Sea captain, formulaic sketch

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Practicing alla prima portrait oil painting on gessoed board, 22x27cm. Painted straight without sketching.

More pocket drawings

To get better at concept art, one should study nature and try to memorise the structures and textures and then let them influence one's imagination-based drawings, according an Imagine FX magazine writer. By the way, I do not want to support guns or violence, but if I ever manage to enroll into a gaming company, I got to know how to draw them.

Notes

Ink and graphite studies of photos and live (the car)... trying to improve skills in realism.

Sketchbook pages

Drawing straight with ink instead of sketching with graphite first forces one to think harder on how to get the proportions right when drawing buildings. I was encouraged to draw more of these kinds of small pictures since I can obviously put more effort into them than larger works. The second one was drawn on spot btw.

A bit peculiar design here?

Drawings

That would be Coppola the director in the first one.

Another marker study

Marker study of a still image from some Ingmar Bergman movie.

Marker study

A study of a black and white photograph with markers. Can you identify the model?

Color sketch

Wondering

'skine spreads

Selected pocket sketchbook drawings made during work day breaks, train travels and pretty much anywhere outside home.

Practice

An art teacher at junior high used to remind that one should draw self-portraits often because it is a great way to practice and also a measure of one's progression as an artist.