Wednesday, July 18, 2012

DS11 - Swamp Titan



Did a Daily Sketch with a group today!
The theme was Swamp Titan.

Daily sketches are always limited to an hour or less
But I really wanted to try coloring this piece like an old comic book...
So above is the sketch version and the colored version which took a little longer.


I'll post links to T's and Matt's Titans if they upload them to their blogs/tumblrs

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Sunday, July 15, 2012

Daily Sketch 8 - Iron Giant


Every once in a while I try to redesign characters I like.
Here's a sketch of the Iron Giant. 

I think I could've pushed it more but right now I'm sticking to a time limit.
It's fun to try and make a piece the best you can make it in a short amount of time.

Saturday, July 14, 2012

Daily Sketch 7 - rocket butt


yesterday my blog finally passed my old calarts portfolio blog in pageviews.

I dunno why but I was happy about that so today's sketch is inspired by this joyous day.

Thursday, July 12, 2012

Daily Sketch 5 - Stomp Stomp!

keeping things in sketch form is hard sometimes.
I think I like this one this way though.

Trying to get a brush to look like an ink brush pen.  
Anyone know/have any good brushes?
I can't seem to get it right.

Sunday, July 8, 2012


A background for a project I'm working on.
Tweaked the colors and stuff forever and it's still not right yet.



Daily Sketch number 1!
I'm starting it back up again.
Unlike last time most of them will probably actually be sketches like this one.


Friday, July 6, 2012

cowboys are cool

Sketch for the morning!

Saw a video recently of a guy who taped himself as a 12 year old and 20 years later had a conversation with himself.  
It was really funny and I recommend you watch it if you haven't.


watching it reminded me of a conversation I had with a friend recently. 
During which I talked a bit about myself as a kid.
One of them being that at a certain age, I genuinely wanted to be a cowboy.
I'd walk around with the hat, neck tie, boots, and of course a cap gun.
The full gear really.
I thought cowboys were the coolest.

I remember doing so at random moments during the week.
At church especially...
Thinking back, I'm starting to think I was a pretty cool kid.
And I know back then I thought I was pretty cool too... because I was a cowboy.

whatever happened to that cool kid...?
Thinking back made me smile a bit.
Maybe I'll do some more sketches of other stuff I remember haha.

Sunday, July 1, 2012

New friend

Here's a doodle I just did. 

I've been a bit busier than I thought I'd be. 
It's great but now I really want to do my own thing.
Maybe... maybe

Thursday, June 21, 2012

Sketchbook stuff


Here's some scans from my sketchbook.














And here's an old sketch of one of my best friends back in Chicago I did last summer. 

 


I start sketchbooks and leave them unfinished a lot of times. 
But every once in a while (when I don't have any more sketchbooks) I start up old ones again. 

 
It's always cool to see old sketches and doodles that were done a year ago right besides new ones.
I like to think I improve sometimes.
But sometime old sketches that aren't the greatest have some good memories attached to them

Sunday, June 3, 2012