Long Awaited

Thanks to everyone who watches my blog and sits through all of my practice work and sketches waiting to see illustrations. I know, it's been a while, but I have a bunch of new images to show you! Images which I will divulge over several posts. (We can't have too much fun all at once)
So here are two creature illustrations, painted for an upcoming table top role playing game. Both are painted in oil and finished with a few color tweaks in photoshop.

Cafe People

Some more somewhat tonal sketches. I think the girl in this set is starting to look overworked, a danger when working this way.

Tom

A Monday night portrait.

Oil, 16 x 20 inches

Tone Continued

I've been trying to keep up the somewhat higher level of finish that I've had in my sketches lately. Just for a change. Maybe it will stick, maybe not.

A Little More Finished

I was sketching this guy at the coffee shop the other day while he was working on his computer. He didn't move much for about an hour, so I just kept going with the sketch.

Sketching Along

Continued

Sketches

Two Pencil, One Ink

Sketch On

Pen and Ink

As I mentioned before I had been looking at some Charles Dana Gibson drawings recently and they inspired me to take out my dip pen and ink well. I managed to keep from spilling my ink well and creating any kind of catastrophic mess at the coffee shop (as I was a little nervous about) and here are the resulting drawings...

Charles Dana Gibson

I've been looking at my Charles Dana Gibson book lately for some inspiration. Taking it out with me sketching one night, I sat down and drew this first sketch. Then, I sat back and looked at the book for a while with a cup of tea.

When I had finished looking at the book, the guy I had just drawn was still there so I drew him again, this time allowing aspects of Gibson's style to influence me. It's nice to try new things and it's interesting to see the two side by side. Gibson also inspired me to take out my old dip pen and do some drawing in ink, that's coming up in future posts.


and here's another in my regular style.

Mack

Another Monday night portrait...

Oil, 11" x 14"

Carpenter's Pencil

For this first one I was using a carpenter's pencil. I use graphite sticks sometimes for larger figure drawings so I thought I would try it out in my sketchbook. Although this drawing came out alright, I found it a little clumsy in a small space so I think I'll stick to the mechanical pencil for now.

Amanda

I've been working on texture a bit lately, and this one makes me feel like I'm getting somewhere.

Oil, 16" x 20" (click to enlarge)