Making sure I still knew how to draw.

Just some doodles to see if I'm applying anything I've learned from all the practice I've been doing. Ideally the practice lessons will strengthen my art in the direction I wanted to go in the first place. I think it's working.

In case anyone has been wondering what I have been doing

I've been drawing a lot. I have been mostly practicing how to draw backgrounds and other stuff it's all here on this blog. it's mostly copies of other people's work, but i've learned a lot so far.


But here is a couple of drawings.

I have been sitting on these doodles for a week now trying to think of how to render and finish them up, but I figured I'd just post them the way they are for now. They are the contestants in an animals battle of the bands.

Also a digital background of an island.

Cookies

Ok, so I really haven't been drawing that much, mostly because of work and whatever. After Dr.Sketchy's Marie Antoinette themed life drawing, I had been trying to develop a good marie antoinette character face. I think there's a lot of different directions I could go with something like that. Any resemblance to Leslie is purely coincidental.

ALSO, I totally made those cookies, Aren't they cute. They're totally for Marie Antoinette. I want to make more now, and make them progressively more ornate.

Also, I wish I coulda gone to comicon, but oh well, there's always next year.

life drawing from dr.sketchy's

this is like the only thing of substance that i've drawn for a month now. omg you would die if you saw the crap that i have been drawing recently. i will try harder, i promise. ooh, next month dr.sketchy's theme is marie antoinette, that is exciting to me.

backgrounds for nothing

sorry havn't been drawing much

rather all my drawings have been studies and experiments and or crappy.
but here is a crappy 1 panel comic i did, i made some more, i should try to finish them.

Also featuring, drawing i did at dr.sketchy's, some doodles of myself, brian as a dog nose person(which totally works btw), and george liquor

Do you think cartoonists model their actual style of dress from cartoons?

I was just wondering if anyone else thinks that cartoonists model their style of actual clothes and hair etc. from cartoon characters? You figure if you watch cartoons or draw cartoons all day, you might subconsciously start thinking that people are supposed to dress more simplified or exaggerated than how they dress in real life.

Or maybe you might start modeling yourself after a cartoon archetype like a cartoon nerd, sexy lady, dumb oaf, a princess or whatever.

Or you know how your friend will say, "Oh did you see so-and-so cartoonist, doesn't he look just like his cartoons(or a cartoon)!

I dunno, i was just wondering.

P.S
Do you think this animal is cute?

and

Would you wear this hat?

I have been asking people this all week

OK, sorry last question

Mr.Saturn...Nerds (candy)...long lost BROTHERS???

HAHA a crap animation by me

OH YEA GOBELINS HERE I COME ( I am somewhat inebriated, I may regret this)

It's always sunny in Philadelphia

I don't usually do caricatures unless I have to at work. I also don't ever draw no fanart, but I really like this show. I'll probably go back and tweak a couple of likenesses, right now my eyes are burnt out on looking at it. I figure it would help if I actually had human beings in my portfolio. I might paint them a lil scene too.

Ok, so I've been working on making a portfolio

So I'm trying to draw stuff that would be real and not just random dumb stuff. This is a character lineup of the staff of Dogsville high school and also the many colors of space cat. wow, this looked good when I drew it last week, now it already looks like crap. P.S Jason I will fix the stuff you told me about, I just didn't do it yet.
P.S Dave or Tawnya, the first cat is Franklin colored.


also, the thing on the top is a background for a short i'm working on "Mink and Roob sell funnel cakes at the fair"

Kitty City

These are the two smartest cats in Kitty City elementary school.


This is a dog that has been hit hard by the recession and has turned to alcohol.


Pedodog gets his just desserts...prison style.

Coming up next week...A kid looks at a lunch ladies moles and barfs forever. stay tuned

A couple dogs I saw

This is Tawnya's dog Bridget. When she gets happy she shakes her butt so hard she can hardly walk straight (Bridget, not Tawnya)


THIS is some freakishly cute dog I saw at this thing called First Friday. First Friday is this thing where a bunch of art galleries stay open at night and give you free wine (kind of like Ray at Night). ANYWAYS, I don't think my drawing does this dog justice because I kind of made it look freaky instead of cute, but it had this otherworldly anthropomorphic quality to it. It's owner said it was a pomeranian, but it had to have been mixed with something else. It had these heavily lidded eyes and a really high forehead ,and it was wearing a brown vest that made it look like teddy ruxpin.

Bettie Page

I haven't been posting them, but lately I have been drawing a million Betty Pages. She has the perfect cartoon sexy lady body, and the photos of her are all old so they aren't all airbrushed and fake looking. I think drawing a Bettie a day will improve me. Also, she makes me want to have boobs.

animals, dr.sketchy's , cripplecon

Hi guys, in case you didn't know I moved to Richmond Virginia. It's been cool so far, I dig the downtown area. I finally got a chance to throw together some stuff I did on a sketchcrawl in San Diego a couple weeks ago. I usually don't like to use sketchbooks because I normally can't get past the 3rd page without drawing a poop or a dick in it, I didn't even make it past the first page this time. Also, I already have planned out how I'm going to look when I'm old.



Last week I got a chance to go to a Dr. Sketchy's here in Richmond with Tod and Corey, it was a really cool time. I think I can definetly handle going to life drawing once a month, especially if there's drinks. I think I saw the model the next day working at sephora, but I didn't wanna ask.


Lastly, this is Patrick Swayze's reaction to the last night of Cripplecon

Rabbits

I had spent the last two weeks concentrating on artwork for my secret project, and it drained all my draw power. So today I drew some easy stuff.

my new secret project

Here is a peak at my new secret project.





HINT: it is not about things that I find hot or sexy.

super small update

Sorry everyone, I haven't updated in a million billion years. I've been busy with the season and whatnot. Our park is going into weekends in only two weeks so I'll probably be doing a lot more drawing after then. This sketch is part of a little freelance gig that I got, so it isn't going to break any new boundaries in the field of illustration or anything, but I thought it was cute.

P.S. I wasn't trying to give this drawing a pretentious background or anything, I was actually trying to prep it for digitally inking and I thought it came out cool that way.

BEHOLD

A big ass dandelion.

comic page

Sorry guys I haven't posted in a while, I've been really busy with work and the only drawings that I have been doing are crummy ol' in parks. The past couple of weeks though, I had been working on a second Mink and Roob comic for Beau and Brian to take to a minicon in Texas. Unfortunately I was pressed for time and it looked like ass, so I didn't finish it. This is the only page from the comic that I think looks half decent, the rest of the pages I will redo later.
P.S the second Mink and Roob comic Brian did is really funny, so you should buy it.

girls

I need more ladies for my portfolio. I can't really get into the pinup stuff (probably because I'd rather be looking at guys). Also it's kind of hard to think of an appealing sexy lady body that doesn't look generic, you stretch it too far and it doesn't look hot any more. Also, i better start running again and working on my own body.