Ryan Cole's Sketchbook(!)

2012-02-06T22:39:00.001-04:00

I HAVE MOVED!

to a Tumblr, of all things! All new artwork is being posted there, and it's being posted way more consistently than it has here, so if you like my stupid little doodles you should maybe go over there instead!

GO NOW.

2011-11-28T18:37:00.001-04:00

All this magic.

2011-11-20T21:24:00.001-04:00

2011-11-15T08:27:00.001-04:00

2011-10-19T08:40:00.003-03:00

Man I'd love to have a scanner as good as the one at work. These turned out great!

2011-08-06T15:08:00.002-03:00

Best pubic hair I've ever drawn.

2011-07-02T10:04:00.002-03:00

Quick pencil test. Man, it's great to get back into the swing of things.

2011-06-19T14:24:00.002-03:00

2011-04-09T14:00:00.002-03:00

Comics!

I'll try to pump out as many of these in the month that I can, see how far down the creative well goes before hitting rock bottom. I give it a week.

2011-04-09T12:18:00.006-03:00

Posting in bulk again.

Alright, alright, so I have been neglecting this place lately, even though really I've been drawing almost every day. I'll try to make it up to you, humble blawgoshpere dweller.

2011-01-15T17:24:00.003-04:00

FFFFF...well, long as I have a few minutes to live, may as well crap out these sketches.

aaaaaaand *death rattle*

2010-12-27T03:33:00.001-04:00

Stuff I totally did today with my kickass new PC tablet, reviewed here!
Merry Christmas, all!

2010-12-20T12:07:00.006-04:00

2010-11-10T14:53:00.000-04:00

2010-11-09T13:37:00.000-04:00

Two Things.

2010-11-04T00:10:00.005-03:00

Hey guys, it's been a very busy October. I did find the time to draw, but never got around to putting stuff up here.

2010-09-12T22:09:00.001-03:00

Woop! Found a scanner! Here are some awful scans!

2010-09-11T11:44:00.002-03:00

Did these for an art contest, the subject of which was called Polygon Pinup: Draw Your Videogame Crush. Fun stuff!

2010-08-18T16:21:00.001-03:00

Style taken from Mary Blair's golden book artwork. Story based on this.

2010-07-15T13:24:00.001-03:00

2010-07-12T14:37:00.000-03:00

2010-07-06T14:10:00.005-03:00

Made for my good friend Scott Dewitt, the talented author and artist for the webcomic F@NB0Y$ . Go there for the full-sized comic, if you please.
And for those of you whom suspect or don't yet know, yes he is animated.

2010-05-24T17:13:00.003-03:00

2010-05-17T14:03:00.004-03:00

More cool Wizard stuff.

2010-05-09T19:33:00.000-03:00

Livestream tonight, with a Pre Showing of the Spanish-made film, Nocturna.

http://tv.zeroboy.net/keyofc

2010-04-28T14:24:00.003-03:00

Dumbledores! Nothing but Dumbledores!

2010-04-26T02:00:00.002-03:00

Voldemorts! Nothing but Voldemorts!

2010-04-24T03:11:00.004-03:00

Welp, looks like today be Harry Potter day.

2010-04-14T08:08:00.004-03:00

Some Recent Sketches done from work and on the bus. The last two are Milt Kahl studies.

2010-04-11T19:07:00.001-03:00

Livestream at 7pm est

That's one hour, as of this typing. There will be bears.

2010-04-07T22:31:00.003-03:00

There will be a late-night Livestream happening late tonight at 1am. I'd like to do some rough lip-syncing tonight, but if I can't get the audio clip working in time, I'll be finishing up a previous animation. So just, FYI.

2010-04-05T01:54:00.001-03:00

The fruits of my Livestream labor. No plans on cleaning this up, I'm actually going to keep animating from this point and see how far I get.

2010-03-30T14:19:00.003-03:00

Sketches galore!

2010-03-30T02:19:00.000-03:00

Livestream is up again at long last!

2010-03-16T13:41:00.005-03:00

Butts are great. Who doesn't love butts? I'll tell you who doesn't, Hitlers.

Hey! I took some snazzy sketches and made snazzy avatars!

If you like any of 'em, they're free to use! No charge, although a thanks would be pretty sweet.

2010-03-11T11:58:00.001-04:00

Gotta love inks.

2010-03-09T03:48:00.002-04:00

How unexpected, more sketches!

2010-02-26T15:19:00.003-04:00

The war on jpeg artifacts and dark/light values continues.

2010-02-25T04:31:00.005-04:00

I think I've finally figured out how to get some nice-looking quality out of my photographed sketches. Here's a nice juicy post of some sketches after I'd tweaked their levels in Photoshop to look close to the way they do in reality.

2010-02-05T01:27:00.002-04:00

Hope your Internet speed is in a good mood, because today is PNG day!

