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.