doodles and quick sketches

Here is a series of 5-7 minute sketches of turn of the 19th century Russian chairs and tables! I know that's what you come here for, my expert quick sketching of period Russian furniture:

While I was sitting in on some classes at the Academy of Art today I was in front of a cintiq, so I doodled characters:

And I was playing with some new ideas when I did this painting. It's not my favorite, but I think it's interesting to look at how different a color tweak makes the atmosphere: