glendale galleria… what you got?!?

Had a last minute sketchgroup outing at the Glendale Galleria foodcourt this afternoon.  Still have to work on my line quality, but it’ll get there….. eventually.  It’s been a while since I went out to do people sketching, so it was fun to do that again.

Other notes: done in ballpoint pen while eating and shootin the shit.

Toaster Doodle

For those that have been following the blog, some friends and I meet up on friday nights for our weekly sketchgroup meetings. We usually hit up coffee shops and draw for the sake of drawing. Either we do our own creative drawing or sketch the people we see on our outings.

But anyways, a few of us joined together and started another sketchblog called the Toaster Doodle. Someone comes up with a theme/project that we all participate in. We don’t approach it as an assignment or schoolwork because the purpose of the blog is to have fun and grow as better artists in the process. So we just completed our first project called the Luchador Experiment. So my luchador is called Buffalo Tex.

Click here iff you wanna check out my process for the character.
Buffalo Tex Process

And click here to check out the badass work from the rest of the  Toaster Doodle members.
toasterdoodle.blogspot.com

The Weekend Sketch

In an attempt to improve my character design skills, I’ve been doing more people sketches. It’s something that has been begging for attention as I’ve been told during portfolio reviews that my human characters are rather generic looking and less interesting than my animals or quirky looking creatures. The sad thing is that I’ve been drawing human characters a lot longer than animals and creatures. I think it’s because I’ve been defaulting to what’s in my head as opposed to looking at photo reference of different types of people. So to build up that visual vocabulary, I’ve been making more of an effort to design characters from life. Anyways, here’s my sketches from this weekend.

Friday

These sketches were done in downtown Burbank as I met up with some folks from my sketchgroup.  Been trying to get away from sketching with a pencil, so these sketches were done in ballpoint pen and sharpie.  I find it odd that I have more line efficiency with a sharpie than I do with a ballpoint pen.  How that happens, I have no idea.

Saturday

The irony of these sketches were that they were done at the zoo.  Tried drawing the lions, tigers, and bears, oh my.  However, they just didn’t wanna cooperate and would just lay there the whole time.  So I thought I would use the opportunity to sketch the people there.

Sunday

Done in my environment design class at the Concept Design Academy.  I don’t really know the people in the class that well, so I had no qualms about drawing them.  Some of the sketches where drawn in the dark during the teacher demo, so I kinda fudged on the features.  Bad for my eyes, but a nice little challenge  as I’m forced to simplify since there are no features to really noodle over.

It’s all a bunch of hit and miss with these sketches.  My teachers say that it’s all about mileage when it comes to art so I’m pretty much filling up the tank for some long ass road trips.  Luckily there aren’t any police officers to hand out speeding tickets in that regard.  So let me know what you guys think.  Cheers.

Downtown Burbank

So last night I was out in downtown Burbank with some members of my sketchgroup and we pretty much spent the time hopping from place to place drawing.  For me, it’s hard as hell to do any drawing at home because I get easily sidetracked by the internet and television.  So I find these outings to be very beneficial to my artistic growth since I am actually spending time drawing.

Anyways, these drawings were done as I was at the movie theater waiting for everyone to show up.  People sketching has been something I’ve been trying to improve on as of late.  It’s a whole lot harder than it sounds and is a bit of a learning process.  It’s forcing me to design on the fly and is really building up my shape vocabulary because of all the different people I’ve been drawing.  If any of you guys have some tips for people sketching, please share.  Until then, cheers.

weekend sketch

Decided to spend my weekend sketching and trying to design characters from life, albeit that it was homework for David Colman’s character design class at the Concept Design Academy but it was a skill I wanted to build up as a designer. I was at a coffee shop on friday and the zoo on saturday: got a bit of drawing done but not the results that I wanted. To be able to design characters from quick observation is super hard and I found myself trying to capture a likeness more than anything else. It’s challenging, but I think it’ll pay off in the long run. Anyways, enjoy the rest of the weekend. cheers.