Here's a handful of the preliminary work for some of my editorial pieces.
Ink
200 Hand Studies
So I've been diligently working on studies and filling up sketchbooks lately. One of my goals is to go through Bridgeman's "The Book of 100 Hands" and do a study of every hand in the book (which actually comes out to around 350 hands). Here are the first 200 studies from the book along with a few other studies and doodles that happened to share the same page as some of the hands. All studies were done with whatever pens I had around at the time (mostly Bic pens).
Comic Noir
Here is an inked drawing of a killer caught right after the act. For this assignment we couldn't use lines and had to rely on shapes to explain our idea to the viewer. At first I was going to try and make some sort of shadow to explain every brick in the wall, but it dawned on me to let them all just disappear in the light and show them only in the shadows. I really want to go back in and color this digitally so you might see this one again sooner or later.
Crabby Gladiator
It's a crab-bunny gladiator...there isn't much else to say.