Sketch Dump: Personality and Personal

It's getting a bit random with the sketch post themes.

This is from a Steve Hanks painting, but the model was my friend Britney.  "And the angels sigh," is a line from a James Taylor song.

Here's one of Britney from a photo.

This one wasn't so great, but I do love that red ink pen and the detailing.

This was a sketch of a co-worker.  I don't think I ever saw her dressed as a Goth, so this was probably somewhat imaginary.  Not a bad look for her though.

This is her without the makeup.

Here's two of singer Susanna Hoffs.  The top drawing is someone else, maybe Psylocke from the X-Men.

 

Another co-worker.  She is pretty glamorous in real life.

Sketch Dump: Models

This is a grab bag of sketches of girls.

The first is a charcoal drawing.  Not the greatest, but I like the animation.  

Nice clean lines here.

The one on the right is way too manly.  It's an old drawing.  I had trouble drawing necks.  The one on the left is of a Mexican actress.  Again, not great, but fun animation.

Cool hair.

That's old drawing on the left.  I can tell since there's no date on it.  Not the prettiest drawing on the right, but nice detailing.  I probably erased whatever was on the right of this page and drew on it later to "recycle" the space.

Same thing here with the "recycling."  It's not the same girl, but nearly the same hairstyle.  

This is a real old drawing.  It's from an SI Swimsuit issue.  Again, the neck issue.

   

Another old image.  This was from a swimsuit magazine, not SI, but inspired by it.

Sketch Dump: Different Style 3

This is the last of the different style as far I know.  (I'm still going through my old drawings.)

This is a nice elvish-looking one.

This one might be the best of the bunch.  The eyes in a lot of these are a little vacant-looking.  This one has some personality.  Love the hair.  No idea who this is.  If I could draw like this all of the time, I'd do it.

I hope you like the fingers in this one.  They look like I labored over them for a long while.

I think the next two are details from Steve Hanks paintings.  He drew a lot of girls with their eyes closed.  Admittedly, that makes them easier to draw.

Sketch Dump: Different Style 2

 Continuing on with the sort-of-Steven-Hanks-inspired sketches.

I like this first one a lot.  I know the fingers aren't great, but they're way better than I normally do. 

This one is a detail from a Steve Hanks painting.  I remember I almost bought a print of this at an art shop in Old Mesilla.  It was $250.  I instead bought the $75 book, which had this painting in it.  I don't exactly regret it, but I'd still like to have that print.  (I'm not sure that art shop is even still around.)

This one is a Playboy model.  It's a detail of one of my favorite pictures.  I'd identify all of these drawings if I could.  

For example, I wish remembered who this was.  I like this one a lot.

Sketch Dump: Different Style 1

It was probably after getting an artbook by Steve Hanks that I started drawing differently.  However, he does photo-realistic paintings.  I just do sketches in pencil with occasional ink and color.  (He also does pencil sketches.  They're photo-realistic, too.)  My artwork doesn't really look anything like his, but he did inspire me to try something different.  These sketches mostly took up the entire page and were just close-ups.  I tried to make the the drawings look very clean.  

I don't know why I stopped drawing like this.  It's not very realistic, but not very comic book-ish either.  Perhaps it was too in-between to carry on with and be satisfied with.  I might consider going to back to something like this someday.    

The first one here is a black ink drawing on copy paper.  Out of all of the sketch books I've had, I don't know why I kept falling back on using copy paper on occasion.

  

This was a Patrick Nagel painting.  Talk about a contrast in styles.  Nagel did his great figure work using a very stylized abstract technique.      

This is a detail from a Steve Hanks painting.    

Sketch Dump: Flash Girls 3

 The last of the Alex Raymond Flash Gordon women for now.

Here's the Mongo jungle queen.  

Dale Arden in a luxurious robe on the left.  Don't let the innocent look fool you.  The girl on the right was an enemy spy Flash got mixed up with on earth.  Even back home, Flash kept running afoul of beautiful dangerous women.

There's a classic swimsuit pose from the 40's.

There's Dale doing her version of a "Hang in there," poster on the left.  On the right, Raymond was just a clinic on how to draw women from behind.  

Here's the Mongo undersea queen.  I'm not sure if she came out before or after Aquaman's wife, Mera.

The undersea queen in battle garb.