2010-01-22T21:35:00.003-04:00

About two and half hours in I decided to stop drawing this, skipping the color process altogether. This means that 2 1/2 hours is the full amount of time I will spend drawing something based on a really stupid pun.

And no, I don't know what it is with me and PMs lately.

2010-01-22T12:52:00.002-04:00

Now I just need to draw Lucien Bouchard and make a flash file of the two pictures shooting eye lasers at each other. You know, like a professional animator.

Pew! Pew!

2010-01-20T22:40:00.000-04:00

"I just went out for groceries, what the hell man?"

2010-01-12T00:50:00.004-04:00

Woof! Sorry I'm taking so long between updates. No scanner on me, just the camera. But here's a big heaping load to make up for lost time.

EDIT: One more!

2009-12-03T16:10:00.002-04:00

For Shmee. She wanted me to animate her characters. And she's a pretty face. And I'm a sucker.

So here we are.

2009-12-01T17:28:00.002-04:00

I told you I would draw Chrono Trigger forever. Now watch these loops and be forever mezmorized.

2009-11-27T15:19:00.004-04:00

Oh my god it's done.

2009-11-22T09:00:00.014-04:00

Audio clip from The Simpsons episode Cape Fear. Magus from Chrono Trigger. Babies from the Stork.

2009-11-18T02:27:00.003-04:00

Stuff I did at the airport.

I did some animating on Livestream the other day. Interested in seeing it? Wednesday Nov 18 (that's tomorrow, folks) at 7pm est, I will be picking up where I left off. You can find the link on this blog under Websites That Will Make You Smart Cool and Popular (WTWMYSCaP)

2009-11-16T09:24:00.001-04:00

Totally working on a thing.

2009-11-15T18:34:00.003-04:00

Live tonight!

If there are any frequent lurkers who are interested, they can check it out here.

2009-11-14T16:07:00.002-04:00

Cripes, having a big sketchbook is great until I have to scan them with my tiny tiny scanner.
So these are photographed, and you can tell. The last one came out in all kinds of awful ways.

2009-11-14T00:00:00.001-04:00

I will draw Chrono Trigger forever and ever.

2009-11-12T23:35:00.002-04:00

Here is a thing that I did for a friend. As you can plainly and clearly see, it is a creature that ferries ships. That's right.

It was tough getting a final design on her, especially with the actual ship, and in the end I had four pages of concepts. Here are the two more notable ones:

Also, my totally cool weblinks have been updated with a totally cool link to my Livestream, where you can witness the magic of how a sketch like the ones above become a digital painting like the one, uh, abover!

2009-11-09T22:29:00.003-04:00

Sorry for the obscurity. The kids over at Fanboys were doing an art contest about putting them in a game. So I did that, AND I worked on it through livestream, where they could come watch!

Veserius as Shadow
Happy-Go-Morbid as Mog
Addy as Setzer
Scoffee as Gau

And Paul's amazing chin dimple as Kefka

2009-11-08T15:09:00.000-04:00

Whoops. I meant Sunday night at 9pm atlantic, as in to-nite. Not monday. Just clearin' that up.

2009-11-08T05:24:00.004-04:00

Featuring your favorite CT characters if your favorite CT characters happen to be those particular four.

...

By the way, I did these on Livestream, where people can watch me do this crap! Hell they're watching me typing right now. Always watching. Always.
<_<

And now you can too! Certainly monday night at 9:00 atlantic time, when I'm actually doing something!

2009-11-05T12:49:00.002-04:00

Magus is never not fun to draw. Even if his face does look different every time I draw it.

EDIT: Dalton being Dalton

2009-10-31T02:42:00.002-03:00

Oh man I signed it and everything.

EDIT: here's the sketch!

2009-10-29T22:45:00.000-03:00

Careful Jill, you don't wanna brave that crazy evil unarmed.

Here's a lock pick.

2009-10-28T01:39:00.000-03:00

He's the wiener, you're the bun.

2009-10-27T17:36:00.002-03:00

My foolish, uneducated rendition of the Aquatic Ape.

And in the spirit of Ape-like people, my Avatar has been changed to suit the Gorillaz-obsessed crowd.

2009-10-25T20:48:00.003-03:00

Sketches, and the like!

But wait, there's more! Chib showed me this blog full of documentaries, and now it's in my links! It's a cool place to go when you want to learn stuff, even though learning is for total schmucks. The documentary on the Greeks is narrated by Liam Neeson, though, and that's pretty effin' rad.

2009-10-22T17:24:00.003-03:00

So easily amused.

UPDATE: This was far less amusing in the late hours and I don't much care to show you the final product. It does look better in the photo though, so you really aren't missing a lot!

2009-10-22T00:42:00.003-03:00

New Life Drawings. Some of these seems a little skewed because of the way I photographed them. Not because I drew them wrong. How dare you even think that, GET OUT OF MY OFFICE.

