Portrait Line Drawing

"Tom Hiddleston". Digital Line Drawing. 2013.

A quick digital line drawing that will serve as the under drawing for my illustrated digital portrait. I had to learn to let go and not hung up on the lines and details and I surprised at how clean I was able to keep it. Only took me about 15 minutes to complete, a new record!

Trills!

After watching some Star Trek, I decided to sketch one of my favorite minor characters from Deep Space Nine (Star Trek: DS9), Ezri Dax.

                                                   Sketched using Adobe Photoshop CS3

Avengers Assemble! Part 1

I'm working on a big painting that will feature portraits of all the avengers from the film (as well as the villain). It will be fun once I get all of these sketches done! I've got 1 more avenger  ( Bruce Banner) and the villain (Loki - in progress) to go before I can compile them all into one large composition for my painting.

Here are some early rough sketches of the portraits I've finished so far in a collage. :)

Loki!

Cartoon break!

Ever since I first laid eyes on the character and actor who portrays Loki (Tom Hiddleson) in "The Avengers" (and "Thor"), I've loved him. Honestly, he's just too cute that even though he's supposed to be a tortured, evil soul, you just want to hug him and then slap him for being a jerk.

Just a little sketch I did.

Snippet, whippet, muppet..no that one doesn't work.

Eh, so my lack of sleep is getting to me but I have been productive so it's all good in my book.

I decided to take the canvas sketch I did, do a basic color blocking on the actual canvas and then upload it to put the finishing touches on it via the magical tool, Photoshop.

I'm about...2/3 of the way finished but I decided to post a little peek into a section I recently finished.

Sexy.

Pre-Painting

Ok, time to tackle the basics with canvas and acrylics. It's been at least a year since I've worked with acrylics, which is odd since I love the medium.

For this first venture back into traditional media, I've decided to do a portrait of the actor, Michael Fassbender (from movies such as Prometheus, Shame, X-Men:First Class, Inglorious Basterds, etc)

This is a pencil pre-sketch on canvas (12 x 12) that will later be covered within its life with acrylic.

Tomorrow, I begin!

Some updated sketches (April 2012)

I just started doing more work in my sketchbook. Been too long since I did some sketches in just pen. It feels good man!

The first 2 pieces are of a strange venture into doing unusual fantasy/scifi/don't know what the hell to call it art.  Then it's a woman with short hair. Still not sure what to make of that one as well. Then the last piece is a random one just thrown in that I did of an actress, Felicia Day.

poor woman....she has a case of bad lip fillers

This guy again?

UPDATE: Here's the final illustration of the sketch below. I'm pleased with it considering it was an experiment in photoshop for me. I don't paint often in black and white so it was fun! I originally had a red burned graffiti on the back wall behind the person of the Russian Flag during WW2 (hammer and sickle) but it distracted too much from the main focus so I removed it.

So, I watched another film that this actor in it, albeit older (10-12 years older), and inspired again to sketch a portrait from that film.

It really is a great film called "The Inner Circle". Kind of offbeat, but a very good psychological look into the mindset of the Russian people during the reign of Joseph Stalin and WWII, through the eyes of Stalin's personal projectionist, Ivan Sanchin (original name was changed for the film) as he was accepted into the inner circle of Stalin's government. It's hard to find as a film but the characters are worth the watch.

I will be taking this sketch and painting it eventually. I am thinking of going much darker with it, with heavy lighting and bold contrast and a minimal color palette. I want it to be depressing. :p

First version without background:

Is it Christmas?!

I've lost all sense of time since I started working on this painting. I forgot it was Christmas Eve! I decided to go ahead and illustrate my sketch I did. I'm pleased with it for it being my first solid illustration in about six months. I know there are areas to be worked on but it's good to be drawing again!

Tom Hulce

After going on a Netflix binge for the last day, I was inspired to draw this actor who was a rising star in the 80's with a string of films including "Animal House", "Amadeus", "Parenthood", etc. I found his looks to be interesting and wanted to draw them. I settled on a photo of him during his "Animal House" days when he would have been around 25-27.

I may paint it out. I'm not sure yet.

Practice

I decided to take a few photos of myself to practice facial drawing.

This is the first one I've finished a sketch in. It's actually kind of fun to draw yourself as a model! :-p

                                                                   "Worried" Digital Sketch.

New Illustration Site!

I've officially registered and am in the process of building a professional illustration site that showcases my portfolio and current projects!

Check it out if you want! :)

http://jillianashley.squarespace.com/

Sketchie Update 1

Here's an updated version of my portrait piece I'm currently working on. So far, I've overlayed the sketch with a medium brown base color, that I've been subtracting in order to create the values of where it will be lighter and darker when I add the colors on top and keep building the layers up for the portrait.

It will be different. Hmm.

Sketchie

It's been awhile since I posted here. I don't know if anyone actually reads this blog but I'm content to post my art here and let the pieces fall where they may.

I decided to get back into practicing portraiture and wanted to do a series of male portraits. I will be using references from the internet for now until I get some models lined up.

Here's the first one. I will be taking this sketch and making it into a final color illustration with revisions. I'm excited. :)

                                                               "Jim Adkins Sketch"
                                                                    Digital Work.

Britney Spears Cartoon

Yeah, for some reason I started to draw Britney Spears tonight.

However, this is how I see her. Not as the pop princess she makes herself out to be.

I don't hate her but I do think this is more who she really is and would rather show the world than her stage persona. Cigarettes and cut off jeans in all of their glory.

Quick Doodle

I was playing around with texture in photoshop tonight with my digital painting.

It was fun and I hope to expand on it in the future.

As far the subject, no idea where she came from. I was thinking about Clockwork Orange for some reason and eh, this is what came out.

"Streaks of Red"

Digital Illustration

Female Portrait #2

I decided to try painting out another portrait of a woman. This time I decided to paint Grace Park. She was also known for being Boomer/Athena on Battlestar Galactica when she first broke into the scene. I don't have much experience painting Asian features so I thought it'd be a fun challenge.

This session is the result of about 3-4 hours of digital painting.

I enjoyed it as well!

"Grace Park"

Digital Illustration.

Portrait Painting Practice

I decided it had been way too long since I practiced painting a portrait digitally, or just painted in general so I picked a photo of one of my favorite actresses, Katee Sackhoff, to paint. She is also better known as "Starbuck" if you know who that is. :)

This was a 2 hour non-stop paint session. I'm very happy with how it turned out!

"Katee Sackhoff"

 Digital Illustration.

Sookeh

A sketch that ended up looking like Sookie Stackhouse from "True Blood".

Cute!

Sketched in Photoshop. 

Random Scribbles

I took a look at my blog and realized it looked like I had given up being artist and had decided to done with the blog itself. I was distraught. Then I decided to update. I have been busy but it hasn't been on anything in particular. Just whatever came into my mind. Now I shall start buckling down and making final illustrations from some of the scribbles. 

Enjoy. 

"Alien Abduction of the Sensual Nature"

Brian Thuringer-Quick Sketch from Model.

"Queen of the Garbage"

"Grinning Minions of Death"

"Small Wood Sprite"

No idea what this is. WTF.