the art of Will Terrell

I started using a brown paper sketchbook this week for the first time. It’s also been ages since I used Prisma markers. Its refreshing switching it up.

By the way, I made a video flip-through of my last sketchbook! Check it out…

-Will

It has been a very busy month, but I’ve tried to squeeze in sketching whenever I can. I’m almost finished with this moleskin sketchbook. Probably 7 or 8 pages to go. After this I’m going to switch to a brown paper sketchbook, just to keep things fresh for me.

Lately, I’ve been drawing with red/blue pencils, and for some reason purple prisma color brushpen for outlining. On this page in particular, I’ve been smudging the purple to get shaded effects, and then go back over it with colored pencil, or greys to give it more depth. I’ve almost completely stopped using black ink for the last few weeks or so. Most of these were drawn at the Lubbock Comic Book Expo this past weekend.

-Will

This sketch is actually from several weeks ago. The lady was walking around looking for a cart to place the piles of frozen food spilling over her grasp. Pretty funny to watch actually. This was a quick memory sketch.

-Will

I sketched this lady while I was waiting in line to see the Hunger Games. She was NOT happy. I decided to splash a little color on with photoshop.

-Will Terrell

I am trying to push my caricature sketches more towards designing characters right now. Simplifying characteristics, instead of adding details. I saw this girl at the local grocery store, stopping for some lunch. I think I could push the design a lot better though.

–Will

I loved the fella with the thumb looking head.

Busy month lately. We’ve been doing a lot of caricature events in recent weeks. I can’t complain, but I’ve not been sketching as much as usual. Just a few here and there. These are a few of my favorites from recently. These are out of the moleskin sketchbook.

-Will

I found this charming cowboy at the mall this weekend. His gut was most impressive. Oddly, I started noticing more and more feathers in cowboy hats after seeing one in his. And the feathers just seemed to get bigger and bigger. Also, I really like how the texture styrofoam cup turned out.

-Will

I just really love sketching people in the wild. It really forces you to develop a vocabulary with creating characters. Both in attitude, and personality. When I would only sketch from my imagination, it was always frustrating to make characters look unique (and correct). I don’t feel I have that problem any longer. Here’s a few from this week…

These are a few of my sketches from the past week. Lots of walmart people, and a few from the mall. Lots of character this week.
I loved the security guard in this first one, he came in all flustered, with a baby blue bicycle helmet on, and his pants leg rolled up,
scrambling to get some food before his shift.

-Will