Sorry for the dearth of posts of late but I’ve been away for the past few days (University is starting which means I have to help my daughters move into their new digs).

While I haven’t been able to post quite as much as I want to, I have kept up with my illustrations and here you get three for the price of one, a real bargain!

First up, Lauren Bacall…

I think the piece came out only OK.  As I mentioned before, that’s the way it goes with artwork.  You can think something is working and then it mostly works -or not- but when you’re done, you move along.  Which I did…

Here’s Charles Bronson from The Dirty Dozen, a film that was clearly the inspiration to the comic book The Suicide Squad and, therefore, obviously the movie’s inspiration as well.  Only The Dirty Dozen presented a coherent plot! 😉

When I started this piece, I thought I would abandon it.  It just didn’t look like it was “working” for me.

And then, like magic, it did.

I won’t say this piece is one of my favorites -it feels like it would benefit from color especially given how “simple” it is- but I definately captured the Bronson “look”.

Finally:

Ah, extreme success!

As I also stated before, sometimes you may just miss and sometimes you hit a home run.  Here, with this Christopher Lee Dracula picture, I feel I’ve hit a home run.

The image captures the frenzied, animalistic look of Mr. Lee’s Dracula, easily one of my favorite portrayals of the dark Count.  Love the feathering on this piece.

By the way, if I wasn’t clear about it before, let me do so here: All this was done using an iPad and an Apple Pencil on the Procreate program.  Though it may look like pen and ink, this is all computer images.

Enjoy!