portrait 11/13

beth, 11"x14" - As always, I apologize for the crappy photo-reproduction of the work here. If you wanna see them look really good, you're just going to have to make a visit. :)

Two for One

Beth, approx 12"x12" - Wednesday night figure study.

For those of you that may have noticed one of the first posts to this blog, these pins are being released as promotional items for the comic I'm working on with Tony and his brother. It revolves around a character named Nathan Cresk, who is in a governmentally run 'contest' to see what American gets to go to space - and THEN it gets crazy. So, these are campaign buttons for Cresk. Genius.

Toned Paper Studies

Just getting into this, and I really like it. These were both done in about an hour. Also, check out my Flickr Page link on the right, it has updates from the weekend. If you use a reader, you can subscribe to the flickr page, FYI.

Karla

As per usual, unfinished (had to watch The Office!) and a lot of lessons learned (aka FAILs).

This is my first charcoal drawing in ages. I think I need to do some more, this came out nicely for not having worked with the medium much.

Figure Study

First one in a while. Rusty, but ok. I'm going to an actual figure session tomorrow instead of working from stock photos, so that'll be interesting.  This was about 45 mins.

Long time coming

10" x 8" - Untitled

I'm posting this in part because I feel like there's something dreadfully wrong and I can't place it. I've looked at it too long to discern problems at this point. Maybe someone out there has an idea, or if you just really really like it, you can buy it!

This is my first painting attempt in over a year, and I'm happy with it for that reason alone, if nothing else! More to come, certainly. 

Photography

There hasn't been a post here in a while, but I promise I've been hard at work. :) I just got a new camera, and some of these you've seen, some I took tonight. Thanks for checking back regardless of my regular neglect of this blog.  (click them to enlarge)

Amanda

Robin and Neal

Famous Sculptures

Amelie, the Raney's little tramp. 

Their dining room at sunset.

See!? That's paint. I'm painting. Which is what I'm going to do right now after I publish this.  Now you have photographic evidence. 

Brown Tree

Just going for that painterly look in photoshop. This is 11" x 8.5" for prints.

Illustrator Tryout

I just did this randomly and decided to try coloring it up in illustrator. Fun experiment, I'll maybe do some more. 

New Drink and Draw setup.

Many of you know about Drink and Draw, its been going steadily for a few months now. However, it started to waver and wane due to the fact that we're getting random and far-reaching on our topics.


So, we came up with a new method. We're going to each pick (or at least four people will pick) a card at random. Person, place, phrase, or thing. Then they come up with a person, place, phrase, or thing at random, depending on which card they got. Then we take all of them, and put them together to make the week's drink and draw topic.

Last week was the first time we did this, and the drawing ended up being: Kindergarten Class, Tomahawk, Mother Teresa, "Takes one to know one"

So you can see how that got crazy. :)

Being the nerds we are, we're taking it to a level beyond. Jon is making a box for these four cards I designed, with keys and everything. Neal will laminate them to ensure that they last. The top and bottom brown things are the same, just flipped - that's the back of each of these four cards. Click for a larger view.