Frowning 1 WIP weekend three results.

Weekend three of a new digital ink drawing. A lot of results this week. We shall see if I am getting faster. I hope so... I think so. Hope all is well out there for whomever sees this. Thanks for stopping by.

New digital ink portrait Frowning1 - week two Work in progress

I started my second digital ink portrait, and this time it is the start of three self portraits. For some reason, the second of anything for me is really tough to pull off successfully. Maybe I set my sights to high, perhaps after an initial success, I want even larger swings into the realm of achievement and that just doesn't happen in the real world.  But win or lose, I have been working on this piece and think I have it bent into a pleasing direction finally.

Old Man Left --- It's done. Whew!!

I don't know how I did it, but I buckled down and finished it tonight. Ah, That is a big load off of my mind. Now to research how to "archival safe" float mount a drawing.  I have included a couple of close ups. the Drawing is just about two feet high. 

Old Man Left -WIP Weekend Six: Skin all done.

Well, after another week of steady work on it, I am finally able to see an end point. I'm happy... now on to hair rendering.

Doodle United: Teen Titans

Doodle United for April 13th. Had to take a break from the old man drawing to pop out a piece for Doodle United. I have been so lax completing anything for that group. Humble apologies.  This week Starfire/Minion mash up.

Old Man Left -WIP weekend 5. Good results showing

So after the previous sessions not showing much in the way of results... I decided to turn of the TV at night and work on this each night this week for an hour or two and then hit it heavy on Saturday and a little more on Sunday. Much more progression this week. It is coming into focus for me. I hope to get the jowls done this week and hopefully will have only the hair to complete in the next two to three weeks. Hope everybody is well out there. -db

Old Man Left Working: session 4

Weekend four... not much work done on this one. But now I feel obligated to post whenever I get any work done on this just to show I wasn't just parking the entire weekend on the sofa watching ncaa basketball.

Old Man Left_working _ weekend 3 work in progress

Weekend three just ended and so I am posting my results on this project. It is progressing, slowly but surely.

Old Man Left- Week 2 work in progress

Week 2 progress... not much during the week, maybe a couple of hours total, but hit it hard Saturday afternoon and Sunday. My goodness this is a slow and tedious process, but I feel good at the progress and results.

Old Man Left - new piece, work in progress day one

Started a new piece to keep me occupied while my knee heals. And I haven't done anything of any real size for some time, so I am working a digital pen and ink drawing. This is all in photoshop but it is drawn one stroke at a time.  The size will be about 21" x 21" when completed. This is session one from last weekend. Fun stuff.

how long

I watch the water slowly creep up around me, I move to what I believe to be a safer place on the boat. I try to convince myself that situations can be changed for the better, that perseverance can overcome many seemingly insurmountable obstacles. I pass the Captain. The Captain doesn’t say the boat is sinking, that all we have done is for not, to go and try to save ourselves. The Captain designates who gets thrown overboard to temporarily lighten the ship.

I have seen many thrown overboard. Some went willingly, some went with sad faces and some fear as to what was to become of them. I wonder how long can they last in that cold water?

To quote Robert Louis Stevenson’s Long John Silver; “Them that dies will be the lucky ones.” I fought against that manner of thinking. Do what you can to survive, to make it work.  Now perhaps, looking around at the sinking, crumbling vessel that was once a mighty ship…. I wonder how long before the Captain points and signals that I am to be sent overboard.

3X3 Illustration Annual 11 is out

3X3 Illustration 11 is out!!! I am so happy to see two of my pieces in the professional show for Self Promotion. They have an online gallery for the book as well. 

http://3x3mag.com/annual/A-C

I am so very proud and honored.

Doodle United: Adjective Snowman

For the first Doodle United of the new year, we got the assignment of Adjective Snowman, in honor of the great Bill Watterson, Creator of Calvin and Hobbs... specifically "Snow Goon strips" We were given a link that is a random Adjective Generator. 
link > http://www.randomlists.com/random-adjectives. 
We were to Set the Limit to '1,' and hit refresh. The adjective that was generated we were to place in front of the word Snowman, and BOOM. Draw it. IT was fun.

Christmas Card Design for 2014: Niblet

I didn't know if I was going to even come up with a concept for this year. I am happy with this year's concept and with the illustration.

Niblet, The Christmas goat.

Doodle United for Monday November 3rd, Gargoyle

For the last of the Halloween type stuff for the year, the topic was Gargoyles for Doodle United.... I decided to solve this with a gargling gargoyle, or is it gargle-goyle?

drawlloween 2014 - day 26, Candy.

this topic was a real challenge for me. I dreaded it when the list came out... and I was right to dread it. Man this one was a tough one.

Drawlloween 2014, day 25, Pumpkin

drawlloween 2004 day22 Witch.

Drawlloween 2014 day 21: demons.

Drawlloween 2014, Day 20 Devil

Drawlloween 2014, Day 19... Skull

Drawlloween 2014 - Day 18, Topic: Gore

Drawlloween 2014, day 17. 8 Bit Zombie

drawlloween_2014 day 17, 8bit zombie. 

Doodle United: Ghost, Ghoul, or Peter O'Toole

reworked an older piece that I was never happy with... now I like it much more.  Camera RAW is my friend.

Drawlloween 2014 day 14, Eyeball?

