Nook and Cranny

I drew this dwarf fellow, Nook, and his little body buddy, Cranny, for a friend. They are characters of his creation who came about through many years of Dungeons and Dragons campaigns! So cool!

More playing...viking tough guy

Again, just playing around with painting and style. Digging the sketchy with the painterly right now.

Also, this is now my banner.

Playing over some sketches with some color and technique

"Young Swordsman"

"Viking."

The Witch King of Angmar!!

Ok, so I decided to return to Middle Earth for another pencil drawing... so I'm nerding out...whatever. IT'S SO FUN.

Goblin King!!

In honor of the release of The Hobbit I decided to have a little fun and try my hand at a version of the Goblin King. I love me some Photoshop, but sometimes it's just sooo nice to work in pencil!

Some environment sketches

These sketches are the beginning of a semester-long project that I'm pretty excited about.

Like, 3 or so dwarves...

I have been working on re-designing the seven dwarves for fun/practice. I wasn't originally going to post the sketches separate from the finals but I've been teaching an animation workshop at school and haven't had time to do a lot of work the last week or so. So..... because I don't want to go too long without posting, I figured I'd throw some sketchbook pages up.

Some Inks Washes

Just some ink washes I've done over the last few weeks. The first one is from an image I got on the webs, the rest are from observation or my own photos. 

Some figure studies

Had some down time this afternoon on campus so I stopped in a figure drawing class and did some sketches, used pencil, brown micron pen (brand new, very exciting) and watercolor.

Amphora Thumbnails Redux

Here they are again, but better organized and hopefully more "viewable".

Thumbnails

I didn't post a lot over my winter break, but I did thumbnail out what I hope will be my entire final project/senior thesis (it took me a lot longer than I thought it would, even with itty bitty sketches). The project is called "Amphora", and I'll probably post on it a lot over the next year and a half or so. Anyway, I wanted to get a first round of storyboards done to include it with my "junior year" portfolio. I plan to clean it up in Photoshop later, but here are the thumbnails.

Another Panera session

Here is a little Nico Marlet-inspired (the colored pencil with marker over it) life drawing session at Panera.

More from Panera

Here is a Photoshop painting from last week's sketch session at a Panera bread. I did it in color, then I played with a black and white gradient on an adjustment layer and liked both images.

Panera Bread sketches

Here are some sketches I did yesterday from a Panera Bread near my house.

I'm working on a digital painting from the same session that I will try to post soon too.

Dragon Practice

Been drawing a lot from How to Train Your Dragon over the first few days of winter break. I love that movie - I've watched it about six times in the last three days and I'm sad every time it's over - and I love the character designs of Nico Marlet so I decided to do a bunch of studies of the film. There will be more from the movie later (and Ima draw from Kung Fu Panda at some point), but here is the first batch practice drawings from the movie.

The Holidays are here....

One of my classes went to the Franklin Park Conservatory to draw yesterday. I just felt like posting this super quick "sketch and paint" of one of their Christmas displays. Drew the sketch on site, did the painting in Photoshop (instead of real homework....ahhhhh!).

Some Faces

Since the last time I posted was before Thanksgiving and I'm basically just working on stuff for final projects I figured I'd throw some sketches up here to keep the content rolling.

These are just some quick color pencil drawings of people on campus.

Some sketches from tonight...

at the Animation Collective.

Birds Ya'll

Just did these for a cafe sketch assignment. Thought I would post them here as well. I drew them in pencil and colored them in Photoshop.

People Outside!

Did these on the campus lawn yesterday.