A couple of faces from my head or rather my sketchbook, eh. For some reason I love the bottom one. It may be the best face I've ever drawn. It was one of those I'm in the zone, loose, and boom, boom, done. Nice.

Drawing Session # 124

Another image from a night out drawing with a friend and fellow artist, Jason McLellan. Check out his website at www.headstatic.com to see some of his fantastic art.

I've always been a little leery of drawing Batman because of his damn mask. That thing is very easy to draw badly. That not withstanding I'm somewhat happy with what came out here.

All in the hands.

The reference is from George Bridgeman. I saw a post of an artist I admire though I can't remember who. Anyway, he said that to really know something draw it 18 times. That has a ring of truth to it. Repetition can help you understand a subject and the form it takes to draw it. After that though you still have to be fluid and flexible enough to keep the life in your drawing and not just put down the exact same lines in a pattern. We want lively happy lines, not boring dead lines.

Awesome Storm Justice #40 page 1.

I'm doing the pencils for a 6 page episode (#40) of Awesome Storm Justice, a community art project over at PencilJack.com and Uggabugga.net. It's a lot of fun and I got the ok to post my pencils as I go so check back every week to see the new pages and I'll let everyone know when the entire thing is finished. Go to Uggabuggy.net to check out previous episodes.

The Hulk is King!

I found a sketch I did at the Hero's convention last year that I never finished. I did it as a warm up to a huge poster size painting I did for the art auction they do every year to raise money for the con. I fixed it up and rendered it out.

The Elf Prayer

I went back and did some more work on this making my brushstrokes more pronounced and fixing some anatomy error mainly around the neck area.

Well, after hours of hard work this bad boy is finally finished. I spent a great deal of time trying to make this as polished a piece as possible but without that slick digital feel. I'm really, really happy with how the face came out. I've also put together a little how I did it piece. For those interested I did this completely in photoshop except for the initial sketch which is a scanned pencil drawing. Most of the painting is just the standard hard round brush with the opacity set to pressure. I did use a few other texture brushes in select spots. Now, it's on to my next project.

More Sketchbook.