Sketchbook_Brain Drain 16 Pages 47 - 60!

Drawn September 7 and 8.

 "One Slip" by Pink Floyd

"Hide U (Version)" by Kosheen

"Dead Man Walking" by David Bowie

 "Junkhead" by Alice In Chains

"Enjoy" by Bjork

"Make This Go On Forever" by Snow Patrol

"Cuts You Up" by Peter Murphy

 "Who Makes You Feel" by Dido

"Nature of Inviting" by IAMX

"Empty Skies" by Kosheen

"Secondskin (Spoken)" by VNV Nation

 "Forgive Me" by Infected Mushroom

"Coward" by Assemblage 23

"Raw" by Assemblage 23

 "Beloved" by VNV Nation

"Skyquake" by Assemblage 23

"Halo" by Depeche Mode

"Solitary" by VNV Nation

 "We Are The Lost" by Gary Numan

"Disappearing" by Peter Murphy

 "Shortwired (Synthetic Dream Foundation Remix)" by Grendel

"Ghost" by VNV Nation

 "Rain Falls Down" by Assemblage 23

"Take My Hand" by Dido

 "Smalltime Shot Away" by Massive Attack

"Truth" by Assemblage 23

"Shock the Monkey" by Peter Gabriel

 "Subway" by Peter Murphy

"In Dir" by De/Vision

"Uneven & Brittle" by Peter Murphy

 "Dislocated Day" by Porcupine Tree

"Dirtywhirl" by TV On The Radio

 "Breathe" by Prodigy

"My Head Sounds Like That" by Peter Gabriel

"Crosstalk" by Assemblage 23

"Low Five" by Sneaker Pimps

That's a wrap for Brain Drain 16. I hope you enjoyed seeing my square sketchbook experiments!

Sketchbook_Brain Drain 16 Pages 37 - 46!

Drawn September 3 through 5.

 "Give Me Strength" by Dido

"Fallen Horses" by Smashmouth

"Dead Sun Rising" by Gary Numan

"Hide & Seek" by Imogen Heap

 "Lost" by Haujobb

"Felines" by Front 242

 "Very" by Moby

"Kaleidoscope" by Kate Havnevik

"Subtronic" by De/Vision

"Never Let Me Down Again" by Depeche Mode

"Useless" by Depeche Mode

"Perfect Mind" by De/Vision

 "Time" by Pink Floyd

"Voicething" by Goldfrapp

 "Here" by VAST

"Born Yesterday" by Rob Dougan

"Against the Grain" by UNKLE

"Into Battle" by Gary Numan

 "Raining Again" by Moby

"Ways & Means" by Snow Patrol

"Divide" by Assemblage 23

"Final Solution" by Peter Murphy

"Freestate" by Depeche Mode

 "Joy" by VNV Nation

"Giant" by The The

 "Daylight Robbery" by Imogen Heap

"Cold" by VNV Nation

"Are 'Friends' Electric?" by Tubeway Army

"Angel" by Massive Attack

"The Logical Song" by Supertramp

"Crystalline Green" by Goldfrapp

"The Dead of Night" by Depeche Mode

"The Tempest" by Pendulum

Sketchbook_Brain Drain 5 Cover, featuring Lily and Decay!

^ Cover to my current Utility sketchbook. Sketched in Non-Photo Blue Col-Erase, inked with Rapidograph technical pens (sizes 2 and 3) and a dip pen (Hunt 513EF nib) with Speedball Super Pigmented Acrylic Ink. Colored with Prismacolor markers, Sharpie, and white out.

The illustration was sealed with Liquitex Gloss Medium & Varnish Fluid Medium; it is tough yet elastic, and waterproofs the cover.

Costumed Figure Drawing studies: warm and cool!

^ 7" x 10" study with Speedball Super Pigmented Acrylic Scarlet Red. Getting a better feel for the exaggeration here.



^ Study on letter-size sketchbook paper (the fifth page of Brain Drain #4!). I sketched the character, inked the black accents with a #1 round brush, and added the background color with a Muted Turquoise Prismacolor marker. I'm fond of this study and will reproduce it for the final piece, unless...



^ ...one of these looks better. Initially, I drew blocks of color on the study above this one, then colored in more of the background as I've been mixing some neat colors with my Liquitex ink! (the exclamation point is part of the name, heh). The first two are trying to figure out how to work mostly-colored background, and the right shows the color blocks idea.