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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.

Unexpected Guest

At work the other day a cat from outside came wandering into were I work in a shipping receiving bay. This is just a little sketch of the cat from memory I did at lunch that day. I keep a small moleskin sketch book in my lunch box so I can draw at lunch time. I'm 33 now and I want to make it as a animator. Well to do this I need to work more on my drawing, so every bit helps. Anyway I promised a drawing from my last post and here it is.

Inspiration

Inspiration. What is it about becoming inspired from someone or something that can make some of use excel at whatever we put our minds to and other still sit and daydream? For me growing up I was always inspired by the muppets and there creator Jim Henson, later Chuck Jones and Tex Avery were what I wanted to be when I grew up. So much so that I decided not to go to school for puppetry but to instead go to school for animation. I graduated with a degree in film and video but have yet to do anything with it. I've talked in the past about the reasons why I haven't don this or done that but to be honest, there just more excuses for not living my dream as a animator. Theirs a line in a move called the "Wedding Date", with Debra Mes singer (spelling not my thing) any way the line is were the date tells her that everyone is living the life that they want, be a happy one or a miserable one. So all I should have to do is say I want to live my life as a animator and apply for animation studios. Seems so simple and really it is. The trick is that life tends to throw speed bumps in our way.
Mine is I'm afraid of succeeding in animation. I always have an idea for a project to do but get scared of what if it doesn't turn out okay? My wife is my rock and has been very help full and patient with me in what I want to do. I want to be an artist very much. So I should concentrate on just that and let the rest of it take care of its self.Lately while checking the blogs of local artist I have noticed that the work they post is personal, I look at it and am starting to see the flaws in the color or composition but that not really the point. The point is for all of the faluts in the work but that they drew, sculpted, or whatever. They did it and that the point I'm trying to make about inspiration. Later drawing

Labor Day

On Sunday me and the misses spent the day with my side of the family and later had some time to ourselves to see some rock bands my wife likes at the anual "On the Waterfront". I don't consider myself a photographer but I'm trying to get good at it to teach myself about compostion. Enjoy!

Famliy Portriat

Well I hope everyone had a safe and fun Laborday weekend. On Saturday me and the family went to visit my wifes family and my niece Anna made this family portriat of me, my wife and our son. We can all see at this young age of seven she is going to be a far better artist then myself.