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Daily… Girl meets dragon

This is the final painting for my niece. I’m having fun practicing with watercolors. You can see that it shifted from my initial sketch, I really wanted to show more of the girl. I do like the size relationship more from my sketch though.


Daily… Dragon prelim

For christmas this year I decided to make some watercolor paintings for my family. I found out some months ago that my niece, Natalie, likes dragons. I was quite happy to hear this news and am going to try and foster her love for the creatures. This is the preliminary drawing for her painting.


Daily… A trio


Hey, look at me!

A month or so ago Adam Ford asked his readers to link their drawings to his blog, he’d choose one and paint it up. He ended up choosing mine and this is the result! I’ve always appreciated his painting style and the level he’s working at is one that I hope to reach.


Back for more

Well there I went again, falling behind in posting my daily images. Feels nice to be up to date again. How can I keep on top of it? Just need to draw earlier in the day! Invariably the reason I fall behind is by doing any of these drawings in the last twenty minutes before I go to bed. By that time I’m crashing fast and do a quick sketch, then collapse. So here’s to continuing to work towards not doing that anymore.

I had my first Pixar class last Tuesday evening, I’m really not used to night classes any longer! When I first started at this school I had lots of night classes, but eventually shifted towards early morning. It was much harder to actively concentrate, I need to have coffee a little later in the day and make sure to eat a good meal before heading to class. That’ll keep me charged up!

The class is really focused on the fundamentals of animation. My animation classes the past few semesters have been focused on more advanced topics and it’ll be really helpful for me to get back to the core skill set that I need to build.

Over at Sketchoholic they’ve started running drawing marathons during the week. The format is very similar to the Intensity Club or ChiuStream, in which there’s a topic that you have one hour to draw or paint for. In the case of the marathon, whoever gets the most votes chooses the next topic. They’ll run these back to back, usually doing around 2 to 3 at a time. I’ve started attending as much as my schedule allows and I want to keep up on it as much as I can, it’s really helpful to work with these types of deadlines.