landscape

Landscapes, buildings, interiors...it doesn't seem to matter I suck at backgrounds in general. All my life I've only really been interested in drawing the figure. I've decided that I need to improve...so if you read/view this blog you will get to suffer through it with me.

Ice Queen

Not sure what happened last week, but apparently I forgot to draw anything or post anything. I don't remember being particularly busy either...I guess that is what happens to a lot of peoples blogs though. Oh well. Here is something new.

Trayas

A character for a comic book/novel I have played with since I was in high school, and will probably never actually do. I have over 90 pages of the "book" version done, but I'm too lazy to actually draw the real thing. Anyway, a change of pace from the naked girls.

Tuesday

can't wait for friday.

Employment

An old codger at work asked me today "Remember the good old days when we worked for a living?" Now there is a huge gap in age (I'm in my twenties and he is rapidly approaching retirement) but I don't know what part of employment has ever been considered "good old days". Granted, its better than the current alternative of unemployment, obviously since it would be "easy" to take that route, but I continue to work. While I have no experience in the matter, I'm certain that "Independently Wealthy" is actually were much of the "good old days" are stored. Anyway...enough babbling. Above is a picture. I realize that she is lacking a foot...unfortunately I didn't realize this until after a darker pigment was in the way and couldn't be easily covered. So Autumn is officially a one footed harpy with crazy hair.

Orange

Prisma markers on both sides of the paper...made some interesting color effects that wouldn't be possible doing it just on one side.

De Facto

The little bomber dude is just a quick doodle of some cool work I found via Drawn! Done is prisma color marker. The seemingly de facto naked woman in the back is meant to be an elf or something. Whatever...

Weekend off

I took the weekend off...Normally I'm working on programming for a website, doing some(2D) art, or working on sculpture in the garage. This weekend I vegged out in front of the Xbox and watched 3 movies with my wife. It was nice and relaxing, and it made me want to draw even more once the week started. Here is my offering for today. Faber Castell Brush pen in my sketchbook.

WIP

A work in progress that I started this morning. What I mean by work in progress, is a drawing I will most likely never finish...eh.

Logo designs

My brother is starting his own business and wanted some help pulling a logo together. Sat down in Illustrator and farted these out in an hour to get the ball rolling. We'll see what he thinks.

Back to the drawing board

Spent all last week working on a sculpture for a client, on a very tight deadline...didn't get the chance to draw anything at all. Its amazing how quickly you can get rusty. This is a total miss, but wanted to force myself back into the habit. Prisma color markers, and cheap sketchbook paper...

Fish...of some sort

Prisma color and white sharpie.

Funny Hair

Is fun to draw...Prisma Markers on paper...

Birdy Birdy

Prisma color markers on white cardstock. Doodle doodle doodle.

Artsy Fartsy

Feeling artsy farsty tonight...or perhaps looking for a "legitamate" excuse to draw a naked woman...either way, this was the result. Faber Castell Pitt brush pen on manilla cardstock...the levels were altered in Photoshop to make the yellow pop for the background.

All Day Drawing

Got to spend the entire drawing as the wife was off on an all day bachelorette party...8 hours uninterrupted...pretty cool. This is my favorite of the 8-9 pages of sketches I ended up doing. Prisma color markers and sharpie opaque white. Top of the scan got a little screwed up since this is inside my sketchbook...

Pie Monster

Fun with prisma colors and india ink. hooray.

Ninja Skillz

Unless I'm on the open ocean, I back the ninjas in their quest for total domination.

Playing with ink...

Stayed up too late last night to bother scanning anything, so this is actually drawn yesterday. I just purchased some Aqua Flow Brushes from dickblick.com and rather than putting just water in them like you are supposed to, I decided that since they were on clearance it was worth expirementing with. I put burnt umber ink into the pen along with some water just to play around with. The effects weren't great, but its fun to play with.

Second Post

Trying to get into/stay in the habit of drawing every day. Ever since I got out of school I haven't been quite as active as I should be. Thanks to steady employment I have all the neat little illustrators toys I wanted when I was drawing all the time...now I just need to use them!