Land Sketch 4/16/16

The Grove 4/16/16

Beautiful Sunday afternoon at the grove.   Finger painted using my iPhone and Procreate Pocket.

Landscape Sketches

Some more landscape sketches, this time including some scenes from near my house in Hollywood.  We do get some beautiful sunsets here.

Landscape Sketches

Landscape Sketch 03

Landscape Sketch 04

Landscape Sketch 05

Some more landscape sketches.  One of the things I miss the most since moving to Los Angeles is the fall.  Sometimes I get a little homesick for my days in college in upstate New York.  About a month from now the skies get cloudy and there is a brisk chill heralding the changing seasons.  Apple orchards do their harvests, corn mazes pop up all around, and pumpkins fill acres of land and are launched through the air by RIT's 1st year engineering students.  Everything felt so alive and warm to me despite the chill, but maybe that's just me seeing the season through auburn colored glasses; my journey to and first days on my own in college, the season of my birth, and many happy Halloweens with my family as a child.

Landscape Sketches

Landscape Sketch 01

Landscape Sketch 02

Some quick landscape sketches I did on my iPhone while I was idling at work.  I love how easy technology has made it to make art anywhere at any time.

Lighting Sketches

There was some cool lighting happening at work today.  There are actually a few times of day where I catch small little snippets of cool lighting around the studio, so I'm going to try and capture them while I'm not working on anything.  Might as well be productive!

Random Doodles

Always a good practice to doodle a few gestures or characters
during the day. Here are a few I did while waiting for Gavin to get
out of a meeting. These sketches aren't by any means literal drawings
of people I saw, but I picked a shape to base my design on and used
the people around me as inspiration for the features and unique
qualities of each sketch. If the people I based them on happened to
look at them, they may see some resemblances to their own reflections,
hopefully with amusement :-p. So even when you are doing gesture
drawing, don't be afraid to caricature the gesture or apply it to a
character you are already familiar with. If you don't get it at the
time of the sketch, you can always take your initial gesture and clean
it up or apply it later. That is, after all, why my drawing teachers
insisted on us keeping journals or gesture drawings. You never know
when a pose will come in handy!

If you aren't in a place where you have a lot of people to draw from,
remember you can always find quick poses at
http://www.posemaniacs.com/ you can set a time limit for each pose and
there are hundreds to draw from. And if you're mobile, they have an
app! Though at the moment it is kind of limited.

Summer Drawings

Went to Gavin's family's lake house up at Lake Livingston yesterday to
chill and get some relaxation in. One of the things I love most about
summers is the chance to just relax and do some sketching without any
pressure. Lakes and oceans are a common subject for me, since I've
lived by water for most of my life, and my I suppose maybe it's
because I'm a water sign, but I've always been drawn to water. In any
case, it gave me a reason to practice using procreate, this time
trying to get a nice India ink feel.

Manica Depressiva

Sketch of a drag performer, one Miss Manica Deppresiva, at the Houston
Lambda Centers Miss Lambda fundraiser. These events are amazing for
character inspiration and never fail to leave your brain overloaded
with so much sensory information you won't be able to help yourself
but whip out your sketch pad and scribble something down. Once again,
this was drawn in my Procreate app with a pogo stylus. Fantastic
stuff!!