Drawing started life as one of my lunchtime sketches so the usual rules for one of those apply, no reference, etc. I scanned it and brought it into Photoshop for a bit of digital rendering, just some inking and a little shadow work.

Yes another one. What can I say, they are enjoyable to draw. This one was started at lunch one day last week, blue pencil in my sketchbook, no ref. I don’t tend to have an idea of what I’m going to draw when I do my lunchtime sketches, I just start doodling, usually just a head shape then sweep in a spine and shoulders and see what I see. A lot of adjusting can go on from there as I slash in where the hips will be be and make a rough rib cage. When I did this one she ended up having a very contorted pose, but I took it as a challenge. Contorted poses are hard to draw even when you have reference, to say nothing of when you have to yank it all out of your noggin’. I think I did a fair job. I did most of the basic roughing out the pose during my lunch break and then finished off the drawing before some friends came over for dinner that night.

Blue pencil in a moleskine sketchbook. Just my take on the Cimmerian. I was a bit distracted by the very tasty BLT + Avacado I was eating at the time so a few of the proportions are a bit off… it was worth it.

Another female nude, this time from the front. Sketchbook sketch, graphite in moleskine. This one was an after work sketch originally done with a 2H, then darkened with a 4B, and then had it’s curves adjusted in photoshop a bit.

A lunchtime drawing I did a while back that I’ve been turning into an illustration. Pencil in a sketchbook, levels modified to sharpen the details.

Sorry for the lack of updates, been a hectic couple of months. Anyway, here is a lunchtime sketch to hold you over. I love this one so much I’m going to find a way to fit it into one of the fight scenes in the comic, shouldn’t be hard, there are several zombie fight scenes.

HB and B pencil in a moleskine sketchbook.

Female portrait sketch, still pretty rough, guide lines are still there. Not of anyone in particular, just out of my head, working out what I want one of my characters to look like

Non-repro blue in a moleskine

Sketch of an angel… possibly an angel of death.

Non-repro blue in a moleskine

Female nude study.

Non-repro blue in a moleskine.

When I was originally thinking about the world my comic characters lived in, I thought I might have them living in an old military fort that had been swallowed by this giant ancient tree. I eventually decided against that, but this is one of the original sketches of what that would look like.

Non-repro blue pencil in a moleskine sketchbook