Playing with figures

Here's part of a larger sketch of a group . Just playing around with color technique. Paint opaque layers or ad color in transparency ? 

Opaque painting is more like real painting and the transparent coloring is more like watercolor . 

Hmmmmmm......  

-Larry

Mechanical Pencil

A page  in the Aquabee sketchbook . No Ideas . Just practice drawing what I like.

3b pencil lead in a Staedtler lead holder. 9X12 page.

July1, 2012.

More little sketches

A tiny little sketch based on something I was working on recently . Just pencil on moleskine sketchbook. 

Soft Pencil and inking with brush

A little sketch book stuff .

CrowQuill

Another sketch started in my Molskine Sketchbook with no idea in mind, drawn with a B9 graphite stick and filled up with ink and crow quill  this time.
Drawing in traditional media has a tangible joy to it that I can't get with digital media.
It's feels like sculpture . This little sketch is on a 8X11 sketchbook  although this is a cropped in scan of it.
Lar-

Drawing pen

Getting back to the REAL Sketchbook. My Moleskine book.
Thick, off white creamish colored paper. Takes ink okay but absorbs just a bit too much.
Again , a lot of my sketches have no ideas they are just  practice drawings.
This started with a very soft graphite doodle and followed up with Acryilc-india ink and a Hunt drawing nib. May 5th ,2012
Lar-

Painter 12 soft charcoal

Back again on Painter 12  testing out the charcoal brushes. This seems to work a little smoother than past tests.  It's a softer brush so it easier to model and sketch.  I'm still not ready to throw Painter out yet.
Still have to see what I can get out of it. Photoshop is still more powerful .
-Lar