"Adrien Brody Doing Things" sneak peek

Hello boys and girls, I have been pretty excited about my BrodyBook. I had done a week of practicing Brody faces, and yesterday I started the actual illustrations. I still don't know how I want to color it or if I want to color it at all.

If you're wondering why I've decided to create a book of illustrations depicting Adrien Brody doing things, it is because... why the hell not? I'm not an obsessed Brody fan. I have not seen most of his filmography, but I have enjoyed what I have seen (love the Brothers Bloom and Dummy). I just like him. Truth be told, this project happened because one day while doodling, I realized that I could easily draw Adrien Brody freehanded. That was good enough for me to start a project.

I start sketching in pencil and then fill in with Micron pen. Finally I edit in Photoshop: adjusting the Curves to enhance the contrast, cleaning up any messy lines or mistakes... that's about it. I'm pretty boring on the computer. Sorry. I also haven't done figure drawing since May so I'm still not very confident with my lines. I also drew all of these freehand since I don't have a model. It would be nice to have Adrien Brody pose for me, but alas I must use my imagination like a loser. I know I can find reference on the internet, but when I'm on the internet, suddenly I have 6 tabs open and I've purchased 6 things I don't need.

So here's the Brody!

Adrien Brody shopping for a plant

I may redo this one because I feel like his hand is too big. This is what happens when I draw freehand at 3:00am; I fancy myself a great illustrator and end up with wonky anatomy.

Adrien Brody renting a movie

Here I have left a Brody-foot on the right just for this post. I tend to doodle off to the side whenever I can't figure out what I'm drawing. It doesn't matter since I can erase it in Photoshop later. Like a wizard.

Adrien Brody shopping for a lamp
(Adrien on the right is the original Brody)

This one is a funny one because I drew it last night at about 3:00am. I couldn't figure out why it looked weird. I was sure that it was because I had Adrien's arm proportions wrong. That was true. I also thought if I added his left arm that it would balance things out. That was also true (see his pencil ghost arm!). However, it wasn't until today that I finally realized that I had drawn the wrong hand on the wrong arm. No wizard magic short of Minerva McGonagall could help me so I had to draw a new Brody. Adrien 1.0 was not my best Brody.

Adrien Brody having lunch with me

To show how I work (if anybody cares), here's the original image before my wizard magic on Photoshop. It's muddy from carbon smudges, and this was my first one so the lines were extra loose and squiggly.

Doodles

Hola, children, my apologies for not posting in a while. I recently finished Jenna and Michael's wedding save-the-dates. They're printed and mailed now, yay! I am now working on Jenna and Michael's wedding invitations. I still need to finish the musicbook and get that printed. Ugh, it looks so cool... in my brain. As if I don't have enough to do, I have two new projects. One is a mini-book for my time at Oceans. It's called Early Bird Special, and it will consist of mainly doodles that I make while bored at work. My other new project is called Adrien Brody Doing Things. It is exactly what it sounds like.

I've been wanting to get back into illustration since I got my new scanner on Black Friday. I'd had terrible "artist's block" since leaving school in May. It was quite sad. Right now is an exciting time because I am over it! 

These character development doodles were done with the Pilot G2 pens as a result of me feeling an inflated sense of pride in my pen collection. They are sort of a jumbled sneak peak of things to come. 

I bought the G2 party pack at Target once when I saw it on clearance. I can't wait until I use them up... so that I can get more. Last week I bought a pack of rainbow Pentel R.S.V.P. minis, and they have since caused me to go out of my way to write rainbow notes. Grocery list, to-do list... all rainbow.

In case you didn't know, I love pens. I regularly read penaddict.com, and I browse office supplies like most people look at porn. I've used artist pens like those from Prismacolor, Staedtler, and Micron, but my love always goes to the common man's office supplies. On Friday I picked up the Sharpie pen in Medium. It's like a number 4 or 5 Micron pen... but cheaper! I am very pleased. Next I think I will get the Paper Mate Profile Elite pens, in the rainbow party pack no less. I think the reason I'm so comfortable drawing in ballpoint is because I've had the most practice with them. Hundreds if not thousands of hours spent doodling in my notebook during lectures.