Craig's Sketchbook

[Craig Paton]

A few drawings and stuff from the past week. Slim pickings, as I've been working on a few things, actual proper work things, with real money and all.

I've also been working my way through the exercises within Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, in the hope that it will help improve my ability to draw from imagination.


Couple of figure and face studies.




And, a few quick black and white sketches of some people from Reddit Gets Drawn.



A quick character portrait for my brother's Mass Effect fan fiction.

[Craig Paton]

Some film study paintings, for my monthly ‘name the film study’ game on Facebook.

[Craig Paton]

A quick portrait of Benedict Cumberbatch, and some anatomy based skull studies in preperation for my 'In 'yo Face' portraiture class with Suzanne Hemligh.

[Craig Paton]

3/4 Skull study, for my mentoring class with Suzanne Helmigh.

[Ursula Dorada]

Awesome one. Was it from life?

[Craig Paton]

Sadly not, just from ref. I'm much too poor to buy my own skull to draw from.

[Lumens]

You know theres always other ways of obtaining skulls..

Love how you handled the Cumberbatch portrait!
your grasp on anatomy is far better than mine, all i can say is those edges need some love too.

[Jaik]

haha great mass effect char, scrolling through I thought 'that looks like its from mass effect' before i read the explanation, so it fits :) That skull is also awesome. keep up the good work, and congrats on getting chosen for the class :)

[hollinrake]

So much love for your recent posts. It may have something to do with Cumberbatch but I'm not saying anything.

[Craig Paton]

Put together a Deviant Art improvement meme. Not usually the kind of thing I'd participate in, but I thought it might help me to put my work into some kind of perspective.

Check out my DA gallery for the high res version (with added grumbling in the descriptions).

[Craig Paton]

Second assignment for my mentorship with Suzanne Hemligh.

Yet to complete assignment one still, however. One skull study still to go.

[Craig Paton]

Front skull study, for my portraiture class.

[Craig Paton]

Some wips for my skull studies.

[Craig Paton]

Forgot to post this last week. Here's my Tesla illustration on the front cover of the April/May edition of Mensa Bulletin. With a wee profile on me inside.

[Craig Paton]

Work for assignment 3 of the portraiture class with Suzanne Hemligh.



..and some quick bonus portraits.

[Jaik]

Nice updates, looks like you are really gettting a lot out of Suzannes class. Those last portraits have some great colour in them. Though the one of the left looks like they may possibly be missing a bit of height on their cranium. Keep up the good work though :)

[Craig Paton]

Material for fourth portraiture assignment.

Some studies of the Starks, from Game of Thrones (And Sean Bean from Sharpe).





Six open expressive mouth studies.



..and a face from imagination, using the colour palette of the Sansa Stark study.

[kikindaface]

very nice studies of GoT characters haha !! keep it up dude, and show us more !

[Craig Paton]

Basic facial emotions on imaginary faces. Fifth assignment for portraiture class.

[Craig Paton]

Cover illustration for David Moody's Autumn: The Human Condition.