April in Sketches

Today's Sketchy Continues into April, very busy month but It has nothing on the upcoming weeks...

April fools

Google Maps Pokemon, gotta catch em all!

Finished drawings and tea

Scanning artwork

Shrek the musical

Watchmen!

School day

Sculpture plan

Griffin (These last 10 pages got stained with water)

My little sister's Birthday!

Wood tile work

Visiting SCAD

Pittypatt's Porch

Housing in Atlanta

Red moon, Plaster Sculpture

Terrible teacher stumbles and stumbles

Logo design

Secret Church, Good Friday

Facetime

Easter Sunday

Snail mail... get it?

Cut my hand, dang it!

Pretty dull day...

Almost complete sculpture

Walk with God

Coloring on my Cintiq

Eggplant for dinner

Cool short film

More coloring

What is Art?

We are already more than halfway through May so look for May to come to you soon.

Day at the Zoo

In D.C. this week and went to the free National Zoo. I enjoyed access to all the free models, but had to limit myself to the animals that would sit still for long enough for me to capture their likeness.

Hornbill

King Vulture

Some freaky cool fish that was 7 feet long and looked like 400lbs

This monkey was not caged.. it was just sitting there...

I noticed how angular a frog is so I decided to exaggerate it. the color scheme of this frog was a beautiful turquoise and chocolate swirl

This Crab actually had a sign on the glass that read, "I like to pose, draw a picture of me!" so I did.

This anteater was the highlight of my zoo visit as I had never seen one before and like the streamlined body, and friendly appearance of the animal.

Woman Crush Wednesday

Im not very good at drawing the female face. I attribute that to the fact that I am a man myself and so I have been practicing drawing my own, very angular face for so long that the soft features of the female face are hard to construct.

But recently I have had a reason to draw female faces, other than just to push myself to grow as an artist. I was inspired by someone to draw her face, because it was easily the most beautiful face I had seen.

So what better day to post, than Woman Crush Wednesday.

Some warm-up sketches

"The Book Reader" initially I was scared to render her... I didn't want to mess it up... She is so amazing I might render it wrong... but then I took a leap of faith out there and thought, "Hey Im not going to let this pass me by, Im going to do my best and at least try!" (Hey! I am a poet and I wasn't aware of that! ... wait...)

Detail of the face

The button nose, soft brow, lips subtly curling into a smile... and of course the hair, like a river of gold flowing down from a mountain spring... Ill leave the poetry to Solomon and just draw...

ERMERGERSH!

Life has been crazy! OK so I have like 20 posts prepped but I just have tooooo much going on, this is just to say they are coming! I'm just about to finish a book commission, school, and other big projects so just hang in there and Ill have content coming soon! meanwhile this is how I feel, insert your own caption.

Xena

Yesterday the @Sketch_Dailies topic of the day was Xena the warrior princess

I was drawing Xena and thought something was wrong with her legs, then I figured it out.

In this drawing her legs are in a very masculine bow legged pose. When a man shifts his weight he tends to stand bow legged like this. But a woman...

... tends to bend her knee inward, creating a nice S curve along her side. 

Here is the final Inked Drawing of Xena the Warrior Princess

Finished sketchbook

Just filled up another pocket sketchbook. I really focused on having finished pieces that I would share in this sketchbook. However, I would like to focus on filling this next one with ideas, finished or not, just 'Throwing up' on the pages! An idea can be overworked, instead it should be explored. I have too often drawn one rendition of a character or idea, I would like to push myself to have more versions of an idea in the future.

This is a sketch blog so here are some highlights from said full sketchbook.

Anton Ego

Cow Monkey

Groot

HUMP DAY!!!!

The Invisible man!

Leprachaun

artist selfie

Treebeard

Venom

Shrek