Gimp+Digital Pen = Fast sketches

I've bought a new digital pen - a Genius G-pen 4500, to be exact. For the first few days, I was trying to write and draw with it without hurting my wrist. Then, I tried using it with Gimp, and came up with these:



In this one, I tried playing around with the Gaussian Blur feature to give a smudged effect.
This is of one of my friends - doesn't look much like her as I played around with everything from face shape to accessories.

Finally, just to prove to myself that I can sketch men's faces:

The best thing about these is that they took me around 5-10 minutes from start to finish. So, what do you think? Leave a comment, please!

Norman Rockwell's 'School Fight'

I came across this on a Norman Rockwell gallery on the Saturday Evening Post site. (Thanks, StumbleUpon.) Just had to put it up here.


Here's the link to the original page.