Happy March Pup

Happy Sunday!

Every day is a good day to appreciate doggos :) Don't you agree? Especially those with big goofy smiles!? So, today I sketched this handsome fella, a sweet german shepherd!

A good start for what I hope to be a very productive work-week. Hope you have a good one too! See you again soon :)

Good-Old Pencil: Art-Monday

Greetings! What a rainy morning....and a perfect one to catch up on blogging! I will be releasing three art posts this week. I have been working really hard on paying commissions this month, so my personal work has been pushed to the wayside a bit. But no more!

Here are a couple pages from my sketchbook, drawn in good-old graphite. Enjoy!

Thanks for reading! See you tomorrow for more art!

Mer-May: Art-Wednesday

I enjoy participating in art-tags on Instagram, so when I found out about "MerMay" (drawing lots of mermaids for the length of May), I was excited to join in! So before the month was over, I did slip in a couple more mermaid drawings. Enjoy!

Pictured Below:
Emerald Mermaid Pencil Sketch, Emerald Mermaid in Copic Marker & Brush Pen, and Amethyst Mermaid Digital Sketch.

     

Copic Marker Experiments: An Art-Wednesday

I still consider myself to be new to Copic markers. I have been playing around with them and have been so pleasantly surprised at how easy they are to just pick up and fall in love with! These markers do a lovely job of building up color and give great edges with their flexible, brush-like tip.

I am still getting used to them for sure, but I wanted to share with you some of my sketches as I have been playing around with them.

For the rose study, I did do a preliminary sketch lightly in pencil. To create the other plant, tree and coral pieces, I let myself just start right off with the marker. These flora studies were all done in my small sketchbook. If you are dying to add a bit of color to your sketches, try these!

Rose Study:  Sketched from a live potted rose

   

Plant & Coral Studies:  Half sketched from live plants & photographs, half from scientific illustrations

Tree:  Just doodling & playing with shapes here

Lots of Art! Art-Wednesday

Hello!
First I would like to say Happy (Chinese) New Year!!!

Happily I can report that I have been successful in my 365 daily art challenge, so I want to share with you some of my more recent and favorite works!

  

Digital Doodles:  (Left) 90's Phone Game "Snake" Reimagined.  (Right) Wombat Wearing White Whale pants!

     

Digital Sketch:  (Left) Corgi Underdrawing/Work in Progress.  (Right) Corgi Finished Paint, clean-up & Color

   

Fan Art, Digital:  (Left) Harry Potter & Hedwig.  (Right) Wonder Woman on the way to save the day!

*All rights to these characters belong to their creators, of course!

   

Traditional Anatomy Studies:  (Left) Human Anatomy/ Gesture Drawings, pencil.  (Right) Skull Study, pencil.

Both used reference from 'Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist' by S.R. Peck

  

People Doodles:  (Left) Pencil drawings while watching the movie 'Stick it' (2006).  (Right) Pencil & Copic Marker Lady. 


That is all for tonight! Thank you as always for reading! See you next week.

Art Wednesday: An Art Dump

Good evening Art-Wednesday readers!

Before I get too into all the details of my new adventures in artwork, I wanted to catch you all up on my work since I went blog-silent.

My last individual post was in honor of my Great Uncle. Needless to say this was a major factor in my time away from blogging. Since then, I am happy to say I got my art groove back and have worked even harder on my artwork in his memory. He helped (a lot) in funding my art education, and I was never able to express my full gratitude. So, without further ado, here are some of my favorite pieces I have created since then:

I worked on developing a mermaid like character for my science collaboration...

 
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I got back into more frequent doodling...

 
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I tried my hand at Copic Markers for the first time....

 

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And had fun with new ideas!

 
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Well that is all for this Art-Wednesday update. Catch you next week! Thanks!

New Tab! Instagram

Hello there! I finally gave in and got an Instagram! I will be posting some rough sketches from my sketchbook there, and have added a button on this blog that can bring you right to it! Or click right here!

Doodle: Swirls and Dots

Swirls and Dots! A cartoony doodle that turned into a fun paint. You can still see most of my pencil, and I finished the paint in Corel Painter 12.

Little Dog Problem

Life is tough for a little dog! Especially when you have to drag your little self from your comfy bed to beg at your family's feet for treats. So hard.

I drew our adorable Iris while she was waiting for my sister to give in to her puppy dog eyes. Colored pencil on paper.

Animal Motion Studies

Some more animal and wildlife drawing! I did these motion studies a bit ago by referencing BBC Motion Gallery footage (Links below). The first study is of a border collie herding some sheep, and the second is of a baby wildebeest playing. They were both done on paper with Prismacolor colored pencil.

Video reference for dog:  http://www.bbcmotiongallery.com/gallery/clip/996080_017.do?assetId=

For baby wildebeest:  http://www.bbcmotiongallery.com/gallery/clip/3B2FBBC8_0362.do?assetId=clip_29536380

Self Portrait: New Blog Banner Painting!

After uploading my most recent head and hands drawings, I took a look at my blog and decided it was high time to update my blog banner painting! I drew this in pencil on paper, then brought it into Photoshop CS5 for some color and cleanup!

Sketches: Bernard the Rat

Okay. I have been really, really bad about keeping up on my animal drawing!!! So today is day one of getting back into it! I decided to start with some life drawings of my pet rat Bernard. He proved to be a good warm up since he never sits still! Except for the last one since I petted him to sleep.... Anyway these are the best of his little super-quick sketch portraits.

Live Animal Drawing: Los Angeles Zoo

The following drawings were done from live observation of animals at the Los Angeles Zoo. Straight from my sketchbook, this selection of sketches are all done in dark brown Prismacolor colored pencil on regular sketchbook paper.

Fun with Cats! Sketches

The cats at the shelter where I volunteer always seem to have such personalities! So I couldn't help but have fun whipping up some quick sketches of the little characters when I got home!

This is a page from my sketchbook, done in Prismacolor colored pencil.

My Sketchbook Pages: Giraffe, Camel and Kangaroo

Gesture drawing studies of giraffes, camels and a lone kangaroo! I referenced the book Drawing Animals by Hugh Laidman, 2003. This is the seventh installment!

And course I do not claim the original drawings as my own; these are just studies to practice what I have been learning in my Animal and Wildlife drawing class.

All of the drawings were done in a dark brown Prismacolor colored pencil.

My Sketchbook Pages: Ungulate Studies

Gesture drawing studies of assorted ungulates! I referenced the book Drawing Animals by Hugh Laidman, 2003. This is the fifth installment!

And course I do not claim the original drawings as my own; these are just studies to practice what I have been learning in my Animal and Wildlife drawing class.

All of the drawings were done in a dark brown Prismacolor colored pencil.