bishop

one of my typical superhero characters ; as usual ink on moleskine

how to stencil a poster/ graff pic part 1

I started with this picture of Douglas Bader ("look Ma ...no legs") from an old movie poster. Any pic will do as long as you remember: more colours = more layers = more cutting.











popping the jpg into a photo-editing program (photoshop, GIMP etc), I traced the shapes of about 4 different colour fields and a black outline.












I then printed 4 of the heads on plain paper and cut the various fields from the areas I wanted to spray, as shown.











Then placing the cut -out of the face on my canvas, I sprayed the background. If I hadn't been using a light colour for the face, I could have relied on it overpainting the area and not have bothered with the shield.










I used a light gold/brown mix for his tanned face.















then a darker brown for the goggles and mask



















and finally a red brown for the flying helmet.

















and the final product after over laying with th black outline stencil. (and forgetting to mask around the outside so i get those "stencil lines" around it. grrr. now I'll have to pretend I meant it to be like that.

inked thing

the thing...now inked and more edible than before

garden of earthly delights

ink and magic marker on moleskine

moleskin thing

ink on moleskine paper. I dunno what it is but I'm looking forward to inking it...or eating it...or running away from it

new forest

new forest

ink, magic marker on moleskine paper

farmer joe

Farmer Joe, ink and paper; before and after letraset marker inking.

alien

sketch from yesterday I didn't have time to upload..ink on moleskine paper

steamzombie

steamzombie, originally uploaded by Sigh9.

What was I saying about monsters? I must say that having a little bit of anatomy knowlege helps a lot with composing pictures from scratch, like this little guy. Althiugh i actually drew him when I was supposed to be studying anatomy instead. So perhaps its his fault that my knowledge isn't as good as it might be.

things that go squelch

this is a composite of "bits" I love drawing: eyes, tentacles, blobby sacs and Monsters.
drawn in ink on moleskine paper