Daughter of the Forest studies

I'm working on a new traditional painting, and here are the studies I did. First one in pencil, and another one is a color study I did in Photoshop.

Graphite pencil on 30x40cm paper.

A quick painting in Photoshop with a Wacom tablet.

Collection of surreal pencil sketches

I've been working on so many things lately I didn't have the time to update this sketchblog. I refuse to give it up, though!
My recent sketchbook entries follow a surreal theme, and I've been drawing a hell of a lot trees recently.

All of these are drawn with pencil in a Canson sketchbook.

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Art journal left brain vs. right brain

I'm doing visual journaling exercises from the book The Creative Entrepreneur, and here's one that looks decent enough to share.

Ink, color pencils and gouache in a Moleskine sketchbook.
I'm trying to get more free with this experimental journal thing, but I'm still too much of a perfectionist to be really successful at it. I'm looking forward to seeing how that might evolve in the future.

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Demon and a sci-fi skull

As promised, here are some fantasy sketches I did last weekend.
I got a new hard drive and only have GIMP installed right now so the quality and compression on these last few posted images is worse than I'm used to. Sorry about that.

Pen and ink plus watercolor in a Canson sketchbook.
I haven't used pen and ink in a loooong time. Time to practice it some more.

Graphite pencil & eraser in a Canson sketchbook.

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Sketching in the natural history museum

This is a stripped-down repost from my official blog. I have a few more days worth of sketches to post, which I'll do in the following few days.

Anyway, I was sketching taxidermied animals from life in the natural history museum.

Griffon vulture pencil sketch, around 10 minutes.

Beech marten watercolor pencil sketch, around 15 minutes.

Red fox watercolor and ink sketch, around 30 minutes.

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