B.M.W. Concepts: 2014

A collection of traditional sketches, finished, unfinished and practice. An insight into a conceptual sketchbook for all those interested in general technique, what other artists sketchbooks look like or just how not everything done by artists is the finished piece or a perfected sketch. My personal preference is to simply have fun with sketching and I much prefer the sketchy style in comparison to a finished digital piece as not only does it show groundwork and artistic construction, but real traditional skills, values and thoughts.

In my eyes, no matter how many textures you layer onto the latest "sci fi warrior" or mech or how many layers of textured brush you use, nothing can compare to the value of good old traditional work.

Other artists who inspire me and appreciate tradition mediums are Ashley Wood, Glenn Farby and all the original development sketches for games, movies and other mediums.

Hey, gotta practice the breasts, they're important!

A squiggle that went overkill and turned out to be a clown with a gun, figures.

Overkill with the shading but a nice figure regardless

A lush little sketch I happened to push out when I was in fact getting aggravated over how my drawing was getting worse. Hence "it don't come easy".

Sitting in the sun I was on a roll for a while and being an avid cyberpunk fan I took advantage of the spree and did a nifty little cyber chica.

After doing some intensive research on the likes of Loomis and others I was desperately trying to improve the "3D-ness" of my figure drawings and took to trying some cylindrical lining. Came out quite nice but not a habit I wanted to develop as you shouldn't have to rely on 3d lining to make a drawing stand out.

Another sun drawing. For some reason is a little squashed through the scanning process but from no reference I was truly chuffed with the outcome.

This little piece was done with little to no thought at the top of a page whilst taking notes in a lecture. Actual size is about the size of your thumb, hence the lack of detail

A life drawing study then ended up taking quite a nice page presence even with flawed posture and anatomy.

A bad joke during a lecture on sexism in the games industry... Still, for something intended as a giggle it came out alright.

Whilst studying fashion design art for inspiration and techniques I thought id have a crack at designing something a little more posh than my usual designs. Then I realised I don't have a clue regarding fashion- I'll stick to cyber thongs for now.

I don't know really, wanted to go for some kind of poster girl for a futuristic advert of some sorts. Yes the anatomy may well be right off but that's the idea, its stylised. If it looks cool I'm good with that, so many artists seem to get bogged down too much with the perfect structural accuracy these days.

ITS ME! :D You handsome devil you *growling*

A girl with a staff with a webbed leg that seems to be stretched onto her other leg. Done from imagination so no accuracy was intended, but just goes to show that sometimes if it flows alright, people wont notice till you tell them.

Pretty generic survivalist guy, was more just a test for me to play with some sexy new promarkers.

Finally, a drawing to myself to study proportion. In the end I looked at it and thought not "ah my forearms seem to be drawn too long" but more along the lines of "ooh that one turned out nice, lets do some more like that". Thing is just have fun with it all. Over time I've realised that sometimes the best advice is your own advice, people cant tell you what you want to draw so just spot something you like and have a go, don't be afraid to experiment. Not all drawings will go as you plan and 99% of them will look terrible, its just the artists choice not to show you them. Ask around and you'll end up with so much advice on anatomy you'd think you've started a career as a surgeon, instead id recommend you get a pen(cil) and paper and go wild. Its more fun that way and the more fun you have the better your drawing will be.