Figure Studies

I have been doing a bunch of figure studies from Andrew Loomis' amazing book 'Figure Drawing For All It's Worth':

 It's an amazing book, the best I have found when it comes to learning anatomy for artists. Others might prefer other guides, but this one is my personal favorite.
Here are some of my studies:

I'll probably end up filling my sketchbook with these studies.

 I have also been having a lot of fun with a new ink brush-pen I got, some of these studies were done with it.

Sketchbook and zoo

I have renewed my zoo membership and purchased a mini watercolor set that is easy to carry and use over there. Here are the results from my last trip:

 

 

Well The panda and leopard were practices at home from photos taken there on a previous trip, and the komodo dragon and warthog were done on the spot.

And here are more random hand practices from my sketchbook:

Knights

For a while now I have been studying various visual aspects of medieval knights armor in order to reprodruce them more convincingly. The first ones I am showing here, in pencil, were done a few months ago and really helped understand how the different pieces were put together in order to keep attached to the human body. The other one is more recent, and I'm mainly trying to understand the reflectivity of the metal. I'll probably do more of those, my metals look terrible when rendered from imagination.

And the drawing that prompted me into doing that metal study (admire my 'beautiful' armor from imagination, no references):

More Warhammerz

Kitty Sketches

Sketches of my cats. They're black, which makes them hard to draw.

 And friends:

Just a few sketchbook pages to share today:

and a finished illustration, which I am not too happy with:

Still trying to figure out which materials I like to use. I mixed Graphite and digital for this one.