Happy New Year! 🙂

 Wish you a great new year with this mix of finished pieces (both digital and traditional) from this year

Lion drawing on toned paper

 Start of a drawing that was begun today

color pencils and chalk on toned paper

Best Nine on Instagram 2020

These were the 9 most liked post on Instagram this year. Follow the day-to-day process at

https://instagram.com/jmbcreative?igshid=57173pdqve1b

(Post 6 is a study after Alan Lee)

Statue study

 Kept drawing this statue as an assignment for the latest lesson I’ve taken on figure drawing by my teacher Matthew Archambault (the art teacher on Drawing Tutorials Online). This lesson is about modelling (rendering) the form.

pencil on paper

Quick Animal Studies

 Some quick studies in the sketchbook

Ballpoint

Artober ”Evolution” (after Simon Dominic)

 One of this month’s Artober submissions (after a MTG card)

Color pencilson Fabriano paper

(New update!) IMDB Sketchbook: Gustaf Skarsgård

 Kept drawing the digital sketch of the actor

3000 Posts on Instagram!

 This social media milestone occured the other day and was celebrated with a special post with some digital portrait studies

Do visit and follow @jmbcreative on Instagram for much more frequent updates on the artmaking process

IMDB Sketchbook: Tom Cruise

Sketch of the actor

IMDB Sketchbook: Gustaf Skarsgård

Sketch of the actor

digital

Start of watercolor painting

The start of ”The Voyage”, a new Inktense+waterbrush painting

IMDB Sketchbook: Ngo Tanh Van

Sketch of the actress as Paige Tico in the Star Wars movie ”The last jedi”

digital

Lion sketch

Start of a sketch of a lion head

digital

IMDB Sketchbook: Tom Hanks

Sketch of the actor Tom Hanks

digital 

Sketch Like a Pro: Duncan Smith

Study after Duncan Smith

Polychromos pencil on sketchbook paper

(in progress...) Sculpture

Continuation of a long duration cast drawing for figuredrawing and drawing from life practice

Color pencils and chalk on toned paper

Watercolor painting in progress...

Painted some more on this piece

Inktense pencils and water brush on watercolor papet

Sketch like a pro: Boykinov

Study after a sketch by Sabin Boykinov

Color pencil

IMDB Sketchbook: Brad Pitt

Digital sketch of the actor Brad Pitt

(in progress...) Lion

Start of a new painting

Inktense pencils and waterbrush on watercolor paper

Solar(2020)

Finished painting made with Inktense pencils and waterbrush on water color paper

IMDB Sketchbook: Tom Hanks

Digital sketch of the famous actor

(in progress...) Creating

Drawing from life, continued yesterday

Color pencils and chalk on toned paper

IMDB Sketchbook: Tom Cruise (sneak peek)

A sneak peek of the new IMDB Sketchbook sketch

As A Lion (2020)

Inktense and water brush painting on watercolor paper

IMDB Sketchbook: Aubrey Plaza

Digital sketch of the actress playing April Ludgate in ”Parks and Recreation”

Growth (2020)

Inktense and water brush on watercolor paper

(In progress...) Andrea

Digital portrait commission in progress

Digital

Sketchbook Drawing

Improvised drawing from yesterday

pencil on sketchbook paper

Donato Giancola Study

This master study was continued today

Color pencil in sketchbook

Jurassic, finished today

This ”Jurassic Park”-themed commission was finished today

digital

Hand studies in sketchbook

Hand contours drawn from life

Color pencil on sketchbook paper

Figure Drawing: Rough Skeleton Study

Rough Skeleton Sketch after Matthew Archambault

Digital

Figure Drawing in progress

Digital figurative art in progress...

(in progress) Long Duration Figure Drawing

Digital figure drawing in progress

Face Your Art Collection

A collection for the #faceyourart challenge on Instagram

digital portraits

(in progress) Magic The Gathering Token Commission

Digital painting of a White Monk Token in progress

Digital

(In progress...) Andrea, hyperrealistic portrait

Detail from a commissioned portrait drawing in a hyperrealistic style

Digital

How to Draw a Swan From Memory/Imagination

An exercise to learn another animal head basic construction and sketch it from memory/imagination. Form and values rendered with sanguine and black pencils. Only reference used was the few basic shapes in the top left corner 🦢✏️ Used eraser to clean up edges/create highlights and a paintbrush to blend

(In progress...) Red Motorcycle

Update on a commissioned painting in progress

Digital

(In progress...) Sculpture

Color pencils and chalk on toned paper

In progress... Trois Crayons Drawing

Bianca Ingrosso study in progress...

Hyperrealistic digital drawing

Portrait Commission in progress

“Andrea”, detail from digital drawing 🖊 Portrait commission in hyperrealistic style

digital drawing

Magic: The Gathering study

“Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons” (study of detail from Magic: The Gathering card painting by Tyler Jacobson), mechanical pencil on Fabriano paper ✏️ Study drawn from the Amonkhet art book ⚔️

pencil on Fabriano paper

Ilon Wikland study

“At The Café” (after Ilon Wikland), color pencil on Fabriano paper ✏️ First study from an art book I received yesterday 📖 Ilon’s ability to draw soulful figures and landscapes has impressed and influenced me since I first read “The Brothers Lionheart” as a child. It was with a sense of delightful terror I turned a page to look at another drawing of Tengil’s soldiers and the dragon Katla. Of course it didn’t take long until I drew my first warrior wearing a similar helmet as one of the soldiers in the book ⚔️

color pencil on Fabriano paper

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey (after Wavenwater Michael Guimont)

Study after detail from concept art for Assassin’s Creed Odyssey ⛵️ I just love drawing boats in motion and the ocean - brings back fond memories of sailing with my grandfather and father. To a young boy those were perilous voyages and great adventures. Sudden gusts of wind taking hold of the enormous, rebellious sails, threatening to turn the small boat over. Huge waves of endless, restless water sending ice cold sprays into our faces... 💦

digital

Red Motorcycle Commission

In progress, continued today... “Red Motorcycle”. Painted the background, cast shadow and one of the rearview mirrors of this commissioned motorcycle painting 🏍

digital

Iain McCaig Study

Study of a sketch by Iain McCaig, the Star Wars concept artist and Fighting Fantasy illustrator 🤩 Such remarkable variation in line flow, weight and value in the original, learn a lot from trying to achieve similar effects digitally that a master achieves when drawing traditionally ✏️

Wish you all a great week! ☀️

digital

Unicorn (after John Howe)

Drawing after a sketch by the MTG artist and famous illustrator John Howe:

digital