Mucha of a muchness

Another sketch/paint in a similar vain to the warrior one below. Definately evolved from what I was going for, but I went with it. I dont think it has the volume the warrior one has but the palette is quite nice I think. Has a Mucha art nouveu quality to it.

Character - Warrior painting/sketch

Recently I've taken stock of my work and for one reason or another I'm a little light on character work so in an affort to strengthen that aspect I'll be doing some! Im trying to find my style currently.

Giving a duck!

Ive neglected you of late..please accept these meagre offerings as way as a temporary apology. I do have a couple of character pieces on the go so hopefully they'll make an appearence soon.

new pen... again

The old egyptian swamp monster chestnut

I've got a little more time on my hands currently so I thought I'd spend a few hours doing something. This kind of just happened.

Guilt

More of these I'm afraid. I'm starting to feel guilty about constantly posting this type of thing up yet again but they are all I have time to do at the minute and they keep my 'hand in' plus they are better than nothing I. oh and BTW that is a very creepy guy

If you cant be good...be stylized

Here's a couple more. One raw and one, well I was just tinkering about to see if I could do anything clever with.. no was the conclusion.

Nothing to see here

not been 'feeling it' this week but carried on regardless. I may give these a treatment at some point. I have nothing else to add..

GRAFFIK!!

In the last couple of days I've been looking at more graphic design type inspiration. So rather than posting up another set of sketches I thought I'd give them a treatment of sorts. I think they look good considering the took all of a couple of minutes. Certainly wouldnt look out of place on the wall of your local Pizza Express :). I think we'll be seeing some more of this type thing.

Selected Zoo Efforts

Please excuse the lack of blurb to go with the sketches. In the last post I wrote a whole thing about studying a subject but blogger is rubbish and didnt allow me to copy and paste within itself so I lost it. Anyhooo.. here are a few more sketches from the zoo

Meerkat

Beach Sketches

So not content with stalking people in the park, I've taken to the beach. I took my sketch book with me on holiday, not sure if that is sad or committed!

AVP - The reprise

At the request of Christian I have dug out some other prop designs for the Alien V Predator game. You'll have to excuse the photos of them as I couldnt find the digital versions.

Back to sketches

Colour and Shape

I decided to put the sketches on hold momentarily. I'm on holiday soon so I'll get alot of those done at airport departure lounges and the like. In the meantime here a couple of colour pieces. I didnt know what they were going to be when I started them and still not sure to be honest :) I need to practice putting people into environments.

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Yes these again

More park stalking

More of the same.

Shock! Horror! a new pen

You'll be unsuprised to see more of these. I've changed medium slightly, the pen isnt as forgiving as the biro so I have to be commited to the stroke (as it were). As well as this I've been considering what it is I actually want from these. The answer I think is simply to keep drawing without fear or over thinking it. These keep those mental barriers down. I'm sure they'll pay dividends when I come to do something more polished in the coming weeks..hopefully

More...

So I was talking about hit and miss, these are more the miss side of the spectrum but hey. I made the mistake of seeing a couple of people on motability scooters and thought they would be excellent candidates. Boy, did I underestimate their speed, they could shift!

More Moleskin Sketches

The weather has been against me recently. No one wants to come out and play :(

Pagoda Sketches

I wanted to take a break from drawing people, especially as I'd been feeling a touch stalker-like and decided to draw the peace pagoda (and oriental lion statue) located at the lake. It was going okay until it decided to rain.

I think it's worth pointing out that I use a black biro to draw so Im forced to draw one line rather than over construct the drawing, which I can be guilty of. Plus I cant erase it should I not like, hence sketches will be hit and miss. You learn more from the mistakes than you do the successful ones. Well, that's what I tell myself anyway

I think there will be alot of sketches like these forthcoming so feel free to go through my archive for more digital and colourful work. That should tide you over until I have time to do some fresh ones

More sketches on the move

Just so as you know, each sketch is only 10 seconds or so in the making.

Sketch-ercise

So, some of my friends may know I'm 'training' for a London to Brighton Bike ride. So I've been cycling around a nearby lake at lunchtimes.

I've begun to encorporate some sketching it too. Essentially, I do a lap, then stop do some quick sketches of people and swans or geese and bugger off and do another lap. I must say I've been loving it. Its very cool trying to sketch people without them noticing. I used to cringe at this sort of thing but in my old age Im relishing it :) Plus a good friend of mine wanted me to carry on with traditional media as well as the digital stuff.