Jeptha. P. Buford Illustration

Hello I'm Jeptha.P.Buford, Gentleman Artist and Illustrator. I started this Tumblr as a place to display my artwork to the blogosphere. I love traditional drawing, especially in my medium of choice pen and ink, oil pastel, and other mixed media. I enjoy a good mug of tea, and I abide in Her Majesty's United Kingdom.

Don’t know!…I just don’t know what this is yet drew some eyes with marker, and I have no idea what I’ll do next! anyway, here is some eyes. Thinking from this I could throw a few life drawing examples up, see what you all think, afterall life drawing is so important to any artist or illustrator. Peace out! JPB.

Don’t know!…I just don’t know what this is yet drew some eyes with marker, and I have no idea what I’ll do next! anyway, here is some eyes. Thinking from this I could throw a few life drawing examples up, see what you all think, afterall life drawing is so important to any artist or illustrator.

Peace out!

JPB.
Hi there, I may have been away a little bit lately, moving house yet again!, won’t be doing that again for a while, at least I hope not. In my absence from here, I have found time to time to actually do stuff, So for now this is a rough sketch of death the horseman with a couple of markers, This is the very first rough straight from how I see it in my head will probably develop this further once I get my feet on the ground, Will post a few more designs and little drawings I’ve been doing In my time away following this post JPB

Hi there, I may have been away a little bit lately, moving house yet again!, won’t be doing that again for a while, at least I hope not. In my absence from here, I have found time to time to actually do stuff, So for now this is a rough sketch of death the horseman with a couple of markers, This is the very first rough straight from how I see it in my head will probably develop this further once I get my feet on the ground, Will post a few more designs and little drawings I’ve been doing In my time away following this post

JPB
The Almost Finished Unfinished After having this unfinished A2 size Illustration knocking about amongst my work, Its good to say It’s almost finished. It will probably only take a another quick sitting with a marker pen and its finally done!. I think after it’s completion I might scan it In and maybe work out a colour scheme. But It’ll then I’m going to continue with some other projects, and get Inking again. More posts on the way soon!. JPB

The Almost Finished Unfinished


After having this unfinished A2 size Illustration knocking about amongst my work, Its good to say It’s almost finished. It will probably only take a another quick sitting with a marker pen and its finally done!. I think after it’s completion I might scan it In and maybe work out a colour scheme. But It’ll then I’m going to continue with some other projects, and get Inking again. More posts on the way soon!.

JPB
Cerberus, Inspired By The Most Amazing T-shirt In The World Meet Cerberus ladies and gents, a rough visual for New illustration,going to run this illustration through from the start, and showing all the developments I can. If you hadn’t guessed already this was Inspired by 3 wolf moon…you know its going be a hit!. I kid of course, I’ve still got to add a fair bit to this, got the Ideas wriggling inside my head ready to hit the paper. Hope you all like it, thank you for reading and I’ll be giving you more to see/read soon. JPB

Cerberus, Inspired By The Most Amazing T-shirt In The World

Meet Cerberus ladies and gents, a rough visual for New illustration,going to run this illustration through from the start, and showing all the developments I can. If you hadn’t guessed already this was Inspired by 3 wolf moon…you know its going be a hit!. I kid of course, I’ve still got to add a fair bit to this, got the Ideas wriggling inside my head ready to hit the paper. Hope you all like it, thank you for reading and I’ll be giving you more to see/read soon. JPB
Oh Hello Old Thing I Didn’t Finish This time I have revisited an old illustration I didn’t finish, So I’ve gone back to it and also gone back into exploring the style I used with that Illustration, So far Its been rather enjoyable, I plan to update you again when its near completion, I find its a faster process using that style, so I might look into ways that I can use the style In some areas in future. Hope you like what you see guys. JPB

Oh Hello Old Thing I Didn’t Finish

This time I have revisited an old illustration I didn’t finish, So I’ve gone back to it and also gone back into exploring the style I used with that Illustration, So far Its been rather enjoyable, I plan to update you again when its near completion, I find its a faster process using that style, so I might look into ways that I can use the style In some areas in future. Hope you like what you see guys. JPB
Octo-Pirate Update This is just a chance to show you that I’ve played around with this recent illustration with marker pens, just to see how it would look more finalised later on, pretty pleased how it looks. JPB

Octo-Pirate Update

This is just a chance to show you that I’ve played around with this recent illustration with marker pens, just to see how it would look more finalised later on, pretty pleased how it looks.

JPB
Sketching Ships Today I had fun sketching over and refining a drawing I did a while back, which was very rough ship crashing through the waves, after the sketch is complete I will transfer the image to better grade paper and start the process of inking, probably make a fair few changes to the drawing, few perspective changes and details to adjust, But for now its only very rough, Hope you guys like it. I’m going to try show you more sketches I think, I normally keep ideas pretty close to my chest, Its time to just go a little mad  Peace Out! JPB

Sketching Ships

Today I had fun sketching over and refining a drawing I did a while back, which was very rough ship crashing through the waves, after the sketch is complete I will transfer the image to better grade paper and start the process of inking, probably make a fair few changes to the drawing, few perspective changes and details to adjust, But for now its only very rough, Hope you guys like it. I’m going to try show you more sketches I think, I normally keep ideas pretty close to my chest, Its time to just go a little mad 

Peace Out! JPB
Drawing of Octo-Pirate This is just a rough pencil sketch of something that popped into my head, I took the picture and adjusted things on my phone a little and made the colours crazy. Hope you guys like it, Its not finished gonna add a bit more to it here and there, still running a nautical theme with this Octo-Pirate sea monster.

Drawing of Octo-Pirate

This is just a rough pencil sketch of something that popped into my head, I took the picture and adjusted things on my phone a little and made the colours crazy. Hope you guys like it, Its not finished gonna add a bit more to it here and there, still running a nautical theme with this Octo-Pirate sea monster.
Better Late Than Never A bit later than expected, been a busy start to the week with Christmas approaching, But not to keep you in the dark with what I’m up to, here is a one of the illustrations at its current state (you can’t see it all, I’ve taped a bit off with paper). I have kindly been given the rest of the evening and the whole of tomorrow off work, so I will probably get loads done. I also have another illustration to show you tomorrow. JPB.

Better Late Than Never

A bit later than expected, been a busy start to the week with Christmas approaching, But not to keep you in the dark with what I’m up to, here is a one of the illustrations at its current state (you can’t see it all, I’ve taped a bit off with paper). I have kindly been given the rest of the evening and the whole of tomorrow off work, so I will probably get loads done. I also have another illustration to show you tomorrow.

JPB.
Meanwhile…I did an oil pastel drawing of a horse, In between working on other things which are to come soon. this is not anything close to what I’ve done with this blog to date, but its just a small example of something else I really enjoy besides pen and ink. As I enjoy oil pastels a huge amount it may lead onto further experimentations.

Meanwhile…I did an oil pastel drawing of a horse, In between working on other things which are to come soon. this is not anything close to what I’ve done with this blog to date, but its just a small example of something else I really enjoy besides pen and ink. As I enjoy oil pastels a huge amount it may lead onto further experimentations.