Challenge 5- Best Friend

For #5, I had to draw a picture of my best friend. Of course that is my wife. Today is our 4 year anniversary and so I thought that I would challenge myself to draw a picture of her FROM MEMORY. This is going to embarrass her like crazy (heheheheeee), but I think this is pretty accurate. Isn't she cute!? Her favorite color is green hence the background. By the way, she doesn't normally stand like this.

Challenge 4- Favorite Place

This is a sketch of one of my favorite places. Can you guess where it is?

It is the Columbia River Gorge on I-84. This is a beautiful drive and is the corridor of transition for almost every major chapter in my life.

Challenge Day 3~ Favorite Food

Doing the challenge each day is literally impossible for me with school and a baby.

One of my favorite foods are haystacks. If you don't know what a haystack is, it's like this: taco salad x amazing= haystack. This was a fun one to build, as I piled each thing on in a separate layer. Fritos, beans, cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, olives, taco sauce, and ranch.

Challenge Day 2~Favorite Animal–Narwhal

I don't know that I have a favorite animal, because I really like all animals. Well, mainly mammals. The first one that came to my mind as one of my favorites, is a narwhal. So here is my drawing of a narwhal. Did you know that is a tusk, attached to the left side of it's mouth?

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!