Boobs!

As mentioned in my previous post, here are some of my sexier drawings.  Like many young teenaged boys, I wanted to see things in a sexier fashion.  Although unlike many teenaged boys, I was able to bring those things to life through my illustrations.  Here are some of my notable illustrations from '04-'05.

Anime Girl

First up is this sexy pinup piece titled "Anime Girl."  As the name implies I set out to do an anime-inspired piece, though the final picture was definitely more Western-style in nature.  Still, this is one of my favorite pieces of early artwork.

Claire Pinup

Next is an image of Resident Evil's Claire Redfield who is losing her pants and underwear.  I liked Claire's model in RE2, but it was significantly better in RE:CV (and of course it would be since PS2 and Dreamcast were both more powerful than PS).   I thought the body here was okay, but the face suffered from poor proportions.  A decent effort all in all.

Jill Valentine

Staying within the realm of RE characters, this next image is one of my first efforts at drawing Jill Valentine.  I'm not sure on the exact timeline for this image, but I do know it was drawn in 2004 along with the Claire image.  Her look here was based on her appearance in the fantastic Resident Evil remake first released for Gamecube in 2002.  As with Claire above, I thought I did good on Jill's body, but the face again suffered.  I later recolored this picture using a mouse, but made no other changes to it.

Monica

Next up was another original piece I did of my character Monica.  As was a common theme in many of my pictures at that time (and still today at times), Monica had her thong showing and was wearing pants just a bit short for her backside.  As opposed to her last image where she was shirtless, this is what I envisioned more or less as her regular fighting attire (though probably without the thong showing haha).

To end out this entry, here are some of my better boob-heavy pics from '04.  In all of these I felt the body work was largely passable, but I was still struggling to draw a sexy face.  There's a couple of things that can drag an otherwise good picture down and that's a poor face and shoddy hands/feet.  I used a lot of photo reference for many of my early works (such as "Swim Girl 1" and "Jungle Queen").  It would take me years to finally realize that though photo refs have a place as an aiding tool, using them as a crutch only hampers your growth as an artist.

Swim Girl 2

Stripper

Swim Girl 1

Jungle Queen

In later posts I will show more spicy images, but that's all for now.  My next post will show some of my works from circa 2005, the year I bought my first computer and also the year I bought my first Wacom Tablet, a Graphire CTE-440.  Having the tools to effectively color things digitally heralded the end of all my colored pencil works and the beginning of learning to color on the computer, a task I am still trying to learn even today.  Excelsior!