Updates and Valentine's Day

First off, I finally updated my website. I know it took longer than I planned, but I finally did it. It's located here and I mostly updated the children, misc and rough section of it with minor shuffling and deleting of images in editorial and lifestyle. I need to start doing more illustrations for both of them.

The sketches are for Valentine's Day, I guess. I should try to colour the top one day. Now to get back to drawing and waiting for my discount chocolates.

People

It's fun what you can draw late at night. I think most creative people create at crazy hours of the day 'cause inspirations or the mood strikes then. It's a really bad habit to get into and one I've been trying to break, but oh well if the results are good. I really liked the corner picture of the girl and thought I'd do a quick colour of it.

Koala - Working on ...

I'm trying to fix my mental schedule to be more drawing oriented. I'm not sure if I can managed an illustration a day anymore, but I want to draw every day at the very least and do almost one illustration a day for most of the work week. Here's something I started yesterday. It's the third of of a bunch of animal illustrations I'm working on. I've got a Narwhal and Rhino as the other two.

Pig

Wow two post in one night; now that's something. Now to get back to the illustrations. This is actually done awhile ago for a personal children's book I was working on for fun. This is one of the illustrations from it that I loved since it turned out really well. I thought I'd post it so people can finally see it since I tell people about it but yet it's not on my blog or my site (yet). Now here it is.

Monkey King - Finished

So this is it, the final version of the Monkey King. I'm still wondering if I should important into Photoshop to play with the textures more, but I'm happy how it turned out. Hopefully I can finally get more done now that I'm back to doing digital illustrations again though working with just pen and ink again in my little sketchbook has a been a joy. I didn't know how much I've missed doing that. There's something fun about manipulating the pen to do as you want it to to create just the different line qualities and what not. It sounds like I'm drooling over a line, but I'm not ... it's more like I'm rediscovering something old again.

Back to drawing ...

I figure I should update more, but it's been hard to do finish stuff lately. The first two drawings are sketches from a creative response journal I'm giving to a friend. I'm not sure who else is going to end up joining in with what else but the end product should be interesting. I'm really not sure how much more I should draw in it just to leave things open for anyone else in the future. I really like how the two pieces turned out and I'm going to miss having them in my own personal sketchbook collection.



This last piece is the working colour rough for the Monkey King I, technically started, last month. It's been odd working on this piece 'cause I've been on and off with it. It's gone through some colour changes since nothing has felt right about it. Taking a whole month off of doing any finished work has definitly messed with my way of working, but it's coming back bit by bit.

A new year, a new sketchbook and a new beginning

So it's another year which never feels any different to me. I technically started this sketchbook a week ago, but it is something nice to carry into the new year with me. I originally wanted to just do inks without any pencil roughs, but I am not ready for that, especially for complicated things. I had fun doing this small piece and it's great to go back to pen and ink stuff again with hatching.