Sun Giant - SotD 123

This sketch has been a long time coming. I sketched this out in pencil on a car ride over 2 years ago. Went digging through my sketchbook and came across it again- just had to color it. I miss this sort of cartoony, style I used to use, but I leaned towards the realistic so I could learn a bit faster about value and color.

Not a whole lot of story on this one, but I believe the over arching idea was just to put down the sort of image I saw while listening to the Fleet Foxes's Sun Giant. Drew it while going home for a weekend from school, and since I'm in ohio, the fields all around the highway had an effect.

Not sure if this is still a sketch-a-day, since I think I took it a bit further than that, but I'm putting it in that category anyway.

I'm still catching these things...

Been awhile since an update, and I'm still been coloring these wonderful little pokemon sketches for when I'm all groggy eyed and I've hooked up my coffee IV in the morning. Probably done with these for a long while though. It's relaxing, but at the same time my drawing skills are falling behind, and that's no good. More drawing. Plus, I still have no idea what the names of these things are, as I don't actually play pokemon.

I realized I've been doing nothing but digital stuff for so long now. I actually had to dig out a sketchbook. Dig it out... just... a pretty good sign that I'm not doing enough traditional sketching. So I've found some more bic pens, and will be doing that for warm-up again. This digital stuff spoils you: proportion changes, a fix it later mentality, insanely quick colors... but it's hard not to fall into a rut with those tricks and rely on them. So, traditional warm ups from here out.

Also I'm gonna start streaming again soon, as I haven't lately because to be honest, that free time I spend to do that I've been using to play through Portal 2 and Super Meat Boy. But i've all but conquered Portal 2 and Super Meat Boy's dark worlds have dang near crippled my button mashing fingers. At about 80% completion on it... and I'm not quite sure if I'll ever hit that 100%. So now I'm going back to drawing now that I've got those out of the ol' system.

Portal 2 was so worth the near 3 and a half year wait though.

Lines provided by: http://www.carlyhwang.com/
Colors by: Mike Puncekar

I'm catching them all?

I stumbled across a forum topic where a budding artist was taking requests to draw pokemon, then she would draw them from memory. Now personally, I've never really played pokemon. When the craze hit during the 5th grade I had some cards, but I couldn't "shoot things with guns" in the games, so I lost interest pretty quickly. But I still have some nostalgia for it. I think the final straw was that knock off "mewtwo" card they gave out at the pokemon movie screening as a promotional. That was not a real pokemon card. I was entirely dissapointed, as at the time he was the one I thought looked the coolest.

Anyway, before I get too sidetracked, she's posted something like 68 so far, maybe more. Just an awesome amount of these little doodles and she's streaming them as well. Great artist, and the lines on these things are great. So I've been coloring them as warm-ups and just for fun. It's absolutely relaxing to color these. It's like I've got my coloring book and crayons again.

Be sure to check out Carly's stuff...
Her Blog: http://www.carlyhwang.com/
Her Stream: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/drawan-n-shit

If you didn't read any of that: I just did the colors on these. I did not draw the lines.