Chrissy Delk Sketchblog

Live Studies

2012-02-12T21:12:00.000-08:00

This week has been full of drawing people out in the world. And my cats.

Drawings and notes from Intro to Character Design with Shiyoon Kim at Concept Design Academy:

Coffee Shop:

CATS!

Since I signed in...

2012-02-07T23:06:00.000-08:00

...might as well update. Have some film studies!

I can't believe it's been so long since I last updated. A million and ten thing have changed. I'm a bit afraid to look back at what's here.

Oooh. I can show some stuff I've done professionally now. Hmmmm.. have to dig up some boards.

Seinfeld Avatar Storyboard Animatic

2010-02-02T11:25:00.000-08:00

Time to upload some stuff before it becomes too old.
This is from Jay Olivia's Storyboarding Class at Concept Design Academy. It's about a year old now. The assignment was to take this dialog from Seinfeld and draw the Avatar the Last Airbender characters acting the scene out. Gurren Lagann was my own personal add.

Done in pencil and crudely animatic timed in Storyboard Pro.
Oh man. It was really hard to avoid editing this thing while putting it together. Some of the weaknesses become really apparent in animatic form. I may have had to make some cuts in order to get the timing closer.

Gah, I've learned so much! MOVING ON!

Drapery Class

2010-01-31T23:29:00.000-08:00

I can't post much these days. Busy working at WB as a storyboard revisionist and well, can't post much.
I am taking a drapery class. Most are just fold studies, but occasionally something comes out that looks like a drawing. Here's the winners of the first half of the class.

Two-Face Day 6

2009-04-14T00:09:00.000-07:00

I can almost squint at you internet. I've got some movement returning in my mouth. Nicole politely doesn't stare as my lips go all over the place when I converse.

Now for some eyedrops. I friggin' hate eye drops. It's the anticipation that I hate. Just... waiting, waiting for the drop. Ew ew ew. I suspect Mr Dent would have to use special perservative free eye drops, because I'm willing to bet his tear ducts don't work so well and normal eye drops expect you to have some moisture. I'm lucky, my right eye has been tearing up a storm, but my Bell's Palsy seems to be pretty low key all and all.

Pimping Bishounen Two-Face Day 5

2009-04-13T01:31:00.000-07:00

I am going to DC Hell. This is Pimping Bishounen Two-Face.
Yes. We've already reached that point. It was supposed to be something I could draw fast. And.... well.... I'm going to be inking and toning it now.

Two-Face Day 4

2009-04-13T01:26:00.000-07:00

Good news! My right bottom eye lid has regained minor movement. I can raise it a bit. In revenge, it occasionally decides that the best way to proceed is to develop an tic so I look a bit like evil Data.

Two-Face Day 3

2009-04-11T03:50:00.000-07:00

My poor right eye doesn't shut all the way after a whole tiring day of opening and closing.

Two-Face Day 2 and Explanation

2009-04-10T00:28:00.000-07:00

Me and Two-Face. We've got a lot in common right now. Both of us have an issue with half of face and half our expressions. We both hate the mob. We both have a legitimate fear of bed sheets scratching our eyes. Smiling at puppies and children may get us strange stares or at least polite averting of eyes.

Now there are differences. I've got bell's palsy, which will go away in a while and just leaves half my face immobile. Two-Face's left, my right. Two-Face is half permanently angry, I'm half permanently confused. Two-Face's looks like it might hurt, I only feel a bit tired. I still have all eyelids and can blink in both eyes. Two-Face is permanently disfigured and hideous, and I'm still cute. Also to date, I'm still not a supervillan, I don't have hired thugs renamed with my theme and I have unfortunately not met Batman.

But I now can make awesome Two-Face expressions and to celebrate my new found split face, I'm going to draw a Two-Face for every day I have a distinct expression difference split down the middle.

How long? How long will that be? To quote my doc, I dunno. Eventually I'll get better. Till then, let us enjoy a bunch of Two-Face sketches.

Today's Two-Face is brought to you by my very dear Batman: The Animated Series in it's Bruce Timm glory. I love B:TAS! I still love you!

Two-Face Day 1

2009-04-08T23:06:00.000-07:00

Two-Face sketch. But today is the beginning of Two-Face days. More on that tomorrow and probably another Two-Face. Today has been a looooong day.

