John Tubbs - Starting Art Late in Life

Portrait Sketches

Here are a few recent portrait sketches.  I've been focusing a bit more on my drawing, and will be doing so over the remainder of the winter.  There are a three Da Vinci sketch copies here (should be obvious which ones from the style), one from a photo in 'A Day in the Life of Hawaii' photography book, and one from the title page of an Outside magazine.  The last one was done on 11 x 14 inch Fabriano drawing/watercolor paper, while the first three are in a Stillman and Birn 11 x 8.5 inch Alpha sketchbook.

 

Cooper's Hawk Head and Talon Studies

This adult Cooper's Hawk landed in our yard two days ago, looking to grab one of the small birds that frequent our birdfeeders.  It was unsuccessful in this particular hunting venture, but did sit still long enough for me to get some very good reference photos before it flew off.  I used those photos as references for these headshot and talon sketches.  The sketches in total (for the whole page, in an A4 Moleskine sketchbook, about 8.5 x 11 inches) took about an hour and were done with permanent ink using Pigman Micron pens.