Ouch!

A quicky sketch I did of ET a couple of weeks ago.  There aren't enough ET farts out there.

I revisited this one later and added a background and a bit of texture. I like it much better now!

Digital Sketches

Lately I’ve been playing with doing sketches in Photoshop without drawing them out on paper first.  It’s actually a bit freeing for me because I’m not so precious with the drawings as I am when they are on paper.  Yes – I am so cheap that I don’t even like wasting sketchbook paper on bad sketches (hopefully these aren’t that bad though).

I started out doing a few figure drawings of women because, frankly, I’m not very good at drawing women-

 

                 

Then I did a couple of animal sketches – because they are fun-

               

A Rodin sculpture and Dirty Harry (strangely, these seem somewhat related)-

                        

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Evening Caricature Challenge Part 1

The last week or so Anna and I have been doing caricature challenges where we post a number of pictures of an actor on our living room television screen, and then take 20 minutes to capture the person’s likeness. 
Here are a few from the last couple of nights (I’ve omitted the really bad ones)-

           

Alan Ruck                                   Benicio Del Toro                                    Wanda Sykes

Minnie Driver                                    Rachel Dratch (from SNL)

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I’m definitely going to have to add color to that Benicio Del Toro caricature.  I quite like how that turned out.

Hoatzin Sketch

Sketched this up really quickly this evening.  It's a hoatzin (pronounced "watson").  I saw a whole tree full of these when I was in Ecuador in 2006.  It was like seeing a tree full of 80s punk rockers.

I started this out at exactly the wrong dimensions and resolution, so that's why it kind of looks like a black velvet painting.  Better luck next time.