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You may remember I posted the sketch of this character a while ago, but I finally managed to get it artworked over the weekend. I went for a more loose style to the background, as I felt it sat a little better with my style compared to a more regimented look.

It will be available to purchase as a royalty-free image from iStockphoto in the next few days.

If you want to keep up-to-date with more of the sketches that I produce, I have started uploading them onto my Twitter account. My username is @RubberPenguin, so feel free to follow me.

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Dan Hunt – Military Clothing

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Care Bear Stare

You may have noticed the theme of 80's cartoon-based doodles appearing on my blog lately. I am not 100% sure what has inspired this, but I thought I would continue this trend with my latest take on the 80's with a Care Bear themed doodle.

I hope to have some more digital art done soon and so I will get that uploaded, as well as another Dan Hunt.

Thanks for stopping by.

From time to time, people have asked me how I go about transferring my sketches into digital art.

I try to explain it, but I don't think I ever make that much sense and so I have scraped together a very basic visual guide to how it's done. There are so many different ways to approach this though, this way is just the way I feel most comfortable.

Step 1: I start my placing my sketch in Adobe illustrator.

Step 2: I then create the outline to the character and then duplicate it, offsetting this by about 2mm to give me a nice thick edge.

Step 3: After we have our edge, I go about drawing in the main detail of the character.

Step 4: Once I am happy with my lines, I then dissect the image and add the colour.

Step 5: The final stage is to add a few shadows and highlights. I try not to go overkill on this, but like to add a little here and there to give it some depth.

Ta da... We are finished.

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Dan Hunt – Hide & Seek

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He-man

 
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To follow on from my Thundercats doodle I thought I would have a go at doing a He-Man one.

If you have trouble reading my awful writing, click here to see a version I put on Twitter which I ending up typing the text on. 

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What is the Ninja Turtles were rubbish Ninjas?

I've always wondered what would have happened if the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles had discovered that they weren't actually any good as ninjas... What use would they have been for society then? From time-to-time I'll post some sketches with possible ideas. Today's idea is a Foot Stool.

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Dan Hunt – Chef

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Dan Hunt – Shed removal service

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Thundercats

I didn't create the Thundercats, but if I did they'd look like this... But I didn't, so they don't.

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My tube doodle...

I was messing around sketching the other day and ended up doodling a typical day on the London Tubes for me.

I am the miserable one in the glasses giving everyone else dirty looks. It is not that I am an angry person, I just very irritated by some people when I am in close confinement with them... That doesn't make me sound like a particularly great person, but you know what I mean right?... Right?

If I get the time I want to get this one artworked up, but it all depends how my workload goes.

I have just taken a massive block booking of freelance design work which will take me up to the New Year, but I will try to keep drawing and doodling as much as I can over the next few months.

I am planning to start a little personal project in the New Year involving a comic strip, but I will have to see how I get along. I will keep you posted though.

Oh yeah, a new Dan Hunt cartoon will be posted over the weekend and so why not come back then and check him out :)

Army of Bees

 

I have managed to get this illustration finished off today and so I thought I would preview it on here before I upload it onto iStock.

The illustration is of an Army of Bee's as they are about to take flight and leave the Hive. It should be available to purchase within the next week or so on iStock.

Have a great weekend.

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Dan Hunt – PE Instructor

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Dan Hunt – Facebook

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For those of you who aren't aware, the identities of the SAS soldiers are withheld from the public domain and they often take on a pseudonym. If their pictures are ever used in documentation you will always notice that either their eyes are covered by a black box or their whole face is blurred. 

I love the use of the black box over the eyes, as you can literally still see every other feature of the soldier in question, which seems a little bizarre. You can pick up any Special Forces book and see some great examples of these. Bravo Two Zero has some classics!


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