Perspectives frown within the skull

For a perspective project using variation of texture, line, style and color I have chosen a human skull as my object. Here is one of the drawings.. Using sienna pencil and some pen I came up with this.. The second photo has been digitally altered to allow for a higher degree of contrast between the shades and colors.

Ice mummy

A few days ago I finished an image of a 2500 year old mummified woman.. Time preserverd her in her last moments.. Her physical remains surpassed her ancestors and our own. Time and the cold elements of this world naturally protected her from the normal oxidization of living tissue.. Hardened and hidden away for 2500 hundred years, now here she rests.

Some pages from my sketch book.. And the forgiving morning

There is no better feeling on a rainy day, some hot coffee and the tactile tension in the space between the paper and pencil. It happens before you know it.. The act of the hand presuming the push of lead against a pure white surface.. Something known and untold.. It leaves a ripple in the normally steadfast current of the day. An entire catalogue of introductions ands instructions of how your day will go about . I don't know where it ends but I know that this is the correct place to begin.

The faces in our minds

The brain tries to recognize things and place them as if you have been there before.. The human consciousness is more than what we generally make it out to be. It sees humanity in the shadows making you double guess what you are experiencing in the darkness. It deciphers  through our vision.. It listens and mimes.. It rules and stays hidden always lying in ambush for the next shadow just out our periphial vision.. I'll leave you with some faces in the shadows around me.

Black and white portrait in pencil

 

 

 

 

 I was asked to do this portrait by a friend for their parents. This took about 6 hours to complete, and maybe a little longer since i also did a quick practice one before i attempted doing the finished piece; just so i knew i would get their faces right. This was good practice for myself; hope you enjoy.

New Beginning- The Joker

Inspired by comic and graphic novel illustrator Lee Bermejo, here is the drawing of the Joker i did as a practice for myself; this first photo is about 3 quarters of the way done.

A close up of the Jokers evil grin and his victims forced smile.

Me adding some of the finishing touches to the sketch.

The finished project. I did the whole sketch in graphite first and then began to go over it in ink using micron pens; the graphite allows me to add a large range of light to dark shadows and the pens were good to use for the darkest of the shadows. The whole sketch took about 10-12 hours in all to complete.