Arizona doodles

I was in Arizona this weekend, visiting my parents. I don't recommend visiting Arizona, it's full of bugs.

This guy was just chilling at a rest stop just across the border. He's pretty much life-size in this image. Everywhere I looked at this rest stop, there were locusts and bees. I saw at least three different species of locusts. There might have been more than one kind of bee, but bees freak me out so I didn't look very closely.

I drew this with a brush pen at a lake. The lake smelled like licorice for some reason, and it actually looked more like a lake than this little swampy section I drew. Once again there were tons of bugs.

And finally, i worked up Friday's drawing theme of "robot" into this guy. He loves you so much!

And here's some older drawings from a couple days ago.

Massive (NSFW)

More selections from my sketchbook. I've been fairly productive now that school has started, and there's more sources to draw inspiration from. Some of these contain questionable material, and borderline tastelessness to a more sensitive audience, so beware. I'm trying to shift from sketches to doing more watercolor/ink paintings, but we'll see how it works out. I did manage to finish this one, and I'm very satisfied with the results... Also, here's some drawings left in my sketchbook from the group, who choose to remain unrepresented (that's a call to arms to James and Phillip, respectively).

Sketchy sketch sketch - now with ink!

Some sketches from yesterday and today. I have fought with this tiny sketchbook for months now, and hated it. But today I tried using ink in it, and man that thing takes ink like a champ! I like my sketchbook now!

More contour drawings

More giant contour drawings from my birthday party. Thanks to everyone who came and participated.

Just a heads up, this next one is nothing but birds, fetuses, and penises. So don't look at it if explicit representations of birds offend you.

Contour Drawings

So in honor of my birthday today, we all showed up at my house and did giant contour drawings. The idea was that one of us would start by drawing an image, and the next person to draw would have to fit part of their drawing into the contour of the previous drawings. After a while, you start getting some really interesting shapes and some really interesting drawings crammed into those shapes. These are both about 4' wide. Thumbnailed due to large amounts of objectionable material that some prudes may find offensive.

Ninja's post from his sketchbook

working on light and shadows

peek a boo..

Why hello there. Looks like you guys are improving a lot, at least the lot of you that show your stuff in here. Hope you guys have some new and exciting things going with your artwork. I've been damn busy, but its been the best time of my life. Everybody is so passionate about art, and video games. The talent is overwhelming, but hey it makes you that much better! This is just the tip of the iceberg, something I did in my freetime a few days ago. I actually dont get around to doing a lot of personal digital stuff, it's mostly just been sketching in my book, and little brush tests here and there, this peice started out as a brush test, also a little inspired by Rembrandts paintings and the way he uses light and colors. Anyway, hope you are all doing well, and still drawing like mad men.

Steamy Sketch Dump

Not to be outdone by my contemporaries, here's some drawings from our meetings, along with selections from my sketchbook. On a somewhat related note, I took advice from James (who has yet to show off his skills here) and did a study on some of my favorite artists at the moment. By looking closely at their drawings and copying some cool pieces exactly, your brain seems to absorb some of the artist's power, the lawful equivalent of devouring their heart. No joke, I took a few of Jamie Hewlett (Tank Girl, Gorrilaz) and Mike Mignola (Hellboy) and virtually traced their drawings, and the next day, my drawings improved. I highly recommend this exercise, it made me a true believer, true believers. Also, I completely forgot to bring those CD's with pictures from our trip to Comic Con to our last meeting. I'll be sure to get those to you guys as soon as possible. Ninja claims to have more, so there will possibly be a different version of the CD coming. A 2.0 version.

BLEEEEEEEAAARGGGHHH!!!!!

Gross!