Fun with shapes.
Awhile ago I was looking around for a nice black line pen/brush pen. I tried out a bunch and was never completly satisfied with the result. One day I was in a local Longs store ( a kind of everything store (stationary/sweets/food/pharmacy) for those of you living outside the U.S.), and saw in the stationary section, under the title....." pens for older persons with visual impairment" or somthing like that. It promised a dark black solid line, an "easy to read pen". The pen actually says that on it.
(the name is Sanford 20/20, easy-to read-pen.) So I picked one up and gave it a try. You know what. I love it. I bought a ton of them since. I really like using them. they flow nicely and they scan into the computer really nicely too which is a bonus. I just thought that after browsing artshops looking for something really nice, I found it somewhere I really didn't expect. Maybe it's not the deepest darkest black line you've ever seen, but the're fun to use and cheap.
Anyway, here you go. Messin' around with shapes. Coloured in Photoshop.
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Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Shapes
Tuesday, August 30, 2005
Monday, August 29, 2005
Sunday, August 28, 2005
Humpback Henry Group
Here's a group of Humpback Henrys. I'm always drawing these guys. Variations on a shape.
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Saturday, August 27, 2005
Brown Bird
More birdies.
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Links Links Links
So I posted up a whole bunch of links on my links section to a sites that I am constantly going back to for inspiration. I am completly humbled by these guys. Some of them have been around for a while, and some of them, like mine, only started this month. I'm amazed at where the comments section on the blogs will bring you to and checking out their links has been a joy. Hidden treasures await. Hopefully they won't be hidden for long once the word gets out. Stunning work. Check them out when you can. I'm so glad to be able to see all this work. I look forward to seeing this art every day. What a cool thing blogging is.
The latest sites I came across recently are....
Crookie's Blog
Gur-B
John Nevarez
Justin Ridge
Patrick Morgan
Stef's sketches
Stephen Silver
The old reliables are....
boring3d
Craig Mullins
Enrico Casarosa
Jasen Strong
Louie del Carmen
Ronnie del Carmen
I've also added Cartoon Retro by Shane Glines. Just subscribed to this site and it is amazing. What an incredible resource. So much beautiful artwork
Hope you enjoy them as much as I do.
Friday, August 26, 2005
Thursday, August 25, 2005
Wednesday, August 24, 2005
Blue Frog Wednesday
another one.
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Tuesday, August 23, 2005
Tuesday Picture
More blue. Just a guy hanging out.
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Monday, August 22, 2005
Blue Frog Day
Why not switch to blue.
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Sunday, August 21, 2005
Fingers on backwards
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Saturday, August 20, 2005
Tickle
One of the other tools I've been using lately is the waterbrush, I've had one for ages, but it didn't dawn on me to use it with the watercolour pencils until a couple of months ago. The water is contained inside the plastic barrel of the brush and you just squeeze to release some water. No mess, no fuss, perfect for traveling around with. I love it.
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Friday, August 19, 2005
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Wednesday, August 17, 2005
Joe Ranft
Bigger Bird
Oh no, not more words. Gimme the pictures........
Small to tall to fat to thin. Gotta keep pushing the shape around.
The variations are endless. Putting some of them together in the one piece can make it look interesting. Too much and it can get too complicated. I try to keep it as simple as it needs to be and as readable as it should be. That's the coolest thing about sketches or thumbnails. You can quickly search for the shapes that will play off each other and you can experiment a lot in a short amount of time with no commitment. It's like exercising your drawing muscles.
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Tuesday, August 16, 2005
Monday, August 15, 2005
Sunday, August 14, 2005
Humpback Henrys
Here's an example from my sketch book of pushing shapes around. Starts of with some searching for a shape and then making variations on it.
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Saturday, August 13, 2005
Bird
Another feathered friend.
I just started using these watercolour pencils a couple of months ago. They're now one of my favourite tools. I wish I had started using them years ago. Oh well, better late than never. So glad to have messed around with them. I can't stop drawing with them now.
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Friday, August 12, 2005
Hairy Bird
Most of the time when I'm drawing, I'm pushing shapes around and seeing what works. Right now I'm playing with shapes and seeing what comes out. Creating a pleasing shape is what it's all about.
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Thursday, August 11, 2005
Friend to Lean On
back to pencils
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Wednesday, August 10, 2005
Blue Tree
Weeeeeeee, colour!
I started messing about with photoshop a while ago. Mainly to start dabbling in colour. Granted, you don't have the paint to
put onto a canvas, but the ease of using this as a learning tool was a huge deal for me. For the majority of the time, I was
animating away with a blue pencil, I hardly touched anything that had to do with painting, wheather it was traditional or digital. Using this tool allowed me to just freely experiment. and it opened up a whole new area to me. One of the reasons for starting this blog is to see where I can go with all this experimenting and look at it over time and see how it evolves and what directions I can take it. This pic was from a while ago, but I thought I'd pop it up anyway.
Loads of fun. Colour doodles.
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Tuesday, August 09, 2005
Monday, August 08, 2005
Another Link
Another link added.
Please visit my friends over at animation meat.
Animationmeat
Lots of notes and links to a whole bunch of animation material and up to date news.
D.
Sunday, August 07, 2005
Humpback Henry
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Saturday, August 06, 2005
Friday, August 05, 2005
Thanks
Hey,
thanks to two super talented guys for their support as I started this blog. Jim Hull (sewardstreet) and Jason Schleifer (shh-life-er). Please follow their links on my link page if you haven't been there before. Lots of goodness to be found.
I'm also going to try to post a new doodle every day, so keep checking back for updated drawings.
Hope you like them.
D.
Thursday, August 04, 2005
Big Guy, small guy
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Wednesday, August 03, 2005
Tuesday, August 02, 2005
Self portrait
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Originally uploaded by donnachada.
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