Advanced Colored Pencil

After getting tired of water coloring i went back to colored penciling to try and learn more about lighting and shading. I was looking at a "fantasy water, land and sky creatures" book and it had pictures of these fish, so i made a scene and colored it. Someone told me outlining things with a prominent color used will pop the image more, so that's what i did. I sort of looks like all the fish are electric!

This image came to me one night when my wife was a week past her due date sleeping on our couch at like 10 at night. I just kept thinking of our little girl and wanted to draw what i saw in my mind. I had the book i mentioned above, the angel's outfit and wings came from that.


This is a picture i have always wanted to capture on paper, the end of "the end times". When St. Michael finally kills Satan! Mary is praying to the side. I used the book above to inspire St. Michael and Mary, but was still my own.



My newest drawing right now is this frog, so cool! i didn't want to paint him, i felt i could capture him better with pencil.

Fantasy Drawings

Wanted to draw a fantasy world free hand out of boredom!

I got a book on "how to draw a fantasy world and characters" I made up my own scene, just used image ideas from the book

My second attempt

My final attempt i put on water color paper and decided to go for it! I learned a lot about colors and how to layer colors. This was a big undertaking for me. It pushed me to want to really get better at water color. Also, it reminded me i need to practice drawing and just using colored pencil more as well!

Tattoo Style Drawing

My fist attempt at a rose and Japanese clouds (which are very hard to draw!)

A Skull (dedicated to the brothers of SOS)

A Rose (after much more shading practice) and ball point outline

Sparrow

I always wanted to draw a Koi Fish, also my first attempt at drawing water. This image came out of a "history of tattooing" book, this was tattooed on a old Japanese guy

I did this dragon without looking at my paper almost, i just followed my hand with my eyes as I stared at the picture because there were so many lines. I love this dragon head. My wife insisted I stop stretch my ability and make my own dragon body... not too good!

Sitting outside one day, felt colorful and copied a bird, then just decided to sketch around it. people like this one!

Nature and Animals

I had a great book on how to sketch with graphite pencils.

Then I tried to experiment with ball point pen

Wanted to try and draw reflections on the water

My personal favorite of my nature drawings, using ball point and graphite pencils

CAT

This was in a "history of tattoos" book, but it was a realistic tiger drawing

Sea Horse

I thought this martini glass came out amazing, it re-motivated me to keep going

I finally got colored pencils and tried learning at square one, how to draw a circle and apple