Saturday 26 November 2011

compressed charcoal



Been playing with compressed charcoal. Heavily inspired by on of my art heroes, the fabulousMr Nathan Fowkes. If you are not familiar with his exquisite work then check it out here: MR FOWKES. I have miles to go but i really progressed a lot with these two... I took progress photos as I worked on one of them and made a little 3 stage gif so you can see what i was doing a little. They are both a bit overworked and i need to work on my simplification a great deal but this will come with practice hopefully. Model is Missy Malone (again :) reffed from the shoot with Miss Rain a few weeks back.

4 comments:

Sarah said...

Excellent work! You have such amazing talent. The 3 stage gif is great..It's always nice to see progress photos :)

Mayavan Thevendra said...

Good work mate - that second one's lovely, very classy!

Gianmichele Mariani said...

Gorgeous! There's so much sensibility in those strokes :)

jake gumbleton said...

Thanks guys! Looking forward to doing more in this series...