Hello! Hooray!

I have little or nothing to say. I've been trying to put together this post while also deciphering what Alice Cooper was getting at with his song, 'My God'. Moving on..

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ON SECOND THOUGHT

Apparently, I decided to return to my thought bubble doodles/art. Oh how I do likes it.

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WRENCH

Something is wrong and needs fixing. Perhaps if I had a wrench....

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KISS ME, I'M 50% IRISH

This was actually born from an old magazine ad I spotted over the weekend. Loved the lines in that illustration and tried to somewhat copy them here. Why the Clover? Cuz my wife just made a super deluxe pinata for St Patrick's Day.

On Doodle!

All of these posts are about practice. This time, its practice on paper and practice on screen.

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King Worm

Doodled up and rethought a few times. Bit of erasing and a bit more doodle but none too involved. I began this with only the idea of drawing in mind. Nothing specific. Little did I know that it would become another piece of practice on my new digital tablet.

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King Worm in COLOR

Honestly, I don't know if this was success or not. I did feel like I got a few steps further. I definitely need a good stretch of several hours work with this tablet. Pretty bird, yes?

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ONE MORE FOR THE ROAD

This was drawn for the sake of allowing some of this practice to be more about letting something happen. Or rather, I needed a break from concentration. And that's all.

Re-Education

I've gotten my hot little hands on an Intuos 4 tablet and have been practicing as much as I can handle. The eye strain, the back pain, an ill suited chair, static electricity and a pounding headache all working against me. Doesn't exactly help that I'm re-educating myself in some ways while learning entirely new things at the same time. That should be enough complaining and excusing. Let's see what we have to see this week....

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DEJA VU

Please remember to go easy on me. You may recognize this guy from last week's rambling. I took that scan and began practicing with the Intuos. The worst of things is working out how to recreate the kind of brush stroke I wish I was experiencing. ...make sense? I want the virtual paint to behave more like the real stuff. I was given a complimentary copy of some Corel Painter Sketchpad thing but it only crashes. I have yet to actually close the application! Its a guaranteed crash after I begin playing with the thing. Its too bad because I think I might enjoy it if it worked. But anyway, you can probably see how I'm getting used to the "painting". I see it in the horns and in some of the color changes.

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Oliver

A bit of contrast here. This is also practice in that I was working out a composition and patience. This is a weak doodle of a friend's baby boy with a little layout framed around him. I don't know where its going to go. This is number 5 or 6 in regard to this subject and my attempts at creating something of which I won't be ashamed. I don't know when I lost my patience but it is greatly missed, I can tell you.

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REPEAT X2

Back to the digital work! This is yet another practice image. You may recognize the drawing as it has been posted in two other forms on this web log. Here, I'm trying to work out underpainting and a satisfying method of working over it. I'm being quite stubborn in that I keep refusing to work more simply in starting out. I should work on simple shapes like cubes and cones and so on. More impatience but I imagine it will pass. After all, this tablet is an exciting toy.

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TECHNICOLOR

Again, I'm using already scanned drawings to work over. I have a painting of this general image but I hate it. ...and its unfinished. I set it aside and then we moved to this apartment and yadda yadda I haven't gotten back to it. So there's little to say here but that its another practice session. You like?

Odd Rods

When I was young, my older brother(s) had access to the greatest trading cards of all time: Odd Rods. Although those images left their mark in me, I never pursued that style of drawing. Never drew Hot Rods or cars in general.

Recently, my wife and I spent some time at a local car show and I found myself mesmerized by a vendor's collection of patches and decals (many of which can be found here). I purchased a couple of decals and one patch. I'm going to be very amused at seeing them on my Honda Fit.

But in the meantime, I found myself wanting to take a poke at creating some similar imagery.

I didn't have a lot of time to put into it but I have enjoyed playing. Look below for some of the results.

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LIZARD DeVILLE

If only I knew more about cars. I might have come up with a more clever title. This guy was supposed to have been working a stick shift but by the time it came to add that bit to the drawing, I decided that it didn't quite fit. It would only look like a cane. If the page had been larger, I could have drawn a little bit of hot rod around him. His left arm on the door and his right hand on the stick. Oh well.

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SCARE-AVAN (?)

I don't know why I'm bothering with the "clever" car related titles. I'm still not drawing cars. Just the monsters that drive them. At any rate, this was my quick sketching, off the top of my head, as I looked for a style of my own while still holding on to the general look of the Hot Rod monsters I loved as a kid.

And that's all I got.

Baba

Tragically, I have nothing to say.

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A MACHINE

A curious thing that happened when I was playing with pencil and marker. Another monster though. Can't get enough of monsters.

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Seuss Nightmare

This started innocently enough as I was drawing something slightly sinister but by the time I was drawing that body and those hands, I realized that I was creating some kind of nightmarish Dr Seuss character. He isn't a good thing.

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CONTINUED

From last week. I don't know if I'll fool around with this drawing any more or not. It was exercise and good for me. And that's a yo-yo, not a hamburger.