Sometimes a Sketch is All You Need...

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... to set a mood and bring characters to life.

New Photoshop Colour Sketches...

Lamp (click to enlarge)

Ring (click to enlarge)

Giant (click to enlarge)

Playin around on a Saturday night... Photoshop CS4 + Cintiq

Old Man Character Sketch

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Some Colour Character Sketches

Taste Tester (click to enlarge)

Wistful Woman (click to enlarge)

Looking Ahead (click to enlarge)

Did a few quick digital sketches recently in the tradition of the oil sketch. These are quick and loose - just laying down ideas for characters. No photo references... just imagination and having fun!

Photoshop + Cintiq

Characters of Line.. Some Self Portraits in Pen and Ink

Self Portrait at Cote des Neiges, Montreal (2005)
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Self Portrait in Early January (2013)
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Self Portrait with Spiky Hair (2013)
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Self Portrait on Sunday Morning (2013)
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Keyboard Player (5 min. SketchTime iPad Sketch)

Keyboard Player (detail)

Keyboard Player (click to enlarge)

I've already written about how great SketchTime is... It is my favourite go-to sketching app for the iPad and iPhone. As it happens I'm beta testing a new version right now, which includes more colours and even more shades of grey! Look for it soon in the Apple app store. This was the first lil' sketch I made while giving it a go on my iPad 3. As with all my iPad and iPhone sketches, I'm letting loose and having fun... not too worried about flubs, more interested in capturing a neat subject with energy and hopefully grace. Lately I've been enjoying selectively building up forms (the face, the forearm) while leaving other parts of the sketch less finished... Very quick sketch (5 minutes).

As a reminder, you can see all my iPhone and iPad sketches at my dedicated iOS sketching site: iosketch.tumblr.com !

Chance Encounter iPad Sketch

Chance Encounter (detail)

Done in Procreate on my iPad 3... definitely going for a loose, sketchy feel here. I've been doing a lot of iPad/iPhone sketches and posting them on twitter and on my iOS sketchblog, iosketch.tumblr.com

New Urban Sketches...

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(Playing with iPhone)

(Pianist)

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Just posted some recent urban sketches on my Flickr page... check out the full set here!