketch and I'll see you in the next one I make :)

DFTBA!