Did a quick little sketch, had the image in my head and I felt like drawing. No reference photos or anything, so the gun's just a vague shape, and i know the hat's not right. And yes it's a girl with her hair pinned up, not a feminine guy.

Sorry I haven't posted a while. I started my second job monday, it was a lot longer day then expected. Then i've been working the rest of the week while fighting being sick. I really didn't feel like being creative today, so I just worked on coloring my salamandar picture. I didn't get real far but i feel pretty bad right now. I have to work all day tomorrow so there won't be a post tomorrow, i didn't know when else i'd get to post something. Don't expect a lot of updates in the next week or so, until i get used to my new schedual and get over being sick.

More mythological creatures. This is my selkie man. The books I read say selkies in human form aren't much different than any other human, except they'll be walking along the beach for hours with their hems still wet and water and seaweed pooled in their footprints. This was hard to caputre in just a rough pencil sketch. I find water really hard to convey with just greyscale, and particularly with pencil. Maybe if I get a bit more spare time and inspiration I'll clean it up a lot and make it much more detailed. I also had some trouble with the angle. Forshortening from behind and all that. I'll have to use some photo references or make someone model for me if I do a full illustration of it. Maybe I'll add a selkie lass next to him with her skirt hems all wet as well.

I've been reading Mercedes Lackey's fairy tale books lately. I just finished reading Pheonix from Ashes, which is a cinderella re-mix with elemental magic. I liked the little salamandar fire elementals so i thought i would draw a couple as I imagine them. Little salamandars that curl up in the flames. I might color this in photoshop sometime.

Just a quick dragon sketch. It's based off a dragon figurine I painted a while back. I wasn't in the mood to do a fully rendered image. Today was all gray and gloomy, I wanted to draw I just couldn't muster up the energy to care. Plus the easer on my pencil was bad and I couldnt' find my good mechanical eraser so I didn't feel like getting overly detailed when I couldn't even erase my mistakes.

I spent about 2 hours finishing this up. So probably around 4 hours on the whole drawing. I know sketch books are usually places to do quick drawings, not really thorough rendered peices, but I feel I'm learning a lot from these studies. Working on getting different textures like stone, metal, plants, water ect. I'm really proud how this turned out. I like the little guy. I have a few more gargoyle pictures, maybe sometime i'll give them a try too. I think i'm going to take a break from really thorough drawings for a bit, however, and go back to some quick sketching studies.

I like gargoyles. I like the buildings in New York that still have little ones hidden away. I think it's a shame how boring modern buildings are. Just big walls of concrete with windows thrown in. I like all the gothic architecture with the swooping arches, gargoyles, intricate carvings and everything. It makes buildings so much more interesting. I found some stock photos of gargoyles, I decided to start drawing this one because I like the expression on his face. Rather than doing smooth shading with lots of smudging, i decided to use a quasi-pointilism shading to give it more stone-like texture. It's not done yet, my hand was wearing out. I'll finish and post it tomorrow probably. Hopefully i'll have more than one image tomorrow, since it's my day off.

I finished my engine picture. It turned out ok i guess. I think i'm going to give myself lead poisoning one of these days. Fingers work so much better for smudging then those little paper stick things or tissues or anything else. this probably took about 4 hours all together.

This isn't done yet, but it's about 2 hours worth of sketching. I decided that since I'm not very good at drawing mechanical stuff, maybe i should work on it. As you can see, it's very sketchy and not very mechanical looking yet. hopefully it'll get better as i work. Maybe i'll start a new trend of organic machinery. But anyway, i'm tired of working on it now and its late, so i'm calling it good for a night.

I've been slacking a bit this week, haven't had a lot to post. So I made myself draw tonight. Not terribly impressed with the results. Its funny how things go. The waterfall sketch I meant to be more of a doodle to pass time turned into this really elaborate drawing that i got really into. I wanted this to be this big dramatic cloudscape full of subtle shadings and i just got bored with it. I also discovred conte crayons are really not my favorite medium, i greatly prefer charcoal. They dont smudge well enough and layer on too thick too fast. I couldnt get the smudgin to go dark enough, but the initial marks to lay down color wouldn't smudge into blobs, they stayed too sharp. So it looks more like blobs of black instead of a dramatically lit cloudscape.

I meant to post this pictures before leaving for Soak City yesterday, but blogger was acting up. I tried about 10 times before giving up, and I got home too late at night to post them then. I worked all day today, so I guess late's better than never. The first is just a dragon doodle. The second is a picture that started out as a idle sketch of a waterfall picture and turned into a 2 hour plus drawing focusing on value and texture.