Drawing on life and imagination

[mburrell]

I'm not a computer artist, outside of sign designs.
I do some drawing and painting with some illustration or naturalist bend.
C&C welcomed.

1st pic a 14' high billboard of Willie Nelson.

2nd drawing Thomas with bambo

3rd Concept drawing for a bar called "The Chase"

4th Concept drawing for a bar called "The Chase"

5th Daydreaming drawing butterfly faces with Shofars.

6th Daydreaming drawing 'Island Flower'

[mburrell]

Some acrylic on 4' x 8' panel. loose and goosey, a sketch.

[mburrell]

Cat band scanned 2 different paintings printed then painted on top of print.

Pirate from themed drawing session.

Seals from looking at pictures of them then winging it.

Eric from life drawing session.

[mburrell]

1 Pirate with jewels

2 young man with stick

3 old guy dancing

4 women reclining with arms over head

[mburrell]

Hey! Anyone there! I'm new here so Hello. I'm an old fart 59. hope that's not over the hill for this group. Ordered a tablet today thought I might give it a try as the computer work on this site looks like fun.

[Jesus Food]

really nice work man, i love ur flowing sketches in ur latest post. keep it up, 1st page is awesome

[mburrell]

Jesus Food Thanks for commenting. I enjoyed your SB very much.

First bunch people listening to music. second bunch people from life drawing went model filed to show.








second bunch people from life drawing went model filed to show.

[mburrell]

Who's a bird brain?
Tried to post this earlier but it disappeared so I will brake it into two post.

This is a detail from a mural done on block wall:




Acrylic painting call "Swan Light":




Acrylic painting call "Swanset" looser brush work:




Acrylic painting on vinyl then applied to RV about 5'-6' long:



Will try another post to show others. thanks for taking a peek1
Mike

[mburrell]

This is my first design of an eagle on a gym floor client wanted this pose I used some clip art then tried to fix it and make it realistic didn't quite fly but shows where I started. Damn if they did not like it had me do it again in their new gym years later. this is the newer one:




Last summer I was commissioned to design and paint two basketball courts for a private school beside letter the end zones and center court I had two eagles near the sides of the court about 8'-9' long. Painted using bulletin enamels (Billboard paint).

This is my helper transferring the pattern to floor via a large piece of carbon paper:




This is how the layout looks:



Here is 1st eagle in progress:




Here is 2nd eagle in progress:




The finished eagles:






Detail of both eagles heads:






In the second gym they opted for an eagle on the wall. I painted acrylic on an aluminum composite sheeting that I cut to shape of eagle 8' high:




I hope this will be interesting for some of you. Being old school and large.

[zaccrockett]

Now how could you possibly go wrong with a cat band? I really like it. And excellent eagle mural, too.

[mburrell]

In 2009 I was in hospital and my brother in-law stopped by to play guitar for me, a very nice thing to do and made my day. I managed to draw this while he played.



Here is a Christmas card for the breeder of my dog, Max with him drawn out in the body of the card.



These are from life drawing sessions some times I get drawn just to the faces.






Lastly, My family and I were driving along a causeway in Montana cutting thru this lake and this horse was in the water. We drove slowly and it walked with us. I had my daughter take some shots thru the back, side window. The light on the water behind the horse was real neat. I have not done it justice, but had to paint it.

[lys]

You have some nice sketches! I like the ink or pen sketches the most : )post some more if you can

[mburrell]

Pastels from life drawing. This model does a good job.

Long stretch!


Stick to it.


Back side.


Jump rope in hand.


Thomas in blue.


Tom in green.

[mburrell]

Lys,
Thanks for your comments. Glad to have some one respond. Here are some pen-ink watercolors you asked for.




Island women- imaginary sketch Bahamas.


Three boy up to something.


Study Group


Old Man with basket.


Tried Man


Jaguar


At the Diner.

[MephistoLV]

Good stuff. I like those life drawing pastels. Very expressive color.

[mburrell]

MephistoLV thanks looks like you enjoy color. The Briggsy threads on color are very cool here is the link:http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=112049

Here are some sketches after Charlie Russel painting and sculpture with some of my own thrown in.

I started from back end of horse and it grew bigger so I tried starting from the head what a difference!


All these were in one painting whew! the guy is good.


He had some sculpture I had to draw.


Learning the hard way started from the back end again.





I added in my own background.


After doing the above I tried making up these.


I picked up this great book 'Horses of the Camargue' and did some sketches and this drawing. I may post sketches in another post.


The stuff above is from last weekend. This is from last nite and this morning.
I thought I would try making up a dragon turns out I was born in the year of the dragon pays to eat Chinese. It should go over well on this site. Is there a dragon thread to post it in?


Lots of work to post these, wish there was a more streamline way.
I would appreciate any feedback.
Mike

[mburrell]

I have some stories I told my daughter when she was a little girl. This is Arturo, The hero of the story.




Got this funny image come to mind at a restaurant near Fort Myers, Florida
And did this water color sketch. Udderly or utterly cow fishy




Awful quiet out there Boo!

[Chips]

Very impressive linework, it's clear there is a lot of passion here! Keep doing what you're doing.

[mburrell]

Little sketch:





Idea for a high school mascot:





Study of cat while in the Bahamas:





At the Beach in Fort Myers, Florida:

[mburrell]

This is an idea I developed for Dracula and his different manifestations.
What do you think?



Here is a colorized version:

[krypt]

I enjoy the horses and animals! very dynamic!! Dracula poster looks classic!

[mburrell]

My Daughter and I worked together brain storming ideas for the project for her Vampire literature class. after a rough sketch, I drew up this pattern, then made a transparency for her to paint from. I coached her through the painting. I think she did real well. The drawing above( the count on Dracula post) was done after the pattern drawing. She edited out the top head in the painting on wood.

Pattern Sketch:




Painting:

[mburrell]

These are pen sketches.

















graphite drawing.


Hope you fine these interesting enough to comment.

[mburrell]

Here are some pen sketches.

Woodpecker from photo by a friend.



Deer from photo by same friend.



Dinosaurs.




Horse.
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Crits and comment welcomed!

[Mat Kaminski]

Your whole book is amazing!

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[joannaswan]

ugh.....FANTASTICO.
keep it up!
-Joanna

[mburrell]

We had a themed drawing session Disney's Brave. we had Three models.
this one is mother fixing red hair:


this one I made up the horse:



these are fun sessions. all of these done in graphite:

[mburrell]

Boaring process
I have been asked to do a hand-painted sign for a B-B-Q place, their old board's head was a little worse for wear. so I developed a new one.

I found some reference pics on line I started the sketch on right but did not like feel of it, so I printed reference and traced it out (on left).




Still weak so I printed it out then did brush work with ink and white paint maker. I scanned that in and created a red mask, then added high lights and finally rotated it for placement in sign. I have sent them layout for sign when they pick one I will post design and pic of completed sign with Boar's Head. I will fine tune this during the paint process so any suggestion will be appreciated.
Note I think the anatomy of these guys is very strange and wonderful.
Here is the process:


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