more scribbles

bunch of new sketches!

thanks for looking! and check out the links on the right, i've been trying to add some new ones!

-george

4 warriors

an experiment with acrylic paint over a drawing

soldiers from a photo

just an experiment drawing from an old photo from WW2, it's orange pastel, black and white acrylic, and charcoal, painted on an olive-ish color Mat board, super fun to paint this way, using the charcoal whenever i wanted i could redraw the drawing at anytime, and using the fast drying acrylics i could push and pull values very easily, if i wanted a subtle value change i would just smear the charcoal, and that worked great too. also ignoring color made it so i only focused on value, however by having an underdrawing in a color it gave a lot of life to the grey painting.



and as usual i just find it a bit boring to copy from anything too exactly, so i didnt really worry about that part, it was just a sort of experiment afterall, with the goal to get a mood and paly with a technique rather than get any tight rendering done

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 .