So, this is how it works. I'm warming up to the blogging, so I thought I'd explain how I warm up to draw. By returning to something comfortable, practiced and easy! People!
Now I say
easy, it's not really. And easy also implies that I've nailed it. I haven't, not by a long stretch. In fact I'm only just getting started on it having been at the task for nearly all of my 26 years. A tutor at university told me once he'd spent 40 years drawing trees and still hadn't found a satisfactory way to do it. Kind of explained his hair cut I must admit...
This is really how it works. I open the book, pick up the pen, start at the face. Why? It's the first thing you look at when you look at people, unless you're an ass or boob man. From face to hair to neck to shoulders to body and so on. Pen scribbling, fast and furious. Fingers communicating with the hand, telling the brain where to move next. (This isn't scientifically how my body works, by the by. I'm no medical marvel!)
This guy happened around an oval. I was drawing the guy below, who I'd seen that afternoon, in bar or on the tube or somewhere. He'd been much more interesting to look at in real life and I was unhappy with my drawing of him. But that's the way it often goes! Move on man! New pastures! Next one will be the one! Whilst sketching him my pen flicked up an oval on the right hand page so I built a sketch around it, pushing out the arm and legs in a twist turn of sorts, adding a screaming mouth and rakish 'tashe. The kind all the Aussie's who frequent my local boozer seem to be sporting. I did want to "check" his shirt but I figured that'd spoil the flow. Gotta know when to stop...
This was the first sketch of these three. I've stuck it in the middle. Helpful, huh?! The guy I saw on the tube! You're still with me! I know you are!
The guy below I drew whilst watching TV, probably "100 greatest stupidest purchases of the rich and famous, volume 27". He might be a "Celebrity", he may just be "Some Guy". He's a pretty
fluid guy though, I kinda like him. Now I come to look at him again, maybe he's the guy for "Razorlight"... Does it matter? No...
Ok, I'm going to write less next time. This is supposed to be about the pics, not my ranting.
I'll get better, promise.
Reeko
I don't tend to post my design work here, mainly because this was supposed to be my sketchbook blog but also because the majority of the work I do for my day job totally sucks.
"So remember those birds that I was drawing, like, loads?"
People grow at different rates and at different times in their lives. Oh, sorry, you knew that already? You mean I'm not a great omnipotent truth telling sage? Oh well. Maybe tomorrow.
"...is it a monster, is it a monster!". Here's a panicking Money man, not sure about what's coming over the hill...
Sometimes things just come together. I drew this on Tuesday, Wednesday, midweek anyway and I look at the topic for Illustration Friday this week and it's "missing". Perfect. What's she missing from her stomach? Whatever you want her to miss. That's fun bit of art (other than the doing)!
Moon? You're going to pick moon for a topic? Red rag, bull, anyone? Ok, so this my illustration friday for this week. It's been a couple weeks seen I've posted one (I almost always thumbnail ideas for them, half the time I finish an image) and I've been chained to a mac for the last few weeks so I was just so desperate to get my hands on paper and some ink! Enjoy!
The final image for the previously posted sketches. That sentence doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Sorry! I posted some sketches for an image illustrating the skin phenomenon "Goose bumps". This is the final image illustrating the skin phenomenon "Goose bumps". Clear enough? Are you happy now? Good!
I thought I do a quick post and put up the sketches I've been doing for a new image called "Goosebumps". The main drawing (top) is the basis for the digital painting which I will start when I stop being so anal about having all the correct album covers for each track on my ipod. The fact that the damn thing stays in my pocket 95% of the time is not the point...!
This was supposed to be a sketchbook blog and a lot of the stuff I've been posting isn't very... sketchy so I thought I'd do a crop from a corner of my current (suck ass) sketchbook. I tried to crop some of these guys out but they look just so random all together, exactly as I drew them, but they just wouldn't separate! You've got the guy in the top left who looks a bit zombified, some flying books (the staple of any good horror movie), a guy screaming, a Nosferatu guy dreaming of sun beds and a gangster looking vampire dreaming of being able to wear shades. Oh, and some teeny guy looking lost in the background. Oh dear...
Back when I first started out I used to email people all day long. One dark rainy Tuesday I got sick of getting one reply out of a hundred emails which read, to paraphrase, "Thanks so much, we have a bunch of guys we already work with who fulfill every need but we'll keep you on file." I thought I'd put myself on file. I never got round to finishing an image for it, but here's the sketch anyway.
