My Drawings From December 2011

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From My Sketchbook!

A few people have said to me that I should put up a few drawings from my sketchbook, so below are four that I've chosen from the last twelve months. The first two are original characters that I've come up with and below them are two well known characters. All four were first pencilled, inked and then painted with gauache and ink. Let me know your thoughts!

R. Crumb's Drawings of Buildings

Being a fan of R Crumbs' work I wanted to share these drawings of buildings from the book "The Sweeter Side of R. Crumb". There isn't any text to accompany the images other than the titles, but I know that he lives in the south of France, and so I presume that these are buildings that are near to his home. Anyway, I wanted to post these today because of, quite simply, how beautifully rendered they are. Although Crumb's work is pretty varied, it's nice to see some stuff that isn't just women's legs etc...

(be sure to click on the images to see bigger versions as the detail is amazing on these!)