planets part 2
Mars so far (stumped)
IAW Video (with audio)
test animation (2)
test animation (1)
my sketches
At home I have a box –a real physical cardboard box. When I go outside, I draw, sketch, doodle. Back home I tear out the pages from my pad and drop it in the box. There. Done… material evidence, a proof of effort, forgotten. I’ve been carrying a small sketchbook and pouch of pencils everywhere now. Even if I don’t draw, I carry them with me –everywhere, a prompt, reminder, a nag, a reassurance to encourage me..
…to make a scribble, a mark, a dot on paper.
Although I’ve coded webpages from scratch before, I decided to document my sketching practice in a WordPress site –just to experience transposing my cardboard box in blog form.
Above are samples of my very first tries in a medium: the fruit and pepper is my first watercolor; the bird was my first digital painting with a Wacom tablet; the lizard was my first character design (ballet dancing animal series). The watercolor study was made with a small Winsor & Newton tin travel kit I gifted myself after spending a week teaching a summer drawing workshop to middle school students. The photo of the bird (left) was the reference for my digital illustration (right). I kept practicing digital illustration with the dancing lizard (there’s a dancing frog I haven’t posted yet. It took a little getting used to drawing with a graphics tablet in Photoshop. I’ll paint digitally if I have to, but I still prefer real pencil and brush on paper.