I've been taking photos and doing other things instead of drawing

Bottles and Buildings

Another Night in the Mirror

 

Decided I needed a new Facebook profile picture. I was loving on the ballpoint pen last night, and definitely got into the trance for a little while. There are things I would fix if I were to go back again, but on the whole, I'm satisfied.

Ballpoint pen.

Little Girl

 

Drawn from a iPhone photo of one of the little girls I babysit. Doing this loose sketchy thing with ballpoint pen after trying a failing to do hard contoured lines. Filling in the small defining planes.

Ballpoint pen.

fishes

 

Watching Blue Planet and loving the swirling schools of fishes.

Ballpoint pen.

More Cats, Okay, I can't help it.

 

They are always around, especially when you're laying on the floor. They like to be where people are. I like Chris' feet in this drawing, and his hands. I don't know why Sydney has a big Cheshire cat head.

Ink pen.

Sydney

 

Sydney has this weird almost human face, which is funny since she seems not to consider herself a cat and hates the other cats. But Chris says that she gets the least love because the other cats are so pushy and demanding and always around, so I decided to draw a portrait of Syd for posterity since she is a fancy lady. She looks like she is lost in the cosmos.

Ink pen.

A Very Busy Valentines Day

 

Enh. Spent the day working and spent the evening with my sweet boy. Not much time left for drawing, but I tried to record the days highlights with some drawing (and writing). Really good pictures may be worth a thousand words, but I few crappy words are a whole lot better for noting the day's events.

More ballpoint pen, which has it's own charm, I'm realizing.

Hulk Smash!

 

Finished reading Planet Hulk, lent by Rob. Really very good, and sad and tragic and man, the Hulk just can't get a break. Sketched this from the cover. I have a newfound respect for comics artists. I had a healthy dollop already, but man, that is a LOT of finished drawings. And all that perspective and forshortening and figures and whoa. Could I ever do that? Would I derive satisfaction from drawing the Hulk in five hundred different poses? I think I'd derive satisfaction from being the artist on a finished comic, but wow, is that a lot of work.

Ballpoint pen.

Tiffany Aching

 

Reread _Wee Free Men_ and _Hat Full of Sky_ and did this quick sketch of the main character. Flat flat flat, I know. Drawing without a visual reference usually results in this. I wonder if this will always be the case or if exercising the drawing muscle every day will help with that. I don't think I get into the same mental space when I draw from my imagination. The act of looking is just so different, and going into that trance and then coming out again to something finished is something I enjoy immensely.

Ballpoint pen.

Shapes that cats make

 

I feel like I'm cheating when I execute drawings quickly, but some days a quick drawing is all I have the energy for. Despite its quickness, or perhaps because of it, I like this brief look into the many shapes that cats make.

Ink pen.

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman

 

Quick sketch from an old yearbook photo from senior year. I have a lot of love for lines of contour and ignoring shading. Is this part of my personal style? What is that, really?

Ink pen.

Chris, Concentrating

 

Chris occasionally gets mesmerized enough by something (usually a video game) that I can draw him for a few minutes without him catching me and grumbling. Thanks, tougher-than-expected Necromancers!

Colored pencil.

Hawk

 

Chris drove me to work this morning, and on the way we passed a hawk that was lying dead on the side of the road. Chris being Chris, he went back after dropping me off and took the bird home. He couldn't figure out how it had died, and judging from the clarity of the eyes, it had died very recently. No bones appeared to be broken, and the feathers were all in a healthy condition. Quite the mystery. It's a beautiful bird, all told, and drawing it was very meditative.

I'm really proud of how this turned out, especially since ink pen with no preliminary sketches can be very unforgiving.

Ink pen.

Random Characters

 

Did a daily drawing at Bleys' birthday. I like to draw random ovals and circles and then fill them in with faces.

Pencil on paper plate.

Catstle

 

I hate this and wouldn't even be posting it, but I didn't draw anything else yesterday. Yuck. This sucks.

Colored pencil.

Rooftop Garden Plan

 

Based on the Square Foot Gardening method. It will be on the rooooooof.

Colored pencil.

Mulberry Mirror

 

Dragged the bathroom mirror into my drawing nook and used the color Mulberry. Liked how this turned out, especially the spare strokes in the face. Hmm. People use erasers sometimes. I don't think I even have one down here. Not that I really draw with anything erasable anyway. Hmm. Is this okay?

Colored pencil.

The Hours

 

Nice representation of my very busy day off that also included a free massage! And it was a really good one, too! This was fun to draw, even if its not technically impressive or anything.

That awesome inky ballpoint pen.

Self Portrait

 

Used a mirror. And a ballpoint pen. Eyes are a little weird, but I like what happened with the mouth. It's nice to not look like I'm wearing massive amounts of lip liner. That's always bothersome.

Inky ballpoint pen, which I like.

Woo Stillers

 

My lame and late night attempt at a Super Bowl Ring. I wonder what the real one looks like...

Pencil.

Ava the Birthday Girl

 

Gator and Bun have a happy and healthy four year old daughter! Happy Birthday, Ava-- your party was a lot of fun. Thanks for the cake and ice cream and lasagna, and enjoy all those presents. :)

Ballpoint pen.

Bracelet

 

Another one to color digitally. Started drawing the beads going around clockwise, it only occurred to me when I was about seven beads from the end that had I paid less attention to the proportions, I could have drawn myself into a corner and not been able to fit them all in. But I did fit them all in. You can check them against the scan of the bracelet itself from a few days ago!

Ballpoint pen.

Today is Thursday

 

Boots everywhere. House a mess. There are still french fries on the table and I just don't feel like dealing with them. Clothes need to be sorted and put away and washed and I need to make cookies and presents and the bathroom is smelly, but that's okay, because here are some daily drawings.

Felt tip pen is the bizzity bomb.

Scholar Ling AKA Silver Phoenix

 

Chris has been playing lots of Jade Empire on the new XBOX360, so I've been staring at this character a bunch. Pretty visually interesting game, though its hard to figure out exactly what she's wearing when she's always going around exploding people.

I know that I could go upstairs and draw and have a ton of reference materials, but I am full of excuses and lazy. So I'm just going to be glad that I can still just make stuff up on paper. It's funny, but I am starting to feel less afraid of a blank page. Less fear, but it's still tempting to start writing instead of drawing. I SHOULD try to play around with some new materials, or paper, or location, but the warm warm heater is here in the basement, and my supplies are in the cold cold attic.

Ballpoint pen.