Craig's Sketchbook

[Craig Paton]

Forgive me daggers, for I have sinned. It's been to month since my last update. ;)

@Nate - Thanks, man. Appreciate that. Your comments are always encouraging.

Feel like I don't have much to show for the past two months of work. As well as Christmas and all that stuff, I have been taking a bit of time away from my work. Not entirely sure why, but I do feel like I've been mossing some direction of sorts, and am not really sure where I'm going with things. I've also had trouble with feeling almost angry, or with a sick stomach feeling, whenever I sit down to draw. Which, mainly, I think is due to some frustration over not being good enough, or as good as I hope to be.

Hopefully the time off will have done me some good. Maybe I was facing burn out. But, I'm ready to get back into my working routine again.

As is becoming almost an annual tradition, I will say that I hope 2015 will be the year that my work begins to show some major improvement. :)

Here's some stuff I've been up to over the past month or so.


Sherlock & Moriarty, or how I picture them.


Sargent study. Every digital artists favourite master.



Cover illustration for January 2015 Mensa Bulletin. Not to happy with my drawing in this one, bit of a style experiment disaster. They did a good job of making it work as a cover though.


A Christmas gift portrait for a friend and his wife.


Made some pencil sketch portraits as gifts for family members.



General sketching and doodling.


A portrait of your man from the new Star Wars John Boyega. Gave up on his hair, it was of a texture I really struggled to replicate.


Also made a update and reorganisation of my folio page, have look. Let me know what you think. craigpaton.com

Hopefully won't leave it so long until my next update.