Sketch A Day #9 - Miscellaneous Stuff

... drawn in a car while waiting for my daughter. Drawing by car light and with a steering wheel in the way is harder than i thought!

Sketch A Day #3 - Nude Figure Study

More toned paper, gonna be working this sketch pad for a while. A figure study of a nude, draped over what looks to be a medium sized ottoman. Artistic, and very comfortable looking pose.

Generals Charcoal White pencil, Ritmo Charcoal HB pencil, Strathmore Toned Tan 400 series

Sketch A Day #14 - Loomis figure studies

Some figure studies from the Loomis' Figure Drawing For What its Worth, one of the two or three greatest books ever published in its class. Beautiful text, beautiful illustrations, excellent about actually teaching you this stuff.

With the holidays I've been working a bunch and falling behind on posting my sketches, but I've been working and will do some catch up posts.

has anyone else fallen behind a bit on their blogging?

Figure Study: The Carnival page 14

A marker and pencil study for a panel of The Carnival: The Human Hourglass page 14. If you've not gone over and read the story, click here and submerge yourself for a bit in some future nior.

Let me say it right here and now: the regression on the head for this shot is incredibly difficult to do. Gil Kane made it look way too easy.

Gil Kane was a badass.