Sketches for the week

Some sketches I did while looking at Scott Campbell. Trying to get better at my line quality and drawing hot women. My line is still a little too sketchy for my taste and the overall flow isn't working out for me yet. I can always see my weaknesses when I use pen. Too much of a painter I guess. Also, this is my final touchup on the painting up top. Added some purer reds and upped the saturation a bit. Looks alot better in person. I think the camera tends to balance out the contrast some. Ah well.

So, I have to say, this stickk.com thing is actually getting me to get some work done and now that i'm starting to get used to it, I think I'm going to up the ante a bit. My goal for February is to make a submission to ballistic publishing. I'm moving this weekend and then I can totally dedicate myself to it, so wish me luck!

Few Sketches and Painting Progress

Well, week two of Stickk.com and I can already feel myself dwindling. Still trying to get back to my roots and not make this a chore. Drawing should be fun, right!? Anyway, my progress on the painting is going well. Tomorrow is my last day to work on it and then we are switching to a live model. It was a long day today and I didn't get as much drawing in as I would have liked. Monday is normally my productive day, so this is kind of depressing. The next few weeks are going to get busy as hell because I will be moving soon. I can do it though! One month to completing a painting!

Stickk.com

Well, it's been a while I suppose. So my best friend and I are trying this New Years resolution thing where he works out and I finish six personal paintings this year. We're using a site called Stickk.com and refereeing each other to make sure we stay accountable. The site takes money out of our account and gives it to our ref if we fail for the week, so it's pretty good at keeping you motivated :-) My goal for this week was to just do some sketching and try to remember why I enjoy drawing. I feel like the biggest problem I've been having is that I consider drawing, 'work' when it should just be good ole fashion 'fun.' 

I started off drawing some video game fan art like I did when I was a kid. Everything was done from imagination (except the painting which was from a painting class I had) and I suddenly know all of my weaknesses when it comes to anatomy and perspective. I need to keep drawing from imagination so I can remind myself what I need to work on and to just have some fun. Anyway, next week I want to focus more on what my painting will be about and get some thumbnails in. Taking it slow at first so I don't kill myself. Let me know if you want to support me on stickk and I'll send an invite so you get weekly updates.