EDM #1 - Shoes

Just a quick sketch, getting back into the daily drawing habit. I was going pretty good for a few days there actually, but it's much easier to get off track than it is to get back on. Going to be trying some different styles over the next few days.. stay tuned..

Snow Day!

Just a little picture sketch from my snowy window. :]

Nature Sketchbook #2

These were some tiny yellow flowers I found. It was a bit difficult to make them out well enough to draw them, I think I partially succeeded.. but they don't look as delicate as they are in reality. Perhaps I should have used a lighter stroke.

Nature Sketchbook #1

This is the first (real) page of my lovely new sketchbook which I'm keeping as part of an art class (Art 333: The Artist Naturalist)

I decided to start doing these entries (starting with this page) as if I were a real old-time naturalist. It's actually much easier than I thought - for one, writing anything in cursive makes it look classy. And secondly it kind of looks like those old worn notebooks that artists and scientists used to scribble in when they jotted down their thoughts and observations.

I wish, in a way, that scientists and artists were still naturalists. It seems a shame that the two were ever separated.

EDM #24 - Fruit

First entry on my new blog, and first EDM challenge!

This was a speedpaint done on my tablet PC using Alias Sketchbook Pro. (3 hours) I actually got these fruits from some event at my college and I thought they would make a nice still life. Painting tasty things is terrible and requires a great deal of will power as it seems tempting just to call the whole thing off and just eat it already!

I'm still not quite happy how this turned out (namely the lighting source on the grapes and the featureless plate) but some things turned out better than I expected so it's a draw (ha..) after all.