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I'll draw when I want to, Okay?

Sep 10, 2011#1

checkeredhat

Hey guys. I finally bought a new computer, that can actually run my Adobe Creative Suite 4.0 I've had and been unable to use for two years.
Now that I have the power of Photoshop at my fingertips again, I am itchin' to get to use it for more than the graphics design I'm doing at work. I have barely drawn at all in over a month now, and the guilt is too much to handle. Obviously, I'm picking up my sketchbook again, at the cost of doing less reading at night. But I want to do some digital stuff too.
That's where you come in. I'm going to get my graphire tablet out of storage tomorrow. I will attempt to do a new digital drawing every night when I get home from work. You will tell me what that drawing will be.

Sep 10, 2011#2

Cheesy1

Bumble and Shego in an epic lightsaber duel.

Sep 10, 2011#3

LittleSin

Gusto and Allen being chased by a swarm of attractive girls. Y 'know, like The Beatles.

Sep 10, 2011#4

Shegokigo

I prefer if it was done in the "Meaning of Life" style chase by women

Sounds like Bumble and I have a duel a'comin!

Sep 10, 2011#5

checkeredhat

I don't know what I've gotten myself into. I'm going to dig my tablet out tomorrow though, and we'll see what comes of this.

Sep 10, 2011#6

drifter

Bumble/Gusto/Allen yaoi

Sep 10, 2011#7

LittleSin

Nooooooooooo.
Added at: 04:40
Oh my god..Drifter...your avatar picture with the post....

Sep 10, 2011#8

Cheesy1

Sep 10, 2011#9

drifter

LittleSin said:
Nooooooooooo.
Added at: 04:40
Oh my god..Drifter...your avatar picture with the post....

I specifically changed it for my post in the Terrible Music thread. If you haven't seen it yet, check it out :awesome:

Sep 10, 2011#10

Gusto

Sep 10, 2011#11

LittleSin

drifter said:
I specifically changed it for my post in the Terrible Music thread. If you haven't seen it yet, check it out

Oh fuck, why did I go look? -_-
Added at: 05:18

Gusto said:

It's okay, buddy. If Drifters picture comes to fruition we'll make sure you Top.

Sep 11, 2011#12

checkeredhat

I think he's just sad that you said "Noooooo"

I'm thumbnailing right now. Man, I've really grown accustomed to the big intuos I use at work. My tiny little graphire is throwing me off. haha.

Sep 11, 2011#13

checkeredhat

drawing Shego's giving me some trouble. I think part of that is that I need to eat though...

Sep 11, 2011#14

Cheesy1

Have a bloody steak, that'll get you in a "Shego" frame of mind.

Sep 11, 2011#15

fade

Have some unicorn horn.

Sep 11, 2011#16

Allen who is Quiet

drifter said:
Bumble/Gusto/Allen yaoi

Sep 11, 2011#17

checkeredhat

You should be flattered (But that's not happening)

Sep 11, 2011#18

Allen who is Quiet

I tried to think up some ship names.

All I could come up with was Gumble the Quiet Wonder

Sep 11, 2011#19

Gusto

Gusto who is the Quiet Bumbling Boy Wonder

Sep 11, 2011#20

drifter

Well, if it's yaoi it'd be something like Allen's Boy Wonder will Bumble you with Gusto, no?

Sep 11, 2011#21

Shegokigo

I have a feeling it was the avatar giving him trouble, so I changed it up to assist said drawing

Sep 11, 2011#22

checkeredhat

Its mostly just getting used to this tiny tablet again that's takin' my time. Finding reference photos of Shego is easy enough.

Sep 11, 2011#23

fade

Don't forget the Steve Buschemi eyes.

Sep 11, 2011#24

Shegokigo

If only there were a dislike button fade....

Sep 11, 2011#25

checkeredhat

Sep 11, 2011#26

Cheesy1

Nice!

