ramblings in between

Looking through one of my sketchbooks I came across a few drawings I never scanned. Unfortunately, I didn’t date any of these after I drew them, but I know they were drawn within the last 2-3 years.

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1. Part of a sequential I drew with my character Neera. Over summer, she works at her father’s company, and it gets boring a lot of the time. So, she’s playing Tetris when a dear friend pays her a surprise visit.
2. I modeled this after my little sister. It’s basically a stylized portrait I guess. She doesn’t really have slippers like that, though, or that shirt, for that matter. However, the body type is accurate.
3. I was trying to come up with a character to be my Artgyrl comic character’s female confidante. I wanted her to be really feminine and stylish, and I named her Mae.
4. Some character styles of my character Tara, and one of Miranda.

I started this drawing a few weeks ago, but I didn’t like where it was going, so I put it away. I had scanned the initial sketch though. Last night, looking through files, I came across the sketch, and decided it wasn’t that bad after all. While chatting with Frank (they’re his characters), I finished the drawing.*

I’ve drawn Rose many times before, but never Symon. For that reason, the drawing was definitely a challenge for me, as I wanted to portray him appropriately. Also, I need more experience drawing males. I think that may have been one of the reasons I considered scrapping the drawing in the first place. But I’m glad I finished. Plus, Frank seemed to like it.

For more info on these characters, check out Arson Entertainment.

*After posing for this pic, Symon and Rose got into a fight, because Rose totally knew he was making bunny ears behind her head. After several minutes of combat, Rose came out victorious. ^_^

I took pics for a thread at Penciljack, so I thought I’d share.

Funny thing is, these pics are after I cleaned up a bit.

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I was just invited to join the ranks of Sketch Book Allstars. So, I must rep it here. I’ve been visiting the blog for a little while, and I’m really impressed with the quality of work from the artists that post there. I was really psyched to be invited to join them.

I went to visit with my friend Cici today at the Chinese food restaurant where she works. She was making Cheese Wonton, and it was cool to watch her as we talked. Well, I thought it was cool, she probably saw it as another tedious task. But she did it so artfully. . .

You are a Brainy Girl!

Whether you’re an official student or a casual learner, you enjoy hitting the books. You know a little bit about everything, and you’re always dying to know more. For a guy to win your heart, he’s got to share some of your intellectual interests. An awesome book collection of his own doesn’t hurt either!

I need to sleep before this gets out of hand. . .

I just found this sketch I did over a year ago. Over the past 2 years, approximately, I’ve been doing portraits of people of different ethnicities. The idea was to do the drawings in a relatively short period of time (15-20 minutes) in order to exercise my life drawing skills.

Josh, 23, Mexican-American

Sanaa, 21, Moroccan

Ariana, 15, Venezuelan-American

Jarad, 21, half Italian-American

Braxton, 20, African-American

All these drawings are pretty random and controlled by the people’s willingness to sit still long enough for me to get a good likeness. Not everyone who wants their portrait drawn is a good model. However it has been good practice having to capture the likeness of a person even though they’re not completely stationary. Josh, for example, would not sit still for more than a few seconds. I think he has undiagnosed ADD or something, seriously. It kinds of came out in his portrait, which is kind of cool, I think. Ariana, on the other hand, sat very still, so I was able to get a lot more fine detail in her features and hair line.

While in New York this past May, I did a portrait of my friend Vieneesa as a graduation gift, in the manner of the portrait of Sanaa (on gray paper), but I don’t have a copy of it because I didn’t have a scanner, and it was my last night in town. Some way I need to get a copy of it, because it turned out really well.

I have a candidate for my next portrait. I don’t know when it’ll get done, though. Stay tuned.

Today I went to work at Ellis Products again. I’m happy that Mr. Ellis was pleased enough (and continues to be) with my work that he’s keeping me on as kind of their in-house Graphic Designer. Yay me. My next project is to design some display posters for an upcoming trade show.

After I left there, I went and dropped off a roll of b&w film at Calagaz Photo Supply. I also ordered a negative scan, and the total going to be around $16. Not cheap at all. I just checked out their web site, and with all the money that place is making . . .it’s certainly not evident in the quality of their site design.

Then I went across town to Wal-Mart to get my roll of color film processed. I also ordered a picture CD with that. Before I went to Wal-Mart, I stopped at movie gallery in order to rent She’s the Man, but they were all out. I went to another movie gallery a few miles down the road, and they were rented out as well. The reason I was eager to rent the movie was for the pure fact of a up-and-coming actor by the name of Channing Tatum. After a bit of deliberation, I settled on purchasing Something New.

Also, I’ve recommitted to trying to grow my hair long. So, I took a pic for documentation purposes.

No drawing today, but I want to try to take a picture of at least one thing everyday.