Sketch A Day (#1): Ian Somerhalder

Sketching, in my opinion, is something that every artist (or illustrator) should be doing on a regular basis and I hold my hands up for being guilty of NOT doing this myself… until today!

I normally do some sort of preliminary sketch for almost all of my paintings and illustrations anyway but what I don’t do is sketch for the sake of sketching. Actually picking up a pencil and sketching something that’s not related to any current projects I’m involved with or normally paint.

So at 8:40AM while staring at my desktop wallpaper of Ian Somerhalder (Lost, Vampire Diaries), I decided to do a sketch of it… Sketch A Day was born and what a first Sketch A Day it is! Argh… People! In all honest I am not overly comfortable with the human form in general. Give me an animal any day. Although there are a few animals which I am not too comfortable with either but those are for another day.

I must stress that this sketch is fan art, is NOT for sale, and is merely an exercise carried out to develop my own skills.

His left eye (as you look at it) is a bit iffy but overall it ain’t half bad… considering I don’t do people!

Wonder what I’ll sketch tomorrow!