I’ve been meaning to update for a while now but it just hasn’t happened. I wish I could claim that I was busy doing very productive things but I’m afraid there hasn’t been quite enough of that recently either. Continue reading
So apparently I am terrible at updating this blog even when I don’t have University as an excuse. I was away on a family vacation for a while but other than that my time has just been disappearing into the ether somehow. It’s amazing how much time people (and cats) suddenly want to spend with you when you finally have some free time after having had your head buried in textbooks for the past few months.
I have not stopped sketching however. Continue reading
So apparently it has been about five months since my last post. Sorry for disappearing off the face of the earth there. I started an accelerated masters program at University a few months ago and it is far more intensive than I expected. Pretty much everything has fallen to the wayside. No time for friends, family, healthy eating, sleep, or (sadly) much drawing. Basically all of my time over the last few months has been spent either going to class or working on assignments.
The good news is: I’m off for the next month! Yay! Pretty much the first thing I did was start drawing again. Literally. I finished my last assignment on Tuesday. Then Wednesday morning I woke up and started on this sketch for a friend of mine Continue reading
So this weekly posting thing seems to be a thing that’s happening now. I still haven’t really decided if that’s what I’m going to settle on or not but right now that’s where I’m at. For the time being I’m doing daily sketches with weekly posts and that seems to be working out okay. I don’t have any trouble drawing something every day that way and that’s really the part that’s important to me. It does still feel strange posting a Thursday Mannequin Sketch and a Sunday Hand Sketch at the same time though. The hand sketch is almost a week old at this point. That may be the longest I’ve ever waited to post one, though possibly not by much. Continue reading
This whole regular posting schedule thing seems to just be flying out the window lately. I’m kind of at an inbetween stage right now. Hopefully by the end of February, beginning of March I’ll be able to get a more stable schedule sorted out. In the meantime I am still drawing regularly. I just haven’t gotten around to posting anything for the past week. That means that I now have a whole week’s worth of sketches to upload. This was today’s. It was another request from one of my supervisors at work for her son. Actually I drew it on Monday (I’ll post the original line drawing below) but I didn’t get around to colouring it in until today. So this was still my main artistic endeavour for the day. Continue reading
I haven’t been drawing anything terribly interesting lately. Mostly I’ve just been doodling in my sketchbook experimenting with various things that don’t really turn out. I did start on that Darth Vader sketch at one point but I never quite finished it. Maybe I will at some point. He’s just so complicated and I am way too invested in getting him right. It’s a frustrating combination. Continue reading
Here’s Betty Boop as promised. The mother of one of my co-workers actually requested this one. Her daughter has four of my random Disney sketches on her wall now so she wanted one for her own wall. Apparently she’s a big fan of Betty Boop.
I actually had a lot of fun with this one. Betty Boop is very interesting to draw. She is definitely completely different from everything I’ve drawn before. There were some good lessons to be learned here. Continue reading
Today I ended up doing quite a few silly cartoon drawings. I was only really intending to do the Olaf one. One of my co-workers requested it for her daughter. They’re moving at the end of the month and she wants to put it up in her daughter’s new bedroom to make it more friendly and less foreign feeling. Her daughter is of course completely obsessed with Frozen, as a lot of kids these days seem to be. I decided to pull out my copic markers for this one to give it a bit more colour. It’s been a long time since I worked with colour and I wanted to give it a shot again. Continue reading
I feel bad about my intermittent posting lately so I’ll do another quick one today just to prove I’m still alive before going to bed. This was the latest Disney sketch request from my coworkers. My friend suggested Bambi and I though Thumper would be more appropriate so then she insisted I should do both and include Flower as well because it wouldn’t be right to leave him out. I did my best to oblige her. Actually I think Flower is my favourite part of this drawing which is interesting since that was the character I was most reluctant to draw.
One Stumble at a Time 