Adventure in the woods

This sketch was a great lesson. First, in terms of patience, as it was the most time-concuming one, I've done in years (6 hours long, I think). It, also, taught me a lot on how to give depth in the scene, by using different densities of hatching and thus different grey values. In this way, outlines and white space, which sometimes becomes boring, are minimized. The illusion of foliage is also achieved in a really interesting way. I don't know why, but I find the result very atmospheric and cosy.

I used an ink sketch, in an old copy of Jules Verne's "The Mysterious Island", as a reference.

Funny fact:
My pen died just after I finished this piece. It gave its last breath for me to see this done. I will never forget it buddy... :(

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Venus Comb Tower

So, there is this extraordinary sea shell, called Venus Comb. It is huge, predatory and is covered with long thorns. It is beautiful, in one sense, and spooky in another.

And then, there is the dark and gigantic and silent and wet and horrible tower of Barad Dur. It's the tower where the eye of the dark lord Sauron lives, in the tremendous parallel universe that Tolkien created in his "The Lord Of The Rings" trilogy.

These two, inspired me to sketch what you see here. It is the Venus Comb Tower. An enormous building, with an almost never-ending spiral staircase that leads one straight to the clouds. It's my concept of babel. The sea shell gave me the form (spiral, thorns, long cone, wild textures) and Barad Dur gave me the atmosphere and mood.

I hope you like it!

Anatomy studies #3

Face anatomy, again. More color pencils this time. I love how light and shade are depicted through the use of different colors.

Now, I think it's about time getting into body anatomy. I'm not looking forward to it but I must face it.

I almost forgot! I hate doing it (to be honest, when others tell me to do it, I totally ignore them), but you would give me tons of help if you joined my blog or if you pressed the 'share' button (both can be found on the right side bar). Ok, you can slap me now...

Mr. Latentis

This is Mr. Latentis. Ηe is a very lonely man. He works as a cleaner in a bank. He hates his job. He likes to hide and talk with himself. He pays close attention to things that other people ignore, and he smiles when other people are serious. He has many troubles and worries, but what hurts him the most, is that nobody knows his worries, because he can't tell them to anybody. Oh, yes! And he wants to write a book someday...

Archibook

I know it's a bit (a lot) messy, but I liked that, so I thought, whatever.. let's post it. It's a conceptual building inspired by the works of Hungarian Imre Makovecz and Mexican Javier Senosiain, both architects. You probably haven't heard of them (I found out about them last week), but they're really exceptional! The second sketch (I know it's unfinished and I know it shouldn't be here either) is inspired by Rivendell, the elf's land in Tolkien's Middle Earth. Hope you like them!

Primitive Architecture Sketches

It's time for a break from anatomy studies. For some weeks now, I've been working (not as much as I should, to be honest) on a project for architecture school, that has motivated me to make a research in primitive, ancient, traditional architecture and all that stuff.

I always get charmed by these lonely little houses in the woods where time seems to stop and where peace and quite are man's best friends. So, here are some sketches I got lost into. I used black ink and color pencils for these two.