Lunatique's Sketchbook

[Lunatique]

For the last few years I've been mainly doing portrait studies because that's what I enjoy the most. In the past decades  (since 1991) when I worked in comic books, animation, video games, and illustration, I did a lot of stuff that's on the entertainment side like sci-fi, fantasy, horror, spanning from anime-influenced to comic book superherors to realism, but the older I get, the more I find myself preferring more classical subjects like portraits and landscapes. I've loved them even in my youth and spent equal amount of time admiring sci-fi/fantasy illustrators, comic book/animation artists, golden age illustrators, and 19th century painters. Also, I think because I spend so much time writing novels that I prefer to use my imagination with words than with images, because prose gives me more freedom than drawing and painting. Or maybe I just did so much imaginary stuff professionally that I just don't find them as interesting anymore. I do a lot of teaching these days and most students want to be concept artists, so I haven't left that side completely behind. 

I'm not quite sure where to post for some of these, because the finished work forum seems to have very little traffic, while some people seem to post fniished work in their sketchbook thread too, and I like the idea of keeping everything in one place, so maybe I'll just post everything in here. I hope that's okay. 

I'll start off posting a mixture of recent and older works.