Latest commute sketchwork

Slowly but surely I seem to be mapping out the area around the Addison Brown Line stop:



Some people on the bus sketches:

Street corner sketch

One of my weaknesses has always been backgrounds and environments, so these sketches are turning out to be good exercise. I'm finding that I don't need to make them perfectly accurate, just picking out enough detail to capture the look of a scene is sufficient. And it's fun.

Corner of Addison and Ravenswood:

New sketches from my commute

Newspaper vending machines outside the Addison Brown Line stop:



Lady reading on the Ravenswood train heading to Kimball, I liked what the light was doing with her hat:

On-the-go sketches

Been preoccupied since the birth of my daughter (she'll be 7 weeks old as of Wednesday); too busy, too tired, too lazy to draw. I have a little sketchpad that I got as a gift, I'm going to try and do quickie drawings during my work commute... We'll have to see how long I can keep that going.

Space trucks

Something I drew in my sketchbook last weekend, a pair of galactic hyperways transports, drawn with Sharpie and markers:



I really should be drawing more...

Doodly doodly do

I haven't done much in the way of illustration lately, been kind of idling while waiting for the new version of Colors! for DS to be released. Mostly just doodling in my sketchbook in pen and marker-- I found this double-tipped calligraphy marker that lays down the richest black I can recall seeing, unfortunately the tip isn't very sturdy and is starting to crumble. Ah well. Anyway, I've been messing around with spotting blacks and working with contrast. Back to basics...

Anyhoo, here's a page out of my sketchbook representative of the doodling:

Ice ship

Haven't posted in a while, been preoccupied with work and the not-yet-born-but-coming-soon baby... I was inspired by the art on the Conceptships Blog and wanted to try my hand at a quickie ship rendering:



Spaceship skimming over the surface of an icy planet, Colors for DS plus Photoshop.