Various art

My wife as an elf

Menhirs

155 BCT Patch in metal

The Lion's Gate at Mycenae

Angel

7th Doctor- Sylvester McCoy

Neoclassical architecture

Skeletons dancing

Woman

Wild elf woman

Magneto sketch

Magneto sketch simplified

Futuristic armored warrior

More woodcarving practice

Finally getting my nose better in the middle one that I am working on right now.

Prototype for my pawn and a relief carving.

A prototype of my #AngloSaxon #pawn for my #chess set

Also been working on this. A scene from the Julius Work Calendar from #February. #WoodCarving

Sketches for an Anglo-Saxon themed chess set

I had this idea to create a chess set with the pieces themed on Anglo-Saxon designs.

I am working on the designs for the individual pieces right now. I plan on spending this weekend finishing the rough piece designs.

Any blank spaces on my pieces, will probably be filled with designs that wrap the piece, but I feel it will be easier to work on those on the actual piece seeing as how they will wrap around.

God willing, I will finish the king, queen, bishop and rook this weekend.

As I finish each piece, I will place a sketch photo here. These are rough sketches and will be subject to change and addition as I go forward. I expect the finished product to look somewhat different as my hands and mind work it all out into a finished product.

Once I have my piece designs done, I will be buying a new wood carving set (my old one got lost in moving at some point). Then I plan on starting to carve each piece and I will have individual posts for each.

Stay tuned here this weekend as I post new images as I finish them and feel free to leave feedback.

Update: 2/22/14, 10:05 am. Queen proving harder than anticipated. Moving on to the Bishop and Rook.
Update: 2/22/14, 11:40 am. Bishop sketch finished.
Update: 2/22/14, 2:00 pm. Rook finished.
Update: 2/22/14, 2:20 pm. Officially brain dead for the day. Will work on Queen tomorrow while fresh.
Update: 2/23/14, 10:10 am. Finished the Queen sketch.

I finished the sketch for a pawn on Monday.

We had a  2 hr. class at work on soft starters. I am bad about doodling while people are talking (although I am still listening, honest) This was where my mind was going on the set.

I was satisfied with the rough design of the knight.

The King. (Based somewhat on a medieval illuminated manuscript drawing of Alfred the Great)

Bishop

Rook, based on a Mead Hall/Great Hall

The Queen

The fortunes of war favoured Hrothgar.

Friends and kinsmen flocked to his ranks,

young followers, a force that grew

to be a mighty army. So his mind turned

to hall-building: he handed down orders

for men to work on a great mead-hall

meant to be a wonder of the world forever;

it would be his throne room and here he would dispense

his God-given goods to young and old-

but not the common land or people's lives.

~Beowulf by Seamus Heaney

Road to Emmaus, On the Plains and Profile of a Woman

Road to Emmaus
Ebony pencil on sketch paper.

On the Plains
Ebony pencil on sketch paper

Woman in Profile
Graphite wash on  acrylic paper

Timelapse of a pastel drawing I created.