Wonderfully Busy

As you can tell by the sporadic nature in which I've been updating this blog I have been spectacularly busy. I love being busy. When I started this blog I was very sick and couldn't even imagine that I'd be this swamped with work. Now, I'm so busy I haven't even had time to do anything in my sketchbook! This past month or two I've been taking my first art class, 2D Design. It's kept me busy with lots of work. Oh, and as an aside, I sold my first piece of artwork. Anyway, here's the artwork. I just want to say that my sketchbook size has gotten larger (11x14) and my scanner isn't that large. My full page pieces will need to be photographed and then I only have my iPhone to take pics with so just bear with me until I get a higher quality way of uploading my work.

Rocket Engine (classwork)

Texture Study (classwork)

Boxers

Cowboy Artist

Fisherman

Thirsty

Stance

Derwent Pencil Rant

I've gotta take a second and tell everyone about Derwent Pencils. As far as graphite encased in wood is concerned I love Derwent. I like to make hash marks more than I like to shade so I use the Graphic line because I feel like the lead is less smudgy. But for people that like to shade more than hash I'd recommend the Sketch line. I recently ran out of 2b pencils and it was torturous. I love using 2b pencils, it's my favorite hardness. I finally got out and bought a few and drawing with them is like curling up on a couch with a hot chocolate. It's like riding a bike, like playing with your dog, like good food. It just feels awesome. Had to get that rant in there.
Alright, below I'm including two works I've done in ink. One of the ways I passed the time between not having a healthy supply of pencils and having one is using pens. I think ink can make me a more confident artist and every once in a while I use them. The first is from a picture I found on the internet and the second is a panel from League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Vol. 2. If you haven't read it I highly recommend it. Don't let the movie ruin it for you. Thank you for reading about my brainsplosion.

Reflections

Teaching Horror

More Sketches!

Hey peoples. So I see that I have increased traffic recently which is good. I like having a few more readers. I've recently decided that I'm not sketching enough anymore. One sketch per day is too few. I've, therefore, increased my work to 3 pages per day! I know, not much of an increase. When you consider the increased size of my sketchbook and all of the practice I could fit on a single page it's pretty good though. I've been practicing drawing fabric folds and can fit about 4 sketches on a page. Plus, I usually use a page to sketch something I like. Anyway, here are this posts sketches. The first is a graphite sketch of an ogre taken from a magazine and the second is Roland Deschain taken from the Dark Tower graphic novel alternate covers. I love drawing cowboys and this one was especially stylistic so it kinda grabbed me. Thank you for reading about my brainsplosion.

Ogre

Roland the Gunslinger