Sketchbook Week: One page at a time

To help me get over my umpteenth sketching-block, I picked up some colored markers. I find that sketching in ink forces me to just be really silly and loose. Adding the colors really made things fun again. Sometimes I just take myself too seriously. Then I draw siamese acorns and everything is better.

sketchbook week

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I doodled this on one of the corners of my sketchbook two days ago.

I wasn't thinking while drawing and this little guy ended up on the page. Come to think of it, I think I was feeling just like him at the time I drew this.

Mind works in mysterious ways doesn't it?

Sketchbook Week: Less is More

Hi all,

Right now my sketchbook is housing roughs for an alphabet coloring book. I turned in my sketches for review and thought it would be alright to share a couple since they have been scrapped from the line up.

Why have they been scrapped? Because I went overboard and forgot my target audience. This book is intended for very little ones with big fingers. I knew in my gut that I was drawing too much but ultimately decided it would be quicker to edit rather than add in revisions. Even still, these one's are going to be tossed because I think it will be easier to just come up with a new concept.

Back to the drawing board to simplify, simplify, simplify!

PS Still waiting on my Cintiq. Should hopefully be here today/tomorrow.

Sketchbook Week

It's been a long time since I posted any art to the web at all, of my own. I have not been stagnant. I've been working my butt off on my art licensing collections but I really, REALLY miss sharing my artwork with the on-line creative community. It's tough after sharing so much to go from that to basically nothing.
Anyway -- Ta-Da! Today I am sharing just a tiny bit. Here is a show-and-tell of a sketch-to-final work. I hope you like it.