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Well hello there!

Ouch, way too long since posting! I started a new job back at the end of October, I’m now the Content Care Admin (of the student site, not the public site) at AnimationMentor.com. It’s an awesome place to work. I’ll get to that in another post.

I’ve been doing some sketching here and there, but I haven’t done nearly as much art as I’d like. Yesterday was the first time in months where I had a sustained session. I ended up doodling and just getting comfortable with painting again. It felt awesome to be painting again.


From the depths

A sketch painting I did this afternoon in between work projects. It lacks any real specific design, but was a fun and quick mood piece to break up what I was doing. Also, I hadn’t posted anything in a while!


Draco Spinosa

Draco Spinosa, or the Thorny Dragon, is an elusive predator found mainly in the dry brush regions of the great desert. It’s natural camouflage lets it blend in to the briar thickets found throughout the area.


A sketch painting of a knight

Something I’ve been noodling away at when taking short breaks from work. I had the idea to practice painting armor and just kinda went from there. The armor doesn’t make a whole lot of sense (as far as functionality), but my goal was to work from imagination. Reference definitely has its place, but I want to get comfortable designing armor/clothing without having to rely on it (reference).


I’m back, after having not been away

Time to get myself back into a regular posting schedule. Just under a month ago I decided to retire my daily image project. After around two and a half years, I was ready to move on. The original purpose was to just get me drawing at least a little bit each day. I used to spend weeks thinking about drawing, but never actually picking up a pencil (or the digital equivalent). By sticking with my daily images, I conquered that problem. Now as I’m working towards doing illustration to support myself, I’m wanting to focus on more finished works. There were enough times over the last few months where I didn’t have much time to put into a particular daily image, that I was extremely unhappy with the resulting sketch.

Since setting aside the daily image project, I’ve easily been still drawing each day, but I feel much freer. That makes me happy. I do want to post regularly here though, at least twice a week would be ideal. I took a break from on of my work projects and doodled this creature.