Illustration Friday Topic : Worn

I know i know!!!! you are all probably tired of my drawing houses, its kind of my latest default, but i really wanted to draw a dilapidated house for this illustration friday topic. This is was done in under an hour, but not sure how long exactly, might have only been 30 or 40 minutes,i'm not entirely sure. Had my first illustration job today to be published in a news paper. If any of you get the montclair times be on the look out for it, it can be seen below. If anybody has any requests out there for more stuff, feel free to shoot me some ideas. having a little blank canvas syndrome lately, i think i'm going to continue on this house binge. The houses i have been drawing are fun but they arent really pushing the shapes far enough i think. I want to bump up the mass and shape of the houses so they get really exaggerated, then once i'm satisfied i will move onto some finished house pieces, or something all new all together. Thanks for looking, and reading...if you read this.

Oh yeah, does it bother anyone else when people post artwork they did previously for new IF topics...i feel like you should do a drawing illustrating the topic..not just find something to post.

Rhodes Van Note Advertisement

Here is some progress on a advertisement im doing for a real estate company. The ad will run in the montclair times. enjoy!

Illustration Friday Topic : Unfold

Inspired by my lazy dog sammy....




I wasn't planning on doing this topic, but since having graduated i really need to find every excuse i can to draw. So heres the first of hopefully more frequent illustration friday posts. This was just a quick cartoon, its nearly 2 am, i should be asleep.

More progress

almost finished

A new approach?

Hellooo!

So, i recently saw pixar's. UP. And it is pretty much amazing, as usual. It made me realize a few things. I have received a lot of criticism on my character work. and i think its because i overdo my characters. i spend too much time trying to realize perfect shapes and jawlines and too much detail. All of the successful animators i have been looking at acheive their character with very little line work. Simple shapes, only a few basic features, and tada! a beautiful character. So from now im going to try to keep things as simple as possible. I did a page of faces just now...every time i was working on a face and i thought i was working on it too long i immediately went on to a new one. They are all very similar, the emotions are not drastically different but i just tried to do something different with every face. Only the most basic lines used, im going to continue with these features and whole body sketches working with simple fast lines, hopefully i can develop a stronger characterization base to work from with this technique. Any thoughts? if anyone still checks this?

Im back im Sorry!

Hello everybody! im sorry i have been away for so long, but alas i have returned and will continue posting. It is weird being finished with school, i have taken sometime to relax and do some other things i never got to do while in school, like traveling around baltimore etc etc. Here is a short doodle i did today, im starting to make daily drawing requirements for myself to keep me sharp. Enjoy!