I've really enjoyed your last few sketches Nicky. I'd love to see your tight linework with some subtle colour washes, almost like a hand drawn lithorgraph.

That last one is excellent, good job :))

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thank you both very much for the comments.

i just wanted to say that my father passed away early yesterday morning, and that i might not be posting for a little while. ive already done some drawing, mostly to keep my mind occupied on something else. but i doubt ill be sharing any of it. he was a really hilarious guy, my whole family has just been remembering him like he would want us too, telling very funny stories about him and laughing about it. hopefully, after all of this is over with, ill be back with a vengeance!

time to get moving on the drawings again. some bridgeman studies to warm up...

 

some random unfinished sketch...

Those Bridgman studies are incredible Nicky, the hatching is fantastic.

cheers zinc. lots more to come...

another study, this one is graphite and white pencil on pastel paper. the original piece is done by Jacob Collins, an unbeleivable artist. this thing took a long time, but im pretty happy with it.

my dream skate park...

more bridgeman...

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more bridgeman...

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Dude your work is incredible, I just finally made it over to your deviant art page as well (still have to soak it all up).  Keep it up! 

Nice strong inking in here.  Good layouts in your sequential pages too.  Your getting there.  I would like to see you try some more landscape work with this type of inking.  See what you could come up with.  I don't see a hole lot of background work in here that would be my only suggestion for practice.

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Hey Nicky, sorry to hear about your Father dude :( Can't imagine how that feels... Anyway, glad you're back to drawing so fast! I find it very therapeutic with whatever's going on in my life.

Awesome studies in pen, and the woman on pastel paper looks great. Nice character sketch, anatomy has real style! Keep up the good work :)

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MJ- thank you man, although that deviantart page needs to be cleaned up, ive got waaaaay too much old crap on their now.

Rorke- thanks, i may just give that a try. im hesitant with backgrounds, but ill never get good if i dont try.

Alex- thank you man, that means alot. yea the art is definately helping me to get through it, takes me away for a bit to get lost in my imagination. and thanks for the kind words about my work, that too means alot!

 

i watched teenage mutant ninja turtles yesterday, and did this marker sketch. i still love that movie, but i remember watching it when i was younger and thinking the "bad" kids were alot older. also i just realised that Corey Feldman does the voice for Donatello, pretty random. but heres my favorite character...

 

Thats excellent Nicky. I really do like your ink and marker sketches.