3 Men and a Zombie

Sketching practice:

Landscape Sketch

Quick color test, trying out heavy blues in the shadows:

Study study study

More neck practice, hit and miss:

Slow start to April

I just discovered charcoal pencils. I love how dark they go! I overused it, but I think I'll try reserve using it for just the darkest darks.



Some neck practice doodles:


And a quick Photoshop. Gotta get back into the habit, been awhile since the last:

Face Practice

Practicing faces from different angles. Also trying to be stingy with my accents (still too generous, but the lowest right face is a good benchmark).

March 15th Page

Recent page from my pocket sketchbook, and also a sketch colored in Photoshop.

Nonref vs characterdesign.com Photoset:

Pencil sketch colored in Photoshop:

More Nonref Doodles

The middle sketch turned out ok, dissatisfied with the rest. Need to do more ref studies for male portraits.

Dead Space 2 Magazine Illustration

Here's an illustration I did for EA's Dead Space 2 (through Opus Artz), appearing in the UK editions of Playstation Magazine (Issue 44) and XBOX World 360 (Issue 87):

Nonref Pencils

Hit and miss, but improving on nonrefs:

Photoshop Doodles

2 from February:

New year, new blog

It's time I started one of these to keep family & friends updated on what I'm up to.

I recently bought a scanner and now get to share the ups and downs of my sketchbook pages.

I've been trying to practice with using ref more, just anything I find in front of me - dvd covers, newspapers, magazines, the interweb etc. Lately, I've been drawing reffed on one page, and non-reffed on the facing page... hopefully the quality between them will begin to converge. It's got a long way to go.

Nonref vs 500 Days of Summer:

Nonref vs characterdesign.com photoset & Steve McCurry:

Nonref vs Hellboy II: