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April 11, 2012
Mom's Easter flowers were so pretty, I had to draw 'em!
This one was done in coloured pencils on a double-page spread in my moleskine sketchbook:
April 10, 2012
Today, a quick watercolour study of a flowering cactus:
April 6, 2012
Happy Easter everyone!
April 5, 2012
This is the second collage. This one works better compositionally than yesterday's, I think!
April 4, 2012
Recently I've been reading about collage art journalling, and I thought I might like to give it a try to add variety to my sketchbook. Right now the fastest and most efficient way for me to collage (in the limited time I have between bouts of writing my graphic novel) is to do digital collage. I'm using Corel Painter 12, which gives me endless media to work with. Here is the first collage:
April 3, 2012
I was interested in experimenting with using digital coloured pencils in a landscape drawing. For this drawing I began with a quick tonal sketch in 4B pencil, then laid in coloured pencil over the sketch:
April 2, 2012
I tried something a little different with character subject matter this time:
March 30, 2012
Here's another sketch (this time very quick) using the planning methods from yesterday's drawing:
March 29, 2012
I've been trying new ways of sketching characters, and found this method really helpful. The sketch is done in three stages – first a very simple “wire” rough-out to get proportion and posture correct, then I draw a manikin-style sketch over the wire sketch, then finish with sketching flesh and clothing. So far, so good!
Here is a progression of three sketches for a fight scene:
March 28, 2012
A very quick pose sketch – the face has some wonky bits, but I'm generally happy with the gesture, light and shadow:
