Shirt

Yes, I drew a picture of a t-shirt I printed.

In my defense, it was an assignment. Also, the drawing turned out really well.

NuPastel on Strathmore velvet grey paper.

Camera

This is the camera I use to take pictures of my drawings. Done for my Art 4C (drawing) class. It's NuPastel on Velvet Gray paper. I could probably still work on it, and I might. Sometime in the future. But it's good for now.

Coffee Filter 2.0 - WIP

Instead of making me revise my previous drawing, my instructor asked me to make a new drawing of the coffee filter. So I did. Its still a WIP, but it's nearly there.

I like this one better, I think. The edges seem sharper. I need to tweak it just a bit, but it's still looks really good to me. Which is unusual. I only spent an hour on it. I kind of feel like I'm cheating.

Art 4C - Discarded Object

The first lesson for Art 4C - Draw a discarded object. This is a coffee filter in charcoal on Strathmore Velvet Grey 500 series.

Revised final drawing - Art 4B

Final drawing done in pastel for Art 4B. Added more lost edges, more color, did a better job of editing the levels and curves in Photoshop. Could use a better crop, but I'm too lazy to do that at the moment. Maybe I'll do it when I make prints, which I plan on doing.

Recent works

Copy of a still life by Courbet. Original image can be found here.

I can draw green apples. I like the stroke work on this one.

I can also draw red apples.

Lemon & Orange

An orange I drew. It's alright. The shadows were giving me trouble.

A lemon I drew with pastels. I'm getting better at this, I swear. I drew this before the orange/lemon still life. I should probably spend more time each week practicing.

I've also found that drawing from pictures is easier than drawing from life. Go figure. Again, I probably just need to practice.

Art 4B - Still Life

Pastel still life of 2 lemons and an orange I made for my drawing class.

Art 4B lesson revision

These look much better than the first attempt, I think.

I think I might crop the images a bit, but I'm satisfied with the shading and gradations that I got.

Feynman - portrait

I felt like drawing someone's portrait today, so I went with Richard Feynman. This was made in Corel Painter using the 2B Pencil and Soft Pointed Blender. I took the image off of "Six Not-So-Easy Pieces."

Spaceman - finished (more or less)

Finalized (for now) version of the Spaceman painting I started two weeks ago. I think I can polish it up a bit, but it's good enough to submit for my class.

I had thought to add a very translucent layer of red on top of the other layer in order to colorize it a bit, but I like the colors as they are. I may play around with that.

Spaceman—WIP, ±40%

A work in progress. I've already spent at least 4 hours working on it. This is the basic structure and color. I'm hoping to add more detail before it's due.

Made in Corel Painter with Oil Pastels and Acrylics. Mostly Oil Pastels.

Art art art art

I've started school again. I'm taking ART 86 (Painting on the computer) again. Hopefully I'll have exercises/projects that are more exciting this time around. Here's my first exercise for the class:

It's a flying shoe. I was inspired by one of my shoes poking me in the back. I don't know why my shoe was on my bed. But it was timely inspiration, at least.

Made with Ballpoint pen, Flat color, Nervous pen and Smooth round pen variants in Corel Painter.

New drawing, WIP

I haven't really practiced drawing this summer, so I thought better later than never. I finally got around to installing my Wacom tablet onto this laptop. This is the result of one hour of effort on my part. Not very interesting perhaps, but practice is practice.

Drawn in Corel Painter, with Wacom tablet. I think I used charcoal brushes and the "Just Add Water" blender. It's not of anyone in particular, I'm just drawing from imagination. Maybe I'll find someone in particular to draw eventually, but for now I just need to re-familiarize myself with the program and the tablet.

I'm so happy that I can use my tablet again.

Introducing: squidpanda

This came from over-caffination and boredom at work. Well, I waited until I got home before I started on it, but the concept (or random idea, really) came to me at work.