Days 5 and 6

My 80's robot, complete with wrist bands, leg warmers, and scrunchie. He's dancing...doing "the robot" of course.



I don't know what this crazy old guy is pointing that gun at....maybe a dancing 80's robot.

Day Four

Day four of the 21 day creative exercise. A little back story on this one....my dog is a little too friendly at the dog park. So we started calling her our little pug slut :-)

Day 3 and Illustration Friday

Day 3 of the 21 day creative exercise. Also my submission for this week's Illustration Friday topic "enough."

Sadly, this little guy would never be tall enough.

Day 2

I haven't been able to get into any books lately....maybe this is why.

21 Day Creative Exercise

I've decided to start a 21 day creative exercise. It is best explained here. The rules I have set for myself are to spend between 15-30 minutes each day drawing anything I can think of, as long as I don't use any photo references. The reason for this is that sometimes I spend more time looking for the perfect picture of what I want to draw instead of actually drawing.

This is what I came up with for Day 1. I can't tell you what it is, but I think it is something I will revisit later. I think it could be really cool in color.

a few character sketches

Just a couple of quick sketches since it's been a while. I drew them after reading "How to draw comics the Marvel way."

The Marvel Way

Just picked up a copy of "How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way." Here is a quick sketch of The Kingpin.

Hillary in pencil

I was working on this sketch for a couple of days, mostly trying to practice shading. I'm so used to drawing everything with outlines, that I really need to work on shading. There are some things I like about it (the earring, nose, hair, and mouth), but also some things that need improvement (the proportions of the face are off).

I chose Hillary because I thought the original picture was awesome.

Graphic novel

In preparation to possibly illustrate a graphic novel that a friend may or may not ever write, I am trying to learn how to draw in that style. I've read a few Frank Miller books and have started looking through others. What I've realized is that there is not just one style, but many. So I guess I will just have to figure out what style I am good at. My first goal is to draw realistic looking heads/faces. Here is one of my first attempts:





Once I get these down using pencil, I'm going to try my hand at ink.

The Good

A few of the drawings from The Sketchbook Project that I think turned out really well (or better than expcected).

Fun from The Sketchbook Project

I haven't had time to work on anything new, so here are some more sketches that were part of The Sketchbook Project. All sketchbooks will be on dispay at the Art House in Decatur, Georgia on October 27th.

This is a quick cartoonish sketch I did of monsters hiding under a child's bed.




In keeping with the theme of "fear" I did 2 caricature's of people that scare a lot of us!






And to be fair, this probably scares those guys:

Some old pencil drawings

A sketch of a convergent lady beetle I did:

Sugar maple leaves drawn with carbon dust on drafting film. This was my first time working with drafting film and carbon dust. I quickly learned that fingerprints on film are a bad thing! However, it did end up creating some interesting texture effects. After completing this drawing, I ruined the whole thing by trying to backpaint it.
I took an adult continuing ed drawing class, and one night we had to draw a wine glass still life set-up. We covered the entire piece of paper with carbon dust, and then completed the drawing by adding darker values, or erasing to create lighter values.