monday again?

03.18 - Photo Study (click for ref)03.25 - Super Muscles

04.01 - Lack of Sleep
A bit of self portraiture

04.02 - The Dodo's Conundrum
I've been listening to Australia... a lot

04.03 David Malcolm Potts
Co-author of Sex and War
watch both authors speak and answers questions here on Fora (which is awesome)
and yes, i shamelessly used a frame of that program

Last Week's Vomit Roundup

03.11 Atomic Supermen

03.12 Flight

03.12a Attic

03.12b Fried Brains

look me in the eye (i find it hard to)

03.05 a
general burnside (reference)

03.05 B

03.09 "rookie"

03.10 "electric emu"

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.

daily noontimes

2.26 - cleave
2.26 - momentum (a body at rest has none... er something. i really just wanted to make a rock teetering on the edge of falling)
02.27 - no topic, used facehunter for reference
03.02 - elephant anger (my interpretation was stupid to say the least)
03.04 - open water (get it? huh? huh? yukyuk)

daily nooners

on ambush and royalty, i used brushes made from blood spatters, if you're interested in that sort of thing. i'm working on that more painterly impressionist sort of thing that seems well suited for environment thumbnails which are my weak point.

2.23a - ambush
2.23b - tether2.24 - royalty

daily speedy drawings

2.18 - embryo2.19 - quarantine

2.20 - unstoppable

they don't look very nice. 20 minutes is only enough time for a quick doodle. the other guys do quite well though. i need to get faster, no excuses.

nightmare face

today's topic was "nightmare face." this is the nightmare that would drive my wife far, far away from me. we limited it to 25 minutes. so this was 25 minutes... plus a couple minutes. i'd like some more time with it. out back, with a bat.

thursday madness

we got together, the concept artists, and drew something on the theme of "forest fires." here's my pitiful contributions.

feelin great

i feel great today. this is from a photo nicole took of me when i carved out a lemmy style connected mustache. i'm sure there's an official name for this kind of facial topiary. this took me much longer than i had thought it would. i'm trying to speed up my painting techniques to compete with these super fast sketchy fellows that started at work here. i'm still a long way away from breaking into that mind set. yes. well, enjoy it.

spear

just a quick little doodle as i put off starting some thumbnails of a roman emperor.

this guy is closer to the doodle in my meeting notes i mentioned yesterday. although, now that i'm looking at both, i see i lost a few delicious bits from the doodle. like the placement of the ears in my doodle were lower and more wonky giving his head a more bowed look. he also looks more bewildered in my doodle. someday i'll post this much lauded doodle, and you will all be disappointed. i can hear it now, "seriously bob, this is what you obsess over everyday? you are one sad sack."

that's ok, i'm comfortable with my oddities.

he came several days late to the party

i've done a few little doodles here and there of the wee vampire. i'm not too thrilled about this one, came out a little bland compared to the groovy little sketches done in the margins of some meeting notes. i want to see if i can finish those and post them up someday.

yey cintiq!

i don't yet have one at home, but they installed one for me to use at work. it's wonderful! it's the kind of moment that calls for a choreographed musical number.
this is a lunchtime memory sketch. saw this kid heading to school yesterday morning.

this goes in your diaper

right around the back regions.

here's the inspiration

a little late on this one

i was listening to a book on tape, or a series of books i believe, a few weeks ago. it's a rather iconic figure, but i thought i'd take a slightly different approach. see if you can tell who i meant it to be. i'll not take offense if you can't tell, i have been quite terrible lately. oh and this is almost a month old. i'm awful.

Why don't I own one of these?

not a human of course, but a cintiq. i drew this on my good friend brandon's cintiq. i lust after one. perhaps one day enough to stop playing so much warcraft and work towards getting one for myself. wouldn't that be something? yes it would. this was probably about 20 minutes or so. not that i find myself to be amazing, but working on a cintiq gives me delusions of super powers. i will now be open to taking contributions for a cintiq fund. you know where i live. oh, and here's the inspiration/source photo.

Summer Fun

while not quite summer, it was unseasonably warm the last couple of days. it was in the 60s yesterday i believe, so it's like a mini summer in january. going outside with out a coat, all the windows in the house are open. it's rather delicious. tell me again why we moved away from the land of perpetual summer... i forget. trying to get back into the working... groove... slot... rut... thing after the bliss of the do-nothing holidays. here's the morning warmup... although in truth i got warmed up earlier making fancy drawings on the back conference room whiteboard for an upcoming Important Meeting. incidentally, my drawin' shoulder is killing me. can't seem to figure out why.

oh, here's the source URL

presidential bachelor

i probably should have gone much more crusty on him now that i look at it. scaled down it doesn't look as wrinkly as i thought it would. oh well. overall i'm sort of pleased.

who it is?
reference i used

bah humbuggery

i don't remember when it was that i started hating the christmas, but i do. corporate greed, tradition, holiday music, seasonal cookies, the shame of gift reciprocity, and the artificial imposition of family gathering to participate in all the above. it all rubs me the wrong way.