Friday, August 7, 2009

Drawing Time —

First up: a lion in crayon, from drawing time with my son. It's the best thing I've ever drawn in my whole life.




Next up, some pages of heads, inked with a Pentel Sign Pen and Brush Pen and shaded with neutral gray Copics. For the first two heads, I tried to skip even a rough pencilling stage and to sketch directly in ink, with disastrous results. The fifth head down was a similar attempt to sketch with Copics, which I think turned out pretty well.







The Copics are great but the paper in my sketchbook can't stand up to them, so I bought some marker paper and had better results (and less waste from markers bleeding through to underlying pages).



And here's some recent studies.




That's it!

5 Comments:

Blogger mike w said...

Nice trapezius rendering.

August 7, 2009 2:46 PM  
Blogger Nathan Fairbairn said...

Thanks! What's a trapezius?

August 7, 2009 2:48 PM  
Blogger mike w said...

That diamond-shaped muscle in the centre of your back.

Do you ever wish you could draw this well back in the comic-drawing days of the Gateway? I'd like to take quite a few back and I've barely improved.

August 7, 2009 4:13 PM  
Blogger Nathan Fairbairn said...

Ha. Yeah, I know what the traps are. Was joke. And yeah, man -- I am so utterly ashamed of what a terrible artist I was back then. Your stuff has always been pure gold, though.

August 7, 2009 4:19 PM  
Blogger mike w said...

DAMMIT I knew you were joking, but then I thought, what kind of joke was that?

Thanks for making me sound like a knob.

[immediately de-friends Nathan from Facebook]

August 7, 2009 4:23 PM  

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