Barbarian at the Door

Taking a brief departure from landscape painting to do something more comic book like.  There was a time I would have loved to be the penciler or inker for a Conan comic.  Hell, I still would.

                                    Pen & Ink and watercolor on 180lbs paper 9x12

And some older pencil sketches from the late 80's showing I always wanted to be the illustrator of a Conan comic book.

"Conjuring a Demon"

"Barbarian vs Knight"

Throw Back Thursday -- Famous People

Here are some old sketches in pencil from 1987. I cannot remember who the girl in the middle was but major points to anyone who can name the political figure at the bottom.

Throw Back Thursday - Great Cats in Pencil

I found some old sketch books going through some boxes.  And since I am not on Facebook, I do not get the opportunity to participate in Throw Back Thursdays.  So,  for the month of August, I will be posting my version of TBT.  Some of these might have been posting years ago while others will be posted for the first time.

Both of these pencils sketches are from the late 80's and early 90's, a time where my predominant medium, almost exclusively, was simple pencil.  At this time I was highly influenced by Frank Miller's Ronin, and the highly stylized cross-hatching technique he employed.  While the cross hatching in these are more mundane, they were a departure from what I had been doing: using the sides of a No. 2 pencil to shade and shadow.  Later, in college when I began to experiment in color pencils and mix media, I would use a more minimalist and economical line work.