Not really following any special Batman anything. Prolly not a specially good Two-Face. But I didn't want to miss day one and there will be plenty of days to draw all my favorite Two-Faces.

Safari!

2009-04-03T12:36:00.000-07:00

I was feeling artsy. I'm not posting the two real winners of the night here yet- two fake comic pages- but the first one will be going up at DA momentarily.

I brought a brush pen (mitsubishi sumi-e SUPER AWESOME) and a pumpkin orange color pencil. The only drawing other than the comics I'm not posting was the vague attempt to spot color with the pencil before I decided to draw entirely in orange.

These are the 5 minute poses.

Here's some of the longer poses, in between when I was drawing fakity fake comic pages:Final pose. 20 min, but didn't spend the full time:

Wonderland Sketches from Class 3

2009-03-30T15:13:00.000-07:00

And here's the last set from Kevin Chen's class.

Wonderland Sketches from Class2

2009-03-26T12:38:00.001-07:00

More class sketches.

Back shot of Irving.

Someone's being a grump in my notes.
Elise in a slip. And oh look, anatomy reference.
Elise and poor Horace. And more notes!
I love that this one has a simple rhino drawn in the bottom corner.

Wonderland Sketches from Class

2009-03-24T14:49:00.000-07:00

Now for the first set of sketches from my actual sketchbook. I rarely draw in a sketchbook, but they're too excellent for taking notes and taking good notes from The Concept Design Academy. Most are from Kevin Chen's amazing class.
I can never sit still- so here's a bunch of drawing I did during class.

Doris and Cleo are hanging out by the binding.

Just two of August under some anatomy notes.

A post-it note drawing. This one's actually from Jay Olivia's super awesome Storyboarding class.
Doris layin' around some anatomy notes. Oh noes, boobies. My blog is no longer child safe.

300!

2009-03-02T09:33:00.000-08:00

I didn't finish drawing most of them, because I was distracted by drawing muscles!

Poison Ivy

2009-02-26T11:44:00.000-08:00

I just scanned an epic pile of stuff last night, so I have plenty (more than plenty) to upload.
Let's start with the Drawing Club, and the delightful Poison Ivy. I love costume drawing and Batman. Together at last!
I wish more had turned out of Stacey Jack's rendition of Pamela Isely. I loved the scientist outfit.
Sob. Where are her feet? Where are her feet? Cough.

I absolutely could not resist addin' Harle Quinn. The moment I saw that pose, I knew I needed a Harle. There be plans to finish that final one.

Animals animals

2009-02-09T01:12:00.000-08:00

I found more zoo art!

Zoo trip!

2009-02-03T15:14:00.000-08:00

Nicole and I finally made it to the LA Zoo last week. Here is the drawing evidence.

Battlestar Galactica

2009-01-26T22:37:00.000-08:00

I've been busy- check out that name on the bottom left!

I think I'm starting feeling moved into the new Burbank place and am finding my sketches from the last six months and quickly adding more to the piles. I'm not sure what I'll be able to show new quite yet- but I have plenty of old stuff that can now be seen.

Slimer and Janine

2008-05-26T13:33:00.000-07:00

THANKS FOR EVERYONE'S SUPPORT!

It's Super Busy Double Time! so I'm going to be pretty iffy posting until after SDCC. I have some stuff I can post now, but there's that scanning thing and posting and these pages aren't going to finish themselves. Damn though, I love my jobs. I've got one that includes group sharing and it's so inspiring to be working with all these fantastic creatives on such an awesome project.

Here's some Slimer and Cartoon Janine to tide the unknown lull. I never liked Slimer even as a kid, so this is probably the only Slimer I'll ever draw. I haven't really been able to sit through rewatching the cartoons but they're full of fond memories. Now the movies are an entirely different beast and I wuv them dearly.

SO YES! GHOSTBUSTERS GAME!

More Art, More Art

2008-04-23T20:30:00.001-07:00

We need more art around this here place. I am very busy working on things I can't talk about! Unfortunately that means even my warm up sketches really can't be posted.
Here's something I've been trying to get all the loose ends tied up:
The top of a comic page. Oh ho ho. Here's what my pages look like when I draw not really intending for them to be stared at for any reason. I pencil cleaner most of the time. But that there is the funnest method and if I get more confident I might use it more in the future.

