MERMAID

WOW...my third update and STILL no comments? I guess this isn't as good as I originally thought! Well anyway, she is finished!



This drawing was inspired by a magnificent sketch I saw by a fantastic artist named Robert Islas. He graciously gave me permission to do a graphite rendering of his drawing. This is VERY small...on an 8" x 10" piece of bristol board...her face alone is smaller than 1 square inch!
I should have this finished in no time! Check back soon.
HERE is Robert's Blog...go see for yourself his amazing work!

MORE THAN PENCILS

I have literally thousands of ink drawings like these I've accumulated over the years from being in the screen printing business. I did all of them with my rapidograph refillable technical drawing ink pens! I would draw things roughly in pencil and then lay translucent vellum over top and trace it in INK....Scan the drawing into photoshop and get it ready for press!
I just prefer to show my favorite media ,GRAPHITE!!!
I do this kind of stuff all day at work and it is a joy just to grab my pencils at lunch and just draw!

Group Caricature

I just started a Group drawing for my son's (award winning) High School Jazz Band...I'm trying to get it done before the end of their school year! I plan to make prints for each student and my son gets to keep the original! My son Kyle is the 2nd from the left - bottom row. This is a small drawing, US letter size 8.5" x 11" wide.
HERE are some photos of the band.

KIPI

While searching for something on Google, I accidentally found this picture...I thought it would be a really nice drawing, with all of the textures and what-not. I honestly didn't have any idea WHO this girl is! After some research I found out that Her name is KIPI . She is a cosplay actress from Tokyo, Japan and she is 20, will be 21 in August

11" x 14" (28 x 36cm) smooth bristol paper/2B & H pencils/ a total of 11 hours....one of the longest drawings I've done.

Drawing 4 2008 part 6

6 Hours of drawing time so far in this 11" x 14" picture! I don't know why I'm even posting this, no one seems to be interested lately! oh well!

DRAWING no.4 for 2008

This is only the very early stages of a rather complicated drawing. Many details throughout. Here you see just the top half ( it's all that fit in my scanner).
• I first drew these features with a very light "H" pencil and softened the pencil lines with tissues.
• Then I went into the dark areas with the much darker "2B" pencil to add contrast.
This is the simple formula I stick to for all my drawings. Thanks to all 13 people who stopped by to see my last drawing! :)
Did I mention I hate to draw hands?

Abbey Chase Finished

Abbey Chase: A character created by Master Comic Book Artist J.Scott Campbell for a series called DangerGirl!
11" x 14" smooth bristol paper / 2B & H pencils!

Almost Finished

I made a little more progress on this drawing. I'm hoping to complete this during my lunch break today!
I notice there is very little interest in this drawing from you viewers! Oh well, I still like it! I only wish more people felt the same.

80's sketchbook pages

I enjoyed Kali's sketch blogs and they reminded me of my old sketch books. These are some pages from one of my very old sketchbooks from the early 1980's. 98% of these were drawn with a fine point felt tip marker! I would draw until the pages were full and get another sketchbook! There was NO order to this or purpose, just passing time with goofy doodles. Hope you like them!

Abbey Chase ( DangerGirl )

I did a little more work on this today. Her nose was troubling me since I first sketched this out!!! So I did a little rhinoplasty on her proboscis! Even though the first nose was OK, it needed to look a little more CAMPBELL-like and upturned. Thanks for having a look today.

Abbey Chase work in progress, based on the character created by Master Comic book Artist J Scott Campbell.
This will be 11" high and 14" wide when she is complete!
Please check back for updates!

2B and 2H pencils on Smooth Bristol paper

Damaged My Drawing Hand

Well, I won't be doing any drawing for a while! My hand was ripped open by a screen door handle! I had my dog on a leash and she blasted out the door, slamming my hand into the handle.The flat handle went through of my hand. It felt like being smashed by a hammer.
This sucks, I do EVERYTHING with this hand. I received 12 stitches to close it up. In 2 weeks , the stitches will come out and hopefully I can draw again! Ouch!

