Tropical Girl-002

This is another tropical themed sketch to help me cope with the cold weather of Oregon at the moment.

Topical Girl-001

Today I wanted to go to the tropics but it has been cold and rainy this week in Oregon. So I decided to sketch a series of tropical themed sketches for my daily paintings for Facebook. Today's sketch was sketched from a photo I found on the web. The music for the video soundtrack was created by Trevin Hughes , my nephew, and a very talented young musician. The sketch was digital and done in about 30 minutes using a wacom bamboo digital tablet and photoshop cs5.

Self Portrait - 28 June 2011

Today I stayed with the big brushes. I rigged up two mirrors and sketched myself in quarter view. This is all digital- took about 30 minutes. I use a small wacom bamboo digital drawing tablet and photoshop CS5 when I'm not painting with regular paints.

Unhappy Boy

Today in Photoshop, I used a giant brush designed by Facebook friend Chris Wahl. Using big brushes makes it hard for me to fool around with details and fiddleybits and it forces me to focus on the broader shapes. This quick sketch took about 20 minutes and I used a photo of a young boy I found on the web as the source. I loved the pouty expression he had.

Self Portrait - June 25 2011

A quick self portrait before going to bed tonight. If I look tired....I am. LOL

Expressing Jeans

Today I simply drew something I found interesting. I had been reading an article at lunch about genes and cancer and how some are expressed and some aren't and when it came time to sketch today's drawing of the day, this came out. A brain phart I guess.
This was all digital and took about 15 minutes.

Praying Mantis

Just a sketch... digital 15 minutes.