Forgot to post this here! Did a portrait of Vince, the one main reader of this blog. I'm not wholly happy with this but I think it was a good experiment. I might revisit this image later on to try and get it just right. Big blocks of flat color. In part of my mind it works. It might be enough.

It's not Billy Crystal but I like the image. I started with a number of sketches and approaches. One of them was the usual inked version, one was big areas of watercolor like texture. The final, because I'd seen someone on Instagram do this, was more of a traditional approach using a brown-scale underpainting, building color up on top of that. It's not a good portrait, and I'm ok with that. I think the approach is worth remembering. Again, I like it. And I suppose that's a good thing.

Had a little time tonight so whipped up a D&D character sketch, something I pretty much never do.

Still working on the Billy Crystal portrait which is becoming less a portrait and more just an image. I think the likeness is still in there, but is less important. I guess I consider it a style exercise as I try and pin something down. All pencil.

Got to work on the next portrait because why the hell not? Was watching a video with Billy Crystal in it and I paused at what is not the most flattering frame ever. But something attracted me so I took a screen shot and, tonight, started a sketch based on it. Already started inking it in Procreate. We'll see how it goes from here.

Even with the shutdown, shut in, whatever I haven't done a lot of art. Instead, I've been cleaning the house and playing Animal Crossing. Well, there you go. I've been rewatching painting shows and finally dug out some old work I that I liked but which didn't sell. Always liked the Giacometti portrait I did for my one show. I kept the reference so here's an updated version of the same thing. Procreate.

Morning warm up. Sometimes you just have to scratch that itch before moving on to other things. Wanted to keep this as loose as possible. Pencil first then Procreate. Love that sumi brush.

Page 3. Coming along. The plan as of now is to get to about page 10 then start uploading them to their own Instagram account at a rate of two pages a week. That way things will be consistent and I'll have a bumper in case I get behind.

That third panel was a problem. Thanks, Vince for pointing it out. When I read your comment and looked at it the next day, I was really unhappy with it. So I changed the angle and redrew the whole thing. I think this works better. I especially like Crow's face in this as it has a mix of youth and weariness I was hoping for. Also, there's a slight feel of the sinister with the goblin even though he's just a waiter.

Page 2. Had a little trouble with one of the poses and had to draw it a few times. Still not utterly happy with it but it works and I don't want to lose momentum. Moving ahead is good.

Had a hard time drawing tonight, though I figured out the problem; I was leaning far too hard on the photo ref. After about six tries on this one pose for Crow, I gave up and decided to work on the goblins, in this case, a bartender. First shot and I was happy with it. So here's a sketch of what a goblin in Ghiroy will look like.