Moleskine journey '10

I am undertaking a mission! To finish one of these nice quality sketchbooks from cover to cover completely. I normally start a new one and rip out a ton of pages in frustration!! I invite you all to join me in spirit, and feel free to start a mission of your own too, haha!
First few pages...the paintings are oil.

Guitarist progress

Been working on this in my spare time. I guess its maybe 3 or so days work.

Glossolalia

I speak of the second image-Really happy with this, it really feels like I'm where I want to be with this type of image, but I'm out of time for the moment and have just enough for the gallery show in June. it's time to focus on other parts of my art, and come back to this style of work later.

Also got a better shot of the bird painting...

tentacle woman

here's a progress shot. Don't really feel like I want to work on it anymore- feeling a bit burnt out on it- although I am excited how it's going.

Probably work on it again in a couple of days time.

When drawing the figure i usually use straight lines that are slightly bent, so as to find the quickest route from point A to B, and so if it's wrong I can erase it easily, whereas if I drew every subtle undulation I would get too precious. It's really hard to get proportions, but it's crucial.
I usually add the variations in the outline at the very end. This is important because sometimes the halftone shapes inside the outline can give the illusion that its curving a lot- a lot of masterworks generallly can have a very simple outline but incredibly intricate shadow/halftone shapes inside the form, which give the illusion of it being quite curvy and undulated.

playing

just at the stage where i can just play around with the drawing, and just try and let the image form without too much planning. Started with a suggestion from a friend, then pushed it around till I felt I'd had enough.
too much fun!