After great apprehension to do so, I broke and ended up buying a jumbo (12”x17”-ish) Moleskine sketchbook. The size is truly fantastic and really allows your hand and arm to move freely about the page without any worry of constraint. In order to get this bad boy started, I chose to do an illustration of The White Violin from Umbrella Academy by Gerard Way and Gabriel Ba. If you haven’t done so yet, read that comic now… like, right now.
It took me a while to get around to reading it myself actually. Since it came out in the years of my college education, I didn’t allow myself the opportunity of reading it then, although I’m sure it would’ve helped inspire me and my studies in some way, especially considering it was art school. Looking back on it, I didn’t even have good excuse; even the library next door to my house had a copy. In the end, I bought one for myself to enjoy at my own leisure in the comfort of my own home, and man did I enjoy it. So in short, I recommend everyone give it a chance, or at least check it out several times from your library so that it at least makes you feel guilty for not reading it.
On another note:
I initially acquired this massive sketchbook in order to travel with it, but I had not anticipated its scale to that of my backpack. So I’m not quite sure how transportable it will ultimately be, but I plan on taking it for a spin with me to California this Friday for some good old life drawing exercises. If all goes well, I will return home with a more complete and hopefully intact sketchbook. Otherwise this White Violin sketch might be the one and only drawing attributed to this new sketchbook’s name (Heraldo?) that sees the light of day
Enjoy this piece at least and with fingers crossed let’s hope there’s more to come!
Logan
While drawing a few Marvel characters I thought that I’d tackle two of my favorite female characters; Sue Richards and Jean Grey. I love their more vintage look and wanted to represent that in a more modern theme.
So, not that either of these characters are related in any way other than the fact they’re both Marvel properties, but I’m posting them together because they were gifts for my brother, who I just visited this weekend. Knowing he was/is a huge comic book fan, I wanted to give him some personalized art as a much belated Christmas present. By his request, the characters he wanted were Dr. Doom and Scarlet Witch (having just failed to win the lottery on repeated attempts). They were a ton of fun to do and I always love doing commissions for people, so I wanted to share them. Hope you like them!
A little guy I’ve titled “Skull Kid”, which I did for fun last night. Feel free to come up with some fan fiction - I’d love to read what sort of stories this character inspires :)
Two quick character sketches I did in the past two days just for fun. I usually try to do a sketch at night before going to bed - maybe 15-30 minutes each.
A quick character sketch I did a few nights ago before going to bed. Just wanted to do something for fun.
This is a group of selected sketches that I’ve done over the past few weeks. I’ve tried to keep fresh ideas flowing by drawing in my sketchbook as consistently as I can - hopefully several times a week. None of these are for a specific project and were just used as fun warm-up sketches. I hope you all enjoy them! I’ll have a new batch to come as soon as I can.
Also, I’ve recently got my personal website redesigned and reposted, so please check it out here - www.loganfaerber.com - and if you’re interested in more sketches like the one’s I’ve posted here, please follow me on twitter @loganfaerber
Thanks everyone! - Logan
A few days ago I was commissioned to do an illustration of Etrigan the Demon, whom I’ve never drawn before, so it was pretty fun to tackle a new character. He requested it to be colored. I did a few sketch ideas of how to go about tackling such a character, such as jumping or using his powers, but ultimately I decided to go a more simple route with a portrait. If I did it again however, I might tackle the jumping composition.
For those interested I’ve included the line work drawing done with india ink and a brush, then a grey scale of the colors applied as a value study and finally the finished colored piece. It’s always nice to take a break from doing largely digital work in order to return to various traditional mediums. That reminds me, I’m always open for commissions, so if anyone else is ever interested, please feel free to contact me at loganfaerber@gmail.com. I’d be happy to discuss any and all ideas.
-L
Last night I was contacted by the great Ivan Brandon and Chuck BB about possibly doing some coloring work for a comic they are working on. After some discussion, I had a hand at coloring an inked character sketch he had sent me of the story’s protagonist. “Deathface”. It was an incredibly fun process and it was great to see the two versions, inked and colored, placed alongside each other. Here’s to hoping for a great future partnership!
The left hand illustration is all Chuck BB’s work. The right hand image is my coloring job to his character design.
This is a piece I made for an upcoming gallery show based on yakuza film-inspired art show entitled BATTLES WITHOUT HONOR AND HUMANITY after the film of the same name. It will be held at Floating World Comics in Portland, OR! I initially created more action oriented concepts, but after having researched more and reflected deeply on their overall principles, I decided to focus on the more quiet route of the Yakuza’s everyday existence amongst the average community members. The part that intrigued me was the fact they consider themselves more business men than criminals, much like the Mafia crime syndicate.
Also, since it’s hard to see here and I thought it looked cool on its own, I’ve included the three step process I took to make the faded figure in the background. This is also representative of a method in which I’ve been working lately. I will make the initial drawing on bristol paper, but then I will ink various segments of the same image on separate layers of vellum or tracing paper. This allows me to make alterations and adjustments on size or placement while I’m in the digital process. It will also be a necessary portion of a long-term project I’ll be working on at my company dobot, which is a design company that my friend and I have started. You will be seeing this name alongside mine on many future products. Find out more here!
@dobotdo
I recently contributed to the Marvel Redux project, where modern day illustrators redesigned classic Marvel Universe characters from the handbook they released years ago. You can find all the details along with every amazing artists’ character designs here! http://ohotmuredux.blogspot.com/
A tribute piece I did inspired my the amazing Madman work by the great Mike Allred. -L
The Shadow commission piece I recently did. I really loved the old pulp comic feel, but I wanted to add more intensity to the character this time around. It was also composed to work as a variant cover or as a pin-up. I’m really glad that the comic world has brought this classic character back successfully. -L
This was a commission piece that I received while at Heroes Con last weekend. Instead of doing a traditional pin-up for Abe Sapien, I decided to place him underwater, clutched by a monster’s tentacles who is dragging him further under. I wanted it to feel more like a full page spread of a cover rather than just a bust, which I would love to do as well in the near future. I may also decide to color this illustration in time, but for now I will leave it as an intense black and white piece. -Logan
Just wanted to share one of my commission pieces because it was of a character I hadn’t heard from in a long while; Static Shock. I remember watching this show back in 2000 when it was introduced. What ever happened to this superhero? He even fought alongside the JLA at one point or another. Maybe the economy got to him and the Justice League had to lay him off? We may never know. - L
