Flapper WIP

After all that Christmas craziness and sloth I started this to try and get back into the mood for work.

D&D Sketches

More D&D sketches. Our group woke up to find humanoids rummaging through our stuff!

Running Away

A small sketch from the ol' sketchbook.

D&D Sketches

Some sketches from last week's D&D session:

Christmas Morning

Have been too busy with Christmas-related stuff to finish a lot of work lately. This morning, though, it was above zero and my yard was free of hares so I went out to do a bit of painting.

It's kind of brown and disgusting out there but Merry Christmas anyway!

Zombie Shepherd WIP

I was looking through some of my friend's Pathfinder materials and I really want to play a necromancer cleric now.

Just a WIP. Don't know if I'll ever finish it.

Animal Sketches 13 - Goat Kids

I love floppy-eared goat breeds.

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Our with the bears, in with the goats!

Plus a couple of bonus hikers.

The Hike

The result of all those bear studies:

Animal Sketches 11 - Even More Bears

Animal Sketches 10 - More Bears

The Bear - Rough

A rough for a b&w illustration.

Animal Sketches 9 - Bears

More bears!

Animal Sketches 8 - Bears

Bear sketches from various online photos.

Morgiana Pinup - NSFW - Process

Since I have to post my process/progress shots for the competition, you might as well see them too:

The Climb WIP

Still working on this pic:

Morgiana Pinup - NSFW

Aaand done!

Morgiana Pinup - NSFW

Inks done, rough colours applied:

Morgiana Pinup - NSFW

This week's Illustration of the Week topic was "Pinup" and I just had to jump in:

The Climb WIP

Like a Fire Burning

The Bath Rough

Ghosts

Just sketching. To David Bowie.

Take This With You WIP

Slowly working on refining:

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Lolbunny

I'm posting this just because.

First Snow Final

Werepug Sketch

Even a man who is pure in heart and says his prayers at night... might find himself a werepug.

First Snow Rough

Had to get this one out of my system. :)

Bounce Rough

Another rough sketch that might turn into a children's illustration:

Blender Rough

A rough for a little story to put into my children's illo porkfolio:

Quickie Portrait 8

A guy from the "Draw Me" thread on ConceptArt.

I went to the art store and bought a bunch of different filbert brushes on sale. Filbert! It's a great word. The filbert brush is flat and has an oval edge rather than being squared off or coming to a point. I've been playing with a filbert made of hog bristle and I think I really like it. Although I'm not sure I bought the best quality one as it has stray hairs sticking out and it's already lost two.

Take This With You Roughs

Roughs for a double illustration I'm doing for the old porkfolio:

Quickie Portrait 7

This had the potential to be pretty good before I totally messed up the neck:

Messing Around

Animals!

Quickie Portrait 6

This one had unusual lighting I wanted to try but I think I screwed up the tilted features. :P

Quickie Portrait 5

Quickie Portrait 4

Quickie Portrait 3

I used a slightly smaller brush for this one (3/8" rather than 1/2") and took a little longer and it seems to have turned out better.

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Still going!

Quickie Portrait 2

So I'm raiding Flickr, Google and dA for these which is not entirely kosher. But I'm pretty sure no one's going to recognize their photos unless I get a LOT better.

Quickie Portrait 1

So I screwed that last acrylic self-portrait up pretty badly, and I thought I might need some practice. A while back I stumbled on this guy who did little acrylic portraits in his sketchbook using a large brush and very limited palette. Once I tracked the thread down I got some ideas on the palette he was using and did a couple trial runs of my own.

I'm having a lot of trouble controlling the huge brush and getting used to the palette so I guess I'm lucky this turned out as well as it did (which isn't very). But these take only about half an hour to paint so I can easily do a couple a day and improve. I might pick up a brush more similar to the other guy's. I don't know. Can one get more control with filberts or flats?

Animal Sketches 5

Still going through people's zoo pictures.

Animal Sketches 4

I Am a Rock - Final

Someone's building a fortress deep and mighty.

International Self-Portrait Day

Screwed up the traditionally-painted version so had to re-do it digitally. :P

That was a lot of portrait painting. Gonna have to practice all winter so I can put in a better showing next year! Also, jogging.

If I Was a Vampire

This week on CHOW it's vampires vs werewolves and your alter ego has to choose a side!

Not only would I totally be a vampire, but I used to LARP one and my last surviving character was a Malkavian.

I Am a Rock

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