Still life

Prismacolor 935 pencil on canson paper

Drawn after a picture from the book "Successful  Drawing" by Andrew Loomis. 

Bob Dylan

Pencil on watercolor paper

Leather Boots

Leather Boots, charcoal on drawing paper

Oil Painting: Pair of dutch clogs

Pair of Dutch Clogs, oil on panel

Head Drawing and Procedure

Here is another drawing copied from the book Drawing the Head and Hands by Andrew Loomis. I took pictures with my mobile phone of some stages of the drawing. The paper is white but somehow appears gray on the camera. I like the feel of the Hahnemuhle nostalgie paper in combination with charcoal pencils.

Charcoal pencil on A4 Hahnemuhle nostalgie paper

Procedure

Portrait in Oilpaint

This is one of my first attempts in portrait painting in oil. I've been drawing many portraits lately in charcoal and pencil, but painting in oils is something completely different.

For this painting I didn't start with a drawing, just blocked in the general shape of the head and painted from memory. It seems to work better this way for me; drawing masses with the brush as opposed to starting a a painting with a detailed drawing in pencil.

Oil on gessoed masonite board, 7.5"x10.5"

Drawing the Head and Hands

This is a charcoal drawing copied from "Drawing the Head and Hands" by Andrew Loomis. I got the book last year as a Christmas present and I've been drawing and learning(!) a lot since I started reading.

Charcoal and charcoal pencil on Canson A3 paper

Illustration Friday: Return

For illustration Friday. I started with a brush & ink drawing on marker paper. Yellow and orange gradients and a border were later added in Photoshop elements. 

Some Comic Heads

It's fun to draw a page of comic heads once in a while. Just start with the shape of the head and add eyes, nose, mouth and ears. And a nice haircut of course.

Some more comic heads...

Airplane Comic

I'm working on a comic strip series about Radio Controlled airplanes. The first goal is to make 12 three panel strips in color. For this airplane illustration I used Artrage for both inking and coloring. The inking pen in Artrage with with a little bit of smoothing (about 10 percent) gives good results I think.

Illustration Friday: Swamp

This week I wanted to ink a sketch with Artrage 3 that came as free software with my Wacom drawing tablet.

Pencil Portrait

Instead of only posting for Illustration Friday on this blog, I thought I could post some other drawings as well. I love drawing heads from life, photographs or imagination. This one is from a still image on TV. 2B pencil on printer paper.

Illustration Friday: Shades

A digital sketchbook express drawing, colored in Photoshop elements for illustration friday.

Illustration Friday: Yield

Entry for the theme "Yield". This time I used the free sketchbook copic edition software.

TV Portrait sketch

This is a sketch from a still image on the TV. I just sat down with my laptop, tablet and sketchbook pro in front of the TV and started drawing.

I then quickly colored the sketch with the copic markers in sketchbook.  It's amazing how fast you can turn out sketches with this setup.

Here is the sketch: