I started drawing this in the morning.  I arrived early to work and I doodled a bit while I edited.  Once I had the face the hardest part was figuring out what his body was doing.  After a bit of trial and error, I finally found this pose and it seemed to fit.  Finally, […]

  After last nights drawing, I realized that I need quite a bit of practice in the technique of cross hatching.  So, today I watched a couple youtube videos on the subject and decided to ink this pencil drawing that I drew earlier this month.   It was tough to decide which direction the hatch […]

  Jenny said I should draw an old timey deep sea helmet so that is where this guy came from.  Had a bit of crosshatch trouble.  It takes quite a bit of concentration and patience.  And it also seems pretty easy to screw up.   Medium: Pen Time: 1 1/2 Hours Reference: None  

This evening I lightly scribbled out some shapes until I saw the shape of this guys head.  After that I added his body and inked him up with some micron pens.   Medium: Pen Time: 20 minutes Reference: None

I was pretty tired when I drew this.  I didn’t get my drawing started until very late at night.    It’s a bit messier than I’d like it.   Medium: pen Time: 1 hour Reference: photo

  I had to take a break from the charcoal for a minute.  It has been good but I needed a break.  Tonight, I decided to do a little graphite, 2H to be exact.  This is a picture of the two most important ladies in my life from about 2 years ago while at Disneyland. […]

Another screenshot from Danger 5 as my reference tonight.  This one is from an episode called “Fresh Meat For Hitler’s Sex Kitchen”   I think it’s funny that tonight I decided to take on such a complex image.  The reason being is I went to the art store today and bought paper made specifically for […]

Tonight, I decided to draw a still life since none of my photo references were sparking much inspiration.  I want to improve my charcoal technique so I figured I ought to practice drawing an object and attempt to render it as realistically as possible.  While I ultimately like my drawing I still think I have […]

Aw, this one didn’t turn out so well.  I was attempting to draw David Brent (Ricky Gervais) from the british version of “The Office”.  Here’s the photo I was using as reference.  For some reason I could not get the face to look right.  I erased it a bunch of times and kept adjusting but […]

  Tonights reference photo comes from another one of my favorite television programs called “Look Around You”.  It’s a short BBC show based on old british educational films.   The drawing I am not completely happy with.  I struggled quite a bit trying to make it look good but ultimately couldn’t get the finer details […]

The Sunday of my birthday weekend.  I am feeling the gotta-go-back-to-work-tomorrow- blues.  Last night we watched Macgruber in the backyard with friends and it was a blast.   For my reference image tonight, another screenshot from the TV Series “Danger 5”.  I’m such a fan of that show.  For my technique, I tried to replicate […]

I hate to admit it but unfortunately, I missed a day and then, sadly, I missed another day.  This weekend was my birthday weekend and various events stopped me from accomplishing the goal of drawing on those days.   It was a bummer to have been unable to accomplish my goal with the consistency that […]

I felt like I had a bit more control of the charcoal tonight.  I started with a wash of charcoal until the whole paper was toned medium gray.  Then I began drawing out the outline and structure of his face with extra-soft vine charcoal.  Then, I moved from the extra-soft to the soft and darkened […]

  Today I picked up some new vine charcoal and I have to say it made a world of difference.  I was able to make much smoother washes with it and it also erased much easier.  Even though this image isn’t as sharp as last nights charcoal I got a lot more done in a […]

This was a real struggle.  I don’t know if it is the age of my vine charcoal or the type of paper in my current sketchbook but I had a lot of trouble getting a smooth shaded effect on this.  The truth is the vine charcoal I’m using could be as old as 16 years, […]

Tonight Jenny and I got caught up on our episodes of “Parks and Rec”.  While we watched I decided that I would draw Ron Swanson for my drawing this evening.  As I drew I realized that I really wanted to get my charcoal out but unfortunately I have to get up pretty early tomorrow.  So […]

Sunday.  Today was a wonderful day off.  It’s been so long since I’ve been able to hang out with my family and today it was all about that.  I also picked up an upright piano that my wife purchased from a garage sale yesterday.  I’m excited to finally have a piano in the house.  We’ve […]

Saturday.  I had to go to work.  I went in around noon and left around 8 in the evening.  When it was time to draw, I decided to sift through this book called “Films of the 70’s”  While looking through it I came across this famous image from the film “Network”.   I’m pretty into […]

Today I spent the early part of the day continuing the tour of the aircraft carrier until it ported in San Diego.  I walked off the ship at about 1pm.  During the evening time Jenny and I went to the Art Walk but tired out and went home.  I was pretty uninspired and tired so […]

Today was an amazing day!  Firstly, even though we celebrated my daughters birthday last weekend today was my daughters actual 4th birthday and I was unable to share it with her. I sent her a little birthday video via the iphone that morning before leaving the hotel room.  Afterwards I met with the group who […]

This day was ridiculously busy for me, hence the drawing.  I had to be in a hotel room in San Diego before the end of the day because early the next morning I would be heading out to an aircraft carrier for a full day of shooting.  But before I could drive down to the […]

Intrigued by yesterday’s drawing I thought a lot about drawing textures today.  I should have given myself more time for this drawing.  After a certain point I began speeding up because I have to get to bed on time tonight.  The photo reference had lots of very subtle details that I in no way captured. […]

Tonight I finally decided to draw a photo reference from my friend Jared’s blog.  He is currently doing a photo-series a day.  I’ve thought about using his photos for awhile but many of them are architectural or textural or have lots of straight lines, which I tend to shy away from.  It was good practice […]

Calling it in tonight.  We drove home from San Francisco today.  This evening I need to go into the office to attempt to finish some notes on a rough cut by morning time tomorrow.  The notes are substantial enough that I believe I will get very little sleep tonight.  So, I decided to draw something […]

The idea of drawing a house has been on my mind for a little while now and since tonight I had a little extra time to sit and draw I decided to give it a go.  It’s a little wonky in proportions here and there and I could’ve tried a little harder to keep my […]