Lumpish

Figure drawing

2012-01-22T19:06:00.001-05:00

Spent some time with figure drawing tonight.

Colic Strip

2011-09-19T12:48:00.002-04:00

I've created a site for Colic Strips. I'm really enjoying making them.

Colic strip 2

2011-09-16T14:09:00.001-04:00

Colic Strip

2011-09-13T10:41:00.001-04:00

Flying head thing

2011-08-16T19:41:00.001-04:00

Playing around with lines and textures.

New pen doodle

2011-08-15T12:47:00.001-04:00

I'm really enjoying my new g-tec-c pen.

Hairy work doodle

2011-08-12T09:01:00.001-04:00

Cross hatches

2011-01-17T21:55:00.002-05:00

Some guy

2011-01-04T22:55:00.001-05:00

Found him on flickr's commons

Zombie wookie?

2011-01-03T13:29:00.001-05:00

I don't know what to tell you...

Book guy

2011-01-03T13:27:00.001-05:00

Drawn from a creative commons Flickr photo.

Thierry Guetta

2011-01-03T09:33:00.001-05:00

Watched Exit Through the Gift Shop this morning

Nubble Lighthouse

2011-01-02T18:47:00.003-05:00

Before heading home from Main for the weekend we stopped by the lighthouse and I scribbled this quick sketch.

Eyes

2011-01-01T23:56:00.003-05:00

Wanted to spend some time drawing today but never did - here's a quick partial sketch done on the phone

Tea

2010-12-28T16:50:00.002-05:00

Idea

2010-03-08T13:03:00.002-05:00

Here's a sketch of an idea I'm thinkin' of for my next album cover. It's supposed to resemble a swarm of starlings.

Dance!

2010-02-23T20:40:00.005-05:00

drawn from this creative commons photo:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulidin/ / CC BY-SA 2.0

digital sketchin'

2010-02-21T20:18:00.002-05:00

Face

2010-02-15T19:40:00.002-05:00

well, I guess I, as always, need to draw more - proportions are crazy!

Only 2 people will understand this one

2010-02-01T23:17:00.001-05:00

Sunset from the train

2010-01-22T17:22:00.001-05:00

So nice to see even a wee bit 'o sun on the way home.

View from the bus stop

2010-01-21T17:26:00.001-05:00

45 second posemaniacs

2010-01-19T23:03:00.001-05:00

Pretty happy with some of these lines, actually.

60 second posemaniacs

2010-01-18T21:58:00.000-05:00

John

2010-01-16T20:14:00.001-05:00

Bus stop

2010-01-14T19:00:00.001-05:00

It's cold and hard to move my fingers

Doodles

2010-01-12T22:26:00.000-05:00

Awkward and weird doodles drawn while watching Arrested Development season 3

More posenaniacs

2010-01-11T21:13:00.001-05:00

60-second sketches. Trying to work on my quick/gestural form.

Charcoal

2010-01-10T15:11:00.000-05:00

Every time I sit down to use charcoal I feel Ike it's going to be this great free-flowing, easy experience. And, maybe the first few strokes are like that, but soon enough I get lost in details and everything gets grey and muddled.

The silver lining fo me right now is that I know I just need to draw a whole lot more and things will start to click again soon enough.

3 on a couch

2010-01-09T19:50:00.001-05:00

Made with the Brushes app on the iphone

Steff, all coolin' out

2010-01-09T01:44:00.001-05:00

Maxin', relaxin'

Sidewise

2010-01-07T22:31:00.000-05:00

I love doing these closeup sketches.

Posemaniac

2010-01-06T22:51:00.002-05:00

Ah posemaniacs, my old friend...

Thumbnails

2010-01-05T20:49:00.000-05:00

Drawn from a Flickr search page

Proportions

2010-01-04T21:20:00.000-05:00

I don't know. Apparently I really need to work on proportions/perspective...

