Cute character sketchbook interuption!

Pumpkins in progress

At the ugly stage but getting somewhere I think? lol

Pumpkins anyone?

Halloween is here (and gone, don't tell anyone though)! I wanted to show you the progress of a sketch to painting that I am doing right now. I had a pumpkin patch but I wanted to add a little spice with a character also.
This is a traced over image so it is not the best, even if it does not give atmosphere ;) I placed it over the pumpkins to merget he two images.

In a whirl

Painted in oil, this took me about an hour and a half. It is really quick but it was really liberating and I like the way it turned out even though it is a more choppy style. I also used the 4/5 color technique on this one too :)

2 hour Girl in Oil Paints

This is a quick study I did in oil paints, I used Don Seegmillers 4/5 color approach. This painting was a lot of fun, especially with the values falling in to place, it seems as though I am starting to get the knack of turning the brush a bit more.

Here is the Weather Witch that lives in the house

oops what happened to her foot?

Haunted House

This is in honor of Devin. Here is a haunted house doodle that I am going to attempt to color in the next few days, I am excited:)

Shaking off the 5 min Gesture Rust

Some of these went ok, some of them not so much, but it was a lot of fun getting back into the groove :)

the works

Hi, this post is in honor of Curt since he gave the idea to put more work up on here, although every one is welcome to partake and enjoy :) All these images are copy righted so no nicking, got it? Nice one, the one on the right I painted for my little sis when she got married. The one on the left of the guy (yes this is a real person girls) I did for part of a class project last year. The bike pitcture was a image I did for work, which was very enjoyable, the diner one I did for work also, these were a bit of a break through for me in the use of illustrator.

blue cop bike

sunshine is calling constantly to me and in an effort to ware myself out ragged so that i sleep at night I have been remembering my childhood and riding around town like a bat out of hell. these days I ride a devilish red schwin bike (oh yes, one i got second hand for 30 bucks), but as a kid is was all about the blue bike with brake lines every where and rattling mud gaurds (great for standing on the seat going down hills to the garages). Some thing you have to understand on the street where i grew up was the 'boys', they would hang out under the pear tree, be cool, smoke a bit and generally look messy while harrassing the local population of the 'block'. I would bike past them as fast as I could as the shy 12 yr old, head down. Thats when it happened, as i streaked by home made siren sounds were made by the boys, neenorr neenorr. If your saying that is not the sounds of cop car, it is in england. (muwhaahaa, I love that I can say that when I have a difference of opinon than any one else around here. ) All I can say is that the siren wailing turned into an oppertunity to play starwars with the boys (their favourite game of the year ivolving a makeshift space ship tent with a sheet and old computer keyboards) and be princess leia, no gold bikinis involved though :) that is another story completley

beautiful people- TOP SECRET

recently it has come to my attention at work that a few select peeps have been secretly selected to go on pretigious video shoots. I was able to intercept this top secret information by a carefully executed neck cranning. I know that I shouldn't take it personally but the fact that I wasn't considered as one of the 'beautiful' people in the office stings to the core. it is a harsh reality that smacks between the eyes and cools the heart. Thus mechivious espionage team has been created with the left overs, picking through the riff raff we have been able to assemble and create a plan to recover our lost pride as the ..... ordinary looking people.