Portraits and a bird!

A couple of birthday portraits last year, in the same vein as the previous Edge one. All in Canson BFK Rives cream paper about 5"x7".

Portraits were done with a Pentel Tradio and Pocket Brush pens. I also used the regular Pentel Brush Pen for drybrush textures.

Young Michael Stipe from R.E.M. (click images for bigger versions):

A young Dolly Parton:

This blue-gray gnatcatcher was painted with Dr. Martin dyes and a touch of white gouache:

Birthday drawings

Here's a couple of birthday drawings for some of my co-workers. I used the Pentel Tradio and Pocket brush pens for the main parts of the drawings and a Pentel Black Color Brush pen for dry brush effects on Canson BFK Rives cream paper. As always, click on the images for a closer look.

R.E.M.'s bassist Mike Mills for Kim last month, 5"x7" (http://instagr.am/p/PNC55_AsSu/):

A fun/weird drawing of heavy metal vocalist King Diamond and Korean pop star PSY (dancing in Gangnam Style) for my friend Avaryl, 8"x10" (http://instagr.am/p/PNFOVsgsUM/):

(I changed King's eye makeup to look like a fish, put a correct cross on his cheek, and made him smiling as opposed to his usual grimace for fun)

And as a bonus during these election times, here's a fictional ad that one of my former students worked up for fun. I don't think I'd ever run for office but Elias thinks I should! I think the logo is pretty cool although my real beard is whiter in color these days:

'Til next!

Digital ink

Quick digital ink portrait in Corel Painter IX, hope you like!  -h

Figure Drawing (nude) 11/6/11

Drawings posted after the break, these are the most recent figure drawings from the Sunday morning class at Créalde School of Art in Winter Park, FL. Done with Copic Sketch markers (N2, 5, & 8) and brush pen on Bienfang Graphics No. 360 marker paper.

Warning: if you're offended by artistic nudity, I'd  suggest you not go further and please check out my other work here in the non-figure drawing posts (or clothed ones) and at the Dos Illustros sketchblog instead. If you're not offended then please read on...

Mai Justice process

This week I've done some quick digital concept sketches for a character in Wolfgang Wozniak's "Mai Justice" game. Wolfgang is a Full Sail University alumni who posted one of his characters at our DADA Full Sail art club Facebook page and I decided to do a short critique demo there where I redrew the character. You can check out more about the game and characters by clicking in the name of the game above, he's still looking for artists if you're interested.

At  the Dos Illustros blog I posted the final color quick sketch but here I will post all of the ones showing the process of how I got to it.

Here's the original sketch:

I started drawing on top of the original, giving her more realistic facial proportions:

I then started adding Native American features, I used Irene Bedard (star of "Smoke Signals" and voice of Disney's "Pocahontas") for reference:

Then added the character's details:

And finally quick color to see what she'd look like:

 

Character is © 2010-2011 Wolfgame and Wolfgang Wozniak