Author: Storn Cook

This sketch is for Uncharted Worlds and was a bit of a challenge.

My character’s backstory is that he is from the underwater cities of Europa and his ship was one of the first survey ships sent from earth to Europa. Now, there is no artificial gravity (we are taking a lot of queues from the Expanse), so the ship “stacks” over the main thrust to simulate gravity. But this ship also is a submersible to descend into the depths of Europa’s oceans.

So I came up with the “Flying Fin”.

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Yesterday’s doodle in the ongoing saga of MOAR LUNCH TIME DOODLES!!!

Yesterday, I was playing around with a new paper designed for inking, this stuff: https://www.amazon.com/…/B00…/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00…

I’ve inked on in the past, but I wanted to play with ad markers too. It works very nice for ad markers. I love it for inking, especially nibs/quills. It is a very slick surface and not my favorite for pencil, however. I was getting some nice traction of laying in the tones with marker and then doing pencil on top of it.

I JUST noticed the horrible perspective problem. Can you spot it?

But that is why it is a doodle! Editing to happen posthaste in postproduction digitally!

Here is one of my lunch time doodles… that somehow evokes a good egyptian sword and sandal dungeon crawl.

Okay, this one was yesterday’s lunch, plus I had some time to kill before going to the Lansing Middle School auditorium after work. So I completed the pencil sketch at Myers Point on Cayuga Lake, working at a table some 20 feet from the water. It was so beautiful yesterday.

This is a slightly different private commission. The Liberty Hall Writers do short stories and have an occasional contest. The winner’s story is presented to me and I draw something from the story. This time, it is called “Healing the Beast”.

This pic is going to color and I will make it grayscale before working on the colors digitally, so the red pencil is not an issue. I like using red pencil on the tone paper because it great for preliminary lines and it is nice for a different value range than the HB and 2Bs I use for the darks.