Sue Saw the Sun...

Here's a quick scribble from a recent stack o' stuff... Kinda liked the shapes and threw an experimental photoshop pass over it.... I'm liking what turned out..

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Get Tough....

Hey there Friends of the blog,

This is URSALA! Queen of the Cave Bears! I cranked out this image for the Angel City Derby Girls out in LA. They're hosting their fifth EAT YOUR ART OUT art auction show this Saturday Feb. 25th and I'm on the dance card.
The theme for this show was Carnival After Dark, and I began by waffling back and forth on what to make (tattooed ladies, fat ladies, Bearded ladies, and contortionists mainly) before deciding that girls kicking ass on roller skates might appreciate the concept of the classic strong woman. Did some research and found some cool old reference photos and stuff. Had lots of fun plotting out the early sketches and noodling with how muscular I was gonna make this lass. This then led to some struggles while I tried to finalize the image where I learned that, indecision does indeed suck. In the end I wound up with this bulky brawny beauty. Which then led me to making a narrative for her as a Strong woman who fights with Grizzly Bears in a spectacular side show event.

I'll see about going back to some of my old sketches here in the future and doing a few more of these, maybe a little strong woman series. I'm trying to branch out more. Truth be told I do draw more then just beers, bears, caricatures, and other stuff. I actually filter out some of my work here and there when I post, but I'm trying to share more varied art with you here, in the future.

Hope you dig,
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P.S. this is an early comp ans sketch that I'm attaching just for kicks..

Also, I even dabbled in a bit of font building during this project... built the letters I needed in Flash with vector shapework... Probably some of my favorite stuff to do with that program.

New Years!!

I managed 400 in a year.... PHEW...
Did over a dozen show pieces both nation wide and abroad (Paris, and Mexico City).
Busy year indeed.
But, right now I don't even want to think about it. I should be laying out some new plans for the New Year in the next few days.

Best wishes to all my friends in 2012..
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GlamGal...

Been a while since I threw some colors on a little female sketch. I trimmed out some of the figure in this drawing. I thought it was a little rubbish. However, I enjoyed her face. I liked the ears and the shape of the hair.

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Another Late night Lady...

Another fine lady. Seriously enjoying faces with lots of angles and character. I'm here working on a Saturday afternoon from the ol' home studio...

Hope you dig.
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Society Gal

Another sketch from the ol' pad a few weeks back... Adding in some of the white graphic shapes lent sort of a deco feeling to the image while kinda sticking to my personal like for using the white space around the image to make negative forms for part of the image framing. In the end, I just like drawing the pretty ladies every once in a blue moon...

Hope you dig her...
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Sultry RED!

With a wacky weird head...and some giant earrings... Yep, that's how I roll...
Just another wacky looking face from my stack of recently scanned images... Looking forward to sharing more with you all here in the weeks to come...

Hope you dig her.
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Albino Gal

Just a little fair haired and fair skinned girly with some bright colors and designer fashion... The sketch (like most of my sketches) was very very loose, this lends to her long neck... But, the rest was just good fun... Liking bright colors lately, and I'd seen a woman with this kind of hair and skin tone a few days back. So, I played with it...

Stay sexy everyone, Hope you dig.
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P.S.. This is also POST THREE HUNDRED!! ALMOST THERE!!

Generic Princess type stuff..

Yep Still love drawing profiles...and fiddling with bright colors...This here is a princess of some far off land.
Right now I'm, Looking forward to getting some sit down time with a few art friends this weekend in the city to draw over pints and discuss current affairs... I'm trying to stick with my goal but ever since my trip home at the beginning of the month its been a bit of a challenge, getting back on the horse and doing a daily post... Much less a really good and challenging daily post...But, I'm gonna check out a few gallery shows this week and see about taking in the JIM HENSON exhibit at the MOMI so I'm optimistic the my creative juices will thaw out soon.
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Tiara Thursday!

Girlie Painting, to loosen up for a long night and weekend ahead.
Really hammered through this one, faster then I usually might..

Hope you dig..
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Dirly updo...

She put up her hair. I Figure it was because of the hot day. In the City, the warmer weather is often a call for most ladies with longer hair to put it UP!. Which I must admit I like. Looking at all of those alphonse Mucha images when I was younger made me a sucker for the Chignons. Letting ladies have both bountiful long hair and the added grace of an exposed shapely neck.. this image was a scribble but, I liked it... SO, I'll share it with you all here at the blog...

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MERMAIDEN SKETCH..

Yeah.... Getting late here...
I'm gonna pop up this photoshop scribble from earlier this year with some photoshop colors on it... Just wanted to paint some water..because its hot in the city lately...

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Late night Lady...

She's probably rocking in a club some where. But, I'm just winding down here at the home studio... Should have signed off and gone to sleep hours ago.. I just wanted to squeeze a little more time out of my weekend though...

Can't blame me for trying...
Hope you all dig..

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This Gal Friday...

Have a laid back weekend all...
More posts to come..

Hope you dig...
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blue eyed lass..

Yeah... Drawing more ladies....more faces...with more snippets of photoshop...
I've been experiencing a rather unfavorable bout of Tendonitis in my drawing arm of late. I'm hoping I can get it in order, over the next few weeks while not falling to far behind in my drawing and other projects.

Hope you dig.
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Girl with a BLUE BIRD TATTOO Breakdown...

I sketched this out yesterday at the lunch counter while I waited for my breakfast eggs and bacon platter to show up... It's funny how many people will stop and look over your shoulder and ask you questions while your just sitting quietly doing some scribbles...
I threw some colors at it really quick last night and was playing with the saturation on the image...because I've been into REALLY BRIGHT colors of late... So, here's three variations on the image.. I like the super colored one but, I'm realizing that the Greyscale one seems kinda flat... Perhaps I'll need to pay more attention to my values and making cleaner contrasts in the future...

Speaking of future... I'm also please to announce that I crested over 200 posts for the first half of this year...WHOO HOOOOO! I might actually might make my 400 post goal by DEC 31! Expect more stuff in the weeks to come... I'm putting the hammer down...

Hope you dig....
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Quick gal

Here's a quick girl drawing from a photo that was on my desk as reference form something else... Kinda a caricature... Quick color pass, was hooked to bright colors today...
Also trying to play with framing elements lately so that my images are just inside boxes and rectangles... Angled forms feel more dynamic...


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Bright Gal

Some bright colors on a sketch of a girl that I did on some more lined paper..

Hope you dig..
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PIXIE STIX

Here's a pixie drawing I unearthed from a stack of pages that were a few months old... She got a splash of color and here she is for you to scope out....
I might have to cut back on the digital painting for a while and focus on the drawings though...I feel myself getting lazy a bit and relying too much on photo shop... Still, I do love digital painting because its simply too expensive for me to be doing more traditional paint methods..

Hope you dig.
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Friday and Push PLAY!

So I had a caricature assignment today, and it led to some scribbles on a stray sheet of paper while I was researching and trying to loosen up... Very rainy here in NYC as well, which has yielded a splendid rainbow over midtown Manhattan.. I'm about to head out of the office for some delicious homemade pizza and drinks with a good friend..
The weekend should find me drawing amid, a flurry of personal obligations and other stuff I gotta get done... But for now, Here's a page of sketches... Just threw a quick tone on them...I've not edited these...You can even see the ghost of an old drawing on the opposite side of this page...

Hope you dig, and enjoy a great weekend...

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