Digital Paintings

This is a hybrid pencil drawing/digital painting. It's an evolution of my recent dragon sketch work (see below) and an exploration of certain digital painting techniques.

Dragon and Airship

Digital Sketches

Here's a drawing I did in Photoshop, inspired by the improbable architecture depicted on countless science-fiction book covers.

Pencil Sketches

Lately I've been making quick sketches of dragons. No particular reason; they're fun to draw. Here are just a few of them.

In the house where my mother grew up hangs a painting of King David as an old man, which has always impressed me with its sense of mood and character.

Always eager to improve my own art, I decided to do a quick pencil sketch of the painting, trying to reproduce the same mood and character.

Here is a photo of the original painting, for comparison. I don't know who the artist is.

This is a very quick sketch of an alien insect, very loosely inspired by some designs by my friend Jordu Schell: