More coffee house drawings...

Another Starbucks session. I really dug how this one came out as this is, stylistically, exactly how I want to draw.

My fellow art studio mate, Jason McLellan, and I get get together weekly at the local Starbucks for small talk a sketchy goodness.

Here's a little bit of my process I go through when I paint. I really wish I'd taken some earlier photos as there is quite a jump from the pencils to the first picture in color. I usually work with reference but not always. (Good luck trying to get me to post that) I'm trying to use reference to get that lifelike quality but not be a slave to it. I don't want just photo reproductions.

I use Rembrandt paints, Utrecht brushes, and for my medium, it's a mix of 1/2 refined linseed oil, 1/2 turpernoid, and a few drop of cobalt dryer so that it dries almost overnight. Some colors take a little longer. One day when I have time I'll do a more in depth tutorial.

Special thanks to artist Dan Dos Santos (although he doesn't know it) for recommendations on supplies and technique. I use many of the same materials that he does though no where near to the level that he does.

These are the pencils to one of my recent oil painting that I plan on submitting to Marvel comics. Check out the final painting image by clicking HERE.

Alwasy eat your veggies & do your figure drawing.

Figure drawing is done best when it's done from life but there are dozens of books on the market of posed figures.