Category: Sketching
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Wally Torta’s Journal
Wally Torta’s Journal is a wonderful sketchblog that ranges from simple and direct observations from everyday life to flights of fantasy to meeting doodles to cartoons and drawings in a style influenced by B. Kliban (one of my absolute favorite cartoonists). Most often, though, he seems to simply draw what’s in front of him. Worth…
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Bill Mather
Bill Mather does paintings and portraits of women in a variety of media. He also does landscapes in acrylic and oil. The site in includes a number of nice sketches, as well as pieces from figure drawing classes. What I enjoy most, though, are his direct and lively portrait drawings.
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Derek Thompson
Derek Thompson is a comics artist, storyboard artist and concept artist. Most of all though, he draws monsters. Big, little, scary, silly, weird and wild monsters. He even has a Monster of the Day feature and a Monster Vault. The site also features a gallery of his professional work and a Sketchbook that happens to…
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Steven Wiltshire
Steven Wiltshire was diagnosed as autistic at age 3, and at age 8 started to display an unusual talent for drawing. At 13 he was featured on a BBC program about autistic savants. In the years since then his work has been displayed in galleries and reproduced in several best-selling collections. The galleries here consist…
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Erik Tiemens
Paintings and painted sketches of landscapes and cities in a beautiful, loose, painterly style. Browse through the Gallery but don’t miss some of the work tucked away on the home page and News page. My favorites are the gouache and watercolor sketches in the Maine and More Europe sections. Tiemens also happens to be a…
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SketchCrawl
He liked the experience so much he repeated it and collected the drawings as a book. He then expanded the idea to organized “Worldwide SketchCrawls”, inviting other artists to join in on a particular day and “sketch till you crawl”. He created a site devoted to the SketchCrawls that features bulletin boards for discussing the…