My Top 10 AI Images of 2023 - - - - - - - - - - - #10 Darth Vader Worn Revisioned

There used to be a great website called Illustration Friday. Every Friday, a new word was given, and artists would submit images based on that week's word. For the week when the word was "WORN," I chose to interpret it as "damaged and shabby as a result of much use." Using this definition, I depicted Darth Vader as worn out from a long day. Many years later, I uploaded that image into Leonardo.ai, activated the 3D settings, and received this result:

In less than 20 seconds, my 2D drawing was transformed into a 3D version. The only disappointment was that the smoke trails from the lightsaber looked more like gray wood with stones. However, the Darth Vader character turned out very well, with excellent lighting, reflections, and textures.

The original sketch was digitally drawn within an hour and posted on the Illustration Friday website.

Sometime later, I hand drew the design using brush pens, Copic markers, and a white Gelly Roll pen.
This was the image uploaded into Leonardo.ai to be revised by AI technology.

Ruth Vader Ginsburg

Some time ago my sister-in-law, Steph, asked me to do this image. She never mentioned why, but I had fun creating it. So now I'm sharin' . . .

Pencil sketched, then inked with a Pentel brush pen and colored
with Copic markers (on Canson marker paper.)

Inktober 2016: Tired (#25 of 31)

I have to confess; this is based on an image I initially drew over 3 years ago. My workload is super heavy today, and I don't have the time to create a fully thought out cartoon. I originally did this design digitally for IllustrationFriday for the word "WORN"; now it's for the Inktober Day #25 word-of-the-day "TIRED". Everything works out because I always wanted to recreate this image in ink.

Revamped version of my Darth Vader image using a brush pen and markers [for Inktober Day25 Tired]

You can see the original image and a video at this link: here. 

Wait - What? #4: Big Hand

This sketch is screwed up because it wasn't fully sketched out before inking. The hand was drawn separately before finishing the character. It's only through sheer laziness that the hand was connected to his body without an arm - which makes a very strange looking image.

Inking before properly correcting a sketch = a very strange large hand

The blue line bunny head sketch seen in this image was not intentional. The page this image was scanned from had many doodles and sketches on it. The cropping of this image makes it look like the bunny is peeking in . . .

Illustration Friday: WORN Darth Vader

Illustration Friday: Every Friday a word is given on the website, IllustrationFriday.com. Artists and illustrators then submit an image that represents that word all during the week.
This week's word: WORN

Remember: Even Darth Vader had a few bad days . . . 

Thought Process:

The first thing I thought with the word WORN, was someone tired . . . exhausted. That made me think of characters you never really see portrayed that way. Darth Vader came to mind. The thought of Darth Vader looking fatigued, slumped shouldered, dragging his light sabre on the ground (while it's still on) seemed like a good image to do.

For this image, I wanted to stay very loose and sketchy.
It took about 20 minutes to finish.

The original pencil sketch