Old Me

So inspired by this post, http://heroprotagonist.livejournal.com/350365.html I sketched myself as a possible old person as a 'cool down' sketch of a Friday!

NY Bar

A chalk 'clone' (though hand painted) of a black and white photo taken by my friend and recent best man Gareth Coles, of a bar in Noo Yoik.

Quick sketch this morning using mostly the Bamboo pen tool and digital watercolour.

Plasterface

Quick sketch done this mornin' using the scratchboard tool - I thought I'd try using 'Bristol Board' paper from the 'Painter X Wow!' book CD to see if it makes any difference from using plain ol' basic paper, and I think it does - maybe - still, looks authentically ink on paper-like! (The shading is just a sponge.)

Drag n' Drop

Horror Comic progress

I've been working up the rough for the comic cover - it's definitely getting there now that I've added colour to it, but I think I need to perhaps go back to the rough and clean it up properly, as I've just been 'adding' to it up 'til now. Either that or I might start on new cover idea - we'll see!

I roughed out the pose with 2B pencils, and have been adding colour using acrylics captured bristle in Painter X, though with the halftone effect being a bit too big, you can't really tell - and I liked the look of the brush strokes, so will have to experiment with that!

Butch Hairdresser

Quick sketch I had to do for a 'Top Trumps' type game, where one side of the card would just be a close up of the character's face, flip it over and you see the rest of the figure/the props too - the idea being that it fights your assumption about what kind of person you're looking at, what their job might be, etc based on their appearance alone.

It was fun!