Daily Drawing Practice

On Hiatus

2010-01-05T15:08:00.000-08:00

Sorry everybody, im currently on hiatus due to other things ive been working on. Once i have the time ( and motivation ) i will pick up where i left off. Hopefully with more original art and a lot less "copy-cat" stuff.

Weird Plants

2009-11-24T21:03:00.000-08:00

Table Top

2009-11-22T21:13:00.000-08:00

I kept shading and lighting in this one to a minimum because i didnt want to spend several hours making this piece. I've always liked simplicity anyway, not every artists needs to have a super realistic drawing style. Everybody's a little different, and so is their art. At first i used to laugh at Picasso's work because it looked like a 5 year old kid could produce it, but after a while it didnt seem so bad. I mean, could you imagine if everybody's artwork looked the same? What a nightmare that would be.

Painting - Green FLower

2009-11-20T21:25:00.000-08:00

A digital painting of a green flower next to a sunset. Not very impressive although i do like how the sunset turned out. No reference images were used in making this, it was all done from imagination... although you could probably already tell. Ive noticed how most beginning artist's have a tendency to make things look very flat whenever they draw anything without using a reference. Although this painting here is somewhere in between flat and three dimensional.....2.5D?...lol

Vector Art - Beautiful Angel

2009-11-19T18:06:00.000-08:00

This is another portrait i created for a friend of mine. I havent done many vector pieces because i wanted to go back and work on the fundamentals of art which is drawing, but vector graphics has a huge appeal factor to me because they are so crisp, clean, and scalable. Ive also thought about getting into real paint or oil maybe even charcoal mediums, but that is for a later date. By experimenting with different styles and mediums Im hoping to find my own unique way of doing art, one that i will never grow tired of. As it stands right now, vector graphics are on the top of my list of art styles, but that may change in the future.

Vector Art - Self Portrait

2009-11-18T18:16:00.000-08:00

This is a self portrait i did while learning how to do vector style art. For those who dont know what vector graphics is, it's a form of scalable graphics based on geometrical primitives such as lines, curves, polygons, and points. Art created using vector based modeling can be scaled up indefinitely and never lose quality, where as rasterized formats such as jpeg, gif, png ect... they all get pixelated when scaled up or magnified.

Now for simplicity's sake ive posted a rasterized version of my self portrait because uploading the .svg file seem to be a little tricky and i like to keep things simple ^_^.

Deep Paint 2.0

2009-11-17T21:13:00.000-08:00

I've had this program sitting in my computer for a while now so i decided to give it a spin, and surprisingly i like it more than the previous program i was using. Deep Paint has way more features and way more mediums than Art Rage. This program feels so much better to paint in, i think i might stick with it for a while. I tried drawing brown eggs but the whole paint / lighting / shadow / color thing takes some getting used to. Anyway, enjoy the brown eggs ive painted lol.

Oh and btw, This program is completely free, which is kind of a big deal considering this same program used to sell for around $299 when it was first released. So everyone with a digital pen tablet should have this program in their computer.

Jessica Rabbit

2009-11-16T01:26:00.000-08:00

Man...what'a woman!...Jessica Rabbit from the movie "Who Framed Roger Rabbit". She may be a cartoon but she can steal your heart in a heartbeat. This is my first time doing a drawing in full color with shading... Not bad for a first try. I was listening to the soundtrack to this while trying to think of something to draw and Jessica was the first one that pop'd into my head. At first i was just gonna leave it as a sketch like usual but soon as the sketch was over i wanted to keep going. I remember watching the movie thinking " how the hell did they do that". Who Framed Roger Rabbit ( for those who dont know) is a movie where live actors and cartoon characters interact together ( something that has never been done before in a feature film ). If you havn't seen this movie before, go watch it right now!

Horned Beetle

2009-11-14T21:11:00.000-08:00

Just a random painting. I started out not knowing what i wanted to make and then an idea just popped into my head. Im pretty happy with how it turned out too. Also, i found some sweet music to go with the video so if you like it then check out the artist's webpage to download the whole song ^_^ gotta love Creative Common's

Song Track : Broken Stereo
http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/36026

Mortal Kombat - Sheeva

2009-11-13T22:31:00.000-08:00

I wish I could have done a bit better on the face but oh well. Sheeva from the game Mortal Kombat (why do they spell it with a K?...) One of the most goriest, violent games in its time. Im surprised it ever made it to store shelves with the amount of blood and violence it had. One year previous, Id Software had launched its Wolfenstine 3d with moderate gore and violence, but soon after MK came out they decided to ride the bandwagon and developed and released the game Doom....(drool)...... The 90's were when violence and video gaming began their long lived love affair and have been together ever since ^_^.

Spiderman - Mysterio

2009-11-12T22:35:00.000-08:00

One of the lesser known villains from the Spiderman universe. Mysterio....or as I used to call him "Fish Bowl Head". Just looking at him invoked a sense of mystery ... because his appearance dosnt tell us much about his abilities or background....but then again i guess that was the whole idea.

Mickey Mouse

2009-11-11T22:13:00.000-08:00

Another day, another doodle. I should start finding harder stuff to draw cause drawing easy stuff wont get me anywhere....but it is fun to draw and whenever im feeling lazy i can just whip something up real quick. This drawing was from the Disney movie Fantasia, starring that love able, broom murdering mouse, Mickey Mouse.

