Woman with Hat

Hey guys, Sorry for not posting anything in a while, I've been working more than full time and so I haven't done as much work as I would like the past few weeks. But I did this little sketch today and liked it, so I decided to share.
-Ben

Animal studies for Drawing II Final

These animal studies were done for my Drawing II final. My assignment is to take three or more species that I drew from life at Sarasota Jungle Gardens (a small zoo in town) and combine them into a fantasy creature. I am doing a take on flying fish by combining two birds with two fish.

I am using Catalina Macaws, Violet Turacos, Common Koi, and an Albino Catfish to combine into this creature (although the eye study on bottom right is from a Blue and Gold Macaw. These were done with ballpoint pen sketches with colored pencil on top.

I am presenting my final project of this as though it is a page from a Victorian British Explorer's travel log. I'm really excited about doing this project, but I need to get my concept completely fleshed out soon, so I've been putting a lot of time into it recently.

Sketchbook (Day 21)

This is a page I personally really enjoyed making and that I am happy with. These are some imagined trees I drew with ballpoint pen and colored pencil on an old book. On my sketchbook page here I had a bad drawing which I covered up with some extra paint that was left on my palette knife from something else. I then covered the blank parts of the page. I finished up by pasting down the tree drawings. 

Sketchbook (Day Six)

This stated off as a little experiment in staw-hatching above my notes in History of Illustration class. I liked what was going on, so I moved to my sketchbook and made this lady. My pen broke in the middle of it (the ink stain on the left), but I am definitely glad I took the time to practice straw-hatching.