Life Sketches 14

Life Sketches 13

Life Sketches 12

I think this sketch might be the best of this week's lot:

Life Sketches 11

Life Sketches 10

Life Sketches 9

Life Sketches 8

I'm planning to go to life drawing every two weeks for the next little while so there's going to be rather a lot of naked people here for a while.

Sabotage

Just a weird digital sketch. I took a photo of these odd swirly streetlamps in Montreal and wondered what they'd look like if they were giant glowing electronic eyes.

Sketches

Sketches

Sketches

Some very fast sketches using Pixelovely (a reference photo tool):

Montreal Sketches - Lotus Pond

Montreal's Botanical Garden is one of the best I've seen. My only regrets were that we didn't go early enough in the morning to see everything properly, and that my camera ran out of batteries so that I had to bug Neil to take all my reference photos.

This was a contemplative wooden footbridge in the Japanese garden, which was gorgeous.

Montreal Sketches - Square St. Louis

I've got all sorts of random sketches in varying states of finish wandering around my sketchbooks. Here's one from my Montral vacation back in 2010:

There were trees growing in my line of sight so I ended up having to improvise a few things. I also didn't have the time to finish most of the inking on-site so I did most of the inking from a reference photo I took (trees and all). Today I looked up the location of this house on Google Maps and you can see the whole thing clearly on Street View. I'll have to remember that the next time I drag a sketch back to the hotel room to finish inking!

Scheherezade - WIP

I did the rough sketch for this for a past CHOW. Scheherezade, now an older woman, can still keep a crowd of grandchildren spellbound with her stories.

Life Sketches 7

And that's it for last week's Life Drawing. I'm hoping to go again next week.

Life Sketches 6

I think this one might have been the best of the lot.

Life Sketches 5

Life Sketches 4

Life Sketches 3

Life Sketches 2

Life Sketches 1

Next up some pages from last week's life drawing.

Hourly Comic Day 2012 - Part 3

The last installment:

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And there it is! I guess I'll be doing the next one in 2014.

Hourly Comic Day 2012 - Part 2

The next installment.

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Hourly Comic Day 2012 - Part 1

Hey, it was Hourly Comic Day yesterday (as it is every year). And I did hourly comics as I seem to do on even-numbered years.

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I'm going to try and finish up the rest of these by the end of today, you can continue stalking me here tomorrow and the next day. But it's been a busy couple of days -- I've been priming panels and baking bread and going to life-drawing... I feel like I've hardly sat down (although of course most of this was accomplished while sitting firmly on my butt.) There will be lots to post, but it may take me a while to prep it all.

Colour Study

Colour Study

Erzulie

A quickie WIP for CHOW:

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Colour study from Flickr:

Faces

Lots of people asking for help on portraits lately, so I've been getting the hankering to do a few. Also, I've been cleaning up the studio and I found my blue leads! Yay blue leads! I love drawing with these things.

Anyway. Portraits from random Flickr and dA photos:

Acid Gummy

For a "kill someone else's character" thread on CA:

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My own photo:

Colour Study

From Flickr:

The Saddest Pear

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From Flickr:

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From Flickr:

Crazy Anime Hair

I blame Elwell.

So You Want To Be A Wizard - Final

Done!

So You Want To Be A Wizard - Inks

Next portfolio piece:

Hope to have this one finished today, although I'm not sure the colours are working so well. I want it to look dull and ugly, because the alternate world in the book is ugly and scary, but at the same time I need it to be a good picture. Problematic!

Colour Study

Colour Study

On the Farm

Another B&W piece for the porkfolio:

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From one of my photos from Jasper.

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Another little colour study.

About half an hour, from a photo I took in Italy.

Thorn WIP

What I've been working on today:

I started a pic last January loosely inspired by the book The Alphabet of Thorn. The sketch wasn't very good and I abandoned it. I started throwing on some loose colours today when I found some nice reference for candlelight.

I hope it turns out nice. I sure need a few good porkfolio pieces.

Colour Study

15 minute environment study.

Flapper

I'm calling this one done: