Second Koala

Took longer than I had hoped... good thing I've got a later start tomorrow morning. Here's a second koala.

These guys are fitting 2 wide and it looks like just enough space to fit 3 tall, so there will be 4 more to go.

Koalahaha

Heh heh heh

Koala

Better night tonight. Saw that Society6 added a duvet and shower curtain, and it's just bizarre enough to have interested me. Here's the start of one.

Working on a 6000x6000 pixel canvas. He takes up about 1/8th of it. I'm thinking of doing a grid pattern - ideally with either different gray faced animals... but if that fails, different koala faces and a last option of just pasting this mug all over it with maybe koala noses in some pattern on the background.

I'm wide open for suggestions of other gray faced animals to try out.

Another bum night.

Absolutely nothing of note came out of tonight's 6 hour reminder of why tend to take such long hiatuses from art. Started out with a new concept - the skill loss in figure drawing was frustratingly very apparent. Maybe it's not loss, but more a conversion problem, with forcing myself to learn to draw digitally.

To try and change pace to prevent burnout already, I want back to the WIP from yesterday. Decided to try to figure out to shade with this thing - granted an eye was probably not the best place to start with that, but that's what I picked. It went... 'ok'. Not happy with the results yet, but if digital has anything over traditional, it's being able to delete/hide layers if you don't like something. I'll have to find some good youtube tutorials on this stuff and probably just go back to the basics - balls and blocks. Take this a little slower like a classroom setting, instead of just jumping right in.

Because this is an art blog, and nothing of note or interest came from tonight's extra long session... here's a sketchbook fox from the last time I tried getting back into art.

Work In Progress

After a few hours of some really bad attempts at starting anything and frustration with just how foreign a tablet can feel compared to charcoal on a big sheet of butcher paper, I'm starting to get something going. I couldn't seem to turn off the right side of my brain and draw any straight forward concept... so I took a 5 minute break and remembered my trick from years ago when I'd run into that problem - draw a fast gesture line and slowly push and mold it into whatever the creative side comes up with.

A few of those out of the way, I decided to revisit a project I had done in college. It's too late to take it much further than it is right now, so we'll consider it a work in progress to come back to when I next hit a rough spot.

Nests and eggs

Nest and egg doodles for a little honey-do list project I've been tasked with.

Red Panda

Trying to get back into drawing. Got a fancy Wacom Tablet but never really got around to playing with it. Attempting to do a doodle a day - lets see how long that will last - ha.

Aaand, for extra motivation, I'll upload to Society6 to pad the beer and diaper fund. You can find this guy for sale printed on iPhone cases, canvas, mugs, etc here: society6.com/jaredfowler