Christmas card for a friend and school work

Happy Holidays!

More school work

I finally finished my big cast and I'm moving on to oil painting now! 
This one is about 100 x 60 cm, white conté chalk and charcoal on toned paper. 
It took over 2 months to complete.

After I finished the big cast I drew this cast to learn to be more efficient.
I put in about 30 hours into this one.

This is a thumbnail for a school assignment with the theme "The witch's Initiation".
I tried to do the final piece in watercolour but failed miserably.

 

Bird 2.0

Scanned this old sketch and made a high resolution version that 
I'm going to print someday.
 

Thumbnails

Been practicing doing quick thumbnails from imagination lately.

Ink

I found an old school assignment when I was cleaning out our
old studio today. The theme for the assignment was "Age of aquarius".
It was my first try at inks, I used a mix of Sepia and Burnt Sienna 
from Rohrer & Klingner on Coldpressed Watercolour Block (140lb) from
Arches.

Shoot

One more doodle

Drawn in Flash.

Doodle

I had some time to play today.

Birds

After long days drawing casts and nude people this 
is what comes out when I get home.







































These were my favourite pencils at the time, its charcoal mixed
with oil so they are a bit waxy and I like the slippery
feeling on the paper.

Stuff from school

This was my second cast in charcoal, at some point the teachers thought I 
should trash it and start over because I was struggling too much with the drawing. 
Now it's probably my favourite. It's Beethoven's death mask. Spooky.

A mouth cast done in chalk and charcoal on toned paper.
The finished version has a smoother gradient in BG, I promise.

A horse done in charcoal on Canson Mitents paper.

I use Grumbacher charcoal and some HB Nitram. On this one

I also used a charcoal pen that allowed me to go

really dark in the BG, but in the end I didn't like the waxy look it created.

(so...no I'm not a professional photographer as you might think I am looking

at the picture quality of this)

An early stage of a cast sculptor Max Patte made for some movie,
maybe Narnia I don't know. It's really cool though.

This stage is the most critical, if you get this right the rendering
is actually quite easy.

This guy is huge.

*If you're interested in getting a strong foundation in traditional drawing (and painting), I couldn't recommend this school more.