Sketchysketches

Bunch of stuff done before, during and after shit happened these past few months...

Penny Dreadful * Vanessa Ives

The fantastic Eva Green as Vanessa Ives in Showtime's Penny Dreadful. A completely fearless actress who stole every scene.

Illustration Friday: Tail

...as in, ponytail.

Pencil drawing with digital color and additional scribbles.

Reference photo by kxhara.

Azog the Defiler

Portrait of a pale orc.

Because...why not?

Pencil sketch with digital watercolor enhancements.

Recent Life Drawings

Maia

Trying out some new, extra-soft, extra black pencils — General's Kimberly Premium Graphite Drawing Pencil 9XXB. Nice and black, but still not as soft as I was hoping for!

Pencil (obviously) plus digital color. Click to make it bigger, okay?

More Life Drawings

Several sessions at the Old Town life drawing drop-in, Summer 2013.

Life Drawings

Several sessions at the Ella Sharp museum, Summer 2013.

Jakízze

Portrait of the model from a recent life drawing session at the Ella Sharp Museum in Jackson, MI.

Cardboard Portrait 2

Another cardboard portrait of Jessica.

Cardboard portrait

I saved the pristine cardboard liner from a box of cat food and grabbed a few Prismacolor pencils and scribbled a portrait of the lovely Jessica, using her photo stock.

Art of Belly Dance

 

 After a lot of time off, I managed to put something together for the Art of Belly Dance event coming up in Detroit in June. Inspired by Inga Petermann's performance at Tribal Prague 2012.

Pencil, watercolor, ink, marker, digital, sparkly stuff, etc.

Jade: study

A pencil portrait I did of one of my favorite deviantArt stock photo providers, Jade Macalla, from one of his excellent photos.

I always meant to finish this by drawing the rest of the pose but now I like the incomplete quality of the drawing so—I'm calling it done.

Life Drawing October 2011

From a recent drop-in life drawing session in Old Town, Lansing, Mich.