Witches for Halloween

Some quick witch heads sketched in Photoshop for Halloween!

Gasmasks and Bobbies, oh my!

Years ago, I worked a set of drawings known collectively as "Terrorists Gone Wild". I recently had a big brain dump of new imagery based on some of the same ideas. I wanted a break from Pirates and Fairy Tales for awhile, and to get back to Pen and Ink. I realized while working on this drawing how much I missed using quill pens and ink. I also remembered my fondness for seeing blue-line underdrawings on comic pen and ink drawings. I always liked the look of the underdrawing with the ink more than the final reproduced image, where the blue line would drop out. I used red pencil for this drawing,and wanted to make sure its lines stayed around as part of the final composition.

Oh yea, and the title of this piece is "CELEBRATION".

Dinosaur

A cute dinosaur. Awww. Quick Photoshop sketch.

Double Sketch!

Its been awhile since I did any color digital sketching. Here's a demon and a humpty dumpty, both quick Photoshop sketches.

Demons

So I realized that I haven't posted much. I also realized that my lack of posting is not only because I haven't done much non-work related drawings lately, but also because I'm too lazy too scan all of the dozens of sketches I do every week. This is also probably because none of them are great, but then again, that's the whole point of a sketch blog.

With that in mind, here are a trio of demon doodles I did on the train. Their names are Pythias, Damien, and Santos.

Head Island (pencil)

Another image in the Blood Volcano series. I've had this preliminary pencil down for a few months now, and I keep not finding time to paint it. So, I thought I'd post the pencil work because people might find it interesting to see what's under the painting.

Fresh Recruits!

This piece is called Fresh Recruits, and is another little piece that lives in the Blood Volcano series.This is a small (7.5"x11") gouache painting on Rives BFK tan.

First Pirate Painting of 2008!

This piece is called An Unexpected Treasure, and introduces the golem to the pirate crew of the X.M.S. Blackheart, on their journey to the Blood Volcano to seek untold riches and fortune.This is a gouache painting on Rives BFK tan.

Last Pirate Painting of 2007!

I sneaked another painting in before the end of the year. This is another painting in the "Blood Volcano" series. This one is titled The Caribbean Saves the BlackHeart. Its a gouache painting on Rives BFK tan, and is 16 1/2" wide x 22" tall.

Pirate Sketch!

Pirate Sketch!

I've been working on a lot on the Blood Volcano series of pirate paintings, but I haven't quite finished any. I have been doing some sketches on my tablet PC on the train, though. This is a sketch for "head island", done in Alias Sketchbook. This locale may make a cameo somewhere in the Blood Volcano series.