Sketch Dump

Here are some doodles from this week. I'm committing to taking the time to just draw every week. It should be a no-brainer for every artist but sometimes it doesn't happen for me. Everything has been so focused on making portfolio pieces that I've not let myself have the time to work the drawing muscles. So here we go.

Onward and Upward

I've been learning a lot over the course of the last few paintings I've done. Such as you can't make every piece precious. I started out believing that everything I do should be good enough for the portfolio; if it is wasn't, then I had failed somehow. But I'm finding that's not necessarily going to be true, and that's okay.

There are parts of this piece that I like. Parts I don't. Parts that should have been planned better. It could use a little more work, but I'm already thinking about the next thing.

Onward and upward!

Angry Ogre

This guy here had to be re-done for my billy goats painting. I kept changing my mind about what he should look like, and therefore kept painting over him until he looked incredibly overworked. So when the rest of the piece is all done I will stitch this ogre into it in Photoshop. I'm much happier with the look of him now.

Heffalumps and Woozles

I finally finished (mostly) this painting, which I began forever ago!

City Building

You might find me to be a tad unfocused when it comes to the amount of different projects that I post here. But sometimes when I have an idea, my mind can't rest until I at least begin it and get the structure of it down.

I've wanted to do a cityscape painting for a while, but I was having a hard time visualizing what I wanted the city to look like. So I started building it. Just out of white tape and foam core....and it's turned out to be pretty fun. Of course it's not going to be elaborate, but I'll be able to look at it from any angle and light it any way I want. A great source of reference (for the basic building shapes, anyway).

Now back to painting for a while!

The Next Thing

My imagination is starting to run away with me. Not complaining though. 

Farm Sketch

Just a little sketch from over the weekend

Billy Goats Gruff Progress

This is still in a rough painting stage, but I'm liking where the color scheme is at. Now onto the detail phase.

Trying new things

I rarely experiment with different types of media these days. After finding one medium I was comfortable with (acrylics) I've pretty much stuck to that. But I discovered (by accident) a few days ago that a set of toned drawing pencils which I bought years ago are actually water soluble. So that's what I've used as a partial 1st layer here- drawing with the pencils and then using a brush and water to blend it. I may end up painting over parts of it, but it has an effect that I like so far.

Drawing drawing drawing

This is one of those ideas that I could't get out of my brain. So I just had to submit and draw it so that I can clear my head and move on to my other work.  Don't know whether I'm going to paint it yet, we'll see how it goes.

It did free up some creativity though, because as soon as I was done drawing this I was able to make progress on the Billy Goats illustration. More on that soon.