Movie Night Doodles...

Hi folks! Here are some sketches done over the past week. I've just started a new A5 sketchbook & dedicated to sketching whilst watching classic movies... Most of these were done whilst watching the 1955 classic, "Daddy Long Legs" staring Fred Astaire & the lovely Lesley Caron. A very charming, fun & entertaining film if you haven't seen it. Here's the trailer: http://bit.ly/KX4EFH

 

 

 

 

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Speed paint #40

Hey folks! Another week's worth done. Here's this evening's Sketch-ercise... Mrs Betty O'Neal. Wife of Reece, mother to Kayleigh & Jimmy...

CHARACTER PROFILE:
Betty is the dream wife of any red-blooded American man in the fifties [& any man now I imagine]. She cooks, cleans, looks after her husband & kids, bakes cookies & always has a pie cooling on the kitchen window ledge; and if that wasn't enough, she even holds down a part-time job of her own as a switchboad operator... Betty is perfect!

Like her husband Reece, she too is unaware of Viktor's hidden intentions, although her acute female intuition occasionally picks up on some of the signs... More and more she begins to feel slightly uncomfortable around him, especially when Reece is out of the house. She once caught Viktor staring at her with an almost sentient look in his eyes... On another occasion, whilst was placing some groceries into the fridge, as she closed the door, Viktor was stood right there behind it. Startled, she gave a deep gasp of shock, dropping the grocery bag which still contained a few items... Viktor after a few seconds staring at her slowly picked them up, placing the damaged items in the trash before then continuing with other duties. Betty later that day told Reece of the incident but only as a passing comment; not enough to flag up as being more than "oh... well, must be my imagination".

Betty still occasionally feels Viktor's eerie gaze on her.

REFERENCE IMAGES:

***All work featured here, illustrated or written [unless otherwise stated] is under the copyright & ownership of 
Maxwell. A. Oginni. All rights resereved 2011***

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Speed paint #35

Today's Sketchercise... I've now come o the realisation I have ZERO skill in the art of conversing whilst drawing... too much yapping/ not enough focus; I know that now. Although, somehow she did actually turn out a lot better than I'd hoped...  Probably flesh her out later in the week... [hold onto your wallets, she's a tricksy one].

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Speed paint #30

& finally here's Friday's Sketch-ercise... Fighter pilot doll... watch out, she's a feisty one!

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Speed paint #29

Here's this evening's Sketch-ercise... [for Thursday]. One more tomorrow to cover today [Friday] & that's my set for the week. Moving onto a whole 'nother theme next week so stay tuned! should be interesting... Been a pretty busy week, & I for one am relieved it's over... Time to R-E-L-A-X; but before you do, check out the pieces Tee Jay, Chris & newest person to join in with my sketch sessions, Nathan produced this week... Have a good weekend guys!

-M-

Speed paint #28

Had a great session this evening with Tee, Chris & Bernie, & would like to welcome our newest member Nathan Martinez who joined us all the way from the US! Would you believe he's only been painting for 3 months but has more drive than many professional artists I know!? *gasps*... He's just started a fresh new blog to keep track of his progress; if you have a few mins, hop over to it & show some support. Great having you join us Nate ; )

Here's Wednesday Sketch-ercise [done today].

-M-

Speed paint #27... [the real one]

Seems Tuesday's mishap with my charger has put me a day in arrears; will have to catch up with this one day lag over the weekend. Here's my Sketch-ercise for Tuesday.

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Speed paint #26

So I've just taken on a pretty intensive commission; one of those, "lots to do in very little time" gigs [a cool one though] which has now eaten into my morning Sketch-time... BOOO! So for the next month or so, I'll have to be doing these in the evening after I get home... Here's Today's Sketch-ercise.

-M-