I’ve been pretty busy lately but I still find that the time spent sketching with the Sketchoholics
is time well spent. I’m not kidding! If you are an artist and want to get better this place is golden. Click on over and find out what’s up with Sketch Marathons, the Chiustream, artist interviews, the Intensity Club… it’s all free and you can win cool art! These drawings were all done in under an hour…
Undiscovered Sea Creature
Space Ship!
Unusual Science Teacher
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Creature with a pet… I have been so excited about drawing lately. I love my projects and am passionate about creating a good product but it has been a while since I’ve felt drawn to drawing. I’m so thankful to have found a sketch group full of creative people who are passionate about getting better. I’ve given up TV time to draw! What is the world coming too 
?
Back to real work !
Any artists out there who need a boost should check out Sketchoholic.com
. Bobby Chiu has really created a great resource that is just growing! His team at Imaginism Studios are also amazing. Fun!
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I’m loving these hour long sketch breaks so much I’ve been trying to do one a day. It’s really been a great brain exercise and I can feel progress! I love it. Today I struggled with creating a unique interpretation of ‘Mustache’ so I decided to go with a familiar theme and just try to do it well. While I like how my Walrus turned out, a bunch of other people went the same direction! Oh well… better luck next time!
“Mustache”
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Sketch break as of 1/1/1900
Here’s a few more 1 hour sketches for sketchoholic.com
Strong, Big, and Graceful
Fat Little Princess
Electric Elf
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I took an art break in the middle of doing more art… I love one toothed alligators .
Sketchoholic contest entry. One hour and the topic was “One tooth”
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Art Break!, last added: 8/13/2010
Growing up my Dad used to enjoy the occasional monster movie. I recall seeing Godzilla fight Gammorah on more than one occasion. I think the thing that interested me most was that Godzilla had this strange relationship with the humans. He always helped them out! Crazy, water-sleeping, building smashing, man-in-a-monster-suit monster! Anyway, I’m sure there were a couple where the monster had a strange connection with a small boy so here we have Godzilla playing catch with a little boy.I’m not so thrilled with the way the color turned out on this one. I may have to revisit this in the near future to see if I can improve the process a little. For now it’s time to move on!
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Sketchoholic – Godzilla! Fetch!, last added: 7/3/2010
Sketchoholic this afternoon. What a rush! A lot of great entries and I ended up coming in 2nd! Woo hew! One of these days I will claim the coveted Bobby Chui sketch
. These one hour sketch throw-downs are so intense and I actually learn alot about how to get ideas down quickly and how to make some quick decisions. If you like to draw and like the encouragement that comes from sketching with a group of people be sure to check it out!
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Had a great time sketching today with The Intensity Club at Imaginism Studios. Voted top by the other artists so thanks! Looking forward to the next sketch.
This past winter I illustrated a book called Cop’s Night Before Christmas
, by Michael Harrison. It’s a great story about a policeman whose duties call him to serve on Christmas Eve, away from his family. I really enjoyed illustrating it and can’t wait to see the final product! I just found out the Michael Harrison will be featured in American Profile magazine in 2011!
American Profile
will run a feature on Michael Harrison, author of
Cop’s Night Before Christmas for Christmas Eve
2011American Profile is a weekly, four-color magazine that circulates within community newspapers nationwide.
To get ready for its release this fall I’m posting a few of my favorite images… check back in September for a few more!
Sketchoholic.com
, one of Bobby Chui’s web sites has had another contest. The theme of this one centered around sculpture and interpreting something classical. I went around and around with this one and finally settled on the
caryatids in Greece.
It seemed like a good idea… then I decided to make this my next promotional mailer (gotta make the art work for me
. So my thought was to make a postcard with a fun spot on the back to tie the whole thing together. So here we go
…
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Well, not quite . This was a quick cartoon for one of my clients to advertise their services.
And now for something a little different! I was asked to do this retro-styled piece for one of my clients and thought it sounded like a good challenge! I’d love to dig into this technique a little more and see where it takes me. I’ve also been taking some figure drawing classes at the KIA and those have definitely been helping me identify problem areas in my art.
Till next time! Thanks for stopping by.
Hey Ya’ll (ala’ Paula Dean), today’s my birfday so I took the day off! Woo! Hoo! Had a little Lee’s chicken, downloaded some iPod apps, and did a drawing for sketchoholic.com
. Today Bobby Chui is interviewing Humberto Ramos and the winner of their little drawing contest gets a drawing from Humberto. I love original artwork so here’s hoping! And it’s my birthday so I have birthday luck on my side
.
While you are here check out the book page
I’ve added to the site! I’ve linked most of the books I’ve worked on and it’s neat to see everything in one place
.
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FairyQuest – contest entry as of 1/1/1900
Sketchoholics unite!
Sketchoholic
These are all me!!
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How exciting that you are having a signing! If I lived closer I would definitely come. =)
I wish you could be there! I could use some familiar faces
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Good luck David; sell a bunch, but most of all, have fun! Thanks again for everything.