Grumpy Cat

My own little visual study into what exactly makes Grumpy Cat look so grumpy.

Not nearly grumpy enough though...Also, fur.

Sketchbook and zoo

I have renewed my zoo membership and purchased a mini watercolor set that is easy to carry and use over there. Here are the results from my last trip:

 

 

Well The panda and leopard were practices at home from photos taken there on a previous trip, and the komodo dragon and warthog were done on the spot.

And here are more random hand practices from my sketchbook:

New Blog Design

I got tired with the old design, mainly the colors, so I decided to switch to something simpler that would just showcase my work. I also added some pages to the blog, so that you can now see some illustrations and my process.

and some studies:

Kitty Sketches

Sketches of my cats. They're black, which makes them hard to draw.

 And friends:

Zoo

I recently got a membership to Atlanta's zoo and have been going there to sketch. There a class at SCAD that has a weekly field trip there, so I just kind of joined the group without being in the class. Here are some of my sketches done there.









Sorry about the crappy quality, but I just have a camera at home, no scanner. They were all done with a ballpoint pen (the cheaper the better). I must admit it can be really hard to draw moving animals, but it's definitely fun.

more studies and doggy sketches

Don't have much new, so I resort to post some old sketches.




I haven't been doing much studies lately, I started drawing for the webcomic Loaded Dice: http://www.rdinn.com/comic.php

Two pages a week is a tight schedule for me, and I'm bad at inking and many other things in there, but I only know of one way to get better, so I'm trying.

It's finals too. I'm tired, overworked, and I can't wait for the break.

Peruvian llama

My sister is currently living in Peru, the llama country. So when the opportunity came in class to illustrate a man/animal, well... this kind of came to me.

It's a refined sketch on which my next painting will be based. It'll be done imitating CF Payne's technique, which uses colored pencils, acrylics, watercolor, oils... and some other things.

We'll see how this turns out.

Break

A little break from homework =)
I'm trying something new. I tend to do a lot of realistic work (or try to) and I'm trying to do something more stylized. Not very successful I think... Only way to improve is to keep trying though.