Quick Doodle

Just a quick soft pencil doodle before hitting the hay. This is what you get when your eyes are tired and you are getting sleepy and you've almost forgotten what it's like to use a real pencil on real paper. The features of the face look lopsided. Reminds me of when I was a kid and used to draw things with my head leaning over to the side. The drawing came out skewed and distorted.

Work has been non stop lately - still gotta make myself sketch something that's not part of an ad , storyboard or poster.

But that's the story with being a Freelance artist- Work as much as you can in case you get a slow period.

But those periods are never predictable .

So when I do get some slow time it take a little when to get out of the "work mode" .

Have to force myself. It feels better after you get rolling again.

-Lar

Imaginary figure drawing at Midnight

I drew this just before midnight - about fifteen minutes spent I think.

Just need to draw figures.

After drawing this from Imagination it occurred to me that it's the same pose more or less of Pauline Nordin's image on the cover of the AST sports science product brochure. Some images are just stuck in my brain.

There are only so many poses the human body can do . Not exactly a "swipe" but an influence. plus it's just a sketch. ;-)

soft brush

A little sketch late at night.

Using speckled brush in photoshop, adding a texture to the brush and using transfer in the brush settings.

This setting seems to work very well to create a soft pastel effect.

Maybe fifteen minutes on this one - no model , just imagination as usual.

Lar-

Da-da,da-da,da-da, da-da!Da-da,da-da,da-da, da-da!-Bat-Girl!

"Meanwhile, in another part of the the great metropolis call Los Angeles....."

Just a sketch done during the time which most people call "Lunch Time.

Photoshop CS5 drawing done on my ModBook.

Great tool , the modbook!

But I've been reading on the internet that they may have stopped production on it!

I'm glad that I have mine but I'd better take real good care of it!

-Lar

old influence

I drew this today while waiting again for some input on a job I'm working on .

As usual it starts with a doodle or a scribble and just start to take shape . Looks like it turned into an Angel.

I think it's an image that I saw in my bed room growing up in my mother's Catholic home.

There's this well known painting of an angel guiding two children across this rickety bridge that spans an enormous abyss . I remember the peaceful look on the Angel's face and the huge white wings.

But when you're 4 or five years old it can look a little scary.

I like working in Photoshop because I can treat it like paint. So instead of "Drawing" it's more like drawing with a paint brush.
If you've been following my blog at all you probably recognized the model influence.

I just like drawing her figure- it's my favorite so far for drawing. Of course I won't be using her if I have to draw a chubby girl or one of those "1950's babes" but for lines and musculature Pauline Nordin is my pick.

I spent about an hour on this one - I'm working another job right now but I'm on stand-by mode so this is sort of a lunch time drawing .

-Lar

Painterly sketch

I haven't updated in a while so here's a little sketch I did yesterday while waiting for some input on an assignment. Photoshop brush , opaque setting .

Adding color

I was just having fun and adding some color to this drawing from before .

It started as a quick sketch in my sketch book . Then I played around with some digital inking and now I added some digital color .

The color was done in photoshop CS5 with layers for skin tones, bikini and highlights.

More practice.

-Lar