After the accident (there’s a thread around here somewhere for that), I’ve had a hard time getting my head back into art.  To help get that moving again, I’m returning to posting some of the sketches I’ve been working on.

As always, they vary quite wildly, even on the same page. They range from sketches based on objects, to cartoons, to horror.  Without further adieu, here are some sketches I was working on of a few things I have in my office here. I’m trying to work on sketching from life and from objects more, I think that’s something that I’m lacking in:

That’s not to say that practicing with cartoon characters won’t be helpful too.  With a couple of comic/cartoon sort of projects in progress, practicing and learning from established characters might help:

I also had a few stronger ideas that I might explore further, either as larger works or as sequential work.  In this case, Poe’s The Raven.

“Perched and sat, and nothing more.”

Among the jumble of other sketches are random horror and comic-type characters:


Russell Dickerson

Russell Dickerson has been a lot of things over many years. Author, artist, designer, winner of awards and recognition, pursuer of the truth, leader of the earth after armageddon.