Saturday, January 28, 2012

New piece study WIP

Study of part of the next drawing I'm going to work on.
Not complete yet, needs to be fine-tuned.

Friday, January 20, 2012

Untitled

Whoops, I forgot to post the final product.
I don't have a title for it yet, I'll have to think of it.

Monday, January 16, 2012

Bob portrait

Portrait of the family bulldog, drawn as a Christmas present for my father.
Roughly 3.5"x3.5"

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

New work in progress

This piece began with an exercise in which you scribble at random and form an image based on the lines and shapes that form.  What came out was more or less a followup to Reptilian Brain, with some clear influence from Gastropoda.
This is about seven hours into the drawing phase, due to the scales.

About twelve hours in.  I'm not sure if I've ever seen a real lizard with that much diversity in size and shape of scales but it still has the desired effect.

Maybe eighteen hours in now.

I really like the way this leg looks now, and I wanted to document it before I change how it looks.

 Really lost count of the time, but I would estimate about twenty-three hours at this point.  Got everything picked up, now it's just a matter of making everything mesh and look like it's all part of the same mass!

Saturday, December 31, 2011

Gastropoda

22.5"x32.5"
25 hours to draw
Completed at 11pm December 31st, 2011

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Gastropoda process

Just a note - I'm taking these pictures with whatever is available at the time, be it camera, cell phone, webcam, et cetera, so the colors and quality will be distorted most of the time.  I'll have a nice, higher-quality picture for the final version.

The sketch I'll be working from.  There were a couple more pages to this tune but I didn't include them.

(obviously a very early WIP shot)
Finally beginning a new piece, now that the semester has finished!

 Simple collage this time, made entirely of pages torn out from a copy of The Enemy by Lee Child, which was falling apart after changing hands many times and which I fished out of the recycling bin. The ripples from the glue aren't quite as pronounced as they look in this admittedly bad photo.

 Misted with three different colors of spraypaint for that classic K Cross look.
Also distorted because I am not a photographer.

 Progress at 4 hours

 Progress at 12 hours

 Progress at 21 hours