Drawing of the Day
Archive for the ‘Artwork’ Category
Fried Chicken Rules
Wednesday, March 21st, 2012
Heavy Hammer
Friday, March 16th, 2012Drawing of the Day:
Hoot
Monday, March 12th, 2012Again, it’s been a while since I posted a doodle. This guy went to RIT in Rochester, NY, apparently.
Latham Water Tower
Thursday, February 23rd, 2012I am from a little suburban town outside of Albany, NY called Latham. This is where my formative years were spent. I went to elementary school, junior high and high school there. I fell in both lust and love for the first time there. I ate my first burrito there, saw my first shooting star, got kicked in the balls for the first time, was bitten by a snake for the first time, learned how to ride a bike…you get the idea. Anyway, recently, they tore down my favorite Latham landmark, which was this pair of checkered water towers right off the exit ramp from the highway. Instead of crying about it, I decided to immortalize this glorious structure on a t-shirt:
If you’re from Latham, the Albany area, the tri-state region, or if you just happen to really love water towers or checker patterns or shirts that say “never forget” and have some not-that-serious thing you’re supposed to remember, then you should go to Donkeyshines Jr. and check out the design. It comes on many styles of shirt, including children’s size.
Giant Gorilla Valentine
Wednesday, February 15th, 2012Here is the Valentine’s Day card I made for my wife this year.
Some of you may be wondering why I didn’t draw the giant gorilla’s junk. Initially, I just didn’t think about it. I’ve drawn many, many apes, looking at many, many sources for reference and never have I actually taken notice of what a gorilla’s junk looks like. Somehow the junk must have always been obscured by the ape’s position or whatever, and I apparently didn’t need that information for whatever ape pose I was drawing. In THIS drawing, however, the lack of gorilla junk is pretty noticeable. I even had a chance to cover that area with clouds, but for whatever reason, I just didn’t realize until after I was finished. I suppose I could still go back into it and either add gorilla junk or move that one cloud slightly lower, but I’m just too lazy. Also, as always, I need to stop myself now, or I could keep working on the same drawing forever. Perhaps the next time I draw a gorilla (which will definitely be some time this year) I will add the junk. We’ll just have to wait and see. Perhaps the next gorilla I draw will be wearing pants.
Undead Warriors
Friday, February 3rd, 2012Drawing of the day
Super Envy
Monday, January 30th, 2012So I’ve decided to get back to posting the doodles and sketches I do when I’m barely thinking about it, because I kind of like them. I hesitate to committing to posting one every day because I know sometimes I just won’t get around to it for whatever reason. Anyway, he’s this one:
Julia Stiles’s Head on Tara Reid’s Body
Monday, January 16th, 2012I did this digital painting as a gift for a friend of mine. He likes both Tara Reid and Julia Stiles, but I only had time to paint one of them, so I compromised. I am not necessarily a fan of either woman, although Julia Stiles and I do share a birthday. It was a fun little exercise in portraiture, color and brushwork. I feel the facial likeness could be better (I didn’t paint straight from any single photo, trying to combine elements of a bunch), but I’m pretty happy with how Reid’s body came out.
Leela and Zoidberg X-mas Card
Wednesday, January 4th, 2012Here is the X-mas card my wife made me this year. It features our new kittens attacking their namesakes from Futurama. Vanessa is much better at art than I am at science.
Monkeyshines X-mas
Thursday, December 29th, 2011Here is the X-mas card I gave to my wife. I think it’s actually more frightening than the Devil card.
Overall, I’m pretty happy with how it came out. I wouldn’t consider the tree to be as finished as I’d like, but I had the hard deadline if I wanted it to give it to Vanessa in time for X-mas. I know I could technically go back into it now, but if I make a habit of that, then I’ll never finish anything ever.
