Sketches and Studies by Craig Houghton

Craig Houghton November 28th, 2007

older man with walking stick - watercolor and ink on hot press watercolor paper

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• pen , figures , watercolor , illustrations , men , ink
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Craig Houghton July 25th, 2007

I don’t think I’ve ever done a political cartoon before, but I’ve drawn (with varying success) just about everything else. This is regarding a local town issue where our town government bent over and changed the laws to allow some big developers to pave-over (along with some token shrubbery) 400 acres. We even just found out that there’s a 65′ tall hotel in there as well. To my dismay and surprise, it’s the dems that sold us out here. The cartoon makes a lot more sense when you know the details, but nonetheless, here it is:

• cartoon , pen , figures , illustrations , men , ink , political
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Craig Houghton July 5th, 2007

Women of all ages across mediums and styles.

• colored pencil , graphite , charcoal , pastel , acrylic , pen , digital , figures , women , watercolor , illustrations , oil , portraits , ink , vids
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Craig Houghton June 3rd, 2007

No finished drawings or paintings here, just some recent sketchbook bits and pieces thrown together.

random scraps 1

and 2

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• cartoon , acrylic , objects , pen , figures , markers , illustrations , ink , crap
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Craig Houghton February 12th, 2007

This is running along with an Earth Day story/press release. The mountain range is Sleeping Giant nearby in Hamden, CT. The lake and man-made waterfall are local as well. Really, the expanse would be filled with blacktop, apartments, and chain restaurants, but that’s not at all what I like about Hamden.

Here’s the run sized version:

And, here’s a link to the larger: Earth Day Hamden 2007

detail

I was going to start working on the mid-ground since I barely touched it, but I’d already taken too long and it looked decent enough when resized.

-Craig

• pen , digital , illustrations , landscape
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Craig Houghton January 17th, 2007

Keeping with the Birds across mediums and styles project, last night I tried a mockingbird in the general style of Sonny Liew (worth checking out!). I imagine that I should have done it in pencil and then colored the pencil lines digitally in order to get his particular sketchy style, but I felt like using pens.

Thanks for looking!
Craig

• birds , cartoon , pen , digital
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