Female Studies

Here are a couple of recent female studies I have done.  Both from photo reference.  Thanks for stopping by, Enjoy !!!!

Daily Doodles

Some recent practice studies for your viewing pleasure. LOL  Enjoy !!!!!

Mrs. Groot

Here is a fun little practice painting that started out as a figure drawing session, then went into an entirely different direction. I love messing around with anatomy and discovering new forms. I call her Mrs. Groot :)  Thanks for stopping by, Enjoy !!!!

Some more studies

The art journey continues.  Here a few more painterly studies from photo references.  These were done in Corel Painter X3 using the oil brushes and Photoshop cs6 using various custom brushes that have canvas textures applied to them.  Thanks for stopping by, Enjoy!!!!

Painterly Studies

My good friend and art Mentor, Carlos Huante has been working with me on a few art techniques to get my animal and human anatomy up to par. Mostly going back to basics and working traditionally as often as possible. He also put me on to a bunch of artist I had never heard of before and some that I knew of, but I am studying a lot closer lately. Carlos referred me to The New Masters Academy and in particular one of their instructors, an artist by the name of Steve Huston. Steve's work is just beautiful. He quickly became a favorite of mine. I love watching his painting and figure drawing lectures on The New Masters Academy site. Below are a couple of Paint studies based on some of Steve's work. Thanks for stopping by, Enjoy!!!!

Random Faces

Some sketches of random citizens for practice. Picture references provided by Jason Seiler for his caricature course on schoolism.com Thanks for stopping by.

Studying The Studies

Studying figure drawing and anatomy from the usual suspects: George Bridgman, Kent Hultgren, Burne Hogarth, Gottfried Bammes, Charles Bargue among others. Also from pics of random people photos I have saved on my computer.

Scribbles

Some Gesture drawings and creature / Alien design thumbnails from the past few days.

Sketchy Ladies, Scribbler Too, and The Silver Cord

I was excited to recieve my copy of a book I worked on a few years ago titled "The Silver Cord" You can read an online version of the book and find out how to order a printed copy at www.silver-cord.net There is also a link to a kickstarter page where you can help get the rest of the project out there, so head over to the site and learn all about it. Below is a two page spread that I painted for the book. Pencils by my friend and artist Steve Masseroni. Next are a few figure drawing studies I did to stay loose at work this past Saturday These next couple of thumbnails were done in an online sketching program called Scribbler Too. Look it up, it's pretty addicting. I just spend a few seconds on each of these to try it out, I intend on messing around with it more.

Saturday's scribbles

Some random stylized people that I doodled between tattoos Saturday night.

New Sketches

I haven't posted any sketches in awhile. This blog is about daily doodles after all, so here you have it.

Blackbook Session

Some more figure drawings and faces:

Bikes and Babes

Some more daily warm-ups. Some figure drawing, and a Katsuhiro Otomo inspired (Akira) character on a bike. When I practice figure drawing, I still try and apply my style to the sketch and not so much drawing exactly what I see.