A Drawing a Day No. 3 - A not so great drawing of Luke. Pencil on brown paper.

The first two drawings from my Drawing a Day in 2016.  

Trying to get back into regular drawing again, so here I am playing around with SketchBook Pro and the new ink brush.  Goes nicely from really fine line to nice blobby lines.

Flowery Lady

This is one of my iPad drawings of the day - another thing that has fallen by the wayside, since I went back to work!

Sketchbook Pro on iPad.

A New Look

Hey, I've updated the look of my blog.  And you can change the views by clicking on the words at the top left.  Cool.  I'm also changing my font to something more modern!

Right this is it!  We are going to get this bloody thing going or die trying!  Famous last words.  I like to try and kick start this blog about once a year, so here goes for 2012!  Lot of exclamation marks!

I'm going to dump a load of images up here in an attempt to get things moving.  This is some old stuff from my stint on Merlin Series 1 & 2 for BBC TV.

Neglect

Right I've been neglecting this for too long now. Another year and a several days have passed since I last posted anything on this site. Well here goes - as they say -the third time's a charm!

I will try and be more diligent at updating this blog regularly. One of my New Year resolutions was/is to be more active in the online art communities that I follow and part of that entails regular post on this blog.

This is my entry for the New Worlds challenge on CGHub. Quite pleased with it, if only because I actually got it done and posted.

Hopefully it is the first of many!

100 Hundred Hands

Been a bit lax with posting and doing studies recently! But I'm back on it. This is the first of what I hope will be many hand studies. The aim is to do 100 hand study drawings. So here is Hands 01. The idea is to try and improve my knowledge of how to draw hands by regular studies.

This one is very loose, almost a warm up really. About 50 mins in painter.

Tower Study - 30mins

Just a quick one as it is very late tonite or is that today. Chalks in painter. Proportions all wrong and colours not right. Didn't want to waste time setting up a grid which would have helped with the drawing.

Volcano Study

Day three and I still at it. Must be some kind of record. Again about 1ish hours in Painter with Chalk tool. Just a sort of colour study. I am trying to match the colours by eye and not just pick them out of the reference photos with the eye dropper tool. Although I did check a couple of colours that way and I was pretty close.

Tried to upload reference photo but I can't get it to work. I'm not sure how many images one can have in a post?

Jungle Study - WIP

My second daily study. This one about 1 hour in Painter using chalks. I was going to do 4 quick 15 minute studies today, but I just kept working on this one. Probably not the best subject for a quick study. Not a very strong image, it is a little too complicated and requires quite a lot of noodling. Perhaps that is just me.

I need to try and get a medium that I am happy with in Painter, I usually end up with Chalks. I want to get a bit more of that concept arty photoshop feel. Maybe I should just draw it in Photoshop.

Well two down, only 363 to go!

My first drawing study!

Well it's a new year and another chance for me to try an reinvigorate this blog and try and improve my drawing at the same time. I am going to try and do daily drawing studies of approximately 1 hour a day and then post them up here. I hope I can keep it up!

The above is a WIP in painter from a photo off flickr ( I hope they don't mind me using it) of a young girl in a headscarf. This is after about 1 and a half hours, in Painter using pastels. Not sure if this is the right medium, but I'm giving it a go. Skin tones are tough.

Happy 2010!

Yikes another post!

Look at this, two posts in one day!  Don't get your hopes up it's an oldie.  This is a sketch done at the same time as the Moonscape one and then scanned in.  I love the quality of scanned pencil sketches. I suppose it is because on screen they are bigger than the actual drawing, it is like blowing the sketch up on a photocopier and zooming in on all the pencil marks.

I was going to start inking this tonight but as I am actually falling asleep at the computer I may give it a miss.

How long has it been?

Well it's been a long time since my last post.  As usual I singularly failed to maintain my blog and my new post everyday regime.  Perhaps that was a tad unrealistic!  Well here we are in 2009, or at least half way through and here is my first post of the year. I think I started this drawing some time last year and left it half inked.  Unable to think of anything better to do last night, drawing wise that is, I decided to have another stab at it.  I think it came out OK, bit of a mixture of inking styles and I'm not sure I'm happy with the moon surface our intrepid astobabe is walking on, but at least it looks finished.  This started as a pencil sketch, which was scanned in and then completed in Painter.  The sketch was pretty loose, but had a bit of energy to it.  I still find it hard to draw straight into Painter using the tablet, I don't really feel in control.  Must practice!

Girl Head Doodle

Pootling around in Photoshop.  Turned out not too bad.  Still find it hard to draw directly with Wacom tablet although you can endlessly tweak and change and adapt lines which is good.  This has a certain inky quality.

Diver

Yet another less than successful picture.  Photoshop again, God alone knows how long!  I must have started at about 23.30ish and it is now 1.41 so not exactly a speed painting.  In my defense it did start out quite differently with a woman in a sort of battle suit holding some scribble that was suppose to be a gun.  Crapper than this - if that is possible!  Well at least the pose in this one, while not being anatomically accurate, is at least a bit more dynamic than the original.  Anyway hey ho anther late night another crap picture!  So the world turns.  I was thinking of renaming my blog, "Dom Can Draw ... but only just!"  Perhaps that is a little negative.

Not so speedy speed painting.  Done in Photoshop - lots of scribbling and flipping and layering to get this image - then bits of green light added.  Not sure what it is  - some sort of city.  Not really sure where to go with it - about 1.5 hrs or so.

New visual done for work

This is a quickish visual I've just done for work.  It is to give the locations dept an idea of what we are looking for.  Done in painter - no ref- over 2 nights.  About 4 hours work.  I'm trying to do as may drawings visuals for work as possible but time is always tight.

Getting Back Into It

Well I haven't posted anything since last year, and that was in the summer. So I have decided to get back into it and try and post things regularly.  This is a speed paint, about 40- 45 mins in Painter.  It is not great but it is a start.  I've got werewolves on the brain at the moment and am working on a storyboard to send out and try and get some storyboarding work.  I might post some frames from that soon.

I haven't done alot of speed painting, and I'm not really happy with this one. Still it is all practice.  The sky is the worst part.  I couldn't decide whether it was sunset or sunrise.  It is supposed to be a werewolf entering a cave.  I had this image of the creature being strongly backlit by the sun or very bright sky, with the edges of the body slightly blurred,  It sort of works in places.

Work in progress

This is a work in progress for a character portrait. I photographed some great gravestone textures the other day and they inspired me. I had this idea that they would make really good textures in a painting. You know how these digital artists are always throwing textures of this and scans of that over their pictures. Anway I kept imagining this painting of a lady's face using these stone textures. Well this is the start of it. There is a long way to go and I haven't put any textures on yet. That will be for later.

There are alot of problems with this so far, no least of which is the lady's face. I need to find some good reference for the anatomy and the lighting. As I'm sure you can tell this was done without either. So that is the next step. Hopefully the next few posts will see the transformation of this into a really great pic.... yeah right!