New work: Covers/Drawings

[Rich Pellegrino]

Here's a new batch of recent works. I'm always open to crits, comments and thoughts. There is a ton more on my blog (http://richpellegrino.blogspot.com/). Thanks!

Rich

[scott*altmann]

Dear Richie Boy -
You smell like old meatballs.
Love,
Scott


Well -we already got to discuss these , so I am fortunate enough that I can just praise you now. You are really stepping up your game, and I can tell you are working hard lately. The new one with the boy (which is obviously you!) holding the egg is one of your best. Keep at it brother and you are gonna do smashingly. We'll talk soon :)

[tensai]

Haha I love the pencil pieces man, very very nice. First and last one are my favourites.

[smokenmirrors]

those drawings are chaotic Geeeeeenius! badass technique!!!!

[Jason Rainville]

Aweeeesome :)

In the first one, it's close, but he's juuuuuuust barely not looking at the egg. Looks like his gaze is just above/behind it. maybe that's intentional but I thought I'd point it out.

[Victor B]

Dear Rich, you're drawings are mezmerizing, the dragon and clouds in your first painting are also fantastic, many thanks for sharing! If I had any kind of "money" I would surely want an original sketch of yours, cheers.

[xsdk01]

+1 on the figure sketches.

The one that looks oddly like a mellow George Washington, looks as though he is sitting in tall grass, with the chair also made of tall grass. The girl underneath GW, creepy long-haired girl; her position reminds me of Da Vinci's human figure proportion drawing (http://www.latifm.com/artists/image/da-vinci-leonardo-proportions-of-the-human-figure.jpg).

[Mandryk]

I really like the mood you achieve with your work Rich, and your pencil drawings are awesome. So scratchy and filled with life.

One the first one I feel the way he's holding the egg is awkward -like you should be able to clearly see his other hand as well (maybe through some translucency in the egg material). Right now it feels as if the egg is glued to his hand...like it would fall out otherwise. There is also something odd about the way the dragon is sitting in space...in the close up he feels much closer to the boy , but in the bottom pic his tail around the rock suggests he is quite some distance off . It makes the scale of the dragon a little confusing.

cool blog!

cheers,

D

[emily g]

I think the first one is amazing--I love the face and the detail on the dragon. I'm not sure if the super-magnified hand is working, and I agree with the comments about the egg looking glued to his hand.

Second one is great too. The arms of the man in the hat aren't quite reading to me. I feel like we are missing some of his left arm (the one underneath). Also, his tattoos seem to merge together on the two arms, making it hard to tell them apart.

I love your sketching technique!

[sk1nz]

loving the style you sketch in, the first piece is sweet too, nice lighting

[sourgasm]

very cool style. like an even looser version of jon foster. i'm definitely going to dig through your blog a bit.

[MoonVisionStudio]

Really like the character with the hat! reminds me of the fisherman in Jaws. Nice painterly style.

[Chris Bennett]

Hi Rich,

The drawings are getting better and better!
One's drawings always are ahead of the paintings I find. If I'm having problems with where the art is going, especially technical things, I look to my drawings - they always contain the answer and never lie to me.

Whilst I like the paintings they lag behind the expressive meaning of the drawings. I guess the answer is not a pat: 'Let's make the lines of the brush like the lines of the drawing" - one is pencil and the other is paint so it is no kind of answer to think of just aping the drawings with a paintbrush. I have no answers because this is such a personal thing and only you will know the answer. But my impression at the moment is that you are finding a lot of firepower in your 'handwriting'. How can that translate to the paintings better? Or, perhaps it is not so much in the handwriting as such but rather that you are more comfortable with the act of drawing and therefore expressive stuff is coming through the gestures of the figures because of it.
In fact, I reckon this is the case. I reckon that the handwriting of your drawings may not be as important as it looks, it simply facilitates your ability to make the figures expressive by way of composing them with forms. This must be the case since some of your work that doesn't show too much painterly 'handwriting' still speaks very powerfully and generally with more subtlety.

Always great to see what you have been up to, always a suprise and always a real pleasure to look at.

[bhanu]

Like yur sketches the most.

[3alola]

i like it man :D

[Alex Alexandrov]

I will say -DOnt try to copy so much Jon Foster .. -in the second drawing ...

The hands of the dragon , the skin ,are very much the same az , Shamer's Dauther peace from Jon Foster ..the face of the man looks familiar too ... otherwise the drawings are nice

In the end i will say - Study that great master but don't try to copy him .