My Buddy Ken

 

  

A couple of different shot of my sketch of my Buddy Ken.  This photo was just begging to be drawn.  Anyway, a pencil, sketchbook and about 20 minutes later...He said he liked it, I hope so.  LOL

Hulkin' out Self Portrait

 

Another 20-minute sketch.  Me all angry and stuff.  I don't think the left eye is right...and the face seems a bit thin.  I will have to work on that.

Self Portrait Sketch

 

Here is a 20-minute self-portrait sketch in pencil.  Seems to be a pretty close likeness...What do you think?

New Luke Skywalker Lineart

Here is a sketch and the line art from the sketch. I think I might try inking this with the computer before I start with markers. I have to say, I love the sketch so much more that the line art, but I think that is because the sketch has some shading and the line art has nothing but...possibility. I am stretching...growing...I hope... LOL

More Star Wars Universe!

A couple of more sketches of the Dymanic Duo of the Star Wars U. Han Solo, inked. and Luke Skywalker from Return of the Jedi. Not comfortable with the inks yet, I am still in a "feeling out" period. But I was pretty pleased with the first effort on the Han Solo sketch.

Luke Skywalker

My sketch of Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker. Took about 45 minutes and done with a #2 pencil.

"You scruffy-looking...nerfherder!"

Pencil sketch of Han Solo. I like it for the most part, but the eyes seem a bit...big and the it just makes him look unnatural and zombie-like...I like the way the hair turned out though... :)

Obi-Wan Sketches

Here are a couple of sketches of Alex Guinness as Obi-Wan Kenobi. The shape of the skulls are quite right, but I am working on it. I am just trying to get pen/pencil to paper these days and working on getting recognizable figures.

Back from Comic-Con and getting my feet under me

Okay, so I drew my first actual sketchcard. I bought a pack of card stock and I am going to start working on them. I put this one of Leia as Boushh on eBay and we will see if any one thinks it is worth anything. LOL

Leia sketch card on eBay

Wonder Woman Commission

This was a commission for a friend.

Sketch of Mt Shasta

We rolled into Weed, Ca on our way to the Tri-Cities in Washington state and we stayed the night, Weed is a cool little town, and by little and mean little. But it has one of the best Burger cafe's I have ever eaten at and for the life of me, I can't remember the name...damn. Anyway, the sun was going down adn I took a few minutes to do a sketch of Mt. Shasta.

Wonder Woman Birthday Commission

This is a commission I did for my friend Marie (Happy Birthday!) at the request of her husband Kenny. I hope she likes it. :)

Black Vulcan Sketch

I have never seen Black Vulcan, I have never drawn Black Vulcan...Heck as far as I can tell he was only on a couple of episodes of SuperFriends back in the day... Anyway, a friend wanted a sketch, so I did the best I could.... I think he liked it. :)

Darth Maul Commission

This is a commission that I did this afternoon. It is for a little boy's birthday and his favorite Star Wars character is Darth Maul. I hope he likes it.

another sketch - Juggernaut

Juggernaut sketch. The bristol paper I use doesn't fit perfectly on my scanner, and I end up with these ugly blue areas on the scan. Other than that, I really enjoyed this sketch. I can't wait to ink it up.

Some new sketches

A sketch of Phoenix that I did the line work on, I haven't finished inking it, cause I am worried that I am going to ruin it...I gotta get over that.

Spider-Man sketch

Quick sketch of Spider-man, foreshortening was kinda tricky.

Life after class.

Well class is done and I have to figure out what I am going to do with myself. Starting to do some drawings on my own. Lou Ferrigno as the Hulk.

Great night last night

What a great night last night. We usually start with a series of 90 sec sketches to loosen up. Last night we did something different. The model would take a step, and hold it for about 60 sec and then make another movement. He started on the floor and stepped onto the stage and off again. It was kind of frustrating at first until I found my subject. His feet and legs. I just drew the feet and legs and nothing else. I didn't even actually draw the stage but I drew him on and off of it. I think it turned out quite well.

The next pose was about 40 min and this one really came together well. I feel good about the proportions and the face and to overall feeling of the piece. Soemtimes, when you actually draw a face on a life drawing if feels that you need to alot too much time to the face and it looks out of sorts with the quality of the rest of the drawing. Not this time, this seems to mesh very well.

Things clicked last night!

Another great model last night. She was very easygoing and had some really great poses.
The top sketch is from the beginning of class, I just felt the proportions on this on were really better than my average.
The middle is the 2nd hour sketch and there are a few things that don't work about this, I felt this was a good example of my "stretching" I got out of my comfort zone and used some chalk and tried to create and entire feeling instead of just drawing the model.
The bottom one was the last sketch of the night and it just felt right. It turned out to be a real good portrait, it looks just like the model. So I was real happy with that.

