More Ideas and Experiments

It's been a bit busy this week, but still managed to get a little drawing in. The top image is from a story idea I've been mulling over. It may or may not come to anything. Lately I've seen a bunch of sketches (mostly by Brett Bean and Justin Rodrigues) of copics on toned paper and I wanted to try it out. It didn't go so great, but instagram makes everything better, right?

Rainbow Fish...Dress

I've been looking at the Rainbow Fish book quite a bit lately and I was thinking that it might be fun to do something else with it. So I thought I'd make a rainbow fish dress. The model is doing her best rainbow fish impression.

Cafe People

A few cafe sketches.

100th Post!

Wow, I can't believe it took this long to get to 100. Guess I should update more often. I did as a companion to the last piece, it's the paper ballerina from the Steadfast Tin Soldier.

Fairy Tales

If I had to choose a favorite fairy tale, I think The Steadfast Tin Soldier would probably be it. It's such a charming and tragic little story (like most of Hans Christian Anderson's tales) and I remember being moved by it even when I was young. I've always wanted to do something with it. Maybe I'll draw up some more characters from the story.

Better late than never...

I drew this in the fall and then promptly forgot about it. While going through a bunch of scans I rediscovered it and thought I would photoshop it up. I'll try to do something more seasonally appropriate next time :)

New Year's Resolutions

It's been a long time since I've made a New Year's resolution, but this year I'm giving it a go. My New Year's resolution is to update my blog at least once a week. I feel like it's easy to get caught up with work and not do anything personal, so hopefully this will force me to sit down and do some drawing for myself. These are just some quick doodles I did at a coffee shop.