This was one of the pieces produced last semester in my digital painting class. As you can probably tell, the work of N.C. Wyeth was a big influence on the overall design.
The black and white ones where done with markers and a black technical pen. The colored one is actually a color key for a composition that was later changed.
Here are a couple of drawings created for for my background painting class. I've been doing a lot of drawings that have to do with trains and train rails, one of them was started from a thumbnail from the previous post.
Many times I create a lot of thumbnail drawings to figure out different compositions, but sometimes I also like to go a little further in the tiny drawings and and begin to add value to give the drawings some form. Here are some examples. Eventually some of these move on to become fully painted compositions.