Halloween Characters

Made this for possible entry into a Halloween-themed show.

Index Card Gestures

Did some exercises starting with a random gesture line and then developed it into whatever made sense. Focusing on gesture first is helping so much to bring more life into drawings. It also helped my focus to keep it simple by just using ballpoint pen on index cards.

and here with some color...

Recent Sketches

I've been getting encouragement from a variety of people to focus more on ink sketches rather than pencil, it helps me to work quickly and to not get too obsessed with shading or details at the beginning. Ink also helps squash perfectionism... just like in life, when you make a mistake, you can't erase it. The master artist can take those mistakes and incorporate them into something awesome.

Speaking of awesome ink drawings... check out these travel sketches by Dice Tsutsumi.

Character exercises

When I was in elementary school we used to play this strange game where I would challenge my friends to draw a quick scribble, and then I would have a minute or less to turn the scribble into a pig. I recently found this drawing tutorial by Ron Lemen that validates the technique as artistic tool! I was playing around with it the other day (with my own scribbles) and had a blast making some strange characters!