WIP

This is a sketch from the daily sketch marathon from sketchoholic.com/Talent/member/my_contest_items.php?ContestID=824sketcholic.com. I have to get some sleep but wanted to post something on the blog. I'm waiting to hear if i have been accepted into Animation Mentor or not for the Winter term. So to show I'm worthy I need to get drawing and post more. Stay tuned for the finished colors.

New Sketch Book

Got a new sketchbook on Sunday and have been having fun filling up it's pages. The first one is my wife's cousin Alitza, we where at my wife's other cousin's wife's birthday bash. The boy on the tractor is Collin and it's a photo of him from my phone. I was all over the place with it and really don't want to draw from photos anymore. The other one is from work and I was sketching parts of the building at work and people outside waiting for their car to get out of impound. The last one is a day old memory sketch of a hawk I saw at work. I'm proud of this one for it shows I'm getting better at making marks with a pen.

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Cowboy WIP

Tools of the Trade

I have been trying different media to draw with lately. I have been using brush ink pens, sumi brushes and ink, hell I have even been using my sons crayons to draw with and I noticed that I would have poor results and not really enjoy the experience. Today while at work it was put all into perspective for me. I was having trouble getting a engine up and running by putting on the serpentine belt back on a trailblazer when a coworker idly said "You NEED the Right tool for the right job" and this got me thinking on how I try to use my different drawing tools. I try drawing with brush pens expecting to get the same control and result I would if i was using a pencil and this was a a-ah moment for me because you can't use a different tool and expected to get the same result that you do from say a hammer hammering a nail but instead you use a screwdriver. so That said I starting looking at artist that I admire, namely Scott Morse and how he uses the brush pen. From his art book Scrap Mettle he makes up shapes of black and white and doesn't focus on detail because that's not what a brush pen is for. I mean yes you can get great detail out of it if your say Mort Drucker but not for someone that is just starting out using the tool. So I'm going to keep on trying and not worry about the details or expect to get the same results I would using a pencil. Night all

Dino Steed

I did this one over the weekend and I had fun building it up just using shapes to see what I could make. I might revisit this one and color it and add a rider to go with it.

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sumi brushes

I spent the weekend using a set of sumi bamboo brushes and ink. I had fun with it and was surprised why I don't use them more. I always have this sense of dread, when creating art that I forget it's only for me. I choose if I want to show someone or not. So here are three pieces I did. My goal was to tell a story with one picture. I think the cat tells the best story. Oh my scanner really didn't do the color of these justice.

 

  

 

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Finished walk cycle

Well i finished the in-between's for my 12 step walk cycle. The head looks too bouncy but the speed of the legs looks good. Any comments or critiques are appreciated.







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Muddy

Over at Illustration Fridays the topic was muddy, having a two year old boy. This was what came to mind. I drew the ruff and the clean up by hand on paper then colored it in photoshop. I'm not happy with the coloring but it will have to do. I know I'll get better with more practice.

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Sketched this while my son played in his room. I like to try and catch him in the moment, unaware he is being watched by me. It's those moments that seem to be the best sketches.

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Groundhog Part Deux

Fixed the pic by adding his left arm and changed the background. My art director (my lovely wife) says it's much better now and offered some suggestions on color as well.

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Groundhog day (little late)

had this thought on groundhog day and how people were bumped that there would be six more weeks of winter, well there is always six more weeks. any-who
EDIT:I realized yesterday that I forgot to draw the ground-hog's left arm. It's been bothering me so I'll probably fix this part and only this part in an effort to become a better artist. I want to simply come up with an idea and then execute without constantly going over it again and again to make it perfect. I'll achive better results by just drawing each day. :EDIT

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Digital Doodling 2-2-10

Spent a few minutes playing with coral painter and my tablet. Decided to pick a word and draw it, the first word i thought of was monster and this is what I came up with.

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new avatar

Made a new avatar for the blog

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walk update

From Joseph Merideth's walk lecture, this is a 12 step walk with 4 keys so the timing would be on threes. Not sure if this is right but I tweened keys 1 though 7 on threes and this is the result so far. It's getting late and I'll have to in between the rest tomorrow. Feel free to leave and comments or critiques on the walk so far.

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Happy 2010!

OK so new year same old goal, GET A PORTFOLIO MADE! Well I've started, this year I'm making sure I animate more and draw more. It's hard when you have a passion for something for so long but that passion dies. My passion for animation and art did but I WANT IT BACK! So I sit with my son in my new studio (Me and my wife bought our first house, so I have a studio now he he)instead of watching TV and just seeing him make scribbles and being so excited that HE made this line on paper sparked what it was I loved about art and animation in the first place. So here our the keys to a 12 step walk. later this week I'll have it in-between and go from there.Enjoy!

Long post no new art

Well 2009 is almost but a memory and I haven't really finished most of my goals artistically. Now that's not to say I haven't achieved any of my goals. Me and my wife bought our first house and the reality of home ownership has been fun but mostly frustrating. we've been in the house for a month now and I haven't drawn a scribble since moving. Granted my studio is still in boxes and I WAS working on a walk cycle before the move. This was and is a goal of mine to make the art of be doodles of characters and then ruff animation of those characters moving, breathing, showing character through there movements. I know that hasn't happened yet. I am not sure WHY I am not drawing? I mean if ones passion is to draw you would think that I would naturally just start doodling once a pen or pencil was in my hand but that hasn't been the case. It could be that I'm depressed or bored or afraid to succeed but the truth is I DON'T KNOW WHY I'm not drawing and this bothers me that maybe I was wrong and all of the people that said I couldn't do it and become an animator was right. Cause if they weren't right I should be working my ass off on animation. I know I am tired of feeling self doubt, self doubt in my abilities as an artist, as a husband and as a father. I get the feeling I'm letting them all down. I tell ya though that blank page is the most frustrating thing to look at and at the same time the most fun to fill when you just let your imagination run wild. one positive note I have blog follower, following this blog. I told my wife I better step it up so I don't disappoint them. Well that's all for know who know I might have something on the blog soon.

Halloween Sketches

My son went trick or treating for the first time this year and was a lion from the Golden Book "The Tawney Scrawny Lion" By far one of my favorite books growing up. Illustrated by

Gustaf Tenggren

I have been reading a lot from Stephen Silvers about motivation and found that when I draw moments from my life I get myself out of drawing slumps. My sketchs are poor quality because i had to use my camera to take the picture, my sketch book is too big for my scanner. Enjoy!

wacom doodle

Here's another sketch using my wacom.

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digidal doodles

been feeling in a real artistic slump these past few days but the conversation a i had with my wife on Saturday forced me to get on my wacom and draw. It felt good too, now that the weekend is over I feel like I haven't accomplished anything. I have to just force myself to think other wise and to just plain draw at lunch with pen and scrap paper, even if it's just a doodle or two it will force me to get better by shear repetition