New Years Cards

So to follow up on the last sketch update, I made up some cards for thank yous for Christmas gifts and for the New Year. Since it's the year of the tiger as of whenever Chinese new year is this year, I drew a bunch of tigers. Because I'm clever like that. There's no clear picture of the top one for some reason, so I included a scan of it. I think it's one of the stronger ones.

Happy New Year

Some hands in pencil:

From An Atlas of Anatomy for Artists


Holding a lime and lemon

And tigers. Rawr.

These were from photos, in a couple of types of pens, pencils, marker, and some watercolor. Guess the ink wasn't water resistant. I like that walking guy though. More on this later.

Charcoal

I haven't updated in forever, so I'm taking advantage of being sick to upload some recent drawings. We've started working with charcoal, which is one of my favorite tools for drawing. These were done on large paper, so please excuse the digital photos; I did not want to deal with charcoal dust all over the scanner, nor did I want to deal with stitching the pictures together from multiple scans.


The first one is more of a "finished" drawing. I'm pretty pleased with it, I just need to work on firming up the geometry here and there, which I'll do when I'm over this cold/flu whatever it is.


The second drawing is a quick study of a still life arrangement. I like the way charcoal allows you to spread value over larger areas quickly, giving it a more painterly feel.

Other than that, I'm pretty sick. Don't play ookie mouth with me.

Blind Contours

Here are a bunch of blind contours I did for class this past week, in all their gimpy glory. I've always found these an enjoyable exercise, but this is the first time I'm trying to make them better somehow, paying closer attention to the details and link between sight and hand movement.

Sketch dump

Hey, haven't been here in a while. Here are some sketches from the last couple of months. The fall semester just started, so I hope to be more productive and post more sketches and whatnot. Just need to set aside the time to work. Drop some criticism in the comments, if you please.

3d sketching application

Check out Rhonda, a 3D sketching program developed in 2003. The Neil Young music adds to the video, kind of wistful and nostalgic. Anyway, good stuff. I want it.

Also, sometimes I take pictures of signs.






Carving words into trees makes Woodsy Owl sad.

More Sketches and Vacation

Here are some sketches. Some are from our trip to the bay area, pictures of which are also slideshowing below. If I didn't mess up the slideshowing.

















































The trip went well, we stayed a few days in Monterey and one in San Francisco. Lots of driving.