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i saved this one guess i liked how it looked all screwy




i've still been thinking about what i could say about markers

4 pictures

3 sci -fi doodles







just an experiment, going back and forth with black and white acrylic and then with colored pencil on top

heads+ dots

some sketchbook stuffs

WWII drawing

here is one from a few weeks ago, pencil and goache

i made it up, thinking of some dudes in eastern europe or something like that

fish man +1

here's a sketchbook page, pen drawing, goache on top. pretty quick and sloppy, using lost and found to get around the hard parts, but i am really happy with the highlight on the head.



and here is a monster doodle,



I like to tape clean paper over the bad parts of a drawing and just redraw them again until i like it, this is a nice way to do things, the golden age illustrators used a lot of tracing paper in this way as well, i just havent had a chance to experiment much with tracing paper that much yet.

i suppose that i'm from that school of drawing where you draw confidently and don't dwell much on mistakes, if it's bad just start over on a fresh page, that way you keep everything spontaneous and quick looking.

the "secret" to drawing though is you can never get things right the first time, you have to do all sorts of studies and pre-drawings to really nail every aspect and explore every idea, then once you have it all figured, you go into your final illustration concerned solely about paint application, but value, color, design and drawing have already been figured out. this is a hard thing to learn, i am still working on it.

on second thought of course, you do get lucky sometimes, sometimes a lot of lucky

Tuatra monster

This is a monster called the Tuatra, its about 3 1/2 feet tall, but some of them can get to be a bit larger sometimes, the live in small caves near beaches and eat fish, but especially prefer eating pelican style birds. they live alone and only socialize during mating season, which is around 2 months ranging from oct-dec and only on friday nights.

sometimes if they get to much salt in their diet their scales start to turn pinkish (magenta) and get a slimer shimer to them.

this was a new approach for me, stared of drawing with a green highlighter some basic shapes, then went in with a bic pen for a drawing, then colored that with some markers, then i came back in with higgins black ink and a crowquill, and then some qouche on top of that

monster doodles

goache, ink, marker, and pen doodle

and here is a random sketchbook page, just markers and pen

Soria Moria Castle

here is a story illustration for a fairy tale.

the fairy tale was called Soria Moria castle, its about a hero Halvor who kills a troll with 9 heads, this is the part where he only has 1 head left. its 8 1/2 by 11 and painted in an opaque watercolor called Guache. The story is totally awesome, and with a story like that, its gets you excited and makes you wanna do good work. i really want to work on this picture again, perhaps in a couple of months or so, to fix some of the issues i have with it.























Caption:

"Ugh!Ugh!Ugh! Here I smell the Blodd of a christian man!" roared the troll.
At the same moment, Halvor cut off the first Head, and then all the others; but the last on was the toughest of them all, and it was the hardest job Halvor ever had getting that off, even though he felt strong enough.


some sketches to figure it out







since i really don't draw that much fantasy i looked at a lot of painting by one of my favorite artists, Frank Frazzetta. he is a real master of composition and drawing and how to find easy solutions to save time on the hard parts of a painting by simplifying shapes. Aswell as being awesome in all the aspects of art in general.

here is a little color copy i doodled to just help me get in the zone while i worked on this picture, i think copying from a master artist is very important when you are a student of art, it lets you start to understand the relationships in a picture with a much more sensitive view than looking can give you .