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I really admire artists like Jonny Duddle who successfully blend a cartoony style with realistic colors and dimensionality.  Here’s a one-hour warm-up I did this morning.  My focus was on achieving pleasing skin tones.  I didn’t bother to render out the hair, eyes, or shirt (obviously!).  Those blobs to the left are the color pallette [...]

Oh yeah, hey… so it’s 2012, huh? So I got this awesome little 7″ x 5″ watercolor sketchbook with a giant spiral binding, perfect for clipping my pencil and eraser to.  My resolution this year is to carry this thing around with me and sketch on the go.  It’s rare that I’m able to carve [...]

I did this sketch of a Humpty Dumpty doll at the Cannon Art Gallery in Carlsbad.  He was perched precariously on a high wall, of course.

Just noodlin’ around with Autodesk Sketchbook Pro 2009. (Special thanks to Creaturebox for the free copy of sbp2009 they gave me at Comic-Con last year!)

I’ve been practicing the Glenn Vilppu Spherical Forms lesson, and for some reason my drawings keep turning into cobblestones and castles.

Yep, I’ve joined the Nintendo DS Colors! crowd. A very handy, fun way to doodle. Follow this link to see how I drew my snow man.

I think I’m cursed. Every time I draw something that I think is halfway decent, I end up hating it a few days later. Maybe that’s just part of being an artist. Anyway, here are a couple more sketches that are already beginning to make me cringe.

I’ve been trying to maintain a pace of one page per day in my sketchbook lately, in order to improve my drawing skills. (It’s much harder than it sounds!) I started a new book on February 9th, and so far I’ve filled 20 pages — so I’m just about on track. Below are a couple [...]