February, 2011
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Sketch-a-Day #40
February 18, 2011 by Collin
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Sketch-a-Day #39
February 17, 2011 by Collin
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Sketch-a-Day #38
February 16, 2011 by Collin
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Sketch-a-Day #37
February 15, 2011 by Collin
I hated, hated, HATED his face and it went downhill from there.
A reminder: you can click on the image to see a larger version. This new shape is displaying a bit small.
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Sketch-a-Day #36
February 14, 2011 by Collin
In the future, the alligators will have the jetpacks.
As I said before, I really liked how this one turned out. It’s a bit overworked for a sketch, and underworked for a drawing, but at least it’s an alligator with a jetpack. That’s the important thing.
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Sketch-a-Day #35
February 13, 2011 by Collin
This is the first drawing I made with my new lead (HB) and the last drawing that I made in this sketchbook. I suppose I could flip it over and draw on the back of the pages, but pencil smudges and I still have a few sketchbooks that have been sitting unused for quite some time so I may as well make use of them.
The morning after drawing this, I came downstairs and saw that my son had placed a sticky note on it that read, “Very, very disturbing”
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Sketch-a-Day #34
February 12, 2011 by Collin
This is a quick sketch I did from a video game cover. My goal was to capture body positions more than anything else. Can you guess what game it is?
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Sketch-a-Day #33
February 11, 2011 by Collin
Wow, this one looked so much better in my head. Part of the thing I’ve been fighting all along is the hardness of my lead. It’s 2B, which is not bad for sketching, but almost useless for detail work unless you do a lot of sharpening. The harder a lead is, the longer it can maintain a point, but the lighter the strokes are. It’s a balancing act. If you want dark lines that can be a bit fuzzy, use a higher B rated pencil. If you want sharp details that don’t have to be dark, drop into the H’s.
Ideally, since this is a sketching project I wouldn’t bother with details, and for a lot of sketches I don’t. But once in a while I make a sketch that I want to work a bit further and add in some details.
Never mind the reality that the initial lines in this one are wrong. I’m blaming the lead.
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Sketch-a-Day #32
February 10, 2011 by Collin
This is the first sketch where I tossed aside my “no eraser” rule since establishing it. Don’t look so affronted. You were warned this would probably happen. I had a good reason though. I went into this sketch with no plan whatsoever. It started as a stick figure that I added mass to. The arms still ended up stupid thin, but that’s how it goes.
The eraser moment came about after deciding that the “ninja’ needed something to be attacking. That something turned out the be a piñata. So I had a ninja attacking a piñata. But the ninja needed a blindfold. That meant erasing the face I had drawn. So I did. I don’t regret it. I’ll do it again if I have to. Don’t worry though. I won’t erase on a whim. My next several sketches will make that quite obvious.
As a bit of a teaser, I really like how #36 turned out. So be sure to stop by and check it out.
I’ve also made it a little easier to leave a comment *hint*hint* by eliminating the requirement for a name or email address. I figure that spam is the Akismet plugin’s problem to deal with.
I’m tired of seeing “none comments” and can’t be arsed (I like that word, “arsed”. It really tells just how little you want to deal with something) to find where in the website code that bit of grammar failure resides and fix it.
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Sketch-a-Day #31
February 9, 2011 by Collin
I seem to have a deep seated urge to turn non-human things into zombies. It’s just… fun.
This also marks the last sketch drawn in January. One month down, 11 to go.
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