I've reached ten days with my daily sketchbook pages! I'm happy about that.
The other day I was watching this Documentary about Vincent Van Gogh, and I decided to try and emulate some elements of his style while watching. He often uses dark blue for outlines and clumps leaves together in an interesting way. I'm happy with how the leaves turned out, but the clouds got to soft, and the color on the ground doesn't look right.
Digital Sketch:This is a quick little portrait I painted in photoshop for fun. Just above two hours of work. I'm happy with the results for the amount of time I invested in it. I think the light looks good, I usually have trouble with light in digital pieces. It was good practice.
I started off using this photo for reference, but I changed it a bit
These are some disproportional figures I drew based off of random lines drawn by my friends. I had some difficulty figuring out what the line my friend drew on the right would become, but I think the result is kinda funny and I like it.
Ballpoint pen
This kind of thing is very typical of my sketchbook right now, I enjoy painting faces in atypical colors. This particular one was the third of three experiments with palette knives as a way of painting.
Also I have an announcement. I have decided to do the daily sketchbook on this for one Month. I promise to give you one sketchbook page every day for the entire month of March.
Hey guys, You may or may not know that I have a webcomic called THe Adventures of TIny Lord, however I have decided to stop producing it. I am a new artist, and I am growing and changing at an incredibly rapid pace right now. I need to experiment and try new things with my illustration.
Tiny Lord is a comic which is very much based in my old artistic expression. The fact that I was a complete amateur when I started this comic is now hindering it. I want to keep it very unified, and I get very frustrated whenever I make it because of this. I also think I made a poor decision in doing Tiny Lord as a strip. People expect comic strips to be funny and I am not good at writing funny things.
I have decided that I am going to leave Tiny Lord and move forward. I may return to Tiny some day, but that will not likely happen for a while. However I am not at all leaving comics behind. You can expect to see new things coming out from me in the future, and hopefully soon. I am looking forward to making new things and breathing life into new characters. But you can follow my blogs here, and on tumblr http://stoddblog.tumblr.com/ to stay updated on new things coming from me.
This stated off as a little experiment in staw-hatching above my notes in History of Illustration class. I liked what was going on, so I moved to my sketchbook and made this lady. My pen broke in the middle of it (the ink stain on the left), but I am definitely glad I took the time to practice straw-hatching.
I forgot to post last night. Sorry. I will still be posting another page today, but here is a study of lips I did a little while ago.