Rocky and Bullwinkle

2009-11-10T21:38:00.000-08:00

Good ol' Rocky & Bullwinkle. Who dosnt love a flying squirl and talking moose? I wonder if this show is still on the air...hm.... This sketch was noticeably quicker than the ones before... could i be getting better at drawing 0_0? we'll just have to wait and see ^_^.

Sketching from imagination

2009-11-09T18:35:00.000-08:00

Im gonna need to do a lot more of these if i want get any better. Nothing fancy, just a quick sketch without the use of reference images or models.

One Piece - Monkey D. Luffy

2009-11-08T19:52:00.000-08:00

A quick sketch of the main character of One Piece , Monkey D. Luffy. I've always wondered why this show was #3 most watched anime. For the longest time i wouldnt watch an episode because i thought the art was really tacky. But now that im knee deep in the series i've come to appreciate the art style that the creator used. Its totally origional and unique, unlike 99% of the other anime / manga's out on the market.

Again, theres no video with this one because im feeling lazy today lol.

One Piece - Sanji

2009-11-06T11:46:00.000-08:00

If Sanji had any skills when it came to women, we'd be seeing scenes like this on every episode. There wont be a video to this because there was a bad storm last night and the power went out a few times so i lost all of my undo history...again.... At first i thought this drawing was going to turn out really crappy because i have a hard time drawing human characters but surprisingly it turned out pretty nice. It might not be professional level art but i still like it.

Sylvester and Tweety

2009-11-04T20:09:00.000-08:00

Sorry everyone but there wont be a time lapse video for today's post.... I accidentally lost all of the undo data. I really need to be more careful from now on.
I was thinking about what i wanted to draw for today's post so i originally picked Tweety because he was a really simple character and i could draw him in twenty minutes or less... But then i wanted to draw him all cool looking so i made him look like a samurai lol. But then i wanted Sylvester in the drawing as well.... To make a long story short i only wanted to spend twenty minutes and ended up spending a bit longer on it.

What made me want to draw this, is the fact that i always hated how hapless and weak Tweety always is. This poor little bird always being chased around. I wanted to make a bad ass "Samurai Champloo" kind of Tweety hahaha!

Darkwing Duck

2009-11-03T22:01:00.000-08:00

Darkwing Duck, i used to love watching that show as a kid. I would have the intro music stuck in my head for days singing along to it. I wonder how many reading this blog remember this show.

Cookie Mobster

2009-11-03T00:10:00.000-08:00

C is for cookie.... and dont ever forget it!. I drew this for a friend of mine ^_^ she's a cutie pie. I've looked all over the internet and nobody has ever drawn a Cookie Mobster before.... okay i take that back, there have been other's before me. But lets face the facts, theirs suck balls and mines wicked awesome.

Nude Sketch

2009-11-01T20:36:00.000-08:00

I didnt have a whole lot of time to draw today so i wanted to do something quick and loose. So i did some naked ladies XD. I mean, who dosnt love naked ladies? I wonder what the best way to go about this would be... i wonder if i should get a real life model to practice drawing with ...hm... decisions decisions....

Cat Animation

2009-10-31T19:41:00.000-07:00

Feels good to do something different. This animation may be simple, but it sure took a while to finish. Im sure anybody who owns a cat can relate with poor Mr Stickman haha. Enjoy

Toejam & Earl

2009-10-30T21:57:00.000-07:00

Man i loved playing this game. The music in it was the best in all of the games I've ever played. Playing this has to be the first time i've ever heard funk music featured in a video game before. Doing these drawings of old video games is making me miss my old console.

Ariel and Jasmine

2009-10-29T21:57:00.000-07:00

Disney sure knows how to make em right... Im talking about princesses. Half cute, half sexy. I kind of took a little bit of artistic license with the eyes but the rest of the character are pretty much as they were designed. Im a little embarrassed that it took me a little longer to sketch these two than it should have. I've always admired artists who could sketch a picture in under five minutes without breaking a sweat, and still have it look good as can be. One thing that is more than likely slowing me down is the fact that im using a pen tablet to draw all of these time lapse sketches. Although that is not an excuse because even a semi talented artist could draw on it just as fast as with pen and paper. However, one thing that i am having great difficulty doing is drawing good solid lines. That is why everything i draw is really REALLY sketchy. That is one major drawback with using a pen tablet i guess but i really dont mind at all. Its actually rather nice to be able to just sketch like crazy and not worry about mistakes.

Drawing Exercise

2009-10-28T21:28:00.000-07:00

Today's sketch is just a bit of an visualization exercise for me. Im trying to get a feel for character design and making a characters personality come through in their pose. Although the end result isn't something to be very proud of, i still feel like ive gained something from drawing this. I wonder if i should do more of these...hm.....

Ren and Stimpy

2009-10-27T21:07:00.000-07:00

I used to love watching this show when i was a kid. They would always do outrageous stuff even when they were on kids cable TV channel ( nickelodeon ). And even more so when they moved to Spike TV....but even the adult television station couldn't handle how far this cartoon pushed the envelope when it came to craziness. Ren and Stimpy is one of my most favorite cartoons of all times for sure ^_^