the art of Will Terrell

It was a beautiful day today. Gorgeous thunderstorms woke me up early and got me into the studio to work. Lots of amazing clouds, and the most breathtaking sunset I’ve seen in ages. And even the smell tonight reminded me of the best of summer. It was a good day.

I felt exhausted though at work. I started sketching this spidey to let my creativity get out a little before doing some grunt work. The city scape is actually a partial view from our studio window. Its nice having rooftop reference like that just outside the window. (Especially here in Lubbock, Lol!)

-Will

I had fun at the Abilene show yesterday hanging out with my friends from the Lubbock Sketchclub, and getting to hang with the Abilene SketchClub guys some too. Dinner was great! Other than that, it was a decent show, but I didn’t make much money at all. I was surprised actually. Just about everyone I talked to had the same experience. Lots of people showed, but very few spent money. It was probably because it was a charity event. I’m glad I went though.

I spent the last few hours doing this watercolor sketch of Spiderman and Venom. I think its a good rough sketch for a finished painting. Some of that anatomy is just really wonky on both characters. but I like some of the paint effects I was getting and I really want to try a full painting version.

-Will

I finally did a Spiderman sketch that I actually like! I always seem to get hung up on the anatomy instead of the personality. This time I worked out all the bugs with light pencil sketches and then inked it up. I’m happy with how this one turned out. If I was Spiderman this is how I would eat fast food. Of course, if I were Spiderman I would be pretty much screwed living in West Texas. Not much to swing from except water towers, wind mills and streetlamps. Although there are a superb amount of churches from which I could perch and brood.

-Will

I wanted to see if I could create interesting Spiderman poses using different letters of the alphabet. It was a fun and challenging exercise, that I recommend every artist try and do. Most of these were done during my lunch breaks this past week.
-Will

I had a good time at the sketch club sketch night tonight. Thanks to everyone that came. I brought brown bag paper, chartpak markers and white out for the gang. I think everyone had a lot of fun messing around with it. These are some of my sketches.

–Will Terrell