Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Various females


Most from reference, done over the last week or so.

I bought a neat book recently, containing sketches and preliminary roughs by Frank Frazetta. There's some inspiring material in there, but it's not really suitable for use as straight reference since it's all scribbly and stuff. However, I also ordered another art book today which has tons of old-school pinup paintings by Gil Elvgren. I expect to do a lot of studies from that one, some of which will undoubtedly end up here.

Scribbly figures


Sat out in the shade one day and drew some 16 pages (tiny A5). Most of it was crap, but I had a random flash of inspiration where I made a bunch of small loose figures with very little definition to them. Some had discernible legs and/or arms, while others were more like a vague draped figure. I didn't really know where I was going with them, but it was fun and some ended up rather dynamic.
The two lingerie-clad women are from a different session with photo reference.

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Alison


Actually I didn't have any intention of uploading this when I started it, but I did - so happy bonus sketch or something. Most of it was nice and relaxed, but I ended up noodling a little bit too much around the chin as I wasn't happy with it. Also the shirt/vest is very confused.

Reference from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3Zm6gA1IcI

Some faces


Got inspired by this little video and decided to do a few random heads. Attempted to go rather loose with most of them, with varying degrees of success. I mainly like the right-most ones, and the ape at the bottom.

Sunday, June 7, 2009

Ride gets bumpy

I will probably be missing days here and there from now on. Going up to stay with my folks for a few weeks, vacation-style. I'll likely draw a bunch but I might do so at my leisure and just upload "the good stuff" every other day or so.

Friday, June 5, 2009

iSpecs


Gotta gear up the cool when summer comes around... These are not for seein', they're for bein' seen in!

Thursday, June 4, 2009

Face of light


I was going to draw something out of Bridgman again, but couldn't feel the buzz. I fancied a face instead, and did this one without reference or anything. Started with the bridge of the nose. Kind of angled back a bit... I really like it though. The weird lines at the top are parts of another sketch, disregard them.

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Jill


Quick and simple portrait reference. Could use a bit more poof in her hair, but otherwise ok.

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Bridgman studies 2


Some quick hands, don'tchaknow? Loosely referenced from Bridgman again.

Monday, June 1, 2009

Troll from above


...but mostly random stuff. I'm tired, again.