San Francisco Sketchbook

Here are some Pencil sketches done at breakfast in San Francisco.

It's done in one of those little Moleskine books- 8X6 .

I like the really soft Design Ebony pencils for this book. Different papers need different pencils or pens. I need to find places to draw people.

This one Waitress had a great face. Fair complected, turned up blue eyes. Sometime you find "Interesting" faces that you like to draw. Other times pretty faces.

I think for me it's just trying to recreate that person in pencil. And to try and draw them without giving away that you are drawing them. Really tough sometimes - especially when they won't stand still!

I didn't get a chance to draw her face front on. Just a shape . These were actually copied from the place mat that I drew them on. I gave her those. You know - everyone have legal rights to their own likeness.

Lar-

Standing figure

Photoshop drawing. No special set ups , no color.

Warrior Sketch 3

Another sketch. I like drawing musculature. This is another drawing from imagination.

The influence again is Pauline Nordin. She's my model for now.

I'm drawing in Photoshop CS 5 extended. I'm avoiding sketching in color because I find that it takes too long and is distracting when I should just be drawing not painting.

I really got to put together a collection of drawings with a theme. Make it a little more marketable. But in the end I really do this because I just want to draw.

click on the image.

Warrior Sketches

Again, just making myself draw. Setting my 21 inch Cintiq on my Norman Rockwell style drawing table seems to work well these days . I'm always changing the way I sit and work. Eventually I always get cramped up from sitting.

Here are just some figure drawings from imagination. The inspiration for the figure is again

Pauline Nordin. I think she has a great physique for action type illustrations. So I can't help but draw that.

I'm not saying that the likeness is all that great but when I do these I'm trying to draw a likeness without copying a photo of the person. If I were doing this for a job I would be using photography because you don't want to play around with the likeness , you just want it to be perfect.

In this case drawing a likeness that is in a made up pose that is not copied is part of the exercise.

As usual, click on the image to get a closer look.

Sketchy Demon

Time to do some fantasy creatures.

Of course this is just a quickie like all the rest but I like sketching in color.

I just did a rush job poster for Warner Brothers . Basically a day and a half turn around. I never expect this rush jobs to come out an good but I always seem to surprise myself. I think I can post it after it gets published and is out there already.

all for now.

Lar-

20 minute sketch

My wife came by and said that this drawing looks cartoony.

Well I have to say that I was thinking in terms of a big eyed anime look.

And when draw from imagination things tend look cartoony.

I like the way the black and white looks. A lot of times I get thrown off course when I use color because it's too much to think about when I'm just doing quick sketches. And color is so easy when working digitally.

I almost went to sleep a half hour ago but I made myself come into the studio and draw something and post it. Even if I don't like what I draw.

remember to click on the image to get a bigger image.

--Larry

Photoshop is closer to painter now

I still need to experiment with the wet paintbrushes in photoshop to see what I can do with it.

One thing that is a sure thing : It's super fast . Na slowing down at all and I like to work in 300 dpi.

This is just another sketchy sketch .

-Larry