Back

2010-01-03T21:18:00.001-05:00

Matt

2010-01-03T03:22:00.001-05:00

Mark

2010-01-03T00:05:00.000-05:00

Matt before dinner

2010-01-01T22:10:00.000-05:00

Forms

2009-12-30T21:34:00.001-05:00

I always like doing these types of close-up, near-abstract 'studies'

Super-wonky!

Lounge

2009-12-30T17:45:00.000-05:00

Ah, foreshortening... I am your bitch...

Three

2009-12-30T11:03:00.002-05:00

Shoulda stopped after the first one, I think (bottom center).

Pastel

2009-12-30T10:24:00.001-05:00

Charcoal

2009-12-30T10:18:00.002-05:00

Source: Katie West

Charcoal

2009-12-23T19:59:00.002-05:00

Something Fuzzy

2009-12-21T15:10:00.003-05:00

Eye

2009-05-15T23:33:00.000-04:00

Yet again - trying to get back into the swing...

standing/looking

2008-09-01T14:04:00.004-04:00

Trying to get back into the swing of drawing. It's always tougher than I want it to be, and still always more rewarding than I remember it being.

grumpy model

2008-08-31T10:32:00.002-04:00

I don't know

2008-06-26T21:06:00.002-04:00

I just started to doodle and this is what came out - I don't know where it came from - I doubt it was a good place...

Big Eye Betty

2008-06-26T20:19:00.001-04:00

Another try, this time with breasts

2008-06-25T22:07:00.003-04:00

I feel like there's a strange melange of things going on here.

Experimenting with a process

2008-06-25T21:27:00.002-04:00

In stark contrast to the last post, here we have a naked woman's face, but not her body...

I zag when you think I'll zig!

Who needs faces anyway...

2008-06-01T19:21:00.004-04:00

I should just re-title this blog Naked Women Who Might Be Disfigured (And Maybe Not!)

I don't know...

2008-05-31T23:45:00.000-04:00

Experimenting with different brushes

2008-05-30T23:05:00.007-04:00

I admit - I got frustrated and simply bailed out on her legs...

A bit Elliot Cowan inspired

Digital ink

2008-05-30T11:48:00.003-04:00

Faceless

2008-05-28T19:49:00.003-04:00

I admit it's a cheap way of getting around drawing faces.

Natural Proportions?

2008-05-28T18:59:00.001-04:00

Who needs'em?

Lunchtime Sketches

2008-05-27T12:20:00.002-04:00

I need to just get back into the habit of sketching at lunch, at the very least.

I miss sketching

2008-05-27T11:33:00.003-04:00

I don't know why I've taken such a break from sketching. Just lazy, I guess..

A reasonably productive Memorial Day

2008-05-26T20:55:00.002-04:00

Looking left

2008-05-13T08:24:00.003-04:00

Here's one I started working on yesterday.

Then and now

2008-05-06T11:40:00.002-04:00

There's a fun meme that started here. If you've got a minute, check out the other submissions - some great stuff there.

Fruits

2008-05-03T17:02:00.000-04:00

Lady lounging

2008-05-03T15:59:00.002-04:00

I feel like I'm getting a lot closer to what I'm trying to do.

Rough

2008-04-23T22:00:00.001-04:00

Lunch sketch

2008-04-23T12:08:00.001-04:00

I kind of prefer this pose to the one I used in the painting. Maybe I'll change it.

New Painting

2008-04-23T10:05:00.001-04:00

I started work on a new painting yesterday.

Desk plant

2008-04-09T08:31:00.001-04:00

Monster doodle

2008-04-08T14:53:00.002-04:00

Steff

2008-04-07T09:08:00.003-04:00

Finally, A couple of decent depictions of Steff. (Though, of course, her head isn't ridiculously small, but still...)

lean

2008-04-04T10:15:00.002-04:00

Corel Painter X

2008-04-04T09:53:00.003-04:00

Playing with my new copy of Painter. I'm definitely having more fun in Painter than in Photoshop.

quick lunchtime sketch

2008-04-02T14:28:00.004-04:00

Sketch / caricature

2008-03-31T13:06:00.005-04:00

Here's a quick lunchtime sketch - again on the tablet - I think you should expect to see a lot of tablet-sketches in the coming weeks. it's just so much more convenient for me to sketch on the tablet, then upload, rather than having to photograph/scan each sketch.

playing around with caricature today too...

60 second poses

2008-03-28T20:35:00.003-04:00

Pose maniacs - about 17 minutes, if I've counted correctly

Kneeling

2008-03-28T13:43:00.005-04:00

It's kind of an awkward pose, sure, but I still mangled her hand...

two more with the tablet

2008-03-27T20:14:00.007-04:00

I think I'm starting to get the hang of the tablet - it's pretty fun to use, actually...

drawing tablet

2008-03-27T17:54:00.003-04:00

I bought a drawing tablet for a project I'm working on - here's my first attempt at a decent sketch with it. I think I spent about 10 minutes on it.

quick sketches

2008-03-24T13:27:00.003-04:00

Just some quick lunchtime sketches today done from photos

More works in progress

2008-03-23T20:45:00.003-04:00

My first landscape in a long long time:

Self Portrait

2008-03-19T12:03:00.003-04:00

I haven't been sketching much lately - here's my first one in a long time. it came out angrier looking than I meant for it to. Really, I was just mid-day tired...

New paintings

2008-03-17T15:34:00.005-04:00

I think these two are finished:

I'm still working on these:

Painting

2008-03-14T08:46:00.003-04:00

Here's one of the paintings I've been working on - I've mostly been working with oils lately - my sketching has fallen by the wayside. I need to fix this.

Guitar

2008-02-24T21:56:00.003-05:00

Did some guitar noodlin' tonight. More soon, I promise...

Bag lunch

2008-01-18T12:36:00.001-05:00

I've been arting, just been failing to update the blog - I'll try to do a big recap post this weekend...

Jim eating lunch

2008-01-10T14:08:00.000-05:00

I bought a new sketchbook before lunch today - Jim was an good first subject, though, oddly, his right sleeve looks more like a breast in this drawing. Sorry Jim.

Sketches

2008-01-09T22:10:00.000-05:00

Here are some quick sketches I did this evening:

30 second poses

Steff

2008-01-03T12:24:00.001-05:00

Here's a drawing of Steff taken from a photo that's a couple of years old:

Brick

2008-01-03T12:20:00.000-05:00

I did some sketches the other night while watching the movie "Brick"

New stuff!

2007-12-24T12:00:00.001-05:00

Steff in her huge blue robe on Christmas Eve morning (our Christmas)

Purple lettuce leaf from dinner with my father last night

The fantastic new easel my father gave me for Christmas!

Pizza for dinner

2007-12-20T21:10:00.001-05:00

Pizza with tomatoes, black olives, TVP and cheese: Super tasty.

Pose Maniacs - 90 Second Poses

2007-12-19T19:39:00.001-05:00

Grandfather

2007-12-19T08:29:00.000-05:00

Not an incredible likeness - but I still kind of enjoy it.

Steff

2007-12-17T12:39:00.001-05:00

One of my better renderings of Steff, I think:

Oil painting update

2007-12-14T11:52:00.000-05:00

Spent some time at my father's place on Wednesday night. He helped me block this out a lot better. I'm excited to work on it more.

Self Portraits

2007-12-11T11:52:00.001-05:00

Feeling slumpish with art the past few days - I'm trying to chalk it up to the low-grade cold I think I had. Now I'm trying to get back into the swing with some quick self portraits.

Fruit

2007-12-10T14:24:00.001-05:00

Really rather uninspired fruit renditions today - sorry - I could have added shadows at the very least...

Last night's PoseManiacs session

2007-12-10T14:22:00.001-05:00

Each pose is about 60 seconds, though I didn't time it - just tried to capture as quick as I could.