Matador

2008-04-12T20:30:00.000-07:00

I've been extremely busy the last few weeks and it's been the best kind of busy. Unfortunately the type that I can't speak about.
Here's some matadors from the Drawing Club two weeks ago to tide us all over while I art it up over here.

Go Go Girl

2008-03-23T16:36:00.000-07:00

The Drawing Club Again
Daniella Traub is an amazing model.

I was obsessed with patterns. Copics and multiliners, brushpens and short poses.

Reclaiming Sci-Fi Points

2008-03-14T19:21:00.000-07:00

Since I failed at Star Wars- I present STAR TREK!

Obi-won Kenobi

2008-03-11T20:08:00.000-07:00

I grew up on Star Wars.
My mom made my dad go to Star Wars IV on a date. Funny as my dad is the sci-fi fan.
My first memory is me playing with blocks and Star Wars on TV.
I bribed the kids I babysat with Star Wars drawings.

Thus my nerdy heart dies a bit that I have only two Obi-Won's to show you and one is because his hand turned out cool.

Wonderland Sketches

2008-03-05T17:54:00.001-08:00

More Wonderland stuff. I found it going through the magical box o' art and I present it to you here and now because it's rather fun. And I like rather fun.

We are having a paaaarty tonight. Spent all day making cake. All day I tell you, all day.

More Sexy Sailor Girl

2008-03-04T22:28:00.000-08:00

This Thursday- I get to draw Star Wars at the Drawing Club. My little fangirl heart goes pitter patter, pitter patter. Oh me, oh my!

I didn't go last week to the Drawing Club- busy at the LA Comic Book Pro group. Which is pretty awesome, a great chance to meet and marvel at other peoples stuff and to sit around with a dumb smile on my face.

So we go back and and see the last of my favorite Sailor Pinup model ever, Marissa Gomez
Yet More of the Sailor Girl!
Here's the last of my pinup stash:

The Mad Duke

2008-03-03T13:51:00.000-08:00

So Dispel. Once upon a two months ago, I was working a pitch. It is now backburner for other exciting carrots.

But I still love the Mad Duke. This here is the Mad Duke complete with awesome moose antlers. His hobbies are hunting and horticulture and being mad.

And the deer in headlights sketch

Other Dispel stuffs
Dispel page 1 pencils
Made up action page 1
Made up action page 2

WonderLand Brainstorming

2008-02-29T14:42:00.000-08:00

And now for something completely different!
It's WonderLand. Yuuuup. Holy cow. WonderLand.
First time I've said anything about that in a loooong time online. Still tight lipped though. Won't be answering any questions quite yet.

I don't do sketchbooks, just laser paper. But I love just spewing ideas out on a page, trying to fill it all up and see what springs out of my head. Eventually I fill every space and then move onto another page. Pages like this make me wish I did do the sketchbook thing so I could have a book full of this stuff though.

Tee hee. It's a good day.

Nother Flapper

2008-02-25T22:31:00.000-08:00

And yet another flapper!

Flappers

2008-02-24T22:28:00.000-08:00

Nicole Strafaci as a flapper.
And boy do I love drawing things from the 20s. This is probably my favorite one of the night.
Many different artist's flappers

Round 1 quickXchange

2008-02-23T15:10:00.000-08:00

Round 1 of quickXchange

This is Eugene of the awesome bingsu Eugene is bingsu's I'm just borrowing him

because Salice is uber sweet asking for gift art for bingsu's birthday!

I hope you both like it. It fills me with joy to have my pencil be an implement of kindness and gift givin'.

Time: Too busy watching Battlestar Galactica to pay attention.

The Arrival

2008-02-21T16:14:00.000-08:00

Daniella Traub as French Fashionitta on Feb 14 at the Drawing Club. Check out the Drawing Club's Blog for more.

There's always at least one pose that's a great idea that I just can't quite finish over the short pose time. The moment I saw this last pose I just knew exactly how I wanted it and cropped and the works. I may finish this one, because there's such a story there. Well, in actuality, she was kissing a plush dog, but I couldn't see that and this is the story I found from my side view.

Gone Fishing!

2008-02-20T13:55:00.000-08:00

By popular demand of well, Angi (HI ANGI!) I bring you a sketchblog.

Gone Fishin'
Feb 9th, the drawing club, Marissa Gomez
More of the Sailor Girl

I spent more time trying to decide the best expression for such a cute pose then drawing anything else.