Sep 11, 2011#27

Shegokigo

Bumble doesn't stand a chance! Beautiful work checkered! Your lines are bold and strong, the expressions are priceless (Sheg has that perfect smirk, while Bumble looks unsure of himself yet still yelling) the saber movement lines really bring an "action" feel to the piece. All while on the backdrop of Halforums. Damn well done!

Sep 11, 2011#28

checkeredhat

LittleSin said:
Gusto and Allen being chased by a swarm of attractive girls. Y 'know, like The Beatles.

I do not feel Allen's current avatar is the image one normally associates with Allen.
(Seriously, I don't know how long that's been your avatar, but I didn't realize that was you until just now. )
So I was thinking to attempt to draw real life Allen and Gusto, cause I know that Gusto's put photos in the Picture Thread. Are there any Allen photos in the Picture Thread? I did a quick search and didn't see any.

Sep 11, 2011#29

Gusto

Sep 11, 2011#30

Allen who is Quiet

Man, Gusto, I forgot I took that picture.

Sep 11, 2011#31

fade

I still have that one, too. I shopped it into the the Hal-face.

Sep 12, 2011#32

Gusto

Allen who is Quiet said:
Man, Gusto, I forgot I took that picture.

If it helps you remember, I found it by google searching the phrase "allen who is quiet josh lesnick". :awesome:

Sep 12, 2011#33

Allen who is Quiet

The rumors of me being Josh Lesnick have been greatly exaggerated.

Sep 12, 2011#34

Gusto

Dave a la Tim Curry's Rock Horror transvestite.

Sep 12, 2011#35

checkeredhat

Just got in. Had to stop on way home from work and get crickets for the gecko. And get a haircut. I'm going to try and put a time limit on this one so I can still get a decent sleep. If I could crack my knuckles, I'd do that now to signify gettin' to work. Just pretend I did it.

Sep 12, 2011#36

Jay

"Ask Dave or Jay!"

On the left picture Maximus Decimus Meridius from Gladiator in his classic pose "Are you not Entertained?" with Sideshow Bob's head on the left... and on the right... Dave.

Well Dave looking all fatherly and provide calm and good natured advice. Basically a pun from our 1-2 punch in most advice threads.

Sep 12, 2011#37

checkeredhat

Alright, I'm calling it a night and going to bed. But, I'll post the sketchy sketchy rough for now...
Added at: 03:59

I'll get it all gussied up for you later. Can't promise it'll be tomorrow though, I might have what I think might be a date(?) tomorrow, or that might be Wednesday. Its a weird situation.

Sep 12, 2011#38

Gusto

MY FAAAAACE

Sep 12, 2011#39

checkeredhat

I was trying to make you doing the : :Leyla:

: face. For some reason. I think I'm going to change it, don't worry.

Sep 12, 2011#40

LittleSin

I'm loving this already!

Sep 12, 2011#41

Allen who is Quiet

It's like the end of the Blues Brothers only with women instead of police cars. There's no part about this I don't like.

Sep 13, 2011#42

ThatNickGuy

Just because I never get tired of seeing new sketches of this...

Dilbert Pinkerton! (my five-foot-nothing mutant armadillo private detective; very surly, smoking, trigger-happy bastard)

Sep 13, 2011#43

LittleSin

Can he request fan art of his own character?

We can do that...?

Cuz...I wanna do that. Seeing as there is only one character in my comic so far it would be awesome to see some Rick Laun.

Sep 13, 2011#44

checkeredhat

Time to get started. Again, limiting my time tonight. I'll probably keep doing that.
Yes, request whatever you'd like! Honestly I didn't expect the thread to take the turn it did.

Sep 13, 2011#45

checkeredhat

Didn't get as much done to it as I wanted to, its only slightly more cleaned up from yesterday. But, you can PLAINLY see a difference in the clean up line between Gusto (which I cleaned up first) and Allen (which I cleaned up last). I think I'm getting back into the groove of working on this tiny tablet again.

Not-sure-if-date is tomorrow, so I probably won't post a drawing tomorrow night. But on Thursday, I'll return with an attempt at Jay & Dave.

