New Week, New Blog Format

Good evening everyone.

I've been a bit inspired recently and from that inspiration, and the fact that I'm not lugging my laptop around to work every day anymore, I decided to change up my blog a bit.

A new traveler sketchbook and my cellphone will be the tools of this blog. That's right, I'm going back to pen (pencil) & paper sketching.

Anyway, thanks to Kenneth Rocafort for inspiring me to try something new.

He's a pretty awesome artist by the way. Go check out his works.

Anyway, see ya'll tomorrow.

A Brief Respite

Well, the storm at work may be over for a time.

It has been a crazy couple of weeks. Lots of overtime, lots of packed days, not a lot of sleep.

And I also haven't been remembering about this blog, usually, till I get home at night. And by then I'm in bed and say to myself that tomorrow will be different and I'll actually get back to sketching and showing you all those doodles.

But obviously that has not been the case for a while. As such I'm giving you another batch of sketches that were done earlier.

Hope ya'll think they're enjoyable and I hope that I'll be able to resume a normal blogger schedule next week (I'm already counting tomorrow as another wash).

Good night, and have a good weekend everyone.

Trying to Get the Band Back Together

Good afternoon everyone.

It's a beautiful, sunny day here outside of ninjaboy's honbu dojo. The GF and our daughter are out of town for the day, and I'm taking some time before I have to start running errands, mowing the lawn and doing some housework before I go out to watch UFC 150 with some friends this evening.

And so, I decided to 'finally' post some sketches that I had done but never got around to posting for various lame reasons.

Work has finally slowed down for me and so I think that I'll be able to get back on track with my original 'sketch-a-day' intentions.

So without further delay, here is another sketch dump. These have been created using a mix of CS3 and Sketchbook Pro.

Bad Bad Blogger

Blast. I thought I would get more sketching done the last two days. But sadly when I sat down to update my blog all I have it the page of sketches from the other day.

These sketches were done while watching the excellent Seirei no Moribito. I'd like to say that the pencil wasn't inspired by the show, but I ended up sketching quite a few images of characters from the show. As well as one random sketch of another fighter.

I'm guessing that I'll be able to get a sketch done tomorrow.

Till then, have a good evening.

Monday after an Absence

Greetings and salutations.

I'm back. And this week I have given myself a hard goal to get a new sketch done every day this week. I got a few new art program demos this weekend and I really want to check them out. So I'll be doing some experimenting.

Also over the weekend I started watching the anime Seirei no Moribito. It's pretty damn good so far. So I decided to try out program number one with a sketch of the lead character from the show Balsa.

This program actually has a really good pencil simulation. It is one of the best I've seen so far. And I'm looking forward to getting some more time with it tomorrow.

Hope you all have a good evening. See you back here tomorrow.

Two for...Wednesday

Well, good evening everyone. Hope you all had a happy and safe 4th of July.

We've been having some fantastic weather here in the Pacific Northwest. I ended up not being able to post my blog yesterday due to the fact that, well, I lost track of time.

So today you get two super fast sketches.

Yesterday's sketch is of Natsuki and Kenji from the movie Summer Wars. I watched it last week and it was awesome. It totally surprised me. I wasn't sure if I was going to be very into it at the beginning. But by the time the movie was coming to a completion I was cheering for the entire family the movie focuses on.

And today's sketch was going to be of Sin City's resident bombshell exotic dancer, Nancy. But with more of a Brom styled twist. Though I didn't get much further than picking out the background/base color and started outlining the figure. Maybe I'll finish it tomorrow Or maybe I'll do a new sketch to keep my pencil moving.

Anywho, have a good evening. I'll see you back here tomorrow.