Sketch Daily stuff

Here's some recent doodles for Sketch Dailies.  The challenges were monkey king and heffalump.  I'm having a ton of fun with it.  Enjoy.

Robot Monster

Another Sketch Daily sketch.  The topic was Robot monster and when I looked it up this fantastic monster form a 50's b movie came up and I had to draw it.  Enjoy.

Sketchin in the ol' sketchbook!

Just something from my sketchbook.  Enjoy!

Skeleton Face

Character Sketch

Just a random character sketch from sunday.  Enjoy.

Turtle Sketch

Another sketch from my sketchbook.  Enjoy.

Wolf sketchbook

Just a drawing in the sketchbook.  Enjoy.

Random Sketch

Just a random sketch from the sketch book.  Sometimes I just start playing around with lines and shapes with no clear goal in sight.  This one turned out particularly nice.  Enjoy.

Tiger #3

It's taken me too long to get to these.  Here's another tiger.  I've got plenty more rough sketches to clean up and I should be able to put more up here.  For now you get this.  enjoy.

Stretching Tiger

Here's another tiger sketch.  I tried to push the pose on this one and really stretch the forms.  I need to work on posing my drawings a bit better, it helps sell the story of who this character is.  enjoy.

Tiger

Here's another of those big cats I've been drawing.  I have a feeling there are plenty more tigers to come.  I'm having too much fun drawing all those stripes.  Enjoy.

Lion sketch

Started a new sketchbook recently.  I often do theme sketch books.  I've had an alligator sketchbook, an elephant, zombies, sharks, monkeys.  I like them because they force me to go beyond my comfort zone.  After the third or fourth alligator I had to try and find new answers to "what does this alligator look like?"  I'm really excited about this one.  It's going to be all big cats, which actually may wind up being 90% tigers cause those stripes are so fun to draw.  anyway, the first one that turned out to my liking was a lion.  threw on some quick color for you.  enjoy.

Space cowboy

Here is a sketch from a few weeks back.  More is on the way. Enjoy.

Lucha Libre!

Went and guest lectured at a character design class last night.  As part of it I gave them an assignment to draw a lucha libre wrestler.  We only had half an hour to work, but it was fun (for me at least).  This is what I came up with.  I need to put some color on this guy, but that's just not gonna happen today.  Anyway, enjoy.

Process page

I'm going to teach a character design class this thursday and wanted to have a small assignment to give during it.  I decided on having the students design a lucha libre wrestler and then having a critique at the end.  I wanted to talk to them about all the principles I follow and use and generally my thought process as I go.  I figured a good way to do it would be to put it up here so I could easily reference it so you all get to enjoy it as well.  I start with a really rough sketch, mostly just finding the shapes that I want.  This is where the drawing happens for me.  I usually do these rough sketches in just a few seconds, maybe a minute.  If the drawing is working at this early stage, then it should work no matter what details I throw onto it later.  After that I usually find some reference to help me refine my initial idea.  Sometimes this can be reveresed.  Sometimes a great piece of reference inspires a new sketch out of me.  After I find the reference I refine the sketch down even more to a more finished state.  After that I throw some color on it.  The details in the final sketch and the details in the color can vary depending on the project or the effect I'm going for.  This color is pretty quick, but it does the job well enough.  Enjoy.

Bear in a tutu

Last week a friend of mine, Joe Pearman, asked me "what should I draw?"  I told him (and don't ask where it came from, cause I don't know) "draw a bear in a tutu."  Over the weekend I had a bit of sketching time and I thought that the whole bear in a tutu thing was a good idea so I drew a couple up and threw some quick color on them for your enjoyment.  Which one do you like best?  Enjoy.
P.S.  Hopefully I can get Joe to put his bears up on his blog.  If you want to bug him about it his blog is http://josephpearman.blogspot.com/

Old boxer

Just a fun little sketch I put some quick color to.  enjoy.

Cup O Doodle bird thing

This was my second attempt at the Cup O Doodle sketch.  I originally was going to draw a snake and my wife looked at the lines given to me and told me that was too obvious a solution and I had to find something else.  I listened to her.  I usually do.  My life goes a lot better that way.  Enjoy.

New Cup O Doodle Sketch

This week a friend of mine encouraged me to try out Cup O Doodle.  It's a blog where they post up sketches of random lines or stains or shapes.  You look at them and then try and make a sketch out of the madness of it.  Think of it kind of like a Rorshach test, except that instead of telling people what you see in the ink blots you are sketching it out for them and filling in the little gaps.  Here's my first attempt at it. The first sketch is what I came up with and the second I have an overlay of the lines they gave me to use. It was pretty fun.  Enjoy.