Craig Houghton November 28th, 2007
This is simply for the sake of practice. I’ve been working on it here and there for a few weeks. I’m drawing in colored pencil and then using alcohol to blend it and then going back over it with the colored pencil. Some things I’ve left untouched by the alcohol and whatnot.
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-Craig
Craig Houghton July 5th, 2007
Women of all ages across mediums and styles.
Craig Houghton July 1st, 2007
the rendered version doesn’t have the same likeness as the sketch, but I wasn’t particular about what direction this was heading
this is done with a black colored pencil, a cotton pad dipped in rubbing alcohol, and some touch-ups on the pc
Craig Houghton June 17th, 2007
some sketchy junk and idle time spent with a fashion mag
in the service of spiders (work in progress) (yes, she’s quite happy about the whole affair)
and, I found more packaging. It seems that I’m on their product booklet insert thingy as well (news to me 
).
Thanks for looking!
Craig Houghton June 11th, 2007
Water em’. They’re thirsty!
Craig Houghton April 22nd, 2007
I drew this elfin lad/lass in colored pencil and rubbed it out using alcohol on a cotton swap. Then, I redefined and repeated. In the end I pulled out the lights with a kneaded eraser.
Craig Houghton April 4th, 2007
I’m bugged that Angelina named her latest Pax. I was damned happy with it after having scoured my latin dictionary. Nonetheless, I named her weeks ago, and I’m sticking with it.
added colored pencil and some Painter IX to the Pax concept sketch just to force myself to follow through
Craig Houghton February 14th, 2007
Last night I watched the Carlos Huante Gnomon Creature Sketching and Design Video. He demonstrated a drawing technique that included colored pencil, marker paper, and rubbing alcohol. Once he had the basic forms down with some selective detail and value, he splashed alcohol on a cotton square and rubbed out the work. He then lifted out the lights with an electric eraser and reapplied the darks. From there he used the mid-tone to help him carve out a creature. I tried out essentially the same technique, but I did make use of a white colored pencil as neeeded.
I apologize for the marker tree there. This started out on my scrap page of marker paper — I didn’t expect to go anywhere with it, but the technique felt comfortable enough to keep me going. I didn’t expect the colored pencil to be so forgiving (in terms of getting things initially hammered out), but when you wash out the light lines using the alcohol, it cleans it right up.
-Craig
Craig Houghton January 8th, 2007
In the spirit of continuing to cycle through a variety of styles, here’s a colored pencil in the general style of Hikaru Nakano. I couldn’t find a good (read any) link to him on the web, but he’s featured in Japanese Comickers.
5×7 colored pencil on hot press watercolor paper
-Craig
Craig Houghton January 7th, 2007
I’m sticking with the birds for another night, but it’s only because I decided to cycle between a dozen or so styles and mediums. I was originally going to take one particular drawing and walk it through, but around the time I did the cowbird I decided to cycle through the project with different subjects — I need to keep excited about it or I’ll end up moving on to some other project.
So, here’s a small 5×7 White-Throated Sparrow in colored pencil on hot press watercolor paper. I’m not much of a fan of working with something waxy, but it’s good practice. By the way, I hate watermarks on paper. Since the scanner picked it up, I removed the Arches imprint and label using Painter.
-Craig
Craig Houghton is a self-taught artist available for fine-art commissions and illustration work. Contact via email using leversandpulleys at yahoo.com.
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