Back to Basics....

Been a while since i posted anything new.... Last couple of months been doing more and more concept design and illustration... kinda at the detriment of sculpting unfortunately. its a constant painful juggle but im a big believer in all areas of art informing one another. Anyways, here a few illustrations on toned paper done using graphite, verithin, and white charcoal - its a nice change from the usual white paper.... Kinda took the approach i used to at the age of 5 years old - keep scumming around on the page with a 7h graphite pencil until shapes emerge - ie no thumbs, no preliminary work - kind of a nice change from whats fast becoming a formulaic way of working in the concept design world - not a good thing in my opinion....