Aloha!

I have made another card for a friend. This time, it is Kill Bill themed with a (kind of dry) Christmas twist.

I decided to make a Kill Bill card because this friend is a Tarantino fan and likes the Bill Bill volumes. He favours Vol. 1 over Vol. 2, so decided to use the poster from the first film as a jumping pad (although the posters for both volumes are similar). 

You should have seen his face when I said I preferred Vol. 2.

Here's an initial sketch. I like the face of this Santa, but the dimensions of the body could not fit on the A5 card (I forgot this at the point of drawing) so I had to either replicate the Santa or switch it up.

New Santa on the right.

Santa inked himself. Everywhere.

Boom. Now for words.

Yeah, I told you it was pretty dry.

Merry Christmas, and don't forget to wiggle your big toe.

Christmas Time!

Hey there. Here are some pictures of an Adventure Time Christmas card for 2013. This is for a friend who loves all things Ooo.

I forgot to take a picture of the pencil drawing (gosh darn it).

So here is the pencil sketch after ink. The thickness of lines comes naturally. The line smoothness is also a factor -- if there are blotches, you can mask them with a thicker line (what's the academic word for this?) Don't go too thick, though.

Added detail on the word "TIME".

Tools, glorious tools, green, purple and mustard...

Bit of colour.

Bit more colour.

Using glitter gels for the candy cane. For the Jake-sleigh-body, I used a Faber-Castell colouring pencil. It does leave little white marks in certain places that are hard to fill...

...in this case, I went over the pencil with a matching felt tip (also Faber-Castell). Looks a lot better.

There we go! Now to cut it out and mount it on a card.

Jake's sleigh body is too shallow, but hopefully that won't matter too much.