Sep 13, 2011#46

LittleSin

Oh man. That looks like it could be an animated series! Now Aleen and Gusto are gonig to have to duke it out over who get that as a sig!

Sep 13, 2011#47

checkeredhat

It needs more girls. And the BG needs some lovin'...

Sep 14, 2011#48

Gusto

Allen looks like he's been momentarily distracted by a delicious pie.

LOVE IT

Sep 14, 2011#49

Allen who is Quiet

Getting run down by a horde of beautiful women while being distracted by a delicious pie would be a pretty good way to go.

Sep 14, 2011#50

Allen who is Quiet

LittleSin said:
Oh man. That looks like it could be an animated series! Now Aleen and Gusto are gonig to have to duke it out over who get that as a sig!

CONFLICT AVOIDED

Sep 15, 2011#51

Gusto

Hehehe.

Sep 15, 2011#52

checkeredhat

This is all for tonight. I'm EXHAUSTED from being out late cause last night's still-not-sure-if-that-was-a-date-but-I-think-so. Thing.

Tomorrow I'm heading up north to the parent's place, so that I can sell t-shirts at a fundraiser for my nephew's medical costs on Saturday. So I won't have access to the tablet again until Monday.

Sep 19, 2011#53

checkeredhat

Hey guys,
Sorry about this, but I'm sick as a dog right now. My brother-in-law, my nephew, and my mom were all sick when I went home for the weekend, and I seem to have brought back a nasty cold with me thanks to one of them. Probably the nephew. I did spend all day Sunday hanging out with him. So anyway, I'm sipping ginger tea here, beginning to nod off from the Nyquil I took. I'm not even going to attempt to finish up that drawing tonight cause I expect to be asleep within the hour whether I will it or no. If I'm feeling like this in the morning I'm not going into work either though, so I might be able to get a whole lot done tomorrow inbetween naps if that's the case.
Sorry.

Sep 22, 2011#54

checkeredhat

This cold is a brutal one. Not quite over it, but a hell of a lot better than I was yesterday (to say nothing of what I was like two days ago).
Anyway, sorry Dave:

Sep 22, 2011#55

ThatNickGuy

I'm not sure if Dave's mantits are floppy enough. *ducks!*

Sep 24, 2011#56

Jay

checkeredhat said:
This cold is a brutal one. Not quite over it, but a hell of a lot better than I was yesterday (to say nothing of what I was like two days ago).
Anyway, sorry Dave:

This is goddamn epic.

Sep 30, 2011#57

Allen who is Quiet

Checkered. Draw yourself as a superhero.

Oct 1, 2011#58

North_Ranger

I'm diggin' what I'm seein', Hat ol' boy.

Dec 11, 2011#59

checkeredhat

To say I fell off the wagon there is a bit of an understatement. For a few days I had reason, I was incredibly sick. Then I started dating this girl and that was weird and didn't go anywhere, but it ate up my free time for a few weeks. Since then I haven't had much of an excuse. But I'm starting this up again, dagnabbit.
To start, I coloured it:

Dec 11, 2011#60

Jay

Fantastic stuff man.

What would be the cherry on top? The colossium background with spectators being random HF posters and their respective gimmicks.

Dec 11, 2011#61

Shegokigo

Agreed

Dec 12, 2011#62

Adammon

With the Star Trek battle music theme playing in the background..... If it's drawn, it can be animated. And if it is animated, it will be youtubed.

Dec 12, 2011#63

checkeredhat

ThatNickGuy said:
Just because I never get tired of seeing new sketches of this...

Dilbert Pinkerton! (my five-foot-nothing mutant armadillo private detective; very surly, smoking, trigger-happy bastard)

Have you posted any existing art of this character before? I don't think I've ever seen it. I'm going to try and get something done tomorrow, sorry if it doesn't match your character as you envisioned him.
Also, the description reminds me of a friend's character, Nash- a Film Noir Crocodile. You should check out some of his drawings.

