Most of the artists I admire, most of the fine artists I admire, work in what I would consider to be a baroque style.  I appreciate the grand, dramatic gestures and the over-the-top-ness of it all.  I've never been able to find much of William Rimmer's work, but I've always liked what I've seen.  Supposedly, he didn't use any preparatory drawings for his sculptures; he just worked everything out during the process.

Here's a pencil drawing from my sketch book based on his sculpture "The Dying Centaur."

This sketch book page is also a recent creation.  The girl in the foreground is modeled after a pose I came across in a magazine advertisement for shoes and handbags.  

I added some ink and chalk and now I've got a finished drawing (there were no columns, frogs, chickens, Indians, ostriches, or American revolutionaries in the handbag advertisement).  I don't usually know how most of the drawings in my sketchbook will end up when I start scribbling, but they usually end up being disparate and random.  

There's a scene in the movie There Will Be Blood where Daniel Day-Lewis' character has a seat and looks up at the flames spewing out of one of his oil wells.  This page in my sketchbook is based on a screen shot from that scene... but I decided to replace the oil well with Moby Dick.

And here's a drawing I did of a rooster...