NCIS again

Did some more NCIS artist trading cards. So if you think they're so-so, keep in mind they're 2.5 x 3.5 inches (like baseball cards). Abby was particularly hard, because she's so light skinned, it's hard to give her volume. Plus her hair didn't cooperate, lol.

All of them were done with Copic markers and Prisma colored pencils.

Timmy

I did Timmy as well. His full name is Timothy McGee and Dinozzo often calls him McProbie or McSomething-funny, lol.

Again NCIS and again Copics and Prismas.

Enjoy!

Ziva David

I finished Ziva!
By the way, you pronounce her last name as Dah-veed.

Copic markers and Prisma colored pencils.

Enjoy!

The finished product


The WIP

More ATCs & Ziva

Made like 14 ATCs for swaps. Lol.

There was the exquisite corpse: formal wear swap


And the numbers swap


And finally, the man-made lights swap


Plus I'm working on another portrait. Ziva this time (NCIS).

Tony Dinozzo

Just bought NCIS season 6, so, naturally, I was inspired. Teehee.

Did this with copic markers (for base color) and prisma colored pencils.
The size is a 2.5" by 3.5" sketch card.

Enjoy!




And the work in progress (WIP):

Harmon and more

Got some new stuff! And finally got around to scanning it.

First, Mark Harmon, or, as some may know him, Leroy Jethro Gibbs, from NCIS. I've decided to practice portraits more. First in black and white and later in color, when I think I'm good enough for it. Right now, it's all still practice - proportions and likeness still have to improve. But I'm happy with it all the same.



Second a series of illustrations I am planning to enter in the Bologna Children's Book Fair exhibition. It's a long shot, but I'll try anyway, you never know. They're done with acrylics and collage elements, and are about a girl who escapes her boring, colorless city to seek colorful scenes.

The Grey City


The Green Forest


The Yellow Dunes


The Blue Ocean


And The Red Mountains will follow asap.

And the test results are...

Sorry for the stupid title, I couldn't think of a better one. But anyway, here we are, again, this time with Abby in it. It's from the same episode as the previous picture, and, like the previous ones, made with watercolors (background) and Copic markers (characters). The scanner kind of screwed with the colors, especially the lighter watercolors, but oh well. This will have to do. And that machine on the table? No clue as to what it is, but I made it a fancy microscope. I couldn't really tell the details from the printscreen I made, so I improvized. Don't shoot me, lol.

By the way, I don't have the right color markers to do Kate's hair properly, but I have the right colors for Abby's (scary, rubber) gloves... What's up with that?

[EDIT]
I made the filmstrip longer, adding my most recent pic. I didn't think it worthy of a whole new post, so I decided to edit this one.

[END EDIT]

On A Roll!

Lol, I made another NCIS thingy. It's done from a screenshot I made myself from the episode One Shot, One Kill from the first season. I like how it turned out.

The normal version...


And the version with filmstrip, added in Photoshop. Just playing around a bit, lol. I kind of like it.

Flying Colors

Lol, I actually colored the NCIS scene I posted earlier (here)! Yay! And I'm quite proud of the outcome, I love it! Double yay!
I know Kate's hair isn't right, but I don't have the right colors in my Copic collection yet, so yeah, I made her blond. The characters are colored with Copic markers and the background is done with watercolors.

Doodles and Things

Made some stuff again. Nothing extraordinary or anything, but still fun.

This is Mi, and yes, they're based on Me, go figure...
The colored version is basically wearing my work outfit, except for the high heels, I rarely wear high heels, so especially at work (where I have to stand/walk all the time) I won't wear them. But I thought they were a nice touch. For those who know me in real life, no, I haven't painted my hair purple, but again, it looks cool, lol.


And this is a comic scene I made. It's based on NCIS, but not quite NCIS, though it could've been, I suppose. No existing scene, anyway. They could be Tony and Ziva, but then they don't really look that well... So I'm just telling you that these are (very original) characters I came up with myself and put them in a (very original) scene I came up with as well... And you'll just have to believe me, ha!
Please note the (very) sarcastic undertone...

It was cool to make, though.

August and Dried Rose

Finally! Some time to update some more. I see I've only updated twice in July, that's terrible! I hope August will make up for that, but I can't be sure. Still have an translation going on, of which the dead-line is August 12th, and then there's my part-time/student job. And since it's the holidays they like to plan me into the roster without consulting me much, so yeah. Hey, I'm not complaining, more work is always good, considering, but still, it's a lot of work, you know? (Wow, how many commas can one use in one sentence? Lol. If I did this in a translation I'd get my butt kicked... Seriously. But then again, this is so lovely unofficial. I love being unofficial, especially after having done so many things official lately.)

