New Original Comic Sketch Pinup Art Available + Email Mailing List

All the following Art work below is Available, Send me a email if your interested in anything: SherryLeak@gmail.com

Don't forget to join my weekly email mailing list where I will let fans of my art work know when I have new art for sale or when I'm running a sale on commissions and art work.

Commissions are Open!

Auctions-

*****Update: Auctions ending in 24 hours ($9 sketches, $10 sketch cards, and much more): http://shop.ebay.com/coonic_studios/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p4340



Commissions (A few slots are still open)-

Gathering funds together for upcoming conventions this year so I can participate in Artist Alley. You can view Sample work and Rates here: http://raccoon-eyes.deviantart.com/journal/22243399/

There are prices for every budget. Please send me a note or email if your interested in a commission.



I'm knocking out current commissions as we speak, here is the list so far:


1) Legends & Lore AP (Robin Hood/ Maid Marion)- In progress, rough sketch so far.

2) Harley Quinn & Joker Psc- In progress, rough sketch so far.

3) Jedi Leia Quick Sketch- In progress, rough sketch so far.

4) Mara Jade Quick Sketch- In progress, rough sketch so far.

5) Bayoneeta Color Sketch- Working on coloring it.

6) Portrait Color Sketch- In progress, rough sketch so far.

7) Mothra Color Sketch- In progress, rough sketch so far.

8) Secretary Quick Sketch- In progress, rough sketch so far.

9) Original Character psc- In progress, rough sketch so far.

10) Phantom Lady Quick Sketch- In progress, rough sketch so far.

11) Psylocke Quick Sketch- In progress, rough sketch so far.

12) Jubilee Quick Sketch- In progress, rough sketch so far.

13) Psylocke Color sketch- In progress

14) Scarlet Witch Quick Sketch- In progress

15) Kabuki Psc- In progress

16) Pirate Mermaid Color Sketch- In progress

17) Poison Ivy Quick Sketch- In progress

18) Zatanna Quick Sketch- In progress

19) Original Character Psc- In progress

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Shortcomings

My shortcomings, artistically speaking are perspective and backgrounds, male figures, hands, and sequentail art. These are some things I know I need to work on. Do you have shortcomings with your art? As I said before I'm planning on entering a international manga contest. I'm planning on starting the pages in Mid-October. That will give me 2.5 months to finish about 12 grey tone pages. I hope I can pull it off, I'm getting nervous (@_@)

Deviant Art Ads

So I was chatting with a fellow artist on deviant art and they told me that deviant art has a ad service and its well worth the money spent. The least expensive one is $20.00 for 500 guaranteed hits to you page. I think I will try it and figured I would share the info. The extra traffic couldn't help. Apparently all you do is click the little arrow next to your user name on deviant art and click "our services."

Art Fire + Star Wars PSC

Hello. I wanted to take a minute to let all you artist that there is this really cool site that I just found out about a couple of days ago called Art fire, you can visit the site here and check it out for yourself: http://www.artfire.com/

Basically this site lets you buy and sell handmade goods such as craft items and artworks. There is many artist there along with very useful tools for promoting your store there. Its free and buyers do NOT need to make a account to purchase items.

My store can be seen here: http://www.artfire.com/users/raccoon-eyes


*This link for art fire has already been posted in my faq.

As you can see above there is a Morrigan (darkstalkers) Quick sketch. I really like how this came out. You can view the deviation on deviantart:
http://raccoon-eyes.deviantart.com/art/Morrigan-Quick-Sketch-136295447

I'm currently working on a sketch card commission featuring luke skywalker and yoda. You can view the deviantart deviation here: http://raccoon-eyes.deviantart.com/art/Yoda-Luke-Psc-Commission-WIP-136367743

More Quick Sketches

I guess I lied when I said I wasn't going to do anymore quick sketches for a while but I have so much fun doing them. Also they relieve alot of stress. I haven't forgotten about my commissions, I'll be uploading the progress of those soon. Hopefully I can get back on track tomorrow (-_-). Here is Asajj Ventress Quick Sketch (^-^). Enjoy!

