sketchblog a collection of doodles, drawings, and maybe a few non-drawing posts too
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Liftoff
Did not realize how late it was!
Goodnight! (Or goodmorning?)
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Arrival
This looks like a propoganda poster almost
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Be Prepared
I’m in the “oh god what did I do to myself I don’t know what to draw/can’t draw” phase XD
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One down
Outfit totally inspired by the Apollo EX1-A pressure suit
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Mouse caught the big cheese
Something small and cute tonight - too wiped to stay up until 4am. (Falling asleep over this!) Also lesson learned: don’t use a discarded sheet as a straight edge with a fountain pen. Oops
Goodnight!
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Monument
The first 30 days are always the most difficult. I only have a few sheets of blank animation paper left after going through pages of crap sketches tonight. Time to order more!
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art 90daysofscifi copicmultiliner
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I CAN’T TAKE IT ANYMORE I’m calling this one done 😂 INT: Millinnium Falcon, ANH
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Inspired by @cliobablio recent work to mess around in myself with the 6b pencil.
Turns out I had some fun drawing in the app. Now I just need to figure out an eyedropper
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This time experimenting with Maru-Pen nib. I didn't like this one as much
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Just messing around. Trying a G-pen nib for the first time. I like it. Might try waterproof ink next time. (This is black sumi ink
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It's been a rough few weeks. Finally broke the dry spell going out drawing with @sketchshark
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watercolor has a rough learning curve. Not only that but I think there is a coating on the paper that might be interacting oddly with the paint. (It's the art plus sketchbook)
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gonna give watercolor AND inktober a shot. Definitely inspired by @mitografia_kr sketchbook. (His instagram is amazing - check it out.) Also, the kremer pigments are crazy different than what I'm used to!
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90DaysOfSciFi prismacolor art robots
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something quick before I crash for the night
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decided to do something a little more silly tonight :)
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just...stopping...to rest. Just...a moment
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just a quick doodle tonight of partners in sci fi crime
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robots and rocket packs and lasers oh my
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crashlanding (or: I've been watching too much Lost)
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sometimes the quick doodles are too much fun to pass up posting
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need to force myself to get back to inking, instead of always doing what's easy.
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those desert planets, man. They're everywhere.
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it rises. Not sure this one is as successful...
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more space kitteh with the tagalong trio
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keeping it quick and simple tonight. Getting back into hanging with my fav pencil
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this took forever. Stayed up after getting really ill to finish this. Worth it :)
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this was a lot of fun. Noodled a small drawing too far without a clear value structure in place ;)
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off to a rough, struggling start. (As usual.) But I will persevere!
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I always loved how strange scifi book covers could get
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Just doing some late night doodling
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Working out where I want to land on how simplified a design should be. What do you guys think?
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Gonna get this right eventually. Maybe next year
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Not an easy guy to draw. 2nd attempt and my eyes are crossing
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A-doodlin'. Sometimes it's nice to draw a little less catoony than usual
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Still not sure if I like procreate
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Wish this app had layers. Just sketching a bit
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Playing with a new toy! Didn't buy it for drawing, but doesn't mean I'll pass up the opportunity
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All the paintings from the two day workshop. Some are definitely better than others
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Painting #2, 2nd day of the workshop
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This looked better 5 minutes ago. :/ should have stopped then lol
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I've cracked under the pressure. This is your fault, @sketchshark
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Because @sketchshark is pressuring me to post :)
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Pulling poses from movies for some drawing practice-ish
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Doodle page. Exploring some ideas
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More convention doodling during lulls
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Getting used to drawing directly with a pen
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Deciding to just have a little fun
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Inktober! A little late, but it's not tomorrow until I go go bed
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You can never have too many drawings with space tentacles
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Huh. This apparently failed to post last night. life
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Brain dead. A quick doodle before bed
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Messing around instead of sleeping
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Quick sketch (also, brush pen hates color pencil. Had to use multiliners and marker
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Having fun with orange prismacolor
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Quick sketch with more motorcycles and robots. Day 62
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More messing around..bubble colonies
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Escape (or: I shouldn't watch zombie shows before bed
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Tiny detail (seriously. My thumbnail is almost bigger than the alien
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Danger lurks (process filter on iphone
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Seems I've got a pretty consistent outfit developing
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Burping always makes me feel better
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I thought we were having lunch? (Of course. I spend two hours on a drawing that i hate, and this one in a few minutes I really like
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Spires of Uu'dahn - this turned out super delicate looking with tiny tiny markmaking! It's certainly a different look than usual. (Was playing around with a .03 multiliner pen; no underdrawing
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Rough landing (still learning how to draw motorcycles) i left the underdrawing visible for fun
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Hm. I actually like this sketch too. So I'll post it
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Tiny sketch - last sheet from a ream :( time to order more paper
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Big swatches of color look a lot different than small swatches of color... Maybe I should have gone with the mint sky. Next time! Also learned that copics will smear the pentel pocket brush ink
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Preview for the next image. Decided to have fun deliberately putting something smack center in the composition
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I definitely could have planned the blacks on this one better. This is what I get for starting too late. Gotta give the idea/composition credit to @cisforfrenchfry :) (with permission
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90daysofscifi brushpen chartpak colerase
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So I have a thing for robots. Two heads are better than one?
