March 19 Of Robots

Realism Challenge Ex 3 Egg

Fan Art Friday.  My version of an egg shell from Mark Crilley's book The Realism Challenge.

Natalie Portman with color wash

After posting this drawing yesterday, I brought it into Photoshop and did a "color wash" paint over.  I'm happy with how the warm and cool colors enhance the graphite under drawing without it becoming a completely digital piece.

Natalie Portman

Fictional Caricature

Fan Art Friday

My version of a Paul Kidby drawing.

March Of Robots 3-27-16

Easter put me a day behind - - so here's yesterday's bot today.  I'll catch up eventually.


Here's the pencil sketch I did before I re-did it in Photoshop.  I think I stayed pretty close to the original idea.

Race Horse 11-15-15

The original reference photo for this drawing had a jockey and all of his racing gear (saddle, colors, bridle, etc.) on the horse.  The challenge was to draw only the horse - - I think it came out ok all things considered.

Car 2

Micron pen, watercolor pencil, ink, graphite pencil, color pencil

Pencil Sketch

This is more of a straight caricature than my most previous post.  It was my intent to make her look a little crazy - hopefully it reads that way.

Black and White to Color

I had a little time to today to mess around with Sketchbook Pro and Photoshop and so I began experimenting with creating skin tones - - first creating them from scratch and then adding them to existing art.  I enjoy both traditional art and digital art and was looking for a way to combine them.  This image is the result - - one that you may recognize from a previous post, but with a new "old timey" skin tone enhancement.

Looking Back

I recently noticed that the drawing below was done in 2004 - - which as you know was 10 years ago.  This of course started me thinking about why I started drawing again and all of the different types of drawings, digital paintings and occasional traditional painting I have done over the past 10 years as well as the years before that.  The first part of my harking is easy enough to answer.  Although I drew a fair amount as a kid, it wasn't until my own kids started to draw with something other than crayons that I started to take a more serious approach.  I can sum up the difference in my artistic approach as an adult with one word - - patience.  I would credit "willingness to erase" as the second most important change to my ability to produce a quality drawing.  A scroll through the past 10 years of art work leaves me with a feeling of improvement/progress, but I continue to be inspired by other artists as I learn and incorporate new ideas into each piece I begin.

Giraffe In Color

This post was originally a pencil sketch study I did using a Gene Franks book.  I brought the sketch in to Photoshop and "painted" over the top of the pencil work allowing the textures and values from the original sketch to show through.  My goal was to create a warm orange sunrise/sunset feel for the piece.

Fan Art

Two pieces of fan art this week.  The first is a Loomis Lady done with an HB pencil.  I did the second one, a Tom Richmond, the next day with a ball point pen.  Each one takes up most of the page in my 9"x12" sketch pad.

Business People

Back in 2009 I was contacted through a mutual friend to develop some sketches of people in the work place.    This was one of the sketches I put together according to the requested theme.

3 Pencil Drawings

The assignment was to draw 3 different objects/scenes - - don't worry about relative scale or proportions - - with the intent of exploring new compositions using unrelated objects and or scenes.

Old Truck

Here's an old drawing of an old truck - - from a book by Gene Franks.  A fun drawing to do, especially the grill and the headlights.

Buddies

Who doesn't like Tigger and Pooh?  Buddies Forever.

Snowy Stream

Sticking with that "nasty white stuff" theme - - here's a wintery scene with a stream freezing over or thawing out depending on your perspective.  Sadly, we are supposed to get about a foot of snow tonight.  This is a study from Pencil Magic by Phil Metzger.

Loomis Lady 1

Here's another study I did from Drawing The Head And Hands - - the lady on page 80.  The little "pre-liminary" drawing was done with an HB pencil and the larger study was done with an HB and 4B pencil.  Most of the drawings from this book have a loose, grainy look, that probably was easily reproduced in the newspapers and magazines of the times.  I enjoy trying to re-create his head studies because although they suggest a lot of detail, they still read as drawings.