Sketches with a new way of holding the pencil

I was really in a Superman mood lately. I even got back to Smallville to witness the arrival of Doomsday in season 8... which ended up in a real disappointement. Did you noticed how every season of Smallville seems to end up with Clark giving up on his mission before getting back on it thanks to a great new threat?

Anyway, I decided to try to give the character some anger so that he doen't appear like a boy scout... I like the overall pose, but the head definitely needs improvements. It's too big and too large....

A few days later, as I was reading Witchblade, I decied to check some Marc Silvestri art and found a great (of course: it was done by Silvestri) illustration of The Darkness. The next morning, I was watching my Riven Phoenix drawing lesson,  and Phoenix started to teach us how to hold our pencil so that our creations feel more organic and artistic.After completing the lesson, I decided to try this method and came up with this quick sketch:

Note that the hairs were much easy to draw when holding the pencil inside my hand. Indeed, it felt more natural and organic for such shapes.

Finally, this morning, I felt I needed to go back to basics after much trial and error on body proportion. So I tried to remember everything I had learned from Riven Phoenix and came up with a basic, but correctly proportionned of a male figure.

That's all for the moment. I hope to come with new drawings quite soon.

Until then...