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I'm drawing these small enough maybe I should just put them on sketchcards
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Keeping in quick for the next few days. The tendonitis in my hand has been flaring up since friday. Hopefully I'll get a chance to do something more detailed soon
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New castaways meet the old castaways
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Drawing is so much fun :) more random stuff. Definitely inspired by Mingjue Helen Chen tonight
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Messing around in photoshop (read: playing with brushes
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Gotta learn to draw vehicles sometime
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90daysofscifi brushpen chartpak colerase
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I may have gone a bit overboard tonight
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Drew some obi-wan heads to feel like I could draw again. (Filled five pages of crap tonight) Yeesh
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Sketch page from yesterday's drawing. :) what a mess
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@sketchshark suggested I start posting some of the pages out of my painting sketchbook
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Getting back into the habit of drawing for myself
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I had an awesome time at CTN-X! (Thanks to everyone who bought my book) Pictures of my loot to come later - first, more scifi
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Spent the last weeks getting my book together, so I've been a little quiet. Time to start drawing again
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Who needs hands when you have lasers instead
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I may have gone a little overboard
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Instagram did an update so it no longer keeps the blue filter thing that the iphone camera applied :( c'est la vie
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White out pens are amazing and awful at the same time (diddicult to control
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Just a quick sketch of a chase tonight
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Floating away - another little post it note sketch
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Descent - finally got this one right. 8 more drawings until I hit 90! Gonna try to get back to posting every day to finish this off
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Post-it note doodle. All my other drawings tonight were a bust
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Solitude - had a fight with this one. I may come back to it later
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Just something quick before bed - a long drop
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Space station - started as a sketch and just kept going
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Moment of serenity - back from St. Louis! I have some catching up to do
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I may or may not have had this daydream as a kid
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Something is in the water, and a knife has better uses
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Escape hatch - missed a day and now I have to play catch up :S
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What lurks in the deep sea - ship salvage
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Shadow - wow that was a fun experiment
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Went a little fantasy with this one
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Playing around with some characters
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Infestation - hmm. Need to draw more spaceships, and less horror
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Stowaway - I think I'm in the mood to watch Alien
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Migration - almost didn't make it tonight
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Shelter - no time for color tonight
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portal - quick one tonight - went a little weird and I decided to run with it. Also, apparently I really like orange
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Well that was a little messier than expected
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Caution - just a quick sketch tonight
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Cydroid - or, experimenting is fun
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Bring it - liked the thumbnail sketch so much I decided to not redraw it at all (for now, anyway
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Evade - made a lot of choices on this one that didn't work out
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Didn't have much time to draw tonight - spent most of it dealing with a security issue on my website. Blah
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Puddles are magnets - something quick before bed
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A little bit of horror.. And now I'm supposed to go to sleep
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This was supposed to be a simple sketch
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Inspired by a short story I loved as a kid - Cities in Flight, by James Blish
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Radiant (working on the color - looks like I'll need to make a run to Swains
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Not feeling to hot, so just a quick sketch for tonight
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Day 7 - back to using my first love, drawing with a pencil
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Getting more practice with markers. Only had the copics on me
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Instagram filter used: Hefe View in Instagram ⇒
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Instagram filter used: Lo-fi View in Instagram ⇒
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The search for a decent waterproof black ink (that stays black) continues. Marker, color pencil, and pelikan drawing ink
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Instagram filter used: Normal View in Instagram ⇒
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Instagram filter used: Normal View in Instagram ⇒
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A more full picture that I'm working on
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Brush, bombay brown india ink, and orange col-erase
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Media experiment: nib pen, higgens eternal black ink, chartpaks, and Dr Ph. Martin's bleed proof white with brush
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Gonna spend the weekend at the Burbank Arts Festival (on San Fernando in the downtown area) tabling with the amazing @sketchshark ! I'll be selling my sketchbook along with a few prints! Stop by and say hello if you're in the area
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doodle bicpen stupidhands productivenotproductive
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Bic pen doodle on spare copy paper (spare as in I have an entire ream at my desk just for drawing
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