Drawing from life this time, which I don’t do often, but should.
Just some stuff I doodled while waiting around, or sitting on the train, or something. It’s actually kind of hard to doodle on the train. Not sure when the dates are on these.
I have been trying to establish doodling as a daily habit. Some of the things I’ve done in the last week or so: Babbys, and half a preschooler. A hipster couch. I still find inappropriately steampunked objects disproportionately amusing. I need to practice backgrounds. I hate drawing them, but I love seeing them well-done. I [...]
Well, my Sketchbook Project sketchbook is done! Or, at least, I filled all the pages and actually mailed the thing in. I kept putting it off, and when I did work on it I didn’t put a whole ton into it. All my sketches were loose and penciled, and in many of them you can [...]
A couple things from the sketchbook. Apropos of nothing, here’s me in a Slanket. No, emphatically not a Snuggie. Are you crazy? Snuggies suck. And here’s a chubby sad kid: I default to three-quarters view when drawing people, because it’s the easiest. Less foreshortening, and profiles are just trouble. The head-on view looks a lot [...]
I mentioned in a previous entry that I am reading Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, and giving all of the exercises an honest effort. At the time of this posting, I’m about halfway through. I won’t blog a complete blow-by-blow, but I’ll post some highlights and my thoughts. The first thing you’re [...]
Imaginary products make me giggle. I’ve got a few fake ads for fake products kicking around in my mind, and I’ll be working on putting them to paper. I’ve got a few snapshots of some lunch-break doodles: Here are some kids who love an imaginary breakfast cereal. Animated cereal commercials always have exactly two kids, [...]
