To Break Away from Soccer for a While

One day I decided to revisit one of my old characters and I made a full-blown line drawing of him. Here it is with the preliminary sketch.

Random Player of the Day Series Week 2

Random Player of the Day Series

I've noticed I've had a good amount of off-time at work, enough to practice my drawing skills so I decided to challenge myself. Since the World Cup is going on, I thought it would be an excellent opportunity to do portraits. I came up with the idea to do one portrait everyday of a player who was on a team who had a match that day. I assigned numbers to the teams and used a random number generator to pick the team and then the player.

I'm also experimenting with a new way to color/shade. Red, blue, green, and black are used since those are the only ink colors available to me without having to stray into garish hi-lighter territory. The colors are also fitting since they can be found in the flag of South Africa.

Here are the first three drawings (the most recent on top).

Not striking resemblances but I want the series to be a bit stylized.





Unfortunately I didn't come up with the idea until a few days into the tournament so I couldn't start from day 1; but that's okay since I decided I won't do any portraits on the weekends, so there won't be an even number of drawings anyway.

All drawings are based on the profile photos on FIFA's official website.

A Finished Sketch

So one night I was experimenting with Photoshop and I found a way of drawing with the tablet that I really like. All the lines are finished and they will stay in this sketchy manner, though I might add color to the piece later. I feel that these "hairy" lines match very closely to how I draw with a ball point pen (which is my preferred medium). I think I'll keep this tablet technique for a long time.

These characters are from my series. Two of which have appeared in pasts posts.

FIFA World Cup

Drawing I did for the 2010 Tourney.