Comments and crit are always welcome.

Very Satisfying Session Tuesday!

Another great model Tuesday. She was very creative and he had nice curves to draw. The focus this week was to incorporate items into the drawing, to create a narrative in the piece. I thought it turned out very good, I was very pleased with my sketches this week.

The bottom on was the model and a mannequin, in an embrace.

The top one was the last pose of the evening, I took some liberties with her figure and tried to exaggerate the "warrior woman" theme of the pose.

Great Model on Thursday!

This was the last pose on Thursday. This guy was great, he is a dancer and during the exercises he was making some great poses, very interesting and dramatic. Most of the class was done on newsprint, doing movement exercises. But this last one was great lighting contrast and I really felt I got a lot out of this pose. Let me know what you think.

Nine in 9

Great class last night! We did an exercise of 9 sketches / 9 minutes. We did 9 sketches and took 9 minutes on each sketch. The instructor challenged us to use a varitiy of media and/or techniques and use some of the things we talked about in class, like composition. I found it very challenging, and by the ninth sketch, I was drained. The top sketch was a 40 minute sketch at the end of class. The head is WAY too big and that really messed my appreciation of the body I drew. I was really happy with the proportion of the body and I pushed and tried to spend some quality time on the face and messed it all up. argh.

Thursday Class 4/30/09

So last night was a pretty satisfying class. We started out with 8 90-sec sketches and we did a couple of ink wash poses for about 15-20 minutes. Second-half of the class was a "freestyle" pose of about 25-30 minutes. I got 2 charcoal pieces done, The middle one was first and I start out with these broad lines that just kinda worked and after a while, I liked where it was at and didn't figure that I was going to improved it any. So I did the bottom one in about 10 min. Darker charcoal and smudged it all around and took the eraser to it to bring up the highlights and neaten it up a bit. The top page is 3, 5-min poses and I did them all on the same page. Again, in charcoal.

Thursday Class Homework - Done

Homework this week was to sketch 3 figurative sculptures. I chose, (From the top down) Rodin's Pierre de Wissant, Tadolini's St Michael the Archangel and St. Michael Casting Satan into Hell by Vaccaro. I found that the Rodin was surprisingly challenging and the Vaccaro was the most satisfying. Maybe not the best execution, but pretty satisfying. All took a little over and hour to do. Please, comments and crit would be very welcome.

From Thursday's Class

We had a great model for class Thursday. The first sketch was a 10-minute pose where she was moving slightly during the pose and so it threw weveryone for a loop. I thought is was a great exercise.

The one above that is charcoal on newsprint and I thought it was a really nice pose. I should have spent a little more time on the eye, I just threw it on there and it is obviously not right for the face. But I thought I got some nice subtle shadows of the back.

The top one was my favorate of the night, harsh contrast and a great pose. I needed to use some white charcoal to really beef up the lighting, cause just erasing wasn't getting the point across.

Sketchbook entries

A couple of quick comic character sketches in the ole sketchbook. I am really enjoying drawing the Hulk these days and this was my first attempt at Nightcrawler, without any reference. I thought is was pretty good for no reference...

Spring Break Homework (cont'd)

Well I finally finished my Spring Break homework. I choose "Crucifixion of St. Peter" by Guido Reni, I loved the drama of the moment, great contrast and more than one person in the painting. I used charcoal for this, and this is in my sketchbook, I really worried about getting a mess everywhere...I just gotta get over that...

The top picture is "St. Jerome" by Leonardo da Vinci. I only had one day to do this one and I pretty much finished it in about an hour and a half. I thought I really captured the look and feel of the original.

I was planning on doing a Singer-Sargent, Nude Egyptian Girl, but as I was doing okay with the body, the face, the real key to the painting was just giving me fits. I even did a study just of the face and I was just not having any luck with it....So I bailed, because the teacher should be able to tell what painting the sketch was from and without nailing the face, there was no way he was going to be able to tell it was a Sargent. Anyway, I was pretty proud of my homework.

Doing homework over Spring Break??

As you might have seen my status on Facebook, I am doing a drawing of Caravaggio's painting of Doubting Thomas. Not the entire thing. just a small detail. St. Thomas sticking his finger in the ressurected Jesus' wound. It stuck with me because...Dude. You are sticking your finger in a gaping wound. Even if it isn't Jesus, back from the dead, you are sticking your finger in an open wound. That is just wrong.

It isn't finished, but I thought I would share my progress.

Catching up on posts

On Spring Break...These are from a couple of weeks ago. The top one is focusing on light and dark, no greys, just light or dark.

The bottom on is just a freestyle, last one of the night, just using charcoal.