Daily Sketch 8-9-11

Just some random sketches.

Daily Sketch 8-6-11

I love drawing with non-photo blue pencils...but gosh are they ever hard to photograph!

I can't wait to begin inking and painting this...perhaps tonight, perhaps tomorrow. We'll have to see...

The statue of Homer-bunny is based on the one in the Sorbonne, and yes, that's a shark.

Daily Sketch 8-5-11

First part of a weekend-long page. Slow going tonight, but a good start. Hopefully the next few days result in a faster workpace.

I need to work faster.

And yes, that is a rocket-powered penny farthing.

Daily Sketch 8-4-11

I'm tired, so here's a laughing goose and a pair of blue jays. Sorry for the low quality: cell phone pic.

Daily Sketch 8-3-11

-Yawn- so tired, but here's today's sketch. It's done with Faber-Castell's PITT big brushes - 4 colors only (red, yellow, blue, green), over a non-photo blue sketch.

Poor bunnies, moving their sofa around...apparently bunnies like to redecorate their cages a lot. A continuation of Portly Lagomorph week.

Hmm, it looks better in person...guess that'll teach me not to use very wet markers on very glossy paper. I'll stick to watercolor for the time being, I think. Ah well, live and learn; that's the whole point of this daily sketch thing.

Daily Sketch 8-2-11

In celebration of Fat Bunny Week (aka Shark Week), here's a fat bunny.

He's checking his pocketwatch, waiting for the precise moment when he'll hop in his blue steampunk carriage and beat that tortoise in the race...or something. I like where this is going, and may spend the next few daily sketches investigating it...we shall see.

I wish there were a better way to scan gold paint. Ah well.

Daily Sketch 8-1-11

For today's daily sketch, a little family vignette. A Roman citizen (probably a wealthy merchant, judging from the size of his box, though not a senator - no purple on the hem of his robe) has taken his son to see the games. The citizen is bored, but his son seems to be enjoying himself. They're foxes.

A quick sketch, with no research nor preliminaries. But pretty good nonetheless. Took about 30 minutes.