my sketckbook ate my 3B pencil...

this mess manifested itself over the last 2 evenings of television watching. interestingly enough, nothing that i watched related anywhere even close to a large mushroom, a forest, a house...oh wait...i did watch house...damn you, dr. house...

where in sam's hell is this...

it's been over a week since i was last here...been pretty busy. i came across this sketckbook drawing i did a very long time ago, and immediately remembered having had a lot of fun doing it. just good ol' fashioned pen to paper without having planned anything ahead of time--and working out the mistakes as you go along...you know...back before ctrl+z was your friend. thought i'd throw it up for fun.

again, with the girl...

well...after a little more practice it seems that photoshop seems to be handling better than a shopping cart for me after all. who knew? i'm having a lot of fun experimenting with digital painting, cause i'm brand spankin' new to it...as you may have guessed by some of my previous posts.

so here's another update on the image i am practicing on. sorry that it's the same image over and over and over, but that's what you get from a guy who is practicing...i reckon there'll be some fresh stuff coming now that i'm feeling a little more comfortable...i reckon...

and the oscar goes to...

i did this drawing while watching tv the other week. i guess i forgot about it, but figured that i might as well use it to practice a little painting with photoshop seeing as i found it...

i realize that it's not the best painting job...but i do like the drawing, even though she has a big head. i also realize that humans aren't a nice toasty bronze colour like this girl (unless you spend waaay too much time at a sunny resort in the tropics, or are handed out to movie stars on an annual basis). it just turned out that way... but practice makes better, at the very least.

scrabbles...

not sure what happened here...this is a scratch i did with an ink pen and a folded piece of scrap paper that i had in my pocket at the time. i added the colour later, in photoshop. usually, what happens is after i do any scribbles, they get filed away in a book, in the trash, in a box, cupboard, pencil cup...somewhere. this time, like the last few, i've decided to share instead. go figure. please keep in mind that photoshop 'handles like a shopping cart' for me, so the blue swatch is actually quite a feat. that said, any comments are very welcome...