Dec 14, 2011#64

checkeredhat

Just sketching in my sketchbook tonight. Armadillo's are one of those things where you're like "Oh sure, I know what an armadillo looks like" "What do their faces look like agai- oh, not at all like what I drew."

Dec 17, 2011#65

checkeredhat

Really rough sketch for now. Like I said, armadillos are a surprise pain. Which is good, I'm drawing something I wouldn't have thought to...

Dec 17, 2011#66

ThatNickGuy

Heh, that's pretty awesome, actually.

Jan 4, 2012#67

checkeredhat

Opened up the Dilbert psd tonight and worked on it a bit, but honestly I'm happier with the rough sketch. Not sure what the next one will be.

Jan 5, 2012#68

checkeredhat

whoops

Jan 12, 2012#69

checkeredhat

For like a month now I've been sketching little hockey players everywhere, here's a few I drew tonight.

Jan 21, 2012#70

ThatNickGuy

If you want some more inspiration for such drawings (hockey), might I recommend picking up Essex County, by Jeff Lemuire?

Jan 29, 2012#71

checkeredhat

My friends started a blog where every two weeks someone declares a theme and we're supposed to do drawings in that theme. The theme right now is bromance, and its the first time I've participated:

Mar 5, 2012#72

checkeredhat

Just a heads up that this will be starting up again shortly. I have a cintiq now, which I'm having a blast with already and I haven't even done anything worth showing yet. But when I start my new job next Monday, I'll spend the first hour of my work day warming up by doing sketches which I'll post here.
For now I'm doodling various forum members avatars for that Jay and Dave picture.
Added at: 04:17

ThatNickGuy said:
If you want some more inspiration for such drawings (hockey), might I recommend picking up Essex County, by Jeff Lemuire?

Never heard of it.

Mar 6, 2012#73

ThatNickGuy

Hence the recommendation!

Mar 10, 2012#74

checkeredhat

Jay said:
Fantastic stuff man.

What would be the cherry on top? The colossium background with spectators being random HF posters and their respective gimmicks.

Thought this would make a good banner. Working on it. Need to add in a lot more forumites still.

Mar 10, 2012#75

LittleSin

OMG!!!

Mar 10, 2012#76

Bowielee

Sorry for the others who made them, but THAT is the one that should be on the front page.

As for the requests to draw stuff, I wouldn't object to a cartoon version of my avatar...

Mar 10, 2012#77

checkeredhat

mr_thehun said:
Could you do a picture based off of one of my old drawings?

http://mr-thehun.deviantart.com/art/Lilly-5177701?q=gallery:mr-thehun/283741&qo=7

I was sketching this character as best I could from memory on the bus the other day. I'll try to get something done once I'm done this banner.

Mar 10, 2012#78

checkeredhat

Bowielee said:
Sorry for the others who made them, but THAT is the one that should be on the front page.

As for the requests to draw stuff, I wouldn't object to a cartoon version of my avatar...

Can you provide me with a larger version of it to use as reference?

Mar 10, 2012#79

Bowielee

I do at home. I'll post it when I get there.

Mar 10, 2012#80

Jay

checkeredhat said:
Thought this would make a good banner. Working on it. Need to add in a lot more forumites still.View attachment 4842

Probably TOP 5 Epic posts ever to grace these forums.

Mar 10, 2012#81

Cheesy1

I really like Bumble's expression! :rofl:

Mar 10, 2012#82

Jay

The best part of that?

There's empty spaces.... AND

genius idea....

extra floors....

so who's who in that again?

Mar 10, 2012#83

checkeredhat

Bumble

~~Chazwozel~~ Mathias

espy

GasBandit

LittleSin

Shegokigo

EDIT: Holy eff those came out bigger than I intended. spoilered for image size

Mar 10, 2012#84

checkeredhat

Roughs for Cheesy and CajunGal

Mar 11, 2012#85

Bowielee

Here's that reference photo

Mar 11, 2012#86

Cheesy1

Loving it all!

Mar 11, 2012#87

Officer_Charon

Aww, Ceej is adorable!

