Art museum

Over Memorial Day Weekend I took the family to the Art Museum of Chicago to see the Bill Peet exhibit, while there I did some sketching too.






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sketches of Collin

Spent a day last week in the backyard with my son and while he played I drew quick sketches of him. He really is a joy to be around, everything is so new to him and he finds joy in the simplest things.




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day at the park

just some scetches from the park, last Sunday.






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49-53

sorry for the long pause betwen posts. tech problems with computer but I've been drawing and will post more soon. Hers heads 49 through 53. I'm half way there to finishing my goal!



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It's been taking me awhile but I will complete my goal of drawing 100 heads. Here's three more for your viewing pleasure.





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Been reading a lot of inspirational advice from Stephen Silver and one thing he mentions is goals. Make a goal and no matter how long it takes full fill that goal, then move on to a new goal. Well my goal is to draw 100 heads, it's taken me awhile but her is three more.







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Memory sketch

Here's today's memory sketch. This fellow was at the grocery store on Tuesday but I really didn't get the chance till today at lunch to draw him. Theres some parts that could be better and parts I like but the important thing for these memory sketches is to focus on one or two details about the person and then exaggerate them. The other is to see the person as a shape and draw the shape first and the third thing is well to have fun.






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Character design

Been drawing from Mark Simon's face book to get better at character design. This is from page 32 row three. I'm still not completly happy with the shading but It is an improvment from past work.




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Memory Sketch

I did this one at lunch time from staring at the Culver's car hop that was bringing out peoples order's. I had trouble with his lips. The guy had really thin lips but I could not visualize how to draw them so I came up with these instead. I also noticed I had drawn his thumb on the wrong side of his hand as I was getting ready to scan it, so I had to fix that. Over all I would say I much better memory sketch then from yesterday.






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Scooters

A couple of weeks ago I came up with an idea for an illustration. These are scooter ideas for that illustration.















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Life drawing

Did this awhile back from a photo ref and limited myself to 15 min using an egg timer. The other pic is some detail sketches of the model's nose.









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memory sketch

I know I said I would have a hundred heads drawn and posted before march but that didn't happen. So not to dwell in the past but be conscious of the moment. I have a memory sketch I did at lunch today. This guy was walking down the street from the Burger joint I was at.











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Heads 18-24

I know a few posts back I was gonna make 100 heads and it seemed that i shelved the idea with upkeeping this blog all together but I'm in the spirit for drawing and creating again so on to getting to 100 before march is over.








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Heads 12-13-14-15-16-17

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Death of a Car Battery

Well this past week my car battery decided to die. So I decided to sketch the event.






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X-mas card

I did this yesterday at lunch and threw some color on it in photoshop. With all the things that have been keeping me stressed. This is as close to a handmade x-mas card I'll be able to make this year.

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Forgot to add some color to the penguin







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Lunch!?

Did this lunch time doodle couple weeks ago but never got the time to post it.






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One more Elephant

Wow it's Tuesday and what am I still doing up?! I'll tell ya I have a one year old that rules me with an iron binkie but hey I love the little imp. Got one last elephant to post from days past.



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Heads of a Hundred

Welcome again loyal audience, I've been drawing alot of heads in my pocket sketchbook lately and decided to post one a day for a hundred days. I know nothen new other artists have done this on there blogs but this time it's me doing it. All so if you go over to my sketch blog you can see all the other silly and fun things I've been doodling. So without further anticipation. Here is head one of a hundred.

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Memory Sketch

This past week I decided to try something that artist that I admire do on there blogs. It's called a memory sketch, Stephen Silver has talked about this often. What you do is find a spot be it the mall, coffee shop, bookstore or whatever spot people are and watch people. Then when you have found someone that looks interesting, you try to focus on how they look. There walk, there cloths, are they happy, sad and then you draw them later. Stephen Silver likes to do this at lunch time and when he gets back draw that person. My memory sketch was from last Thursday when I was driving home from work. I had fun doing this and want to do more, so expect more memory sketches from me and who knows before long I could be working as a character designer on some new cartoon show. My memory sketch is of an old black man that was walking down the street wearing a bright purple trench coat and brown bowler hat.




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Elephants

Made a couple of drawings of elephants. Enjoy!

Lunch Sketch

I did this today at lunch, I'm trying to work on compostion, lighting, and story telling. I have been using a ink pen and a small moleskine sketch book to keep me from over working the drawing with erase lines and to focus myself to plan the drawing with the space allowed. It's not pretty but I stand by my work as a improvement from a couple of weeks ago. Enjoy!

TV Doodles

Spent the evening watching reruns of CSI NY and drawing. Only did two pages, my carpel tunnel has been killing me but I draw through the pain and do my exercises. Enjoy the doodles.