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 […]
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, […]
I almost didn’t get my drawing in tonight because I was very tired. I spent the night at work last night and got very little sleep so tonight my eyes were heavy. I mustered enough energy before bed to sketch out something. Finally, I cross-hatched the living bejeezus out of it. It was […]
I kind of like and hate this painting, all at the same time. I tend to usually hate all the paintings I do. I just don’t think I’m that good at it. Possibly, it’s because I always do watercolor and I find it very hard to use. I just haven’t got nearly the same […]
I worked on this last night and was too tired to post it. I actually fell asleep while drawing it. But I think I’m going to continue it for tonight. I think would like to crosshatch the shiznet out of it possibly. So maybe that will be posted later tonight.
I spent a few hours adding all the crosshatching to this. I made a bit of a mistake on the background by making a series of straight horizontal lines. I was hoping that the straight lines would help complement the addition of squiggly lines representing the distortion of the water behind them. It didn’t […]
Tonight I tried to move pretty quick because I have a pretty busy couple of days ahead of me. I’m going to be working some long hours tomorrow and I need to get off to sleep soon. I chose a reference photo fairly quickly from a nearby book entitled “Movies Of The 70’s”. The picture […]
I’m working late this evening. I drew this guy in about an hour between jobs. With this picture I’m playing a bit with the super fine tipped pens for inking. I love the fine tipped pens.
I feel like I finally had some semblance of control over the watercolor tonight. I realized on the last watercolor I did that I have a real problem with over-painting. I just waste a lot of paint without diluting enough and my strokes end up splotchy. Tonight, I tried to remember the words “More water, […]
I wanted to continue practicing watercolor so I drew this guy this evening with the intent to paint it. Unfortunately, it got a bit too late and I will probably end up painting it tomorrow evening instead. The only thing I’m bummed about is that I wish I never filled in the diagonal pattern on […]
I pretty much let myself go on this one. It started as a pencil doodle while Jenny and I watched TV. It began as a pair of wide set eyes which then quickly formed into a weird distorted face. I was interested in exaggerating some of the grotesque details. I couldn’t seem to get myself […]
Today, the day before easter, we hung out with family because my sister was down from Oakland with her family. I kept my sketch book with me and attempted to quickly sketch out little moments happening before me. Like June and her cousin, Tess, playing together. It was a challenge to capture the body language […]
This weekend was Wondercon at the Anaheim Convention center. Wondercon is an annual comic book, fantasy and science fiction convention. My friends Wendy and Nicole were there all weekend selling their artwork. I got to see some of their pictures that they posted on Facebook. I saw that Wendy had sold a painting of a […]
Spent the night at the office last night and I worked on this during my render times. It’s a redux based on yesterdays drawing. I like this composition much better than yesterdays version. The only gripe I think I have with this one is that I think the hunter should be in a more […]
Pretty random tonight. I didn’t get much sleep last night so I’m pretty tired tonight. I decided to not think about anything in particular while drawing. Pretty much just doodled and fleshed stuff out.
This evening I decided to look back on some of my previous drawings and when I saw this one I thought it seemed like a good candidate to practice my watercolor on. This time I used masking fluid over top of the snails to protect it from the background watercolor wash. While I think this […]
While Jenny and I watched a bit of television I drew this picture from a reference photo I took many years ago. I was attempting to do some loose sketch-style shading with a blue ballpoint pen. At a certain point my patience level dropped and my drawing got a bit sloppy. Other then that I […]
This is from a picture of Jenny when she had a girls trip to san francisco. I think I plan on continuing work on this. This is the preliminary drawing and I think I would like to do a pen and ink of it with more crosshatch detail.
Not sure who I drew tonight but he definitely looks like some kind of weirdo. This evening we had a backyard movie night. After it was all over and everything was cleaned up I didn’t have a lot of time to devote to drawing. I didn’t want to waste any time looking for a reference […]
Jenny and I watched the preimere of Mad Men tonight and I drew this while we watched it. I google image searched the show on my iphone and choose an image to draw. I couldn’t zoom into the picture and it was so small so I sort of drew my impression of it. I’m kind […]
A mixture of things, including my daughter Junie refusing to fall asleep led me to do my drawing pretty late in the evening. By the time I was ready to draw I didn’t want to spend too much time doing it, especially since I had an early morning. So, I decided to draw the cat […]
I got a bit of an early start on my drawing this evening. I had to leave work about an hour early in order to get home in time for Jenny to make it to her choir practice. When I got home June was already asleep on the sofa and I let her stay there […]
Dang! I STRUGGLED with this one. It’s from a picture of my old friends and roomates Dan and Tony. I think my main mistake was that I started detailing the they’re arms and hands before I ever got to they’re face and eyes. Usually I start with the eyes and this time, by the time […]
My plan today was to try drawing yesterdays picture again and I was going to use a grid to help my proportions but by the time I was able to begin drawing I was too tired to put my energy into it. Plus, I’m getting a bit under the weather lately. So tonight, I decided […]
Tonight was a nice surprise. I’ve been wanting to get things done with my drawing and I try to make plans during the day but by the time night rolls around and it’s time to draw I change my mind. Well, tonight was no different. I had planned on retrying my picture of Tony and […]