69-Assad

This painting was done in about 1½ hours and was meant to be a quickie! I love doing the daily sketch or painting but my tendency is to spend too much time on them leaving little time for anything else. So although I am going to try and keep it up, I do need to re-think the subject matter and try to remember that I am still learning and that the work doesn't have to be perfect every time. As a subject matter, I chose this because he was on the first page of the Sky news website and looks a little unusual!

68- Stanley Baker

This started out as an attempted concept painting inspired by a couple of screenshots from the movie Zulu, but ended up as more of a painting exercise. It was nice to use a bit of colour for a change.

67- Richard Pryor

I wasn't happy with yesterday's sketch so I thought I'd redo it today with the aid of Photoshop. I used the original sketch but added a lot more darks which I find is a lot easier to do digitally. Richard Pryor was definitely one of my heroes of comedy during my early to mid teens, especially when he was teamed up with Gene Wilder.... I suddenly feel like watching 'Stir Crazy' again!

66-Richard Pryor

65- Burt Lancaster

Today's daily sketch/painting is from the Crimson Pirate, a film I always loved to watch as a kid which starred Burt Lancaster, another boyhood hero! This took me a bit longer than planned probably around 3 hours and was painted from start to finish using Photoshop.

64-Pencil Sketch

One of my all time favourite movie characters, George Bailey, from 'It's A Wonderful Life'.

63- Photoshop

This is yesterday's daily sketch which I started and didn't get finished, so I finished it off this morning. Initially I was going for more of a caricature not a portrait as such but found myself drifting back to realism which hopefully explains why the proportions are off. Just for the record, this sketch was drawn and painted in Photoshop.

62-BoyHood Heroes (Pencil sketch)

I was checking out Cedric Hohnstadt's blog yesterday and was inspired by his Sketchbook Monthly project where he completed a sketch a day often using clips from old movies as a reference. I've been finding it difficult to post regularly of recent and thought that it would be a great idea to just spend 30-45 minutes each day on a pencil sketch. So here goes with my first drawing, a small sketch of Mr. Majestyk, aka Charles Bronson. For the moment I'm working around the theme of Boyhood Heroes.

61- Cont.

Thought I'd post an update on my progress with this picture which has taken up most of my spare time this week. It's taken me about 13 hours to get this far and I will probably need another 10 to finish it!

61- Digital Portrait

Found this old photo of a Cheyenne Indian and thought it it would make a great painting exercise. So far I've spent about 2.5 hours on it and now it's all about adding detail and more contrast.

60- Digital Painting

These screenshots are of a digital painting I started several weeks ago and never got round to finishing. I thought that it might be interesting to show the progression. To be honest, looking at them now, I think that I prefer the 6th picture of Bob Hope (working from left to right). I spent a lot of time trying to get Jane Russell to look right without quite 'getting it'. Still, it's all part of the learning process.