Sketch Page 857 - lion study

This took about 3 or 4  hours?  I'm not sure, I paint slowly.  I have some sketch pages to post from last month, those should be put up soon... This was a nice break from work, it's the first thing I've drawn for myself this month!  

More coming up soon.

Maybe.

Animal 1

animal study 1

Sketch Pages 764-769

I finally whipped out my new grayscale markers and practiced drawing shape-driven characters from reference images.  I haven't had so much fun drawing in a long time!  I'd like to do this more often.  It was a nice change after making that terrible dragon. 

Sketch Pages 747-752

Worked more on the creature concept plus some random other beasties. Blogger keeps on posting picture out of order :\

Sketch Pages 744-746

Doin' some skull studies for my creature design.  I'm playing with the some sort of big cat/warthog combo.  I'll get back to working on the full body design soon.  This creature is supposed to be a swarmer - relatively weak alone but dangerous in a pack- so I'll have to keep that in mind while working on the full body design.  Right now it's looking too predatory and dangerous to be ignorable alone.

Sketch Pages 561-564

Various studies and bored doodles.  I had an urge to draw cute things so I set up some Beanie Babies.

Oh, I'm going to be out of town until Tuesday but I am bringing along my sketchbook.  I hope to have something to put up by the time I get back