20 Minute Well Doodle

So I'm writing a paper right now...but this was my 20 minute break. I just needed to get it out of my system. Plus I've been wanting to play around with brushes a bit more. Meh. Back to work!

Zoo Sketches

Went to the LA Zoo with my good friend Haley, sketched some (fidgety) animals:

The Architect's Sketchbook

This semester I'm taking an architectural sketching class...and haven't gotten around to uploading any of the sketches until tonight. So here we have just a few of the multitude...

Christmas designs already!

I know, I know. Actually, no I DON'T know why it's too early to start with Christmas...so I'm starting! Haha anyways, in my egregious amounts of spare time, I'm working on a Christmas card design. Here's one small part... :D

A Quick Character

Soooo I'm supposed to be writing a paper right now. So WHY do all these new ideas keep flooding my brain and begging to be sketched? It's just not fair. (Maybe I should stop perusing Francisco Herrera and Chris Sanders art during my breaks? Nah...)

Anyways, here's a new character. Just for fun:

Finally, art again!

I haven't posted anything in a while, but it's definitely NOT because I haven't been working...
I recently got two illustration jobs for two books. One is a children's book, one is a young adult book. They're super fun and I'm really excited to be working on them, but of course I can't post most of what I do here, since it belongs to my employers.

The other consequence of doing art for hire is that I haven't had any time lately to do any art for myself. School has just started up for the year this last week, and so has the activity with my campus fellowship. All this together means I've almost forgotten what it's like just to DO art.
I've been coming up with all kinds of ideas for projects, paintings, drawings, layouts, etc, but all the thumbnails and sketches just get shoved into the "to do later" pile.

I was thinking about that the other day, and it made me really, really sad. Today is my sabbath, so I set aside a big chunk of time to just do art...for the sake of doing it.

Today I fished an old sketch out of that pile and developed it. It felt GREAT!

Business Card

My first business cards are finally here! I just needed something to hand out to people who were asking until I get a final version printed. I'm hoping to color the cavern layout and make that into a nice card, but I chose the chef in the meantime!

Wedding Dress

A friend of mine wanted me to do a sketch of her sister in a wedding dress (yes, she's getting married!). I did 2 sketches--one princess style and one more modern. She chose the modern look and then I drew it in Photoshop. Fun fun fun!

...I was looking a lot at Brittney Lee and Elsa Chang for inspiration.

Sketchbook: Church and fashion!

This morning during church I got inspired. I've actually been sewing a caftan similar to the ones below out of old bedsheets I got for free a year or two ago. Free clothes, Woo!
Anyways, these are just some of the ideas bouncing around in my head. Enjoy!

Brother Bear and Man v. Nature!

Will likes to use layouts and paintings from Brother Bear often, since they're just darned good. I was looking through his packet of art and was thoroughly inspired by the epic looking man v. nature themes.

SO I drew a group of thumbnail ideas for snowscapes--with a lonely snowshoed traveler. Of course, when I showed them to Will he pointed out the egregious even spacing that was littered throughout most of them, but hopefully I'll be able to correct some of the proportions on these and (maybe?) bring them a couple to paint.

Something Slimy

I drew a couple tentacles yesterday.

...Will would be pleased, and vindicated.

Speed Still Life!

Last week in Nicole's class we ended early, so we only had 2 hours. Since painting faster or limiting my amount of time has seemed to produce more fresh-looking paintings for me, I decided to try to paint a large chunk of the set-up as fully as I could.
I was actually surprised at how much I got done. Then again, there's not too much detail. Ah well, I did learn a lot with this one.

I like to think that this is a courtroom scene taking place among the objects. The vase is the judge, the plate of fruit the jury, and the lone peach in the blue bowl is the witness on the stand. The yellow vase and the white jar are the lawyers, and the red apple is the defendant. They're all arguing fiercely as the three lemon up in the audience are gossiping about whether or not he's guilty.

I ended up using only a corner of the huge canvas, and I kind of like the way nothing blends into something:

Faces from Karl's Class

A couple faces fleshed out from imagination, based on the diagrams we're learning:

The model was a no-show, so we drew each other!

Pride and Prejudice Sketches

I love the new version of Pride and Prejudice...it's just a visual treat.
I did a few quick sketches of some scenes with nice composition.

Cow Sketches

I borrowed Ken Hultgren's book "The Art of Animal Drawing" from a friend, and it's been amazingly helpful! So helpful, in fact, that I went into a cow-drawing frenzy!
Anyways, here's a slightly peeved cow. Enjoy!

...Whoops! One of them's missing something :D