Day 13,14

Here are two little doodles with a cheap calligraphy pen I bought yesterday. I’ve always loved pens, but now I really love pens.

I see many fancy pen purchases in my future.

It’s pretty tough to do school, work, and balance more schoolwork, hanging out with friends, and committing to a semi-finished piece of art every day. I really like the idea of posting some sort of progress everyday, but I don’t know if that will be possible.

we’ll see

1-day steak

Day 12

A finger painting of my truck

Practicing perspective, I was really not liking how the pen drawing was going, said whatever and busted out some acrylics and started smearing.

It almost looks kinda good.

7-d.s.

Day 11

A quick, light sketch of some punk-head from two weeks ago. I’ve been slack the last two days but I’m going to be sitting a lot tomorrow at work, so I should be able to get some good sketching done.

6-d.s.

Day 10 (<— edited a day later to correct day, that’s how tired I was)

I’m tired, so here’s an old doodle of a sad leaf in the rain.

nighty-night

5-day streak

day 9

A strange creature watching the submarine enter her domain

I plan on re-doing the first panel of this comic thing to make it an actual painting later. This whole thing is really just to train myself on how to paint in photoshop, but I think the characters I have in mind will be fun to meet and see them meet each other. (and I can clearly use the practice)

4-day streak

day 8

I suck really bad at painting in photoshop. I’m going to try and work on it this week, but man… I really lost everything I learned by not doing any PS painting in a month or so. dang.

3-day streak

Day 7

We’re learning about eyes in human anatomy, and something stood out as really cool to me. Apparently, the iris (the colored part of the eye) is just an open circle in the eye that gets bigger and smaller to let more or less light in, and the actual black pupil you see is just the un-lit inside of the eye!

It seem obvious now that I think about it, but just the idea of seeing something like that everyday and not realizing it is such a cool idea for a story or something.

Hiding in plain sight

literally (heh heh heh). but puns aside,  it makes me want to make an animation/series of paintings/ comic about someone discovering that on a massive scale, like this sub entering a giant stone eye, acting as a secret entrance for something.

I’ll explore this more this week (ok I’ll stop). sorry for the late night ramblings.

Day 4,5, and 6

Well that streak didn’t last too long. It’s weird how tough it is for me to get myself to actually start drawing. Like, I don’t have a problem drawing for hours (as long as it’s going somewhere) but it’ll take me that long to lay down my first brushstroke in photoshop.

I’ve got really weird motivation issues I need to work out this year for sure.

1-day streak

Day 3

I can only stare at myself in a mirror for so long before I get sick of me, and I have reached that point.

I can’t think of anywhere else to go with this, and I can see lots of things that need to be fixed, but there’s no reason to. I’ll draw something without a face tomorrow.

day 2:

I can’t sit still long enough to draw a good self portrait from life (that means while looking at a mirror.) I need to redo the hairline and shading under the left eye, and I sill don’t know how/if I’m going to color this… but I’ll worry about that tomorrow.

I’m going to make an effort to draw and post something everyday this year, regardless of how bad or small it is.So here’s to a more productive 2013!

Working on the storyboard for this guy. It’s coming along extremely slow, but nicely!

Rainy day sketching, trying to figure out how I’m going to animate this guy.

A Fist Full of Quarter