GOOD EVENING!

Really been neglecting le olde blogge the past month, but I have excuses! Good ones! Kind of! Between packing, moving, unpacking, working extra hours, vacation, and attempting to incorporate more exercise in my life, I've been neglecting the computer more than ever. And this has led to my being considerably less productive since all my art is usually the product of a good old fashioned computer sit.

But it hasn't all been for nothing! I've done a bunch of doodles and given my artistic brain some time to rest and stop grinding gears about art for awhile. I've actually been tempted to do a painting lately and I think I finally have an idea (and all the right colors) for it. I'm really addicted to the sweet sound of my CTRL-Z so the thought of doing an honest to goodness painting, even if it's cartoony in nature, is pretty intimidating but exciting.

Anyway, I was able to sit down and churn out a little doodle tonight.



It's not the usual fare from me. Definitely has a more loose "caricaturesque" look to it, but that's kind of cool because while drawing it I wasn't paying attention to any of the things the tiny editor in my head was saying, I was just drawing & goofing around. Most artists get this I guess, just that feeling of being so mentally detached from art for a while that when you finally feel like drawing again, your repertoire of usual art tricks is gone and you just draw without thinking or trying to make any pieces fit your way. It's refreshing and opens the door for a new period of growth & understanding, until the cycle repeats again!

Owl Doodlin

Been in sort of a mild art drought the past couple weeks I guess, but managing to bust out a couple doodles here and there. This one's from yesterday. I decided to draw up a sort of basic standing pose of Owl because I realized the only decent one I have is pretty outdated. The anatomy is pretty botched but there are some details I feel pretty good about especially in regards to the legs. They're too long & sort of crooked but uhhhhhhhhhh oh well too bad!

Recent Drawrins

Just a couple of things I've done in the past week! The very colorful lion girl is a new character of mine & the other is a character belonging to a friend.

After doing a lot of gestures I find that it's easier for me to draw a figure, but somehow it's getting harder and harder for me to apply solid, simple digital lines. Maybe because I'm getting so used to sketching? Who knows.

GESTURES & STUFF

Here are some gestures I did at starbux today. I have random pose generator app from posemaniacs on my ipod so I can do some more interesting drawings than "man sitting at table drinking coffee" or "woman sitting at table eating scone" or the ever popular "2 people sitting at a table talking while drinking lattes". Anyway:


Two of these gestures have been turned into Rachael and Penny (My pal Mokou) for whatever reason lol. Anyway, I also spent some time doing a quick digital painting. I want to start getting better at it so that I can paint my own drawings, so I figured I'd combine figure study and painting for my first exercise since it's more fun than painting an apple or something (I'll do that later)




Obviously plenty of errors and things that can be fixed, but I feel like it's not too bad for an hour and like zero experience haha. Anyway I'm excited about doing more of that in the future! That's it for now!