Sketching the Minions

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Recently been with my son (that's my excuse) to see the 3rd "Despicable Me"

It is technically amazing, sublime render and the animation is simply out of this world.

The villain was super cool too.

I still think the 2nd episode was the best of all three, I could watch again, and again and again.

Anyway, Minions are such Iconic little fellows! so I decided to give them a little sketch...

I did a search on google to remind me what they look like:


I try to play with perspective a little to make each drawing unique and a little more interesting

Then on with the shadows and highlights to make the character stand out

And add the finishing touch with the colors



I like to take a little bit a liberty and let creativity drive a bit, A "caterpillar Minion!!!" my son called it, but I was more thinking of a spider.



I have started to manage my colours a little more efficiently in order to reduce the file size and also choose and change the color on the fly which allow me to get different interesting output just like so:


or

For the next sketch, I am aiming for something a little Darker around one of the most amazing piece in Japanese animation: Akira

So many ideas for this Sketching series yet so little time!

Inksketch: Sketching with Inkscape

I decided to start what I really hope will be a sketching series.
For once, I decided not to worry about the quality of a finish composition but instead focus on instant creativity and mainly having fun, lots of it.
It does not really matter too much if things don't look exactly as there should, the idea was to: JUST DO IT.
Too many times, I spent time thinking and planning my artwork and did so much thinking and planning and ended up not doing anything at all!
Now with sketching in mind, if I have an idea or something I always wanted to draw, I don't think too much and just start drawing and see where thing takes me.

Goku was the first Character which came to my mind for this sketching project.

So I did a search for Dragon Ball on Google, looked at a few pictures to remind myself how "Goku" should roughly look like and started sketching straight away

I am glad I did it, I want to be able to post things more often and the whole thing was completed in a few hours, perfect for what I am after.

So what's next? well...
I have so much in mind, with Dragon Ball only I have so many characters I love from the Serie, I mean :
Krillin: Piccolo, Tortue Genial


and I don't even want to think about Dragon Ball Z
I mean come on!
 Cell, C16.,Freezer


 pfff the list is practically endless.

I also thought about Characters from Video Game :
Iori from the King of Fighter Series,
My beloved Sonic the hedgehog,
Mario.

Characters From other Manga:
Akira, Les Chevaliers du Zodiaque Cobra:




Characters/Creatures from Movie too!
Predator, Batman, StarShip Troopers



yes, endless ... just like I was saying.
But let's not think about that too much too! and JUST DO IT!