Another warm and cool exercise; same image as the tiger down below.

Warm and cool color sketch exercises. Acrylic on canvas paper.

Tiger, acrylic on canvas paper.

I painted my sketch. (Compare to drawing below) Acrylic on canvas.

Meet Disney Consumer Products Artists and talk to them about their gallery work and blogs: Vince, John, Jeff, Ryan, and Rich, in Costa Mesa this weekend.

At it again: What makes a big cat look like a big cat? Studies for general surface anatomy and shapes.

Just cranked this out. I went back into the archives, found this previous little thumbnail, worked it up, using my favorite prismacolor pencil: tuscan red. It has such a soft, buttery line. I was going thru some old drawings; drawings i meant to plus out but ran out of time. Compare the old cat drawings to this one. What a world of difference! It pays to practice!

I returned to an eohippus sketch (see blog archives) i did a while back and painted it for an exercise. I imagined a dark red brown creature who could easily slip into the dappled shadows in a mist filled forest. This is acrylic on canvas paper with several layers of gloss medium inbetween the paint.