Happy New Year - 2009

A quick sketch to wish you and yours a happy and prosperous 2009.

Christmas Cutie 2

...and finally, here is the holiday painting that I had hoped to post first. So, once again...HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Christmas Cutie

The snowman post was a filler for the one's that I had originally planned to post for season's greetings. I have one more to post after this one. I still have some work to do to get it finished, but I'm shooting for it to be tomorrow's post.

I hope Santa was good to you!!

Merry Christmas!

Hope yours is great!

Similar Poses, Different Approaches

The first was done using straight lines and angles which formed lots of points. I think I managed to keep the femininity of the subject, despite the lack of curves. She'd probably make a good authoritarian character.

The second character is all curved lines and circles. The form is very organic. I think that this character would be perceived as more approachable than the first.

I do these types of exercises because I like to work in different styles. Plus the style can really help to establish the personality of a character or scene.

Monocle

I was browsing through some of my cartooning books and got inspired to knock off a quick character. I played around with the basic head shapes until I got something that I liked. I kept working it until I got a feel for the character, then it was off to the races.

Stream

I came across one of my old landscape paintings today. I created this scene out my head. I think it was for paint challenge where we had to create landscapes without using references.

Landscape painting and drawing is yet another thing that I really need to do more of.

Hovering in the Clouds - Update

I meant to post this earlier. I finally got my new monitor correctly calibrated. Here is what "Hovering..." should have looked like in the first place.