sketchbook: Practicing Hands

I've been working on the untitled illustration I started last week, focusing on the deer head section in Adobe Illustrator. Today I started sketching out arms and hands. I like the initial sketch I started off with, but I felt like getting more practice with the proportions and masses of these highly expressive parts of our bodies.

The references I used were found in Hand Signals & Gestures:
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modenaroid

illustration: Untitled

Now that I've finished my knitting projects I'm in the mood to do an illustration. Honestly I don't really know where I'm going with this particular image, it's more a representation of how I'm feeling lately. I wonder why I feel like this....

sketchbook: March 18, 2010

It's been a while since I've posted any drawings, so here's a bear taking a nap.

sketchbook: December 2007

Drawn from imagination. 2H(left) & 2B(right) graphite on layout bond.
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Bic, Tria & Prismacolors Drawn from imagination on crumpled up newsprint.
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sketchbook: July 2007

Drawn from imagination, then scanned & composed in Photoshop.
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sketchbook: April 2007

Compositions of drawings done from imagination.
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More faces. These were drawn from imagination.
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sketchbook: December 2006

Images gathered from my sketchbooks.

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Drawn from stock photography.

illustration: Phoenix Crest Project

This is something I've been meaning to do. To create this composition, I scribbled simple shapes and lines with an 8B graphite and scanned them. I used only these shapes and lines to create the bird, then used some vectors to add more color.



Here are the scanned elements I used to make the bird.
I ended up using only about 10-12 of them.

drawing: Lightbox

Drawn on my janky home-made lightbox. Both images were drawn from stock photography.

drawing: Experiments in Texture