Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Finger painting

My first iPad drawing, done using nothing but my index finger and an expensive toy...

This one worked OK, but I've found it tough to get any decent result since.

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Peace

I've been suffering major drawer's-block, due to my usual over-thinking (plus an unhealthy dose of fatigue). So I'm reverting to just going through my reference photo stockpile, and not questioning the importance or usefulness or anything else. I either draw or discard, steadily moving through the (virtual) pile. If you have any requests though, definitely happy to steal inspiration :)

Saturday, November 20, 2010

Nude shade

I've drawn a bunch of nudes over the years, but this is the first one I've posted. The actual drawing was a bit ordinary in this case but I liked the shading on its own.


Wednesday, October 27, 2010

The wait is over

Well it took me 6 months, but I finally delivered Liv's birthday present, meaning the drawings contained therein are now fair game for posting :) Here's a first taste:






Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Hiro


Continuing my Heroes theme, as I only have 3 eps left of season 4.

Sunday, August 08, 2010

Sylar


My new drawing setup


Bought a crazily expensive new PC on Wednesday, with the ability for dual screens and speedier handling of graphics apps like The GIMP a major reason. It certainly gives me more room to move than when the reference photo and the blank page had to share a single screen.

Monday, July 19, 2010

Jacob


I was asked to draw this specific Twilight-based pic, thus the detour from my usual subject matter. Fairly happy with it, although still suffers from "likeness issues" that I'm continuing to chalk up to impatience.

Sunday, July 18, 2010

Watercolour


My first tentative step into the world of digital watercolour. Plenty to work on, and I still drew more than painted, but an interesting change for me nonetheless.

I haven't really used the freedom to experiment that doing my art digitally provides, except for a couple of little colouring efforts. For me the main barrier to painting has always been that it involves supply shopping (the dreaded s-word!). Digital painting avoids that hassle, so no excuse remains :)

Saturday, June 19, 2010

Colour Experiment


It's actually easier to demonstrate how I move from one step of a drawing to the next when I'm doing it digitally, as long as I remember to do it in layers.

The actual base sketch for this is a bit dodgy, but I like the colouring.

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Surprising news


The best of my 5 drawings for the day, this was originally going to stop at the "pencil" sketch stage, but I felt like adding some colour. I think it turned out well :)

Saturday, June 12, 2010

Lean


Drawing #12 for today, after 6 hours, my highest count ever, and ever more encouraging results.

I'll hopefully stick with this level of commitment for another few weeks to lock in the drawing routine that slipped after my return to work.

Fire


A possible alternative design for my Pyro character... if I go the T&A route...

Friday, June 11, 2010

Selection


May was an almost entirely drawing-free zone, after I'd managed 2-3 hours a day the previous 2 months. Luckily I've made a better effort so far in June. Here's just a sample.

Sunday, May 02, 2010

Creature


I have no idea what this guy was doing in my head... One of the very rare occasions where I genuinely captured what I saw in my mind's eye. Maybe my drawing skill is slowly starting to catch up to my imagination :)

Saturday, May 01, 2010

Eagle


More of my favourite animal, again taken from my March stockpile. I have drawn about 180 pics in the past 7 weeks, so no surprise I haven't thrown up everything on Flickr.

Tiger


Another pic saved from March

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Defiant


Since I'm busy preparing a couple of drawing-based birthday presents, my current drawing output is top-secret. So here's something from March which I haven't published before.

Monday, April 05, 2010

Inked


Really happy with this one. Turned a quick sketch into something interesting with dramatic shading. I think all the proportion practice is paying off too.

Fed up


Just something quick and easy, aiming at simple expression and body language.

Face


My last couple of faces lacked symmetry, so I went with the easier profile... I'll keep working at the front-on shots though :)

Face


Somewhat wonky...

Face


Rather than just rushing through sketches, I wanted to go back to more of the detail work. My first face for about a month...

Saturday, March 20, 2010

Scene


A very quick sketch I drew while testing whether a 39" TV as my monitor was better for drawing. Turns out that's a bit too big... my eyes took a couple of hours to recover!