It's that time of year again. The leaves are turning color, the air is getting chilly, and artists everywhere are getting ready for Inktober! If you need some Inktober drawing ideas, I've put together a free PDF download of 31 drawing prompts based on the Pose Drawing Sparkbook. About 2/3 of the list is directly from the book, the rest are new! As with everything...
For today's warmup I thought I'd try drawing a character into a photo. Not sure it was 100% successful, but that's what sketches are for: playing around, practicing, and sometimes making mistakes....
The October 2015 issue of Highlights Magazine just showed up in my mailbox with one of my illustrations inside. The idea was to use a bunch of words with an "oo" sound in the middle. Below is my preliminary sketch and the final art. After I turned in the sketch they asked me to change the pig from a sneezing "Achoo!" to shouting "Yahoo!" so I redrew...
Another silly detective sketch for the Character Design Challenge group on Facebook. This guy had his own cheesy cop show in the 1970's. #characterdesign #sketch #detective #drawing...
For this sketch I thought it might be fun to juxtapose classical renaissance music with heavy metal rock....
The Character Design Challenge group on Facebook posts a new character idea each month and invites artists to contribute their version of the character. It's a lot of fun. This month's theme is 'Private Detective'. I started noodling around with it a bit for my morning doodle and came up with this. Might take another crack at it tomorrow....
