Self Portrait

I should get this over with. One of these shows up about once per sketchbook...fifty pages or so. This one was originally done with a red mechanical pencil. I do like red lead because it rarely smudges, and can be easily removed later in Photoshop, a feature that makes it particularly useful in under-sketches or quick lay in when I want to work in pen. Its downfalls though are that its a lot less forgiving than normal pencil, which makes it more like working in semi-erasable pen, and it tends to be brittle. This sketch has been changed with the color channels in Photoshop to make it look like normal pencil.

Lord Azural's Lair

My illustration professor has a particular knack for giving out assignments that instantly spark interest, quickly followed by the realization of their difficulty. It's a good combination. This specific ink and charcoal drawing was assigned as 'a villain's lair, in two point perspective.' It was a good excuse to blend Assyrian style with a little medieval , plus Azural's wolf motif. I turned it into somewhat of a study in props, also known as a messy room. This particular villain is also a personal novel character. Now I wonder from whom he inherited the tendency to have such a clutted desk?

Seylan in his Natural Element

Seylan, who is a frequently occurring personal character of mine from a novel-in-progress. He stands in as a guinea pig for me when I want to experiment, or just have fun. This one is a bit older, from a little over a year ago. It was somewhat inspired by a picture I saw as a kid many, many, years ago and has never left my head. Done in gouache and ink, on illustration board. 7"x10"