Sunday Drawing: An Addendum...

In the previous post I didn't like how the colors came out in one pic... so I recolored it.

Sunday Drawing: Sketch Blog Week in Review...

Here's a few samples of what I've been posting over at my daily sketch blog this week.

Saturday Rant Fever: Recreational Drawing...

Just like musicians, a professional artist needs to do the equivalent of practicing his instrument, i.e., draw.  But sometimes after a long day of focusing hard on the tasks needed for work, the mind can have a hard time relaxing and allowing itself to be free and just play.  This is why I have joined a couple of online drawing groups.  The two have different rules.  One gives a topic and you have two weeks to draw something based on that topic, while the other just asks you to do at least one drawing every day (which is sooooo the minimum that a professional artist should be doing).  Because of this I decided to split up how I handle the different groups.  Use the daily sketching group to develop and rough in topics that will then be more cleaned up and finished for the other group.  I've just started this for about a week, so still new to see how'll I'll make this work with family, work and other commitments.

The two groups are:

Squash and Sketch Blog:  Squash n Sketch is a collaboration of artists who attended the UCLA MFA Animation Program, past and present, here to keep the creative juices flowing. Most of our contributors are professional animators and artists in Film, TV, and the interwebs.

Let's Draw Everyday: We are a community of artists who are focussed on the idea of improving every day. 

(Artwork is posted if you have drawn for 30+ days!)
If interested in drawing with us, send a message! 

Coincidentally these two groups were formed by people from my two alma maters: UCLA and Kendall College of Art and Design (though both were formed by classmates after my time).  There are lots of these groups popping up all over the internet, here are a couple with bigger communities:

Illustration Friday

The 11 Second Club

Well there you.  Join us next week as we talk about the mating rituals of balloon animals...

3 Billy Goats Gruff Troll Rough...

30 Second Gesture Drawings...

I was inspired by fellow classmate and all around great artist, Joonki Park.  He has been posting scores of his 30 second and 1 minute life drawings lately.  So now I thought I'd return the gesture (get it?  gesture, I, with the thing, with the... it was a bad joke, anyway, enjoy).

Happy Birthday to Me...

I was up in the middle of the night when the day switched over to the 8th.  Just then this image popped into my head, I thought it was hilarious and had to share it.

Ninja Turtles Fool!

I love me some Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!  I was feeling nostalgic and also excited about the new show on Nickelodeon, so I drew these in that old school way the comic used be done below.  You get both color, and black and white!  (Incidentally, if you get a chance, check out the new Ninja Turtles show on Nick.  I think it is really fun!  It has that same feeling I got when I watched the original one all those decades ago.  Plus the show uses one of my favorite voice actors, Rob Paulsen.  He was an original ninja turtle voice actor--though he plays a different turtle this time around.)

(I'll do a more modern attempt like the show soon!)