:ninja:

Your prelim sketch ain't too shabby, either. *grins*

Mar 11, 2012#88

strawman

ROCK ON DUDE!

Mar 13, 2012#89

checkeredhat

I might have to fix this one up a bit:
bowielee

And A slightly updated banner:
North Ranger on the left, Seej coloured in, bowielee added in, Cheesy's roughs are fleshed out a bit, and on the far right..... that will eventually be Frankie Williamson and Officer_Charon

Mar 13, 2012#90

checkeredhat

Let me know if the colours are at all messed up. I just looked at the banner rough on my other monitor and now I have less faith in my cintiq's brightness settings.

Mar 15, 2012#91

Bowielee

Looks great. I love my cartoon avatar!

Mar 16, 2012#92

checkeredhat

Why work on the banner has stalled:

The cintiq functions perfectly otherwise, and I get pressure sensitivity in ToonBoom, just not Photoshop.

Mar 18, 2012#93

David

Are you using 64-bit photoshop? I've had this problem resolved by switching to 32-bit

Apr 10, 2012#94

checkeredhat

Nope. Tried switching from the 64 bit to the 32 bit Photoshop, didn't make a difference. The weird thing is it works in everything else.

Apr 10, 2012#95

fade

I just read over at gutterzombie that a workaround is to click the photoshop shortcut with your pen, and not your mouse. And for the love of all that's holy, don't click anything until photoshop has finished loading.

Jul 29, 2012#96

checkeredhat

Thread title changed to be slightly more accurate.

I seem to be getting pressure sensitivity and eraser function out of my cintiq pretty consistently now. I did absolutely nothing to fix it. Maybe there was a Windows update later on that patched the problem? It seemed to be a Windows Update that caused the issue in the first place.
Anyway, I drew this today. It may or may not be (is) inspired by a conversation I may or may not have had with myself (did):

So anyway, I no longer have an excuse to not finish that banner. I guess I'll get to work.

Jul 29, 2012#97

Allen who is Quiet

Of course you can draw when you want to. You can leave your friends behind. And if your friends, etc.

Jul 31, 2012#98

checkeredhat

I'm on a short list for candidates for an illustration job and have to put together a package for their review to hopefully get the job. So I'm back to not posting here for a while cause that stuff is all of a "Don't show this to anybody" nature... I'm also going to install LeechBlock so I'll probably spend less time on Halforums in general.

Aug 10, 2012#99

checkeredhat

Over a year ago, my friends and I sat down to have a battle royale between our two D&D parties who had simultaneously been running the same campaign (And had originally all started as one giant ass party... we worked it all into the story.)
Anyway, I had resolved to draw that battle, and then I drew two of the characters and put it away. Just today I resolved to finish this thing, and so here are the roughs so far:

I've still got some tweaking on some of the roughs to do, and then I've still got 3 more characters to draw. And then of course clean up and colouring. But this is pretty good progress for a few hours' work I think.

Aug 14, 2012#100

checkeredhat

A progress report:

That's everyone in there, but their human ranger and our shifter shaman still need a rough clean pass before I can continue with them.

Tomorrow and Thursday I'm going to be doing some animation though, so this drawing is going on hold until Sunday evening. (Going home on Friday for a friend's wedding on Saturday).

Aug 21, 2012#101

checkeredhat

10/15 done

Aug 21, 2012#102

Gusto

Man I am envious of your ability to stage large groups of characters and draw armor.

Aug 21, 2012#103

checkeredhat

Luckily most of the characters were already designed by my friends, I just put my own spin on them. Otherwise, I'm balls at designing armour. I only designed armour for 4 of them (Mine, and three friends who never bothered to design their charaters- the two tieflings and the shifter shaman). Well, 5 sort of, because I never actually look at my friend's design for his dragonborn, I just try and do it from memory.I know he paints it orange, but he always forgets he picked ice, not fire. At least I remember that the character is left handed.

