psy-chics, lunchtime speedies and sketcherlingszz

Sorry I have not updated in so long. I have been so very very busy. I have several pieces of exciting news but they have to wait...

For now here are some of the more peripheral bits and bobs that I have been up to lately...

The black and white digital ones are very quick (probably 10 mins a piece) Most of this stuff is from our lunchtime sessions. If you would like to join in look for 'luncharted' on Google+ There are a few of us doing it and we are having some fine art fun!

Whew! See you'al soon space cowboys!

MISFITS II

Calling this done I think, thanks for the responses on the last post. Here are indivdual sheets and a few closups as well as a revized main image.

MISFITS

Hi everyone. This is a WIP of an ilo I am working on of the marvelous MISFITS characters from E4. Just for fun, I have really loved the 3 seasons of this show and just wanted to do something with the characters. Feedback welcomed as I intend to spend a bit more time on this one yet.

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.

mark making experiments

I am playing with some new techniques. These are all drawn using a hatching technique where I attempt to follow the surface forms. Next up I am going to try a more contemporary illustrative thin line technique...

The two lady heads are both Missy Malone and the chap is Joey a local life model. Apologies for poor photos of these drawing the light was failing and so they are a bit grainy..

Dr Sketchy Nottingham October 2011

I haven't shared any of the fast drawings from the Dr Sketchy Nottingham sessions for a while. We had a blast yesterday and people did some great work. Here are my favourites from the session:

The first two were 10 minute drawings and the 3rd/4th were 5 mins. I was very pleased with the last one.

2 new paintings

Two new ones. One was a birthday present for a friend, its a double portrait of his two marvellous little lads (one of which as been dressed as Superman for a full year now!!-he only responds to the name Superman man now and even dresses as Clark Kent over the top of his Superman suit, brilliant!!)

The second piece is of Aisling Grace Flaherty its been floating around my studio half finished for months but I finally grabbed another session on it and got it finished. I am pleased with the handling on this one. My first piece in the Burlesque series was of Aisling so its nice to get back to her once more. The photo ref is another one of Emmas: Miss Rain Photography.