Till at Vazac's

Ok I skipped Saturday, I was in all day with plenty of opportunity but manged not to post. To make it up to you all, here is yet another till, my 18th such post, view the others by clicking on THIS. Enjoy the rest of your Sunday, I'm off to find another till.

Quick Studies

Trying to get the pen flowing again.

Jose

I'm not sure where to take this one but I don't think it's done.

Another Dude

I'm on a roll.

Dude

Just a quickie, no big whoop.

Subway sketches

It's been a while for one of these, I've got plenty to share and I have to say I'm getting back in the swing of daily drawing. Happy Monday everyone.

Portraits

This is a job for one of my favorite clients, I always give them 3 images to choose from and usually they will go with the middle one. When doing sketches like this it's hard to know when to stop which is why I like to err on either side.
2 days, 2 posts, things are looking up.

Bronze Medal Winner

Okay, this sight has become a bit of a joke lately, "Sketch of the Day" has come to mean sketch of the "whenever". It's is a new year however so I'm ready to renew my efforts, I have the drawings I just need to get back into the daily habit. I feel like I'm ready to take this on again so here we go.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

This painting won a bronze medal at the Society of Illustrators West show which is a positive way to start the new year and a positive endorsement for my continuing bar project. The sketchbook part of which will be available this year as a book titled 'The Little Gem".

We'll see what happens but as far as I'm concerned I'm back. Hope you are all having a wonderful start to the new year.

Ross

This is the last of this series for the time being. I've got some ideas about taking it forward but I have some other stuff to do right now.

Ross

And again.

Ross

Another look.

Ross

I like this one, i might have another stab at it later.

Ross

Here is a sketch from another shot, i prefer the other reference but you have to have a go, don't you?

Ross

Here is another look, I'm trying to work out the best way to use the shot I was sent.

Ross

I've been doing a lot more drawing lately and i have loads of sketches to upload, I'm just out of the habit a bit. This sketch is one of a few preliminary drawings I'm doing for my nephew Ross, more on that later, but I have a bunch of these that I will be posting this week. Happy Sunday good people of the world.

Tools

I dug this up from the past, it was a drawing I did for a holiday card at work. Does this some up the holiday spirit or what? Sketch of the day is almost making a comeback.

Cart Before the horse

Here are a couple of preliminary sketches from yesterday's post. not up to much but these days, two posts is two days in nothing to sneeze at.

Dracular

This was a piece of homework I just reworked as a sample. I'm still working on a couple of bar paintings but this was a welcome distraction. I should post some sketches at some point,. what with this being "Sketch of the Day" and all.

Old Town Bar Till

How many times have you seen some version of this on this blog site, click HERE to see some others.

Rohmans

Once again it's been a while since my last post. Angie and I ran the New York Marathon on Sunday, can I use that as a good excuse? There are no excuses of course just distractions, once again I'll vow to do better, who knows maybe this time I will.
I'm mapping in the lights and darks on this painting, trying to prize the truth from the photographs I'm using, last week I went and sat in the bar again and made color notes and a value study, this is a little closer to the truth. I hope ti finish this soon, I'm working on a couple more which I'll be posting soon. Thanks for your patience.

Fishing Fish

I got around to finishing this one for an upcoming show.

Pete's Tavern

Finished this one up yesterday, I have to keep the momentum going right now. I could bestow the virtues of Pete's on you but I'll save it till later, back to the drawing board.

Iain

I drew this back in the summer, i have a back log of drawings, I don't know why I haven't been posting except to say that I'm out of the habit. I used to feel anxious until I had posted for the day and now I often don't think of it. I'm working on the bar paintings and getting this book out so my focus a has been elsewhere. Sketch of the day has become a bit of a joke, I must admit, I'll have another go and see what happens, and and apologies for those of you who are visiting the site of late. I'll do better.

Rohmans

Got a little done at the weekend but not too much on account that we are training for the marathon and ran 21 miles on Saturday, very little left in the tanks on Sunday but had a go, plat spot the difference.

Fanelli Cafe

Here we are again at Fanelli Cafe, it's starting to come together but still a ways to go. I'll be working on the Rohman's painting this weekend so hopefully I'll have done enough to give a progress report on that.

Old Town Bar

This is the finished painting of the inside of the Old Town Bar, you can see this and all of my other bar paintings by clicking HERE. I'm currently working on putting together a collection of my bar drawings into a book to be called The Little Gem. more on this one soon.

Old Town Bar

This was my favorite lunchtime spot for a little while. Angie used to work a couple of blocks away so it was a great place to meet her for lunch of wait for her to get out of work.

Fishing Fish

A bit of silliness on a Saturday morning.