Spray Bottle

Spray bottle, created using traditional mech pencil + PhotoShop.

Hands

Over time I've had to study and draw many hands. Hands are notoriously difficult to draw, but when they come off well, it adds a lot to the illustration. I usually like to have a photo reference when drawing hands as I don't think I've ever seen two identical shots/positions of hands... they're almost as unique as faces. Anyway, here's a group of hand illustrations I've done - some of them are recycled from prior blog posts, some from other sources.

Security testing icon

Here's an image I created for a security-testing application. Obviously this image indicates a potential security flaw. I originally created it on some empty space on a whiteboard, then colorized/retouched it in PhotoShop to it's final form. The clean up in PhotoShop was the most time consuming part... next time I'll use a whiter whiteboard.

Facebook app images

Here's some images for a Facebook application I'm working on, and the modification history.

The final reduced image:


Here's the main Photoshopped image from the sketch. The noose and rope are completely redone... the rope in the original illustration was completely not working, so I shot some rope and edited it in. It would have been faster to just get it right in the drawing, but I think the photographic image mixed with the drawing works much better.


The original sketch - the rope's totally not working, I should have used a reference.

Quick hand study

A quick hand study using mainly mech pencils & touched up in PhotoShop.

Cowboy head image

This is an image I'll be using and integrating into an upcoming mobile phone app. I'll be tweaking it to work at relatively small screen sizes as well.

10 min sketch

A quick 10 min sketch.

Ron Wood, Bobby Womack from rough to color

Here's the progress from rough sketch to final colored illustration of Ron Wood and Bobby Womack during a fleeting moment during Bobby's induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Final:


Pencil Drawing:


Rough Sketch:

Whiteboard scissors

This was originally drawn on whiteboard, then subtracted out the background and then colorized and made some other treatments in PhotoShop.

Sketchbook page

Here's a page out of the sketch book - a quick Sharpie sketch of a goalie and a runner.

Quick sketch again

Here's a quick sketch of a polo player on horseback. I'm specifically trying to stop once I get the proportions down.

Quick Sketch of two women holding children

This took about 5 mins, just trying to get the rough proportions down.