aussie thug 1 hour doodle

1 hour sketch in photoshop for CGtalk.com's daily sketch challenge. The topic was thug, and I figured Id take the path less traveled.

1 minute life drawing

Gettin back into the life drawing these days. Im going every thursday with some awsome artists from work. I wish I could go more. You know how it is.......

Anyhow....right now im working 2 areas specificly...economy of line (saying more with less)....and unification of structure.

Heres a one minute drawing I felt was reletively successful.

metropolitinative

Got up early again today. I try and get up 2 hours early every day to draw and or paint. Today I read the latest National Geographic for an hour and then drew this unrelated image from my head. I see a lot of natives downtown in the area I work. I think a lot about their situation. It seems to me we (colonialist white men) could have learned so much from them.
I relize I relied on cliches here.....WOuldnt mind developing this theme more. He needs some nikes on....

Watercolour characters

Im having fun practicing for now. As well as these two characters I did 3 pages of just experimenting with various techniques of applying watercolor resulting is a mess of abstract shapes and colors. Its definitely a lot of fun but I can see that its gonna take a lot more practice. Next I would like to try a looser approach where I am not defining every shape. John Singer Sargent and Winslow Homer are huge inspiration to me.

My first watercolour character

This is the first time ive painted a person with watercolour. Ill do a few more of these quick sketches before I embark on employing this approach to a large illustration.

More watercolour

Suppose I should spell watercolour the American way as well sometimes for the sake of my southern neighbors finding this blog on google.

Another painting done in the yuppie park on my lunch break. Who needs eating anyways?

plein air watercolor

I work at Nitrogen Studios Canada as a production designer. A few blocks away is a wonderful park on the Pacific Ocean. Theres lots to paint. I do however have to hide from inquisitive yuppies with annoying questions. Children ask smarter question like, "Do you like to paint?". Conversations with yuppies are more like, "What are you making?" "A painting." "Why?" Seems sitting in a cubicle erodes your brain as well as your soul.

Anyways, guess I should stop before I offend too many. Heres the painting I did.