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.

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.

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.

Mess

I think I need to be less afraid of buggering things up, and just start throwing value around sometimes, it's fun!

Was looking at Andrew Jones' site a bit.  http://www.androidjones.com/ 
So chaotic and full of shapes and colour, I like it.  He did concept art for Metroid Prime, which is awesome, it's one of my favourite-est games.

Today is one of those days where the stylus feels really weird in my grip, I can't seem to hold it comfortably, kind of annoying.

I was pondering some of the environmental elements I want surrounding this character.  Right now I'm thinking an emphasis on larger-than-life plant life, taking some design elements from non-plant things.  The bottom right is a quick attempt at playing with value to create the effect of something giving off light.

Just a little bit

A little bit of doodling to keep me going.  I'm really enjoying having a job to go to, but I need to get to sleep earlier.

Some Doodles

A couple of doodles and a simple key-chain design I was asked to do.  You can't see the outer border of the key-chain because it's white and for some reason the transparency of the png isn't recognized, the outer border follows the same shape as the black shape.

Temp Job FTW

I got nothing!  Here's something from October 2010.
I start a bit of work tomorrow morning, for two weeks.  In a law firm.  In the mail room...

Rain and Snow Today

Title has nothing to do with the content.  Again, nothing exciting.  Chilling back home in the country this weekend.  Some gesture poses on the right, and a bored doodle on the left.  Kind of like the head, the rest not so much.  I notice with my gestures that my proportions are wonky, would like to correct that.. how.. better observation?

Here's something from October 2010.  I suppose that's not all that long ago.. around half a year.

Meh Inducing Sunday

Not really feeling it today, not sure I should post this one... oh well.

Was looking at some of Charlie Bowater's stuff today, she's crazy good: http://charliebowater.tumblr.com/

Some doodles from October 2010.

Saturday Again

This one got kind of messed up...  Reference here: http://www.women-hairstyles.com/images/chinese-hairstyle.jpg

The character is a real messy copy from an image in some fellows portfolio.  A talented guy named Alan Cook: http://cookedart.carbonmade.com/projects/2074003#2.  I like his style, shows a good understanding of shape that I'm still lacking.  The lamp and digital clock are part of what I see from my seat at my computer!

I enjoy drawing weird looking birds, but I bet these aren't nearly as weird looking as a whole lot of actual birds.  Planet Earth is an amazing series, David Attenborough is awesome.  If I could, I'd just watch that series over and over for drawing inspiration.