Amphibian friend - three

Amphibian friend - two

Amphibian friend - one

Recent sightings have got me back sketching frogs and toads. A few weeks break have left me a little out of practice . . perfect!

Jon Jones - draft

Girl portrait 3 - draft

Tetris panels - draft two

Pepper one

Paints up next.

Backdrops

Time to kick it up another notch.

Artist Damon Soule has aways been an inspiration to me, making pieces look simple, but phenomenally intricate with beautiful backdrops. Stay tunes.

Kid Dynamite

Much love to Iron Mike. Working on an A1 piece seemed the only way to go about it.

Something that I'd realised whilst working on the last piece for the Sekaido competition was how lacking in experience I am when it comes to large scale pieces.. Making sure to have at least one large scale painting on the go from now on..

Segments

As simple as it is, i've always wanted to do some work in panels. Living in Japan makes carry large pieces around a hassle. Having A4 boards means I'll be able to work away from home.

Segments too lends itself more to the pixelated, bitty, miss mash drawings I'm beginning to feel more comfortable with too.

And then this.

Half cat, half .. half. I'd seen a few ideas recently that is been looking to replicate.. None of which have come out on top but the drip effect is something I need to pursue. 

Honoring to apply a dripping effect to the Sekaido piece if time permits.

Tones

Wanted to go as rough as possible for this piece. 

The parts that give description to the features always get my attention - in this case the hair.

Once the appealing parts are covered I generally blaze through the rest leaving a bit of a monstrosity.

Sketches

Thanks to a national holiday here in Japan managed to get a few more hours of sketching down.

Hoping to get these acryld up by the end of the week..

Pigeon stuff

Pigeons rock.

 
Drawing them should be easy enough but I'm still struggling.

I'll look into their anatomy a little this week to strengthen my bases.