Ghoul Lord

Again, trying to do some more comic sci/fi fantasy pictures.  I recreated a great black & white ink drawing by Luigi Castellani (I think the picture works better with his stark black and white style).  There are things I like and things I do not but all in all, a successful exercise.

                              Watercolor Pen & Ink on 140 lbs block 9x12

Here is the pencil sketch (used a brown watercolor pencil) and the masking process for the sky.

The Other Tree

I spend a lot of time giving love to my neighbor's tree, but we have a small, interesting tree of our own.  Here is a very quick sketch of the tree. I liked how the lights from the other neighbor's backyard highlighted the tree.

                                        Watercolor, Pen & Ink on paper

Barney Gone Bad

Trying to do more original sci-fi/comic style art work.

                                 Watercolor and Pen & Ink on 140 lbs block 9x12

Body Builders -- multi-media

Back in the day when I was (power) lifting, I would read Muscle & Fitness, Flex and other similar magazines to see what crazy new lifts I could try out (because doing stuff called "skull crushers", "hang cleans" and "bam bams" was apparently not enough).  The magazines were also good for figure drawing references. Over the years, I have done many sketches, drawings and doodles based on the pages of these magazines. Recently, I tried doing something in watercolor.  And below that are host of other older drawings in other media.

                                     The other Jay Cutler watercolor

                                                   Pencil

Grey markers

Prismacolor Markers

Neighbor's Tree -- Winter

I have not had the opportunity to get out and sketch, so I have returned to a favorite subject, my neighbor's backyard tree. Even without the lush greenery of Spring/Summer it is still a majestic subject.

I think I might paint a picture of this tree every month as a season study.

                                     Watercolor on 140 lbs paper 7x10