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Promise

A promise is a promise and therefore I made an illustration for Joyce because she has to wait such a long time before she can read the latest page of Semmie the Forest gnome. Joyce I hope you like it!

Sketches 6-Commando

I made this weeks Guest-art for the amazing webcomic  6-Commando from my fellow comic maker’Mathieu Moyen. Somehow I put a lot more effort into it than I originally had planned, but I have to say it was all worth it. I thought it would be a nice idea to show the entire process from sketch to illustration. I had the idea to depict one of the main characters, being Colonel Haulley as a very tormented man. This because he is in charge of a mission that at this point in the story is not moving along as planned.

These are the first sketches where I try to get the posture of the figure to look right. You can see that I also try to give a detailed expression to the figure which at this point is something I should not do because it distracts from what I should do which is getting the composition right (Hey I should keep something to improve ).

Here I try to get the face of the figure (an African-American man) to look right which wasn’t easy because somehow all the faces I drew looked more like a Caucasian man. You can see I gave the figure a different pose so I could better show the facial expression.

To get the face look right I used these photo’s from iStockphoto as a reference.

The final illustration looks like this. Don’t forget to view it in his natural habitat at 6-Commando, and read this amazing comic from page 1 because this is without a doubt one of the best web comics of this moment.