Painting For My Muse: Ink

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Thursday, January 2, 2020

Gaudium (The Angel of Joy) - Work In Progress

This illustration "Gaudium" is the third and final in my triptych series of Angels: "Peace, Love, and Joy".

Progress shots of my illustration. More soon.

Added her skin tone

Medium: Ink, watercolor, acrylic, and pastel on bristol paper
Dated: 2018
Original size: 9"x 7"

Friday, July 12, 2019

Christy 2

This illustration is another tribute to one of my early influences, Patrick Nagel. I loved the challenge of seeing the world through Patrick's eyes and his style helped me to better understand both composition and anatomy.

This portrait is one of my favorite models in the 80's and 90's, Christy Turlington.

Medium: Ink on Canson marker paper
Dated: 1995
Original size: 14"x 11"

Thursday, February 14, 2019

Famke and Marcel

This illustration was done as a portrait of two characters in a vampire novel I was going to co-author with a friend.

Medium: Ink and Prismacolor on sketch paper
Dated: 1992
Original size: 8"x 6"

Friday, November 9, 2018

Amare (The Angel of Love)

This illustration is the second of a triptych series of Angels: "Peace, Love, and Joy". My influence for this series was the stained glass works created during the Gothic period of art and the angelic art of the 15th century.

Medium: Watercolor, Ink, & Pastel on bristol paper
Dated: 2018
Original size: 9"x 7"

Monday, November 5, 2018

Pacem (The Angel of Peace)

This illustration is the first of a triptych series of Angels: "Peace, Love, and Joy". My influence for this series was the stained glass works created during the Gothic period of art and the angelic art of the 15th century.

Medium: Watercolor, Ink, & Pastel on bristol paper
Dated: 2018
Original size: 9"x 7"

Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare

This illustration was done as an extra credit assignment for my English class during my sophomore year of high school. I was one of the few students who loved reading Shakespeare and I jumped at the opportunity to illustrate one of my favorite poems. I also used Patrick Nagel's style to draw the woman since he was a huge influence for me during these early years.

In case you didn't know, the opening line on this illustration is also a lyric in Sting's song Sister Moon from the album Nothing Like the Sun.

Medium: Ink and prismacolor on sketch paper
Dated: 1991
Original size: 14"x 11"

Friday, October 5, 2018

Letter Transition: V for Vampire

This illustration was done in my Commercial Art class. It was a "transition" assignment starting where I had to start with a letter in the alphabet and transform it into an object. I loved this assignment and went with a vampire theme.

Medium: Ink and prismacolor on sketch paper
Dated: 1991
Original size: 4"x 10"

Monday, September 3, 2018

Gaudium (Joy) - Ink Drawing

This illustration "Gaudium" is the third and final in my triptych series of Angels: "Peace, Love, and Joy".

Watercolor is next!

Medium: Ink on bristol paper
Dated: unfinished
Original size: 9"x 7"

Thursday, August 30, 2018

Vanessa

Medium: Ink on vellum paper
Dated: 1995
Original size: 12"x 9"

Tuesday, July 17, 2018

Sarah

Medium: Ink on Canson marker paper
Dated: 1995
Original size: 12"x 9"

Thursday, June 28, 2018

Depeche Mode: Sometimes

This is a song illustration that I created for Depeche Mode's Sometimes song from the album Black Celebration.

Medium: Prismacolor and ink on sketch paper
Dated: 1990
Original size: 14"x 11"

All images are ™ & © dba Albrecht Illustrations. All rights reserved.

Thursday, May 10, 2018

Amare (Love) - Watercolor

This illustration "Amare" is the second of a triptych series of Angels: "Peace, Love, and Joy".

Medium: Ink and watercolor on bristol paper
Dated: 2018
Original size: 9"x 7"

Friday, May 4, 2018

Depeche Mode: Black Celebration

This is a song illustration that I created for Depeche Mode's title track from the album Black Celebration. Without a doubt, this album is my favorite. I bought it when it was released and I felt the songs resonated with me during that time of my life.

Medium: Prismacolor and ink on sketch paper
Dated: 1993
Original size: 14"x 11"

All images are ™ & © dba Albrecht Illustrations. All rights reserved.

Tuesday, February 20, 2018

A Night in Ophir

This illustration was created to go with a poem that tells the story of an Egyptian female vampire in the ancient port city of Ophir.

Fun Fact: I am a bit of an Egyptologist by hobby and it was very exciting to get an assignment to illustrate something in an Egyptian theme, especially with a Gothic twist. I loved creating the border and using my extensive Egyptian library for references.

This illustration was published in the 1997 edition of An Ancient Death is the Most Beautiful, a vampire chap book.

Medium: Graphite and ink on sketch paper
Dated: 1997
Original size: 12"x 9"

Friday, February 2, 2018

Blaze

This illustration was created when a friend of mine had put together a Heroes RPG game and was looking for character art to use for the players and the villains.

It was a lot of fun tinkering with comic book style art and it gave me a chance to work with ink. "Blaze" was inspired by several comic books that I had read throughout the 80's and 90's.

It is interesting to look back at these illustrations and see the parts I still like about them and the parts that I would change.

Medium: Ink on vellum paper
Dated: 1995
Original size: 10"x 8"

Tuesday, January 9, 2018

Jade

This illustration was created when a friend of mine had put together a Heroes RPG game and was looking for character art to use for the players and the villains.

It was a lot of fun tinkering with comic book style art and it gave me a chance to work with ink. "Jade" was inspired by several comic books that I had read throughout the 80's and 90's.

Medium: Ink on vellum paper
Dated: 1995
Original size: 10"x 8"

Tuesday, December 26, 2017

Of Flesh and Stone

I have always been fascinated by demon lore and mythology, and I was inspired to create this image of a female succubus, slowly revealing herself to her offscreen companion. I thought it would be fun to give her a tail and to have a pair of pet gargoyles at her feet.

Medium: Graphite, ink and Prismacolor on Sketch paper
Dated: 1997
Original size: 17"x 11"

Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Jean Grey as the Phoenix

During the mid to late '80's I discovered the X-Men comic books. I fell in love with Wolverine and I loved the dynamic between him and Jean Grey. This was my first and only illustration (unfinished) of Jean. I wanted to draw her while she was tapping into her Phoenix powers of telekinesis.

Medium: Ink on vellum paper
Dated: 1995
Original size: 10"x 8"

Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Depeche Mode: People Are People

This is a song illustration that I created for Depeche Mode's People Are People song featured on the UK album Some Great Reward and US album People Are People.

Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Sting as Anne Rice's The Vampire Lestat

"That night the vampire returned to work the dark gift on Louis." We see the vampire known as Lestat consider the consequences of the act, but only for a second!

My illustration was inspired by Anne Rice's Interview With the Vampire and the idea of what Sting would have looked like, had he played the vampire on Broadway as it was proposed many years ago.

In November of 1999, as fate would have it, after listening to Sting play at the Jones Hall in Houston, I crossed paths with the man himself in an elevator! He invited me to have drinks with him and his band and I was able to give him one of the only two artist proofs of the limited edition print series. The other Artist Proof was a gift to Anne Rice.

Medium: watercolor and ink on sketch paper
Dated: 1995
Original size: 14"x 11"