~Sherry

Sketch Card Process Final

Well here they are, the color versions. When I work in color I work from light to dark. I used prismacolor markers and sharpies for these. I mostly use sharpies for my darker tones in each sketch card. I used sakura white gel pen for highlights, outlines, and corrections. I hope this walk through was helpful for you.



From left to right: Gambit, Angel & Psylocke, Vision & Scarlet Witch, Buffy, Gaildriel, Medusa, Maris Brood, Jaina Solo, and April O'neil



From left to right: Arwen, Denna Troi, and Supergirl


Thanks for stopping by once again.

Sketch Card Process 2b

Hello. Well I was able to get up at a decent time today. Woke up at 10am, I'm proud of myself. Here are the inks for the other cards as promised. Like I said in the previous post I use micron 1 pen and faber-castell f pen for inking. I tend to fill in my large black areas during the coloring stage but you can do that during the inking stage if you want. I also forgot to mention previously that I tend to correct my pencils as I'm inking so sometimes my 1st initial pencil sketch doesn't look exactly the same as my inks. Hope you like them.



In the 1st picture is: Jaina Solo and Maris Brood.

In the 2nd picture is: Scarlet Witch & Vision, Angel and Psylocke, Gambit, Buffy, Deni Troi, Medusa, April O'neil, Galdreil, and Arwen


Thanks for stopping by once again. I hope you can find this small tutorial/walk through helpful.

~Sherry

Shortcomings & Sketch Card Process 2

So I was originally going to post the inks of all my cards so far to continue to show my process but I also wanted to say something on shortcomings in general. If you have a shortcoming that you are aware of then why not tackle it head on. One of my short comings directly involve this post. You see, since graduating Kubert School last year my sleep schedule has been kind of screwed up. The work load was so intense there that you had to get everything completed or you would fail. I would stay up until 3-4am getting assignments done just to have to get up at 8am to go to school. It was very demanding and I've seen that it has followed me even since school has been completed about a year ago. These days I do the same pattern I don't go to bed until 4am-6am in the morning which is really really really bad and then when I try to get up at 9am or 10 am it just does not happen and I end up getting up at 4pm which pretty much kills half my day when I could be doing something constructive.

Basically I want to change this pattern. So I'm going to make a better effort to get up at a decent time. I want to get up before 11 am. I think thats fair enough since I'm a freelance artist and I can create my own hours but I also have to be responsible. I wanted to post all the inked versions of the 12 cards I was working on but because of my sleep pattern it didn't happen, sorry! I do have 1 inked card to show you and 12 rough drafts. Anyways lets try to get back into the sketch card process:

Side note: I tend to ink directly on top of loose pencils. I forgot to mention this in the previous post. In all honesty you should try to ink over tight pencils so you'll be less likly to make a mistake. I'm personally pretty confident in my loose pencils to ink on top them so I guess its all a matter of preference of what you would like to do. So for my inked sketch card I have Supergirl. You can see the pencils in the previous post. I used Micron 1 pen for the thin outlines and a faber-castell f pen for the thicker outlines. I'm using a simple inking style for these cards. Kind of like a mucha style.



Between Thursday and Friday I will show you the remaining inks for the other cards pictured above and the color work (final process). The penciled cards (shown above) from left to right is: gambit, angel & psylocke, deena troi (star trek), april oneil (tmnt), buffy, maris brood (star wars), arwen (lotr), scarlet witch & Vision, Medusa (marvel), Galderiel (Lotr), and Jaina Solo (star wars)


Thanks for looking.

~Sherry

Sketch Card Process Part 1

Good Afternoon.

As with my pinup art I also get asked how I do my sketch cards.

