I haven’t been doing any non-work sketching lately, so I thought I would post a few commissions here.
This series of three images are concept sketches for a poem by the talented Humberto Abreu. You can read more about the poem, Hope’s Journey, here.
And here are a few other random commissions.
EDIT: I’m full of mistakes lately. Serves me right, trusting the Internet for names. The ref photo I used was actually of Cary Grant. :/
I did this portrait study of Gregory Peck this morning, and no matter how much I tweaked it, I couldn’t get it to stop looking like Sean Connery. I finally enlarged the photo ref and placed it over the painting to see what was wrong. Mostly, it looks like I made his chin too pronounced, and the eyes/eyebrows are just slightly off, angle-wise. I don’t want to mess around with it anymore, but hopefully I learned from it.
I haven’t been able to do much in the way of studies lately because my computer tried to kill itself. Literally. The video card capacitors actually exploded. Then I was really sick and just didn’t have the energy to do much. But here’s a little more work I did on the Murillo master study. I lost my old Painter brushes, so I’m still messing around.
EDIT: Apparently the artist who painted this was actually Gyula Benczúr! Oops.
Worked more on the master study last night, and some Loomis this morning. HOOAH!
I drew this today for the Chiustream caricature contest with Jason Seiler. Participants must submit a caricature of him, and the winner gets his/her caricature drawn by Jason. This is the first caricature I’ve ever done, so I didn’t really know how to go about choosing which parts to exaggerate or play down. I would appreciate feedback. 
Here’s a Murillo master study I started yesterday…
And an enviro from this morning. I’m terrible at environments, so I wanted to start with something pretty basic. The photo ref is from a photo taken by my friend Phil Lienesch, a biology professor at Western Kentucky University.
Study from this morning.
Haven’t had much time for art because of Thanksgiving, but here is a page of pencil sketches, and I posted a finished piece in my Personal gallery on the Paper Nautilus main page.
Andrew Loomis studies and a one hour study from this morning.
This is sort of a study for a painting I want to do. I wanted to work out the colors and composition, and would love feedback for how to improve on the next version.
Prismacolor pencils, and a little white acrylic paint.
