more february drawings

works in progress!

Some of these are just brainstorming sessions and others are just me noodling around with shading for no particular reason.
Whaaa oh lord am I turning into Louis Wain? I think that's what's going on here.

somewhat recent photoshop sketchdump

Okay: really, only some of these are sketches - sometimes I go overboard with rendering stuff in natural-brush styles. And they aren't that recent. Some of these have been sitting on my hard drive for months! But oh well.




Still need to add a background to this one. WHOOPS me and my forgetting to start drawings with all of that silly "context" in mind.




Every page of funny animals needs a sad cowboy to balance it out.


This last one was inspired by the lumpy demon guys in "Shuck". I am perhaps overly fond of drawing short, lumpy things.

wip sketches and more paintchat

Just a random selection of current sketches and doodles. Cartoon animals, sulky teens and half of a guy that vaguely reminds me of Flint Paper.
Alien heads, inspired by my becoming nostalgic for Star Control 2.

There's more to this one that I'll post when it's finished.
Hey, it's a calculated effort to cram as much weird stuff as possible into a tiny space! I'll probably have to rearrange some of the clutter so I can fit their pet mudpuppy in there.
And now some more paintchat doodles.
Lin, from Perdido Street Station.
Annnd a surly dragon to cap it off.

more paintchat stuff

paintchat color sketches

Two updates in the same month? What on earth is going on? Anyway: here's a set of doodles from a recent paintchat session. I don't know if I'm capable of drawing cartoon animals without ridiculously prominent teeth! They seem to go hand in hand.

Goodness me, it's time for a blog post!

This post is all about BACKGROUNDS, for once. I've been somewhat remiss* about my attention to surroundings and environments for most of my artistic career: most of the time when I want a background for something I'll just haphazardly slap some trees or vague hints of vegetation wherever it seems appropriate. If I'm feeling particularly slothful, the subject of the drawing will be left idling in a plain stretch of landish stuff, with a cloud filled sky to suggest that I'm not totally phoning it in.

So I'm trying some (sorta) different stuff, for once!

This first doodle (which, by the way, is even tinier than the scan might lead you to believe) is of, believe it or not, a cockpit! It's kind of hard to tell, but there's a chair and a windshield (what the hell would you call that in space? CRUSHING BLACK VOID SHIELD?) and a dashboard of sorts. It's incomprehensible and probably completely covered in unlabeled buttons. Which I didn't draw.

NEXT UP: The pilot of the ship is mucking about in a cavern made of trash. How irresponsible! This is a start but hey, I really only have the middle and foreground plotted out. Buh.

This last one WOULD fall into the "I just drew some stupid trees" category but I really like these trees. It's also the rough drawing for a watercolor painting, which I've traced off onto a sheet of paper (directly off the computer screen) to refine before I... trace it off onto watercolor paper. It's kind of fussy about erasers!

* okay, no, I've pretty much ignored them for the most part.

COLORS

I drew this on my DS because homebrew is awesome. Colors is a surprisingly robust little application.

some recent photoshop doodley stuff

A hag! I think she's consulting the mousy thing on her shoulder, probably.
Oh god I don't even know what this is going to turn into when it is finished.

2008 sketchbook stuff (part four)

Creepy colored pencil doodles, a couple of sketchcrawl pages (which you might take as an indication that there is an astonishing number of cartoon animals crawling around Union Station) doodles of people from a Starbucks, and the adventures of Jimmy Olsen (as a ghost). And uh I guess there's a chimp saying he's going to eat Jane Goodall's baby.

2008 sketchbook stuff (part two)

More MST3K doodles, my dog as a hobo, and a couple of pages of sketches from a trip to Brookfield Zoo.