Life Drawing - Cami

Yay. More life drawing. It's funny, I'm so used to being able to hit undo or transform something into place if I mess something up in a drawing these days. Ya can't do that at lifedrawing... BUT you can do it once you get home and scan it in. Take that undersized head! I also added some white into the drawing. Thank you, Photoshop.

Life Drawing - Molly

I finally got my ass out of bed early and hoofed it to lifedrawing this weekend. Molly was a fantastic model, I didn't quite capture her likeness but I think I'm in the ballpark. I usually prefer the quick pose format for life drawing, but the long pose format was just the discipline I needed.

Star Dude

Since I last posted, the project I've been working on has been announced. For the last year and a half I've been working on Star Wars: The Old Republic. If you haven't already, check out the official website (http://www.swtor.com) for concepts, trailers and other media.

In the spirit of Star Wars I did a quick sketch of some unrelated random Star Warsy goodness.

Study Buddy Exercise 2 :: Palette

Wow, I really need to work on my color perception. This thing totally owned me. However, I managed to not sample any colors from the original. Yay me.

Toast

My buddy, Clint, has an awesome lil character named Toast. So, for Clint's birthday, I thought I'd take a stab at doing my own version. I think I spent way too much time on something so simple but, here's the final drawing along with the prelims.





I did a couple doodles until I had something I liked. Here's my rough. It's pretty sloppy but it was close enough to what I was going for.

Next, I lightboxed my rough. I fixed little mistakes here and there as I went. Toast looked really good with his scarf so, since butterflies don't normally live in the cold, I had to nix it and use a bird instead. I don't think the art police would bust down my door for a butterfly, but it made more sense to me this way.

Ugh, more problems. Crooked bird, weird feet, squashy head, no background -- bring on the Photoshop!


That's more like it! Now time for inks...



I hate redrawing stuff over and over like this but sometimes what's in your head doesn't fall out on the page right away you've got to keep pushing forward, right?

Anyway, if you want to see more awesome Toast art head on over to Clint's blog!

Study Buddy

My friend Paul Richards cooked up something cool on his blog called Study Buddy. You essentially team up with a friend and give each other exercises in Mass, Palette, Detail, and Composition. Each exercise should take about 5 minutes. Here's the first exercise on my list for mass:









Bleh, I can already see all kinds of mistakes on this, but that's what this is about. On with the learning!

SDCC 08 and Zombie Sketch

A big thanks to everyone that came by my table at San Diego Comic-Con this year. It was also great to see some fellow artists in person. I'm still catching up on sleep, email, and work. Big props to Zach, Christopher, Paul, Faith, and Karine for keeping an eye on my stuff as I snuck off for swag runs. I had a blast doing sketches for peeps. It was so hard to give all those babies away without having scanned them. If you got a sketch from me and feel like scanning it in please email it to me.

I've been listening to a lot of Stephen King audiobooks and the Shining soundtrack late at night. I now have to check the back seat of the car, closets, and behind shower curtains for ghouls. I found this guy shambling around the back of the house. He stood still long enough for me to do a quick portrait.