Story Time

I've had a busy week, so I wasn't on the computer all that much.  Oh well.  I'll have more time someday. 

On a more positive note, here are some sketches from old children's stories I've read.  I love fairy tales.  I've flipped through various books to see the illustrations.  I love what illustrators can do with pen and ink, or how they can utilize watercolors.

 The poor Scarecrow from the Wizard of Oz, being terrorized by some crows.  This is the first illustration I started having to do with a story for children.  I can't believe I was able to draw those birds.

 The Tin Woodsman from the Wizard of Oz.  Usually I'm not sure what colors I will use when I start to add more detail to my drawings, but this one seems pretty easy.  It's going to be fun playing around with all the browns and greens of the forest.

 The White Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland.  As you can see, he is very obsessed with time.

This one here is my favorite.  I'd planned on using only pen and black ink, and maybe using it as one of the first inside illustrations of the story.  It will be done, eventually.  I keep going back to it.

Comic Strips

I love making comic strips.  It's something I've been doing since I was in elementary school.  I would put together short comic books in class.  I'm kind of glad I don't have any of them anymore, they're probably too embarrassing for any eyes to see!  It wasn't until high school when I started leaning more toward humor with my comics, and would draw them on a daily basis while in class.

Nowadays I'm trying to get back to some of the good ones so that I can redo them.  Maybe I'll put them together in a book or something. 

Here are some comic strips I sketched the other night.  A ballpoint pen was used, no pencils at all, so I'm pretty lucky I didn't mess up too badly on them.

This last sketch actually got me to do more with it and put together a finished version.  I'm working on it now, using traditional materials.  I really missed using inks and watercolors.  I'll post a link to the final painting whenever it gets finished.

Well, Here Goes.

I'm starting this blog to show you the inner workings of my mind.  This acts as a sketch journal, where I show various sketches that could either lead to finished pieces, or may never be finalized.  I love looking in other people's sketchbooks and often find myself on Google looking at pages from other artists' sketchbooks. 

Final pieces look great, but there's something about sketches that I like more.  It's more personal, and I can see what the artist did to get to the final piece. 

Anyway, here are some pieces to start things going.  They're not recent, but I still like them.  I'll try to post sketches at least once a week.  If I have final pieces posted somewhere on the Internet I'll post a link to them.  Let's begin.

 This is the sketch that started it all.  Well, not really.  I have the final piece that you can see here.

 Creepy Mad Hatter.  I was going to do this one with traditional materials, but I just never got around to getting it out of the sketchbook.

 These last two I drew one night while watching TV.  Only one of them was ever finished.  It was done digitally.  It was a lot of fun.  You can see the final piece here.

Looking at this last one, I'm thinking about doing something more with it.  I don't know if you can read what's under his foot, but I had apparently sketched it sometime after 3AM.  I don't know why the time was relevant.

So that's it for now.  Stay tuned and you'll see more from me.  Maybe next time there will be a mix of old ones and new ones.