Started the new one.

The top will pretty much be the same layout but I wanted to have the type falling just like the angels. So thats the new idea..

LePen

Was just playing around with my favorite pens one day outside.

Sketches

Working out poses.

Take 2

So the last one got a little messed up and I got some amazing new ideas I cant wait to do!
So im trying again on the first illustration. But its going to kick Bahooty!

Highlights

Im working on the first layer.
Trying to figure out where the highlights and the deep shadows will be and getting a general idea of how I want the composition to play out.

God

And now tonight I am working on the rest of the drawing :) Getting God set up on top. .. Still kind of figuring out how I want his face. But otherwise the general sketch is done and being put it right now. :)

Quote with decor

Here is the quote box and its additions to tie it into the rest of the illustration. :)
I love carnage and dripping done in pen. Its kind of one of the reasons I wanted to start this project. Almost every sketchbook I own (about 75) has something I've drawn with carnage in it. Its just fun for me to do, especially with le pens.

Quote

This is the first part of the series I've done on the actual piece! It's exciting to actually start it.
I've decided to gice the quotes almost theor own free space and then I will incorporate the illustrations into the frames and onto the rest of the page.
This is the quote and frame before any additions.

Added color (Color study #2)

..so..I added plenty of fun to give it a feel of darkness and also give myself play of not only having the shadows as blacks greens and blues...theres is a little red and brown thrown in.

Color study #1

Trying to figure out what colors I wanted gave me a very green feel. I want the first image to be mainly greens browns and blues before going into blacks..i want it very dark in general..but with this obviously there wasnt enough darkness to be able to fade into the blacks...

Some hand sketches to get ideas of how I want the drawings to go.

I decided to make the first illustraion of the series the part when the angels are falling from Heaven.
I have been working from one of the drawing books, that my Dad gave me a while ago, to figure out what I want to do with the actual figures and how they will generally look throughout the whole series of drawings. So these are really just studies of figuring out how muscles work. But it's a lot of fun to do :)

Tree study 1

One of the first illustrations I have planned for the Paradise Lost Series is . . . ". .we must change that mournful gloom, for this celestial light. ."
For my depiction I am including a tree so this was some outdoor tree drawing playtime by the Town Hall Park in my town. . .

LePen Playtime

I went to Utrecht and bought all the LePen colors they had.
I'm trying to play around so i get the exact feel I want.
In Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained; there are a lot of great descriptive moments and I thought it would be fun to illustrate them. So I am working on a (hopefully) long series of illustrations; all in LePen, in layer upon layer to create my depictions of Milton's events.

But for now I was playing around with the colors Creating my own cover for Mervyn Peakes' The Gormenghast Novels. . .