Pointy Lady Three Ways

Sketchbook spread showing woman with pointy features three ways.That lady in the upper right is one of my favorite drawings from this period.  Something about the attitude, I think.

A Different Likeness

A very different take on this woman.Sketchbook spread showing large black woman sitting on a stool in front of a ladder.At least I think it’s the same woman.  Hard to tell, particularly since “likeness” is a rather low priority when I draw from life.

Life Drawing – Gesture Spread

I pulled together all the gesture sketches from a single life drawing session for this set.  That was a lot easier to do when I drew small.

Sketchbook page gesture drawings of a flexible nude woman in many positions.

I switched sketchbook brands the second I realized this one’s paper scanned a hue of piss yellow.

When Owl was a Dude

A villain from when I was sketching out ideas for the comic I’m working on. Pencil sketch showing character design for a cubby owl villain.Pencil sketch showing character design for a cubby owl villain.

This can also be considered an early version of the female hero character Owl.  I co-opted the design when I realized owls are much easier to draw than finches.

Oldie Goldie

I’ll be posting a few worthy sketchbook pages from an older set of work starting with this long pose set:

Sketchbook page featuring long pose illustrations of a large nude woman leaning on a cane.  Also shows portrait insert.

I believe I only had the opportunity to draw this woman once.  As I recall she was enormously difficult to do gestures for.

Gotta Love Robots

Pencil sketch of robot character design.  Robot kneeling and holding small rodent creature. Pencil sketch of robot character design.   Robot shown walking. Pencil sketch of robot character design.  Early draft, round face.Opening up the vault for this one.   Character designs of main character from an animated short I was working on.  The final robot looked a bit different, but I do like these early examples.

 

And Now We Have It

After some very cartoonish and semi-cartoonish attempts, I think I finally got him to look about right.sketchbook page showing drawing of a conventionally handsome nude man leaning on an artist's stoolStill, he looks like a handsomer version of one of my comic characters.  I guess true realism will have to wait another day.

When Things Aren’t As They Seem

This guy was the most conventionally attractive person I’ve ever had the opportunity to draw naked.

Sketchbook page featuring a nude man sitting on a stool and leaning on a bamboo stick.…granted things went a little awry in the drawing phase.