No reference figure drawings

I’ve  been wanting to do some figure drawing lately and for a little while I couldn’t find any classes near me. I recently did find one but before that I started doing these drawings with no reference as practice. The ‘cylinder & cube’ technique I use is from “How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way” by  Stan Lee and John Buscema. I got this book when I was pretty young and never really embraced it. It wasn’t until recently that I saw it popping up on a few blogs as a highly recommended instructional book so I checked it out again. I definitely recommend it for learning how to draw the human figure with no reference.

Sketches from the Adirondacks

These are the first two sketches in my new molskine watercolor sketchbook, done while visiting my mother in August. I need to be doing these more often as my watercolor skills are quite rusty.

Done with a Faber Castell Pitt brush pen, the smallest watercolor set I could find, and a water brush.

Marilyn Monroe

Sketch of Marilyn Monroe from one of the recently discovered photos of her before she became famous. Brush pen over pencil. 

 

Green Lantern

An attempt at the Green Lantern. Used a reference for his costume only. Brush pen over pencil. 

Four Rivers Fountain

A sketch from a photo I took while traveling in Europe. It’s one of the huge sculpted men that’s part of the Four Rivers Fountain in the Piazza Navona in Rome. Brush pen over pencil. 

Batman punches!

And he’s very ‘chill’ about it. Brush pen over pencil.

Ricky Gervais

British comedian Ricky Gervais. Still working on coloring sketches with a copic marker. 

Running Dog

Quick sketch with a brush pen and copic marker, photo reference used.