Rhino's Breakfast

I haven't updated this blog in a long while, so here's a quick sketch I entered for an art contest depicting "Animals doing human things." Used my Wacom, took about 20 minutes. I won the contest, but the only glory was internet points. 

Judah Doodles

Just some doodle inspired by my son playing around today.

Starbucks People

       Just some sketches from my iPad of random people at Starbucks.

A Panda for Kaitlin

Here's a cartoony panda I drew tonight for my cousin Kaitlin.

Doodlestravaganza

Here's a page of random figures and heads from over the past couple days. I just wanted to practice different expressions, angles, and poses. Tell me which ones are your faves and why. Click on it for more detail.

Challenge Day 1~ Self-portrait

I stumbled upon a 30 day drawing challenge that I am going to take on. I really want to develop as an artist, but I am probably the least disciplined person in the world. Especially when it comes to drawing while I am a full time student.

The first challenge is to do a self-portrait. This ended up taking way more time that I thought it would, so I will share with you my process. I'm not to thrilled about the final product as I got a bit frustrated and settled for what came of it all. Here's my process:

Step 1: Establish perspective, axis, and mild contour. Notice the lines across the face which establish eye, nose, ear, and mouth positions.

Step 2: Further develop contour and overall shapes.

Step 3: Establish major features.

Step 4: Details!

Step 5: Drop opacity on all layers and do more solid line work.

Step 6: Finish basic line work.

This is where I ended up settling due to frustration, and I turned all layers back on.

I've discovered that maybe inking is just not for me. I really like the results of Step 4, but then it went sort of downhill. Oh well.

We'll see what happens tomorrow! 

Warm Ups

Since I rarely do full projects, I am going to start posting some of my warm up sketches. 'Warm ups' would be the equivalent of stretching before exercise. They get the artistic blood pumping. Or you could just call them doodles. Here is one from today.

Tough Love

Yeah, this pretty much is how it happened.

Cloud Gate

Cloud Gate in Chicago's Millennium Park.
I drew this while using a trial version of a program called Sketchbook Pro from Autodesk. The features in this program are amazing, and very intuitive to tablet users. I will be purchasing this program for sure! I may dress this up more at a later time.

I referenced photo I took last month during spring break.

An Oldie to Begin With

Here is an old sketch of Yoda I worked on a while ago. This was when I first got my Wacom Tablet for my birthday and was tinkering around with it.