Drawlloween 2014  day 14, Eyeball?
#drawlloween, #inktober

drawlloween 2014 day 12... dragon.

drawlloween 2014  day 12... dragon.  #drawlloween, #inktober

Drawlloween 2014 - day 11, Vampire

Drawlloween 2014 day 11:  Vampire.
I decided to see how successful disguising Nosforatu would be.

Drawlloween 2014 day 10... Frankenstein

I was out for a few days, but I am back home and back on schedule for submitting for today......Frankenstein.

Drawlloween 2014 Day 5, Goblin

Drawlloween Day 5... and welcome to day five... today?  Well, it's goblins.

drawlloween 2014, Day 4... Raven

Day four... raven finished in the evening of day four.

drawloween 2014 day 3: Rats

Day 3 of drawlloween- Rats!

drawlloween 2014: day 2 zombie

Drawlloween 2014 day 2... topic:  zombies.  The bottom one of the single figure is a reprint from the graphic novel Dead Anyway. A book that I was privileged to be invited to work on. Such fun and so many gifted and talented artists were involved in that project. Check it out if you haven't.

Drawlloween 2014 day 1 spider

Drawlloween 2014... a drawing a day for the month of October. I don't know how long I can keep it up, but this was the drawing for day one... topic: Spider

Groot Final For Doodle United.

final version... Groot in color for Doodle United. Due 09/21/14. just sent out a few minutes ago for upload on Monday. Should be an interesting and diverse collection of images.

groot 1

for Doodle United, the Guardians of the Galaxy.  And yes, it did just turn out to be an excuse to draw Groot.
I haven't drawn on clayboard seriously for a few months. I have become rusty... but this was interesting enough that I may go back and try another one to see if I can apply what I have learned.

Doodle United: EIO tour shirt

Again, for Doodle United:  Farm Animals... since I got done early with the CD cover, I decided to adopt the phrase, "If it's worth doing, then it's worth OVERdoing."

So I made an accompanying Tour Shirt design. The best part was discovering all the really strange and funny town names that the US has. I kept the really suggestive ones off the list. The 13 year old in my head had a blast with this.

Doodle United: Farm Animals

for the Doodle United topic of Farm Animals... I decided to continue on with parody submissions. This time, a fictional farm animal-hairband live CD cover. The band, EIO.  It's a week early, but this was just too fun to wait... strike while the iron is hot.

Doodle United: The Amphibians

Having seen several "artistic adaptations" of classic comic book covers... this topic really lent itself to such a treatment...

Freely and openly building an homage to the great John Buscema, whom I could only hope to clean his brushes... I took The Avengers 57 cover and adapted it into :  The Amphibians.

Doodle United Topic: Your Zodiac Sign: Gemini

ok, so I admit this one is a stretch... but I had a really tough time conforming to the decorative art styles of Celestial Seasons or Crabtree and Evelyn.  I admire those illustrations very much, but it ain't me. And to make matters worse, I am a gemini... the twins. Twins??? What do I do with that? So I kept coming back to a battle between the Marvel comics Alpha Flight twins Northstar and Aurora meeting up with Jan and Jayce the Wonder Twins.  But it still was not to my liking until I thought... Teen Titans GO!  The little Chibi based animated cartoon. So cute. So I did a mash up of Chibi and Bill Watterson of the Twins of the DC and Marvel U.  It was fun.  My apologies to Bill Watterson.

Doodle United: The Lost City of Atlantis

Doodle United, This week's topic, The Lost City of Atlantis. I really wanted to really do a cartoon featuring Aquaman. Now I have that opportunity. It was fun.

red door studio drawing session June7th 2014

red door drawing group back again... interesting costuming. a fun session as all are.

Doodle United topic: Aesop's Fables The Bat, the Birds, and the Beasts.

This week's topic for Doodle United is Aesop's Fables... the fable I chose to illustrate is......

The Bat, The Birds, and The Beasts.
A great conflict was about to come off between the Birds and the Beasts. When the two armies were collected together the Bat hesitated which to join. The Birds that passed his perch said:

"Come with us"; but he said: "I am a Beast."

Later on, some Beasts who were passing underneath him looked up and said:

"Come with us"; but he said: "I am a Bird."

Luckily at the last moment peace was made, and no battle took place, so the Bat came to the Birds and wished to join in the rejoicings, but they all turned
against him and he had to fly away. He then went to the Beasts, but soon had to beat a retreat, or else they would have torn him to pieces.

"Ah," said the Bat, "I see now,

Moral of Aesops Fable: "He that is neither one thing nor the other has no friends."

Doodle United: Fairies vs. Goblins

For the Doodle United page. 05/18/2014 -the topic:  Fairies vs. Goblins.  The directions... Draw a or some fairies, and or some Goblins.... The web page leads will tally up the totals to see who is more popular to draw for this group.  Ugly is much easier than pretty... I chose goblins.   Go and check out the results, probably late Monday the 19th. https://www.facebook.com/DoodleUnited

Doodle United: Characters and their Pets

For Doodle United: Characters and their pets... Late 1980's and early 1990's Pro Wrestler- Jake the Snake Roberts.This was a challenge from a subject matter perspective. Several characters came to mind and fell short when it came to putting image to paper. Sometimes it's good to have to rethink.