Sketchbook - Fairy Stuff

Fairy doodles.

House

Seems that since I bought a house last year, most of my artistic effort goes into re-modeling. I'm hoping soon to get back to some personal artwork that needs my attention.


In the meantime, this is a design that I created as a guide for the re-modeling. I have to give credit for the artistic choices to my wife, who really came up with the great ideas. I've just been doing illustrations and drawing plans to help her get what she wants. We're about 75% of the way finished and I think it's looking pretty great so far.


Needs landscaping tho...back to the drawing board...

color study

30 minute digital color study

2 Sided Woman With Bowl

Blue Tree

Another experiment.

I must admit, this one got away from me, and I am none too pleased with the results.

However, there is a time when one must admit defeat, or risk over-working the image. I fear I may have already gone past that point with this one. I suppose though, that is aim of these experiments anyway...I believe it is failure that teaches us to be successful.

I'm going to have to try this again with a different approach.

Green Tree

Another experiment.

life drawing - pen and ink

More fun with the quill pen.

Getting more a little more confidence back...still a long way to go...

life drawing - pen and ink

Back to traditional media, back to life drawing.

India ink, a quill pen, and one of my favorite models.

Orange Tree

Another experiment.


Figuring stuff out, pondering ideas, trying things I can use on a more ambitious piece later.

Yellow Tree

A quick experiment.

Trying some ideas to use in a more ambitious piece later.

Flint's Lab - The Ceiling

I designed hundreds of elements for the interior of Flint's Lab, so many that I forget how much time I really spent on it. Anyway, I was digging through the archives and stumbled across this fun little drawing/design of a pattern I created that would later be applied to the ceiling and walls of the lab.

girl #017

10 minute warm-up sketch from this morning. 

post-it note #0124

From this morning's production meeting.

Mother and Child - digital

A digital comp for a new painting based on a very old theme.

Plastic Girl - digital

A warm-up exercise based on a fashion photo that I found on the internets.


I was interested in all the folds of plastic and how light was passing through them, so I decided to study it in more depth. I took lots of liberties with the model (obviously!) just because I happen to enjoy elongating the figure.