Category Archives: Sketch of the Day

I had my first miss of the year yesterday, my apologies to anyone who noticed. So today'll be a two-fer, with the first an actual honest-to-goodness pencil sketch done on real live paper. Then scanned and filtered to within an inch of its life.

After taking in some of the excellent critiques on the last attempt at this, I wanted to do another Wonder Woman costume.

It shows a bit more skin that you're used to with a Wonder Woman design, but I think that's ok. Amazons in the DC Universe live on an island with no men, so they're not going to have a lot of modesty issues. And it's a tropical island, so they're not going to be wearing a ton of heavy clothing. I definitely wanted something of a Greek influence, which is where the cape/wrap and the sandals come from.

I also wanted to hearken back a bit to the original myths, so I played up the idea of a "girdle" of Hippolyta by making the belt more distinctive, and added wings to the sandals to echo Hermes. Otherwise I don't quite see how Wonder Woman flies.

I definitely wanted to get away from the "Granny Panties" vibe I sometimes get from her legwear, and loin cloths always make me think of ancient Greece and Rome with a bit of jungle warrior thrown in.

Thought I might take a stab at a Wonder Woman redesign.

This is a blast from the past, 1992 or thereabouts, that surfaced during the packing.

This whole drawing is worth it just for the line of his lower lip. That's a good line. It's just the right thickness at the bottom, with just the right amount of tapering as it goes up into the light, and just the right distance from the mustache before it fades off to white. That one line is a thousand times better than the entirety of that djinn drawing from yesterday.

Yes, this is the kind of thing I look at in my own work. Sometimes just that one line can make it all worthwhile.

This is a terrible drawing. Crappy craptacular crapitosis. Blerg. I blame the dog crapping in the house, it set the tone for the day. Also the moon was in my eyes. But, you can't only post the good stuff if you're trying to be honest, which I am. Some days it just doesn't come together.