First post of the New Year

Two months without a post. Where does the time go? Well, here are a couple new ones anyway.

I made this one as a Christmas gift for my friend. I'm pretty happy with the way this one came out. As usual, I was going to keep it "simple", but start getting some detail in one area, then I feel like I need to add some detail to another area, and so it goes.




I've had this sketch laying around for a while and finally got around to putting some color on it during my Christmas vacation. The left side of her jacket needs a bit of work, but I was just messing around anyway.




I was messing around with the blending modes for the paint texture layer and got this. You can get some interesting results just by trying the different modes. I never would have picked this palette on my own. I liked the way it looked, so I thought I'd throw it up here.

Feeler

I just finished reading part two of The Strain trilogy. I happened to pick up the first one to read during a flight over the summer, and was surprised how good it was. Guillermo del Toro's name on the book was the main thing that made me pick it up. Anyway the book is about a vampiric viral outbreak that begins at a New York airport during an elipse. There's a group of blind vampire children called "Feelers" in the book that I'm kind of fascinated with. I was just messing around combining cute and gruesome in this quickie.

Gallery Girls - The Tarot

Here are some new ones from Gallery Girls over the weekend and one from Dr. Sketchy's. Gallery Girls was a nice and chill one this time with a bit of room to move around. They gave out DIY tarot cards at the door. Mine is now hanging on the fridge. I love the metal dude with sword, goat head chain, face paint, and NO PANTS :) It's so hard to look metal without pants.

Deep Sea Divin'

Here's a new one. I spent way longer than I intended on this one. It started out as a quickie paint over of a sketch, but then I started to correct drawing issues, and render out the materials.I like the way it came out, but I seem to have so much trouble just keeping things simple. It's just too easy to get carried away in Photoshop.

New Stuff

Here's a few new ones. A little drawing in the city, Berkeley, and the last Dr. Sketchy's. This was the first I'd been to Sketchy's at 111 Minna in quite a while. The side room was open this time with the model on stage, which was nice. They should have had it set up that way the entire time! I think I'm going to start going to these regularly again. Those five minute poses go quick! I've been super lazy about keeping my blog updated this summer. Hopefully I'll get a groove back here.

A Midsummer Night's Dream

The Gallery Girls were in town on Saturday. I couldn't believe how many people were jammed into the rooms; at least I had a chair. I managed to get some good drawings while holding off a claustrophobic panic attack. I also did a some drawing in North Beach on Sunday. Getting better at drawing buildings. It seems like it's all about taking your time.

Under the sea

Working on some sketches for a new illustration yesterday. I decided to try messing around with some color over one of the thumbnails. It came out surprisingly well for just messing around. Now to do some sketches for the deep sea diver.