Drawing a Day November! In theory...

So I have lots of art to show you guys, if anyone actually still keeps up with blogger. I recently finished 10 illustrations for Dockers for their Game Day line of apparel. It was a fun project. I also have more portraits to post and more portraits to finish, plus a beer hockey logo that is now proudly worn in Halifax!

But here's some of my quick sketches (usually done at lunchtime) for NaNo November Drawmore that I'm doing with some friends. I've missed the last five days. Oops.

yep- quick scribbles. Whatever's in my head at the moment, really.

Stay tuned- more stuff coming! Including christmas cards!

Beard Test

'Allo all. Decided to try a new technique. Painting without opacity. For a first shot, it's, well... not bad. But I know I can do better.

Off to try again.

ps cs5
30 minutes.

I still paint. I swear.

broke out the gouache tonight. most liberating thing i've done in a long long time.

some 50s lady in a taffeta dress. yeaa tumblr.

acrylic, sometime two weeks ago.

sketches from work that didn't get used and then some bar doodles.

My studiomate Greg has lots of taxidermied deer hanging around the studio....
sketch dump
skulls?

oh hey guys. I cut all my hair off. woot.

skutchdump

I like these guys. I think I'll push this one farther. Probably digital. Yeah. Digital.
One of these became the cover of this upcoming issue of Reporter!! Which one? Well, you'll have to wait.

Actually, I'm pretty happy with the inside ills too, but I can't post those until Friday. A priori, and all that.
that's a preview of one of the inside ills.
doodled a skateboarder during a super long boring crit.
and again, that long boring crit... couple of the kids i didn't know on the left, and my friend will drawing on the right. Like you can tell.

some break paintings

quick watercolor doodle of some sailor guy i made up
flight deck grunt from Battlestar Galactica, which a good friend has gotten me hooked on...
Some interesting telephone lines I drew while sitting in a car waiting for ten minutes.

Hello guys, I'm on spring break. It is not spring, but it is a break, so I'm spending it applying to jobs, ordering biz cards/mailers, and painting when I'm not asleep. I'm recovering from a very tough, very stressful winter quarter. But hey, I got a 4.0!!!! All A's, baby!!!!

Totally worth all that hell and throwing away my social life haha

Hope to paint more... all i have home right now is my watercolours and a tablet.

facepaint vojtech- WIP

So it's 5 a.m.... Oops.

Photoshop painting... about 1 1/2 hours so far, all together, minus interruptions.

Pretty okay with it so far. Only used one brush at this point, about time I switch it up and get some dimension in there.

model is from a figure model reference site. He has a really pronounced lower jaw and his proportions are naturally wonky, which keeps throwing me off. Which makes it more fun.

el hombre- espera por ella.

done? maybe? Not too keen on the background.

oh well. i had fun. good face study. first photoshop piece i've done that i really wanted to keep working on.

my ref picture was of a guy wearing a mask staring out a window. found it off deviantart. if anyone wants the link, i can provide.

Names

listening to cat power always makes me a wee bit teary... so here's a melancholy lad.

Acrylic, 45 miutes.

Beardtastic! ... yet again.

The man your man could...

... smell like?

i like the painting better.

took about 45 minutes. might do more tonight. this is therapeutic. BEARDTASTIC! ... again.

rill rill"

Quick acrylic thing for funsies. My dear lovely Kayla gave me the idea. So behold. A cowboy-sailor-hipster-lumberjack. BEARDTASTIC.