Blonde Bomshell

Just finished another project, I had a request to create a poster of Marilyn Monroe, and was told that the person's favorite color was brown so I used a black and white photo as a reference and colored my sketch in using Crayola colored pencils making sure I used brown for the dress to make sure I got the person's favorite color in the picture.

Marilyn Monroe was known for many reasons, two more commonly known were her works on film and the model used as the female form in certain comic series. I tried to combine the two in this piece.

Blonde Bombshell

I also like how there is a bit of a pop art element to this piece as well.

Black and White Sketches

I just realized that I hadn't posted anything for the month of November my apologies I'm still at work sketching.

In the meantime here are some black and white sketches that are in progress:

No, I did not intend to draw comedian Ben Bailey, mostly known as the driver on Cash Cab, but if he glances at this you can most assuredly look good in a Mohawk like this, Mr. Bailey. The actual inspiration for this picture was a rust stain on my shower wall, which looks more ape man like, I will most likely be sketching the Mohawk man again.

I intend to draw a cyclops as one of my creature features for the art competition I'm sketching away for. I decided to freehand sketch a portrait of a cyclops to play around with the anatomy of the face to make sure that the face would look realistic, even with a fantasy/scifi portrait I want some plausibility for people to relate to. I like how the anatomy of this face turned out, but I was going for a neutral look on the face and somehow ended up with a cyclops school portrait smile. You can almost hear the photographer telling the cyclops, "Say Sheep."