Craig's Sketchbook

[Craig Paton]

Hey guys, sorry for the lack of updates. October was a bit of a pain-in-the-arse month, I'm glad it's over with. Thanks for all the advice and feedback, as always.

Jaik/Lyraina - I think you guys may be right, a timed blocker of sorts might be the way to go. In my time away from Facebook I, kind of, realised how much you can feel removed from the whole art community. Feels like I maybe missed out on a bunch of things too, tuts, vids, advice from pros and the usual art community dramas. From now on, I'll just employ a blocker to prevent me from wasting time on Facebook uring hours where I should be working.

Sadly, I didn't do as much still lifes, or even studies focused on areas of weakness, over the past few weeks. It has been a bit of a struggle to accept that these are the areas that I'm weakest in, and that I shouldn't expect to have a proud and finished piece every time I sit down to tackle one. It's tough to get motivated knowing that the painting I'm about to do, won't be that good, that I'll need to do a repeated series of them, until I produce stuff I'm happy with. I guess it's just a hump I'll have to get over if I want to progress, and I'd best just deal with it.

Here's what I have been up to these past few weeks.

Finished my Tinkerer Chow (better late than never). Continued with the comic book style and Moebius influence. Not sure how successful I was with it, maybe I went to far with the level of lights and darks, and I feel some of the drawing is a bit weak.


My entry for this years self-portrait day.


Working on some thumbs and concept sketches to continue my Robert Burns project.




Was in talks with the WWE (wrestling) for a while, about doing some artwork for toys for them, based on my wrestling caracitures. Looks like it's maybe fizzled out now though, as I've not heard from them in a while. But, here's some sketches I did for them.





Some of the usual doodles and sketches.