Urban Sketching

I have been veering away from my original artwork quite a lot recently, so I decided to go back to pen and ink, and work on a little urban sketch of a street in Spain. I photographed a bit of my progress, and it turned out quite lovely. Here we go.

 Started by laying out perspective using pencil (as you can see on the right), and then started to lay out details using my 005 micron. I try to avoid crosshatching at this point.

I continue to lay out details along the city.










In the next photo, the finished product, the crosshatching is also finished, and I added clouds to add variety. This is a relatively monotone picture and the Urban sketch definitely emphasizes detail over value.

Eye in Blue

Working with color can be fun on occasion.

Charcoal Skull

Really have been trying to hone on my fundamentals lately. I wanted to really perfect my concepts of value, so I decided to make a skull (classic) using only charcoal. I feel that charcoal, such a malleable medium, really focuses the artist on the light and shadow, rather than the small details that pen art can so often overfocus on.

Here it is.

Photograph of a Field (Digital Paint with Photoshop CS6)

Decided to create something of my own today using digital painting techniques. I began by laying out a scene of a field and detailing some clouds in the sky:

As you can see here, it is a little blurry/out of focus, so I decided to take that to my advantage and output some creativity. I decided to put a camera in the foreground, in focus, to take away from the overall image, while adding a new element.

I painted it on a separate layer:

I made sure to make the camera more detailed than the background landscape, so that the illusion of depth could be created.

When put together, we get:

After that, I scaled down a copy of the first layer to put on the camera's screen, added some shadows using the brush tool, and made the lighting upon the camera more natural. I created a hand to accompany the camera, then I added a few birds in the air, and changed the hue/saturation of the entire painting slightly to yellow the picture a little. All of this was painted using a Wacom Intuos Small and Photoshop CS6

Final result:

Digital Painting of a Leopard

Got my hands on a Wacom Tablet, so tried to dip my hands into digital painting. Was quite enjoyable.