Homage

My favorite piece by Downton. His use of straight and erratic brush strokes to define contours and characters I'd something I've tried.. and failed at a hundred times!

Using a soft edge on the brush gave the piece an aura, but couldn't beat the thick wet brush strokes of the original. 

Homage

David Downton has been a personal hero since Uni. Phenomenally technical and methodical selection of colours and brushes in his work. Descriptive but simple. I love beautiful simplicity.  

Here I used his pieces to replicate on the IPad. The brush and color selection seemed perfect for SketchPro plus..

Smokes

Traveling back and forth on the train a lot have me a chance to hot up the iPad again.

Nothing mind blowing here but it showed a huge leap from the last piece worked on.

Italiano

Couldn't resist this little guy.

I'm not a big fan of overly boney dogs, but it's a great bit of practice for tones and shades.

Blobs testing

"Planet Peel" had been left behind while I'd been perusing different avenues, finally coming full circle.

Doodling blobs for a year before I could muster the effort to break through my fear of paints left me with sketchbooks full of .. well .. Blobs.

I'd been meaning to come back for a while, this being the first shot.

Jane Krakowski

Birthday piece for a buddy of mine. 

Krakowski is a fantastic actress and a pleasure to draw, sketching took about 40mins - paints about 3hours.

Grape

Again using artist Gretchen Hancock's work as a strong influence, still life fruit will allow me to focus on broader, more blocky, strokes.

Lacking detail, fruits can be manipulated significantly with the brush.