Some doodles and things that I've done in the past month or so.  Did a little search for industrial design tutorials and found this site: http://www.idsketching.com/ and watched this video: http://www.idsketching.com/video/video-tutorial-how-to-sketch-with-contour-lines/ which I found helpful.  I don't know how people draw smooth lines with slow movements, mine always get shaky, somewhat frustrating!

(I don't actually think hippo's are evil..)

I haven't been doing much in the way of drawing lately, just been happily living!  Here are a couple of doodles and things from the past couple months from the little bit that I have done.

We have some random shapes and an obligatory skeleton.

A mess of gray scale values.

Some cartoony doodles.

A somewhat sinister robot with ropy protrusions and spiky bits.

A little bit of learning about how legs go together.

October

Hey September

Things have been real busy-like for me recently, and when things are busy I don't draw much at all.  It's both good and bad.

Had a bit of fun fiddling around with some colour in this one.

These doodles were done in a neat program called Alchemy.

Some gestures to keep me drawing.  Getting into more consciously using the box and cylinder, lines are kind of dark and messy.  The other is... something, just messing about.

Listening to some music from the Bastion soundtrack here, quite liking it.

Still July..

I'm trying to give myself a better understanding of the building blocks (no pun intended) of drawing.  For now, I'm going to try to focus more on gesture and the basic tools of drawing (box, sphere, cylinder and cone), rather than continuing with the anatomy stuff.  The box is really handy!  It's useful for determining orientation, relative placement and basic proportions of objects (and more things too, I'm sure).  

So much for June!

Sorry for the hiatus!  June was a somewhat busier than usual month for me, here are some suitably sketchy doodles.

Doodlin'

Read an interview with an artist named Elsa Chang (found here: http://elsa-chang-interview.blogspot.com/)

And here's her blog: http://elsasketch.blogspot.com/ I like the shapes she uses, especially in her animal drawings, very eye pleasing.

Watching a talk by Leonard Susskind, thought his head had an interesting shape (check out those ears!).
Maybe that's a weird thing to say...
http://www.ted.com/talks/leonard_susskind_my_friend_richard_feynman.html

Fiddling around with a textured brush, I like how it feels.

Second time I doodled this, PS crashed on me the first time before I'd saved, so I re-did it.

Was doodling an idea I had after watching a short video on pollination http://www.ted.com/talks/louie_schwartzberg_the_hidden_beauty_of_pollination.html (some really neat footage here!)

I'm not a big dragon guy, but the idea was that of dragon's as pollinators of a specific flower.  A co-evolution situation where the flower is a very hardy and dangerous plant, but the scales on the beast allow it to safely move about it.

Hurray for more necks! (Something's off about the left eye area..)
Rediscovered Rick Berry today. http://www.rickberrystudio.com/galleries/gallery_update_1.html
I remember seeing his stuff before, but stumbled across him again today.  I love his style a lot!

Neckin'

Watched a video on the neck, these doodles aren't that great.  It was nice and handy to learn about various parts of the neck and how they fit together.  Mainly cylindrical-based shapes.  I didn't know the hyoid bone existed until today!

I didn't bother to post this one earlier, I didn't take this any further.  I kind of like the thumbnail view of it, but not the enlarged version.

Something a little different, maybe.

Perhaps more later.  Just getting a first attempt at this idea down, a flower where the stamen is like a light bulb filament; a bio-luminescent flower for an imaginary environment without much light.

Some doodling before bed.