Rose

Continuing to draw from reference. Took the time to add some color to this one, because it just didn't look good in grayscale.

Candle

I've been trying to work in a more "painterly" style for the past few doodles. As you can see, I can use the practice. These would benefit from some color, but right now I'm mostly concentrating on tone, shadows and highlights.

Desert Mountains

Practicing a bit more digital painting. Mountains this time. I'm really enjoying this type of thing, and finding it a lot easier than I expected.

Cloud

This isn't terribly exciting. I was just practicing some painting techniques in Photoshop. I think I need a little more practice...

Bump in the Night - Color

As promised, here is the color version of Bump in the Night. I was really pleased with how this turned out.

My Best Friend

This is a picture of my favorite person in the whole world (who, as of today, is a credentialed teacher [just had to brag on her a bit]).

I spent considerably more time on this one than any of the pieces I've posted so far (she never deserves less than my best). Once again I used Illustrator to create the outlines. I also played around quite a bit with layers, brushes and different tools (mainly the Smudge tool [my new best friend... at least in the digital art world]) in Photoshop.

Apple

I'm starting out with the basics here, I know. An apple is a good basic shape and a little more exciting than just drawing spheres, which is why I chose it as a subject for this drawing. Once again I've used Illustrator for some of the line work, but I left in my original sketch lines, because I thought it would give it a bit more of a natural feel (as opposed to digital) to the piece. I've also been experimenting with some of the Wacom tablet/Photoshop brush dynamics (pressure sensitivity and so forth).