Play your cards pretty...

Here are another couple PE sketch assignments from the summer. This time, both are digital drawings/airbrush doodles and both are Davina Falcão's characters. The chick is Lusiada (obviously) and the fellow is Aspis.

I sort of want to tweak Aspis some more at some point, but I'm very happy with the way Lusiada came out. I was aiming for a sort of...trading card look, if that makes sense.

Davina was happy enough with Lusiada's "card" that she has said she'd like to commission more in that style when I open for commissions again. Woo!

Three for the show! (Death, Presidents, and Sap.)

A page from my sketchbook in chalk pastel and charcoal, done on a homework prompt of "draw something you think is dead."






A page from my sketchbook of brainstorming I was doing for a piece involving Abraham Lincoln (whose 200th birthday anniversary is this year, wacky). ...also, I drew Abe Lincoln on a Chipotle burrito's foil wrap with sharpies, and later tore it off and pasted it in the sketchbook. I'm a doofus, but I have fun.



And some sap drawn for a friend (and partially for myself) involving her character Seville and my character Sugar Maple. They are Unavisi, which is a race and a project designed by our mutual good friend Brianne for her friends to participate in by invitation only.

Make a mess, you'll feel better.

I am spending my holidays in San Francisco with my best friend. She's taking a nap right now, so I am boiling grenades (cans of eagle brand to turn them into caramel for pie) and making a quick post. Here's a couple messy pages from one of my sketchbooks this past semester.



Sharpie and watercolor drawing over a distressed gel medium transfer of a map torn out of a RTD light rail pamphlet. Ultra simple, but I like it!

















White acrylic paint and black sharpie over watercolor over distressed gel medium transfer of a photograph I took of a couple of hooligans (and other random passengers who happened to be present) on the light rail shortly before calling security on them for hawking stolen electronics. Loooong story. I had fun though!

Come on, get faster...

I have been stuck in bed a lot the last couple days, and have done a looooot of homework. For a couple hours though, when I'd accomplished a lot and needed a break to keep from going hysterical, I decided to do character drawing exercises instead. I really want to get faster with my drawing of recognizable characters. In my opinion, I'm still way too slow. Part of the process, I think, has been cutting back on my realism. I love my pseudo-realism style, but it just takes too long. So finding a happy place between that style and a more cartoony one is probably the only way I can get faster AND not hate my own art. Heh.

Anyway.

Angie, from Aboideau
Cade, from Aboideau
Nutmeg, from Unavisi
Rue, from Aboideau
Kabur, from Unavisi

To see more Aboideau, check out the Aboidoodles blog! It and the characters therein belong to myself and to my partner-in-crime Tamara W.

To see more Unavisi, go to deviantART and do a search. The Unavisi are an invite-only creative project/race designed and belonging to Brianne Goetz. I was lucky to get an invite as a friend.

Excerpts from my sketchbook...

Here are some quick snapshots of pages from my sketchbook for this semester...

Materials: 9x12 sketchbook paper, Micron Sakura brush pen, carbothello pastel pencils, blending stumps for that pastel, random watercolor, and inkjet printed text on tracing paper

I was yelled at to update.

I have been...not here? Heh. Well anyway, "someone" yelled at me to update this thing, so...I'm going to do so in the worst way.

The following are a bunch of images which I shall blithely neglect to explain in any manner. Suffice to say, instead, that they are things I have drawn and/or been working on for some project or other for the last couple months. Many of them are incomplete thus far. SO THERE.



Chestnut copyright © Gaia Gandolfo
Unavisi concept and project copyright © Brianne Goetz






Lion copyright © Ruth Collins
Unavisi concept and project copyright © Brianne Goetz





Raven copyright © Elle Skinner









Timber copyright © Marissa S. Pittman











Grace Black copyright © Julie Davis









Aidan copyright © Amy










The following are images done as personal projects or as portions of work-in-progress commissions...