Jayne Wisener (sweeney todd)

OK...She's finished!
Jayne Wisener, a 20 year old actress from Northern Ireland recently featured in the Tim Burton film "Sweeney Todd".
She played the roll of Sweeney's imprisoned daughter Johanna.

Total time to complete adds up to 8 hours.
2B & H pencils
Smooth Bristol paper size 11" x 14" (28 x 36 cm).
HERE is what she really looks like! Dig that tiny nose!!!

Jayne Wisener ( work in progress)

here's an update showing where I am with the hair! I should be finished this drawing one day this week! Thanks to all who left a comment!
With an HB pencil, I sketched out the various locks of long hair!! When I'm happy with the shapes, I go in with a 2B pencil for sharper definition and higher contrast...That's when it "POPS".
I also spent about 20 minutes repairing her nose, the bridge of her nose was off to the left too much. I also repaired her bottom lip to make it more balanced. 5 hours total so far!

I just started another drawing the other day...I think this one will be very beautiful!
This is young Irish actress Jayne Wisener ( Joanna in the new Sweeney Todd movie). She is quite a lovely lass with her HUGE wide eyes and ridiculously tiny nose...Awesome.
As you can see from the photo, her face is quite small but the over all drawing will be the same size as all the others!

1st drawing for 2008

Hayden Panettiere: from the TV series Heroes.
8 hours to complete...
11" x 14" graphite pencils on smooth bristol paper!

Christmas card

Merry Christmas Everyone.

Found an OLD drawing

WOAH....Look what I found on an old ZIP drive. This goes back several years ago...this is Abbey Chase, a character by comic book artist Jeff Scott Campbell ( Danger Girl Series). I don't even know where the original pencil drawing is anymore! hmmmmm.

Stefanie's Cartoon Girl ( finished)

OK...She's Done....how do you like her Stefanie???

An Update



I really like Stefanie Achtnig's drawings and this one really struck me....I wanted to draw in my graphite style! Lets see if comes out as good. You can find her original drawing Here

Sven & Stimpy

I did this drawing in Adobe Illustrator ( vector ) for my sons High School Marching Band Advertisement! I guess I should color this sometime!

ZELDA colorized

I colored ZELDA in Photoshop......just a little experiment in coloring my grayscale graphite drawings!

VERY OLD digital art

I was just going through old crap and found this little gem. This dates back to 1999...2 years before the introduction of the Bratz© Dolls (in 2001).
I find this interesting!
Could someone have seen this and been inspired to make those dolls? Ahhh, who knows!
This was scanned and uploaded to some internet site in the year 2000....hmmm.

UGLY-2

OK...It's finished.
Scroll down to see screenshots of it's progress!

This is very small...only about 5 inches wide!

UG - 2 in progress

I haven't been drawing any big projects lately....This is what I used to do all the time when I was a boy. This is in the early stages and is likely to change several times before it's complete! This is good fun for me because it doesn't have to look like anything....there is nothing to compare it to...and I enjoy watching these things evolve! I hope you will to! I'll leave all the stages here to compare when finished!

Caricature - quick sketch

Here's a better version on another post-it pad...this time with 70's style straight hair

I just busted out a tiny 3"x3" caricature on a Post-It® sticky pad!!! Any Guesses???
I'll give you a clue.....My Wife's favorite rock singer from the 70's and still today....You may guess this if you were born before 1975.....wow, im gettin old.

Disney's® Belle

This is a small pencil drawing I did last year.

Zelda Finished

I made a couple last minute changes...Hope ya like her!

ZELDA 2007

I need something fun to do. I started a fun little sketch today!!! This is gonna be Princess Zelda ( from the nintendo game series) as she appears out of character .....in modern day ( why not? ).
This is EXTREMELY preliminary with a 2H pencil! I can already see I need to "even" up her boobs, perhaps hook her up with a bigger set? hmmmm, not sure yet.

UPDATE..A side by side comparison. I did a little fine tuning to the over all shapes and started to shade her face!!!
See if you can spot the changes!!!

Update April 3 2007,
She is starting to shape up...Thanks to all 5 people who stopped by to look at this!