Regularly Irregular Update

Sketches from July and September, I believe.

Just some doodles, a photo study. Trying to draw some co-workers in the corner there.

Photo Study

Here is a photo study I did over lunch.I should have a reference URL somewhere around here... (rummage rummage, crash! thump tinkle tinkle)... ah, here it is. One day I'll learn what colors are.

Also, this is from a few months ago. I was going through my digital sketchbook, which is a folder full of half-ass abandoned files. Each month had its own file, but I've been slacking so much lately that each month only had one or two drawings. To satisfy whatever weird compulsion to have files with a bazillion layers in it, I collected all the months into one file. I think I did it since sometimes a sketch straddles a month and then I can never decide whether I should keep it in the file it started in, or the file it was finished in. Why I felt it necessary to explain all this, we may never know.

Corey

Here's Corey from LA Ink. Nicole and I got sucked in again after swearing it off. Then we missed the last episode of the season, so we got no resolution. Here's the ref:

morning warmups!

Landscape Study

Photo Reference:
Fat Tailed Dunnart

Photo Reference:

This one I did all by myself!

Gina Welch

Here's this morning's warmup. I had set up my timer for 10 minutes... then I took what I thought was a couple more minutes to kinda tweak the hair and eyes and a couple other things. That turned into another 10 minutes. So this is my 10 minute sketch that took 20 minutes.

Gina Welch was my subject. I listened to an interview on the Skepticality podcast, then watched a video on her website. I was struck by her crazy eyebrows and this quirky way she holds her upper lip while she talks.

sketches (obviously)

Mar 10 - She's from a photo. I don't have the URL anymore
Mar 11 - Lunch time topic: Wombat
Apr 16 - morning warmup - 10 minutes - ref

morning warmups

lunch time speed topic 20 minutes
"Weekend Disaster"

lunch time speed topic 20 minutes
"Robbery"

lunch time speed topic 20 minutes
"Cloud Fortress"

Morning Warmup Photofailure
Source

love me two times

PZ Myers

Lucy, For Trevor

National Geographic's Photo of the Day

september snuck past unchecked

None of this is any good, but here are some doodles. I do kinda enjoy the William Wells though. That's the ancestor of one of my co-workers.

10.21 - source

This one looks pretty good the further away from it you get. Try it now. Back out into your kitchen, close the door... doesn't it look fantastic now?

slightly suspicious

Mustache Ref
i need to be more careful with the construction. i tend to break the form, neglecting to wrap features around the form. also, the lump of hair above his left ear looks malignant.

mustaches of the 19th century

Hurray for this blog: Mustaches of the Nineteenth Century

earwig photo study

Earwig SourceEarwigs, of all the bugs I've encountered, give me the willies. Maybe it's the name. Maybe it's the giant pincers. Maybe it's the thought of the giant pincers in my ear rearranging my ear's furniture... I don't know what it is about them that freaks me out the most. I suspect it is all of the above. Also, they are good at charades.

15 minute photo studies

June 22 - Source

July 6 - Source

July 7 - Source

July 8 - Source

hurray for Carl Sagan!

I was watching some Carl Sagan videos while I painted. I'm getting a bit better at this fancy fast landscape painting. I feel like I'm still too slow though. I'll get there. I think this was about 2 hours of work. Now I just need to get that down to about half an hour, and I'll be set.

Also, I copied a photograph. I am shamed, but it's for practice, dammit.

The original

my crappy copy

You can see that I still have a long way to go. The drawing is a good bit off. The colors are off. The original has more orange in the rocks. My sky is too cool and saturated. I squinted alot during the painting. I think that helped me to not focus too much on the detail. It helps that my eyes feel so dry that I won't be surprised when two pale raisins pop out of my sockets and roll under the desk. I also painted it rather low rez to keep from going in too close. All told, I'm satisfied with the attempt in that I made the attempt. That, after all, really is all that matters.