I don't draw a lot of animals so I decided to do a couple weeks of gesture drawings of animals and I started with some cats. The final pose here came out a little cross eyed and the body isn't as far along as I would have liked but this was my first attempt at painting a cat and for a first try this isn't so bad.

A portrait of Despair from the Sandman comics. I think that she kind of got the short end of the stick in those comics. She seems like an interesting character but she was never to vital to the story and never really got much time in the spot light. This took a while to do but I'm not sure how long.

 So this is my last male figure for a while and I think that it show some definite improvement over the first couple I did. Not perfect by any stretch of the imagination but I think that I'm moving in the right direction. I would have like to get to the face but I ran out of time.

 I overheard somebody mention a cigarette smoking monkey while I was watching TV so I decided to draw a cigar smoking ape. Not really sure why but I did. next to that is a very quick study of my sisters dog and below that is a sketch I did while waiting at the bus stop.

A bunch of quick sketches that I did for a character that's in a comic I'm working on with a friend. It's been a while since we've worked on it so I'm trying to get the character down again.

I think the arms, torso and upper leg came out pretty good. There are some spots that could use some work but overall I'm pretty happy with it.

A bunch of quick studies for a bunch of Islamic buildings. Going clockwise Byzantine, Islamic, Tunisian, and Islamic again, I think. I'm not 100% sure of all of these classifications. They took about 45 minutes a piece and overall I think they came out alright. I got distracted by work so I didn't post yesterday so I'll be posting again later today.

 So I tried my hand at an older figure. It presented a bit of a challenge because of the way skin folds on an older person. There are also some color differences that I tried to highlight. This figure was a pain to do because of all these different things that I tried to keep in mind at the same time. I think that spending another twenty minutes would have made this a much better figure, that said I did learn a lot from this figure.

 So just couple of random sketches. An evil snow man at the top, a male face in the middle, and a female alien at the bottom. On the right an unfinished sketch of a woman drawing some kind of weapon.

Bus stop sketches. Some times I can't think of any thing to draw so I just start to draw whats in front of me. I was stuck on the bus for a while because of traffic so I was able to put more detail into the drawings than I normally would have.

So this figure is less well defined so I was able to put more time into painting the figure and less time defining muscles. That said I still think this figure could have used an extra ten minutes and it would have been really good. 

A quick painting of Eris the goddess of chaos. This could use some more work but I kind of like it and might work on it some more in the future.

 So I think that I'm getting better at painting and drawing well defined muscles. This guy came out pretty good, still I have a lot of room for improvement but I think that I'm moving in the right direction.

Some more gestures done while on my way to work. The three closest to the bottom where done from people on the bus, the others where done from my head and I made the one on the top left an asari from Mass Effect.

More gestures all of these where done from my imagine and I didn't include any interesting characters on this page. 

Again the well defined muscles took up most of my time leaving me little time to refine the colors. The muscles came out good but the way I have the colors now kind of distracts from that.

This guy was fun to paint, I liked his facial expression and clothes. I took a little over an hour to do and I'm pretty happy with the results.