Oh yeah uh, that wasn't a camera thing. I don't know what the hell that was, I kept measuring, it kept adding up, yet her hands are quite petite, WHAT HAPPENED?

2009-10-18T15:11:00.000-03:00

Quick stuff I did on the road.

2009-10-15T02:37:00.002-03:00

Y'all just got Benson Brown'D.

Oh snap.

2009-10-14T23:05:00.001-03:00

Not even a little.

2009-10-12T23:05:00.001-03:00

Page 2 of ???

2009-10-12T01:52:00.001-03:00

The Bearfighter. Page 1 of ??

2009-10-11T19:47:00.005-03:00

Patriotism, more like Gaytriotism AMIRITE FELLAS?
No I'm not, this country is pretty hip.

This comic apparently takes place in England, either that or I should go over my setup before I draw it.

2009-10-11T00:29:00.001-03:00

Brush pens and Simon Pegg. G'day all.

2009-10-09T01:58:00.002-03:00

I picked up a sharpie marker and a volume of Sandman. So here's this:

2009-10-08T16:13:00.003-03:00

More life drawing, this time on Newsprint with conté! That way my old Life Drawing teacher won't destroy me when he sees my scandalous col-erase sketchbook ones.

2009-10-06T23:26:00.002-03:00

Well, I most certainly could not have stopped with Captain Hammer now, couldaye?

2009-10-06T17:13:00.000-03:00

I have his dry cleaner bill.

FOOOOOUR SWEATER VESTS!

2009-10-05T19:31:00.003-03:00

Life Drawings! Oo-Rah.

2009-10-04T02:34:00.003-03:00

Quick stuff, including a Brent I drew for Scott Kurtz, Kris Straub and KC Green during a session on USTREAM.

It is so late.

2009-10-03T17:41:00.002-03:00

Hey, you know who's awesome? This guy named Mark Lynn Smith, he totally took my Smodcast-based drawings and posted them on the View Askew message board. Something I wanted to do, but didn't have a credit card at the time to sign up. Thanks a lot man!

2009-10-03T17:12:00.003-03:00

Hi lovers, have you seen Zombieland yet? Don't worry if you haven't, it only just came out. You still have a couple of weeks before I decide you are totally effing lame.

Go see Zombieland.

And for love's sake, fasten your seatbelts.

2009-10-02T14:05:00.001-03:00

Intimidating:

Not Intimidating:

2009-10-02T13:20:00.001-03:00

I picked up some pens the other day, and they're quite awesome. At this rate I might be able to cut out digital paint for anything other than touch ups.

Enjoy!

2009-09-29T13:51:00.003-03:00

Marker stuff. I photographed these and apparently markers don't photograph very well. Nyah well.

2009-09-14T01:15:00.003-03:00

Land of Luci! No Rly!

2009-09-10T19:24:00.003-03:00

Various sketches. Marker sketches! And Land of Luci too!

2009-09-09T13:05:00.004-03:00

Two. Two hundred posts! Holy crap! I was gonna do something for it, the same as I did for 100, but I'm not getting around to it at any point, and this bitch won't update itself. So here's some sketches! Lot's of them! Life drawings even!

Finally a sketch of Laura, swooning for spandex.

2009-09-01T00:40:00.001-03:00

Some faces

Some Family

2009-08-27T21:18:00.002-03:00

Some faces, some Sandman, some D.

Oh what, that's not enough for you? Fine, have some Moore!

Badum-cha!

2009-08-26T11:32:00.000-03:00

2009-08-26T04:30:00.000-03:00

My favorite SMod gag. From SModcast 66 - Sleipner the Conqueror

2009-08-22T12:36:00.001-03:00

I loved that show.

2009-08-19T03:58:00.001-03:00

2009-08-17T09:40:00.003-03:00

Sketch dump!

2009-08-13T20:34:00.000-03:00

Quick one.

2009-08-13T01:28:00.002-03:00

Every time I challenge someone to a fight this is what I imagine I look like.
Most of my friends will get this.

2009-08-13T00:06:00.004-03:00

Lil cafe sketches from a lil sketchbook.

2009-08-11T01:38:00.001-03:00

To anyone out there who worked with me at Fatkat:

Go to Google, type in Cintiq and check the images. Find the tenth one and smile.

That is all.

2009-08-09T17:12:00.002-03:00

Characters!

And a Megatron! Probably my favorite one!

edit:

2009-08-07T02:48:00.002-03:00

A lady named Dia wanted me to draw her Baldur's Gate 2 character battling it out with Frog.

Surprisingly, that has nothing to do with this drawing - which I drew 5 years ago, blindfolded - and only serves to be a huge coincidence.

Would I lie to you?

2009-07-25T16:00:00.000-03:00

He's so helpless! ;_;