Aug 22, 2012#104

checkeredhat

Speaking of remembering characters are left handed, I got midway through clean up before I thought "Hey, I bet my left handed friend made her archer a left handed archer and this pose is completely wrong."
I remembered that my right handed friend's dragonborn was left handed, but didn't even think that MAYBE my left handed friend's character is left handed.

Didn't get as much done today as I'd hoped, as I spent the majority of the day retooling my resume and trying to write a cover letter (I don't know about you, but I really have trouble with cover letters)
As well as cleaning and colouring the eladrin and the wizard and doing a rough clean pass on the ranger, the bard and the shaman, I also fiddled a bit with how the spirit companions were rendered. And I threw in a really rough background as well. Not sure how cleaned up I want to make the BG when all is said and done. I think this picture's going to be plenty clustered as is.

Sep 2, 2012#105

checkeredhat

It's finished now:

I decided not to include the fireballs being launched through the air. I think the image is busy enough without that.

So now, finally, I will provide some context.

In our second year of animation, our friend and former teacher sat us down to teach us D&D. There were so many of us, we split the party into two parties afterward. But we continued to play the same campaign, and our DM worked things around so that our actions had semi-canon affects on eachother. We occassionally would see members of the other party at the tavern, we could scratch little notes for one another or leave messages with the bartender, they even cast a spell to lock an important door on us. And apparently my dwarf had a drunken one night stand with their orc. They told me about it the next day, and I said it was hilarious and could be canon.

Towards the end of 4th year, we decided the feud would come to blows, and we had a battle royale.

Our party won. Our bard died, but we killed their entire party.

My good friend Nick has written up a brief preview and summary of the battle, and also took the liberty of recording the whole thing as a very, very long podcast on his DM blog.

The podcast is kind of a tough listen. There's 11 people, some of whom were drinking, and one who's phone wouldn't stop ringing. So you're welcome to listen to it, but don't say I didn't warn you.

Oct 25, 2012#106

checkeredhat

REminder to self: update here and blog before you pack up the scanner for the move.

Also, reminder to self: Draw comic about your weird subway ride on the morning of October 21st, 2012.

*Edit* Well, I failed on scanning that stuff in and updating.

Dec 3, 2012#107

checkeredhat

It was at least 3 years ago, I think more like 4, that I drew myself and my two then roommates as our respective Fallout characters. I coloured the one of me right away, but only recently did I decide to finally get around to colouring the ones of them. I might still tweak the second one a little more as I'm not quite happy with it (For that matter, having coloured the one of me so long ago, I'm not terribly happy with that either), but I think it's time to move onto the third:

Dec 4, 2012#108

checkeredhat

I've been working on a monster for a game of Monsters and other Childish Things. I want my monster to be sort of a bipedal Gila monster with a bit of coyote thrown in. Most of my sketches are in my notebook at work, but I just did this real quick and I think this is the direction I want to go in:

Dec 5, 2012#109

Gusto

Gross.

Dec 6, 2012#110

Zappit

I really checked this thread out for the first time tonight, and damn, this stuff is good. I want to write a comic script for you very badly, Checkered.

Dec 9, 2012#111

checkeredhat

I don't have acess to a scanner right now, but I drew two more pictures of my monster tonight while we played our game. I might just snap photos of the back of my character sheet to post.[DOUBLEPOST=1355036792][/DOUBLEPOST]

Zappit said:
I really checked this thread out for the first time tonight, and damn, this stuff is good. I want to write a comic script for you very badly, Checkered.

I would draw this. Writing a story has ever been my weak point. That, and finding the time consitstently to meet self imposed deadlines.

Dec 9, 2012#112

Zappit

checkeredhat said:
I would draw this. Writing a story has ever been my weak point. That, and finding the time consitstently to meet self imposed deadlines.

I'll draft up something for you, then, and send it to you in a few days.

If you're hard up for a scanner, the VuPoint hand scanners are pretty good. I use one. I just scan sections of the page, and piece them together in an old copy of Photoshop 5.5. It's pretty affordable, too.

Dec 9, 2012#113

checkeredhat

I took pictures of the back of my character sheet: