A few months of art

My poor, neglected blog.  Here's an art dump!

And of course some caricatures and sketches from watching the Olympics.

February 23rd pre-post...

Weeelllll I'm calling it quits on this one.  Was killing me that I didn't finish it sooner so got Cole out of the way before I start farther in on anything else.

Bumped the colors around a bit for a wider palette range, and polished up detail.  One of my favorites I've done in quite a while.

February 21st

Ungh sorry, another quick WIP throw up for tonight's daily draw.  Almost didn't make my deadline.  Shame loomed so near!  This is actually just a closeup of the full piece but was the most worked on area.  Went for a different source than video games tonight.

Case, Neuromancer.

February 17th

Oh hey it's my birthday today and let's see looks like I should draw a superhero for today's achievement boy do I need to work on anatomy BRUCE WAYNE COVERED IN BLOOD IN THE SHOWER.

Need I mention this is NSFW...tame, considering, but is nekkid.

February 13th

Lucky No. 13 means I'm ALMOST back in the groove.  Gonna have to leave this here as is in it's WIP state for today's daily draw competition.

February 11th

Noooo funk.  Go away.  Well, got a WIP in tonight, at the very least.

February 10th

Bleh.  I've been in a bit of a funk today so I've got a cop-out sketch from my challenges and am just going to save my energy for some big pieces this weekend.

February 9th cont...

I hope we can all still be friends after this.  I drew Snooki.

Achievement was: I Can't Stand This Shit!  I am not a TV person.  At least not anymore.  All I really watch are movies, games, and dumb cat videos.  So my challenge was to draw something that I have 0 interest in.  What's funny now is that I have a little bit of interest since Snooki is actually really funny to draw, and makes for a good cartoon.  I pushed myself to actually enjoy drawing these though - actually make them appealing and fun instead of ugly and full of dislike.

Tools: Sketchbook Pro

February 8th

Burnt out a little today on this one, so only the sketch is done.  Went for a more realism approach since all I've been doing is mostly an animated look.  Would like to color it at some point.  Today's achievement is Guns!  And boy did I draw a gun...

Sevchenco, Killzone 2.

Tools: Sketchbook Pro

February 7th

Achievement met: "Motorcycles!", as well as me feeling a little better about perspective since yesterday's attempt at it.

Oh yes.  Full Throttle.  I went there.

Tools: Sketchbook Pro, Photoshop

A Breather

I am a highly distracted person.  Obviously many of us are from time to time but certain things heavily affect me for long periods of time, and it can be extremely difficult to really pull oneself out of these sort of mental stupors.  Most of the time I can only relieve myself for short bursts, but they are welcome none the less.

I get so wrapped up at times, more inwardly than not, on how awful this world can be in general, that it helps to have an escape or two.  Being the distracted person I am, I keep anywhere from several to I-lost-count.

Working in conceptual art and design I maintain a growing personal library of images.  One that I had started to categorize just for personal use is a folder labeled "INSPIRATIONAL".  These are just people.  Some are well known, and some are just anybody, so their names don't really matter as much as they are just...there.  Some are artists that I look up to, and others are just reminders of human beauty in different ways.  I purposefully render them all grayscale (if they are not originally) to get rid of any distracting color.  The idea, I guess, is for me to just see not just visual values but a value range in life forms, and a sort of underlying idea of why they are important images to me.  I usually try and keep track of sources but I thought I'd just share a handful without commentary.  I kind of needed to pour through it this morning to gather my senses again.

If that makes any sense.

February 1st...

Whatever.  I'm totally cheating my own rules right now but oh well I started this and I have to finish what I start.  Ya'know.

Did I tell you I was gonna to fan art, or what?   =D

Tools: Sketchbook Pro, Photoshop

Faces

I haven't been working with enough realistic faces lately anymore so...there you go.

Fun With a (Colored) Pencil

Here's today's "daily" draw (I LIE...I finished this last night...).  Have picked up traditional mediums a bit again and been sketching a lot with pencils and markers.  Should have more soon!