These are sketches from my day at the Royal College of Surgeons. There was SO much stuff I should’ve drawn there, but I got caught up with a few bits ‘n’ pieces. I really need to get on the whole drawing quickly and gesturally thing. This first one took a couple of hours I think (lost track) and it’s nowhere near finished. The whole skull was pretty dark…

I decided I’d be well arty and draw in my Diary of Samuel Pepys. The pen I was using only really worked well for the first one (big ol’ Charles) and they don’t look quite as good as in the book, but I’m pretty pleased with them. It’ll be cool to have a whole book of drawings in there.

Then I found this freaky little guy and did him straight into pen. His head was bigger than I did it originally, so the actual sketch has got two sets of lines. Deleted the bad ones in photoshop tho. Probably wouldn’t please my tutors that but hey ho.
Also chucked in a bit of photoshop colour burn to give it a slight ‘parchment feel’ just cause it seemed appropriate.

And finally, use a condom kids…
Oh yeah, and this guy’s skull was labelled Mr Norris. Evidently the brute actually succumbed to syphilis in 1811 and the one we see now is an android.