Today I tried to work completely paperless.¬† The first sketch was off a 4×6 Wacom Graphire tablet.¬† I dunno, I’m not pleased with the results.¬† I got pretty antsy after drawing for an hour and I needed something a little more… um… sophisticated? The second drawing was done with a Wacom Cintiq.¬† Felt a little better, but I’m still not satisfied.¬† Hopefully, the results will get better the more I practice.
Hope you all had a good Thanksgiving. It was good to get a break and see my family again. I had some friends visit from Seattle, and that was a lot of fun to see both my friends and my family interact together.
Lately, I had some trouble trying to come up with anything for these sketches. Part of it was being sick, the other was just getting stressed out about how I draw since I’m putting these on the web for people to see. I check out some artists’ blogs every once in a while and some of them have real valuable information in them. However, it’s tempting to mimic another artist’s style that I find appealing. I realized that, while it is helpful to learn from examples, the burden’s still on me to produce my own style. If I can draw well, but have no style, I’m just a drafter, not an artist.
Anyways, enough of my ranting… here are some of the sketches from last week and tonight. Thanks to Michelle for providing the dogs. They’re so cuuute. Enjoy!
I struggled through a drawing block today to get these two pages.¬† Hopefully the rest of the week gets better…
 
 
Earlier this year, I felt a little guilty about the mp3s I downloaded when I was in school. This summer, I deleted all of them, which is the majority of my music collection, and I was left with a much shortened playlist. No problem, I thought, I’ll just buy back the ones that I used to listen to all the time. But then I realized that if I wanted to be legit, I need money. While I miss the days of downloading songs by the gigload, this does force me to consider which music is worth my money.In 2007, I’ve purchased the following CDs:
Augustana - All The Stars And Boulevards
Eric Clapton - Clapton Chronicles
Franz Ferdinand - You Have It So Much Better
Jimi Hendrix - Experience Hendrix
Jars of Clay - Good Monsters
John Mayer - Continuum
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Queen - Greatest Hits
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Joe Satriani - Surfing With The Alien
The Shins - Wincing the Night Away
Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
St. Vincent - Marry Me
Switchfoot - Oh! Gravity.
Derek Webb - The Ringing Bell
I have to say that Radiohead and Spoon are getting the most plays. I warmed up to St. Vincent after a few listens and Derek Webb’s lyrics in The Ringing Bell are awesome. So if anyone has any other suggestions for music, I’d like to hear them… so I can go and hear the music too… yeah…
I’m trying to block out my Tuesdays and Thursdays as sketch nights. I need to just sit down and make time for myself.¬† So this is the first of my sketch sessions. Most of it is drawing whatever comes to mind, sometimes it’s developing something from my little black book. A goal for me is to find my style in the next few weeks. So, without further ado, here are some excerpts from my first sketch session.