Anyhow, below here is ... well, it's supposed to be Gibbs, from NCIS. But he doesn't really look like it. I still like the character itself though, so I thought I'd post it anyway. Plus I like the line-art. I drew that gun from a photo on the cover of a encyclopedia I bought (you get it?). Yes, I bought an encyclopedia about guns... How bad is that. I like them, though. Not to kill, mind you, but they're interesting ... objects.


From left to right: Gibbs, Todd, and DiNozzo. Or, in other words, Jethro, Kate, and Tony. Drew this one from a (well-known) picture on one of the DVDs. So it's not really original, but I like how the line-art turned out. Kind of comic-y.



And last but not least; a rose! It's a dried rose, mind you, so it wasn't my fault. I drew it from a real-life dried rose I kept from a bouquet. Done with my wonderful new Prismas! Still love 'em! And they work fantastically!

NCIS Continued

Muhahaha! Finally, getting back to my NCIS comic! I copied a Marvel Comics comic template from an original comic page I bought on a comic con here in the Netherlands, so I've got 'official' sizes and stuff like that now. Can't wait to get started! Yay!

Well, anyway, I kind of already did. I was trying out a design for Ducky in my sketch book, but failed miserably. That's when I decided to trace a few pictures of him digitally, to practice and make him actually look like Ducky. When I'm done with that, I'll try some designs and pick the best. Of course, the same thing has to be done for Gerald, Ari, Gibbs... well, the whole lot of them. But my first page (which I've got set up already, frame-wise, I'm impatient like that) will just include Ducky and Gerald, so after them, I can get started. Double Yay!

So here we are, my first trace of Ducky, done in about 5 minutes (probably less, though, I wasn't paying attention to the time, but you know, tracing's easy). His teeth/mouth look funny... Hm, I sure need to trace a few more to get it right, that's for sure.

And here we have the original picture, which I took from this place.


And one more. I added these to this post later, in an edit. It just feels wrong to spam this blog with new posts everytime I've got something... lol.
Added a bit of color. A tiny bit... oh well, I kinda like it.


This is the pic I traced. Got it from over here.


Disclaimer: just to be sure, pics are not mine! (And I don't know the names of the rightful owners either).

Blue

Well, here it is then, my first attempt at Ducky's realm. It's rather blue, but that's the whole point. Too bad scanners aren't that good with blue, so a lot of the lighter hues have disappeared, making the total picture look pale. But oh well, it's just a practice sketch anyway. There are also some missing details and added other ones, which really don't belong there, but I'll call that artistic freedom... Please keep in mind, though, that this was drawn from a film still, so the framing and all is fine, but there's no direction (yet), just so you know.

But I'll tell a bit more about the episode I'm trying to 'comicize.' It's Bete Noir, from season one (hence Gerald and Kate). Why? Because it's a pretty important ep from the first season (and, as I said before, the only season I've got so far). It introduces Ari, who will have an important role in season two. So yeah, that's why.

Behold! Ducky's realm.

Behind eyelids

Bought new colored pencils! Yay! Highlight of the week! They're blue ones, a whole range of them. With the ones I already have, I should now have enough to start my comic idea. Thing is, I decided to make it with a limited color palette. Marine blue is of course the perfect color for a comic about the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS), so there! Blue it is!

Haven't really started, though. I just thought I'd post something to keep up posting. I will add an old computer drawing though. Or old... It's not that old, but it's not very new either. Anyway, hope you like it!

I saw this girl in a flash once. I have those regularly, you know, when you close your eyes and some image just pops up behind your eyelids...

Fanfiction

I'll have to admit, it's a sad topic again. Can't help it, really, there's no drama in happiness...

Another confession, this is a sort of fanfiction thing have in my head. I'm trying to put it into pictures and words, instead of words alone. Again, it's NCIS related.


This girl is sixteen years old and has just lost her father, a captain in the navy. He died in the war in Iraq, apparently under no suspicious circumstances. At first. And so, since his death seemed unsuspicious, no autopsy was conducted. At first.



The girl, who lost her mother to cancer when she was six years old, is now an underaged orphan. She is placed into a foster home. However, she does not feel like doing so and flees.


Yeah, well, not so much yet and definitely not researched or anything, so go easy on me. I just needed a subject to draw.

Abby

So! Another update, and a new drawing. Just finished this one and felt like posting it because I'm happy with it.

Meet Abby, the forensic scientist of NCIS, as portrayed by Pauley Perrette. Love this character!