Jula - June Draw Jam - drawingboard.org

"Finished" with brush pens. Took about 20 minutes.

I may now officially be a creeper!

No particular reason.
Some people in the cafeteria at school. I'm quite sure that I made the guy sufficiently uncomfortable. Pretty good likeness though.
There are more sketches to post from the same sitting, but I will have to take the time to post them later, as my computer is currently taking a poo.

Old man Woodblock Print

In case anyone wonders what I've been up to at school lately. . .

Last week I made my very first woodblock prints!
The first image is the ink sketch that I based my print on, though personally I'm happier with my drawing abilities than my wood-carvings skills. It was incredibly tedious but oddly rewarding (It didn't help that my wood block was flawed - a fact that was pointed out after I had finished carving) and I would be very willing to try it again on my own time. Next up is colour prints on linoleum, so I'm super psyched about next class!
Erm - and, I scanned the test run print crookedly. Please ignore the paper dings as well. It wasn't a good copy!

Bus Riders Can be Hairy

More Bus Riders. The dude at the top had nasty chin hairs. The other guy was riding with a kid. He was larger than I drew him. Oops!

Eager Listener

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Squiggly Person

Sort of a fun exercise in class that I decided to *gasp!* FINISH!!! Distorted a photo using a grid. I'm sure you've heard of it.
The scanner couldn't quite get it right, and try as I might I couldn't Photoshop the evil out, so I photographed it - it may be a little shadowed, but the colour and contrast is nearly spot on.
Coloured Pencils (Prismacolour) on Mayfair. Speedball ink used, which I found smudged a bit with the pencils. Used a pen (2 different nibs) to lay down the linework. The bottom shows what it looked like before I coloured it (doi) and the reference photo - not sure what happened to my face but I quickly got over it and posted the damned thing anyways. The picture is from about grade 4 or 5 - you can imagine.
Used my colourless blender rather heavily in this one, which I thoroughly enjoyed. The background was a big of a pain in the ass to do - but I love the idea. I think if I were to do it again I would use a pen and coloured ink instead of pencil crayons. It was too much to keep the lead sharp and I found that line inconsistency was rampant. Maybe I'm just too lazy. *shrugs*

10" x 12"

Bus Riders Can be Antsy

I know it says the 15th, but I clearly didn't know what day it was today. My apologies.

Skull of the Human Variety

Just to prove I did draw something today.
An assignment.
About 10" x 15". 4B Graphite. Yep.

We go north to Preston in Lancashire, and Mrs. Betty Teal!

Daily Drawings

I'm starting to keep a daily sketch book and carrying it around with me. Today I did some contour drawings.
I don't imagine that anyone will be impressed with these - but they are great exercises. Each took anywhere from 5 to 15 minutes to draw. I used a pigment liner - so. . . NO ERASING! All of my models were moving (especially Lady!). I think these sorts of things are really helping to a) build my confidence in the line I put down and b) train my eyes and hands to work together. I quite enjoy them and plan to do many more.

Sleeping Lion

My very first attempt with oil pastels. I used kraft paper and an ancient set of pentels, and. . . I've to got to say I'm pleased. Not a bad first try. The reference photo is on the cover of an old book of mammals that I've been drawing from since I was a kid.
The lighting in this isn't great - plus it's slanted, I know. I'll be sure to take better pictures later - I can't blame the camera any more! I just bought a new Canon digital Rebel XTi. This poor carpenter has lovely tools.

Sarah and Hoggle Sketch

Grey is fault of scanner. Pah.
From Labyrinth, obviously!

2B Graphite and Sketchbook

Hippocampus

Fer Fun - It's much clearer in real life (I love having to constantly excuse my scanner's issues) - Would love to finish it if I have time.
4B cleaned up with a mechanical pencil, sketchbook paper

Boy Back

Woodless Pencil and Sketchbook

Jake Rocks Out!

Five minutes and ten minutes respectively. Jake playing Guitar Hero III - He was moving a bit, so it was harder to keep track of his proportions, but I'm very happy with the end result. I need to do more of this type of sketching - it's very rewarding! I'm finding myself paying a lot more attentions to proportions and detailing since my drawing fundamentals classes at school.

HB Graphite and Sketchpad

Harry

For a school project: we were to design an alter-ego super hero. Of course mine was an obese male rabbit with caustic wit. . . . name Harry.

Drawn in Last class on ten-dollar pitcher night.

Blue Col-Erase, Sketchbook

Squish

Apple Core

It's not anything special but by golly it's something! I started to eat this apple and then bit too far, ate a seed, and the experience was soured.
Drawing in front of people at school has made me bold. I want to draw all the time now.

Col-erase blue, sketchbook

Johmbie

A thank you to John. Note that I don't look terribly frightened. This is because John, even as a zombie, is not scary. I'm sorry John. But it's true.Note that I am almost leaning into the Jombie (also known as "John-Zombie"), as if ebbing him on, as a Ringmaster might insert it's head into the open jaws of a Lion.

India Ink w/ #5 round brush, sketchbook

So I started up a Webcomic. ..

I guess that counts for drawing every day, eh?
It's just a scribbly little thing for me to work on. I've just been drawing them up at night, so they barely count for they day I'm posting them. . .*shrugs* Whatever.
Here it is!
It's called Rapid Fire, more on account of it being friggin' hard to pop on out every day on my schedual. A nice little challenge though - and so far I'm enjoying it.