warming up: ink

 

I think I ought to do one more layer, a darker ink wash?

 

 

Warming Up: Pen

 

Here's the pen.

 

 

Warming Up: Pencil

 

Inspired by reference photos. Oftentimes I use pen first and don't use a pencil at all for my sketches, but here I started with pencil.

 

 

Trying to keep warm

 

Inspired from reference photos, another attempt at an ink wash technique

 

 

Holding a calf

 

Inspired by reference photos, just a sketch

 

 

Standing with Carbine

 

Inspired from reference photos, another attempt at an ink wash technique

 

 

Resting, After Mauldin

 

After a drawing by Bill Mauldin, using loose lines and an ink wash

 

 

Different Styles

I'm experimenting with different styles, and although I need to tighten up my line work for this kind of a style, this is a possibility. Some of these faces are drawn after drawings by Everett Raymond Kinstler.

This is another style with which I'm experimenting. Of course, I need to work on it if I go with this style, but it's yet another possibility.

Marching, After Mauldin

 

Sketched after a picture by Bill Mauldin

Another after Brodie

 

Another study of a drawing by Howard Brodie, modified so that the soldier is holding the rifle instead of dropping it as in the original