That's better!

Differential: what causes vague, uncertainty of the chin and jaw area when drawing a caricature of Gregory House, aka Hugh Laurie?

Rubbish, small pictures which had to be scaled up and lost all their detail!

Treat it with a larger, better picture of House/Laurie for the vagueness, and a better pose for a better drawing.

Greg House

I decided to start a caricature of Hugh Laurie aka Gregory House MD! I'll work on this a little every morning until I'm satisfied, which I'm not at the moment. Some elements look like they'll work okay, some I'm not happy with yet (particularly his chin/jaw area - needs to definitely be more 'House-like'!).

More progress in the next post!

Noir 2 dee too

So I tried something with this morning's sketch. I loaded a 'medium round dots' paper texture which I got from a 'Painter X Wow!' book CD, and chalked in the grey dots to get some nice shading effects!

The cool thing is I can change the darkness/colour of the chalk I use to get different shades, whilst keeping the same size dots - makes it look a little different.

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.)