The Process:

Its not much different then doing pinups or something like that other then the fact that you are working smaller. I start of with 2.5 x 3.5 inch Bristol board cards. These have rounded corners. I buy these online in packs of 35 for about $5 a pack I believe. They can be found here: http://www.ellenmilliongraphics.com/fantasyart/aceoblanks.php

I gather reference online or in magazines/books and lightly sketch the drawing on the cards in pencil. I use bic mechanical pencils, you can buy these at walmart. You can see the sketches above. From left to right is: Arwen, Gailderiel, Maris Brood, Jaina Solo, and Supergirl. Next up will be inks. I'll try to upload those tomorrow and I will probably have additional inked cards along with the ones shown above.

Side note:

Commissions are open, you can check out my rates here: http://raccoon-eyes.deviantart.com/journal/22243399/


Thanks for stopping by :)

~Sherry

Constructive Criticism vs Being Cruel

Its true that not all people are going to like your art, trust me I know first hand but that does not give anyone the right to be down right cruel and mean to you weather its to your face or behind your back. There is a difference between constructive criticism and and having someone say to you that “you just suck.” It also doesn’t make any sense to me for someone to say that they think someone’s art sucks just because they don’t like the artist’s style or type of work (ie: manga style, cartoony style, hyper-realistic style, pencil sketch, ink sketch, quick sketch, color sketch, etc.). Something like that is simply preference and not a reason to tell a artist that there work is terrible or awful.

Its funny, about 3 years ago during the summer when I was on break from Kubert school I had gotten my very 1st commission. I was so excited and honored that someone thought I was good enough to pay me for something I love to do. The commission was for a Sequential Page of Blackcat where she transforms to a centaur. I worked really hard on this project and was very proud of myself. The client was very happy with the final result and so was I but I still wanted to get a critique on it. I knew just because I thought it was my best work thus far at the time it didn’t mean that there were not problems with it such as anatomy, backgrounds, etc. (You can see the image below, its from 2006. Please excuse the poor scan.) I posted this particular piece on a forum to get critiqued, I was ready for the good points as well as the bad points. When it came down to it no one bothered to give me critique accept one person. And that one person did not even give me a critique at all other then saying that He or she thought the overall drawing was basically awful.




At the time that comment didn’t bother me too much because I know that everyone is entitled to their own opinion but now when I think back on it it does bother me a little. That comment was just mean and pointless and was not a proper critique. Who are they to say such a thing? Are they even a artist not that it matters? If the drawing was so awful then why not say why and how I could correct the problem with the drawing. Why not give a good point for every bad point of the drawing to balance out the critique. Constructive criticism is telling a artist where you see a problem with a drawing and giving them a suggestion as to how to correct that problem. The drawing couldn’t have been all that bad if the client was happy with it as well as countless other people who “favorited” the deviation on deviant art.

I’m not going to get down on a past experience like that but the reason why I started to remember that situation is because I see similar scenarios with other artist all the time where collectors, “fan boys”, and other artist are just down right mean and cruel to some artist and it bugs me. Its even worse when some one criticizes your work in public and then expect you to produce “so called” better work. Why not speak to the artist privately about their work in a professional manner?

Basically one of 2 things can happen when you get criticized for your work, you can throw in the towel and give up or brush of your shoulders and get back to the drawing board. I recommend the latter of the 2 choices. I’m pretty sure any artist you will talk to will have had experienced something like this. There is people out there who wouldn’t mind helping you out with a constructive critique and there is others who are just basically a$$holes for what ever reason. Who knows, maybe they are just jealous? It happens. You know what your capable of with your drawing skills. If you feel like your ready to push you art to the next level then go for it. If you feel like you need more practice with anatomy for example then do your research. If your not sure what you need to work on or not work on with your art and feel like you want a honest yet good critique then try to get one from a respectable source, maybe a teacher, or your favorite artist, etc. Surround yourself with positive people and with artist. If you don’t have artist friends in your area then there is plenty of artist online who would be more then happy to share ideas with you, give critiques, etc.

I’m going to close for now, thanks for stopping by! If you have questions or comments please feel free to let me know. These blogs I post are my own personal opinion but I do believe strongly in them. At some time I will discuss getting portfolio critiques at conventions by artist in the industry.

~Sherry