Sketch_dailies

Here are a load of updates:

These are all from the @Sketch_Dailies twitter feed where there is a different character prompt each day.  They have been fun to do when I get a chance because it lets me try my had at a character or technique that I wouldn't normally get a chance to do:

Velma 

Medusa

Heffalump

Beaker

Tarzan

Rapunzel

More 6th Grade Lunch Bags

Still posting the lunch bags still a little behind.

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Sara has been chucked off of her horse and tossed into the book return where she falls down to the bottom only to find her Dad hanging out in front of a giant card catalog.

pitt pens, copic markers, oil pastels and gel pens on brown paper lunch bag.

Robot Dragon Slayer sketch card

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This week's sketch card for my son's lunch lays out a little background on the hero robot.

Pencil and marker sketch, modified in PhotoShop with the text added.

Warm Up Sketch

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This was a quick warm up hand sketch that I added some color to in photoshop.

Sketchbook Studies

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These are different sketchbook studies for a variety of projects, including the revisions to the Sara lunch bag character, Halloween characters, and a couple of characters for some writing projects.  Even tried out some watercolors on the witch character.

Sketch Book Doodles

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Here are some more sketches from the sketch book, working out the current lunch bag, practicing Sara's Mom character and throwing a robot in for fun.

Blue Col-Erase Pencil, Stabilo Pen, and a Marvy Artwin marker

Sketches

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These are all sketchbook studies for a variety of projects

Summer Post

Summer time is a little different for me, I don't have the weekly schedule of drawing on lunch bags that the school year typically brings.  I have been drawing, but my main focus is on a project that I can't share quite yet.  In the meantime I have been doing little sketches here and there.  This one is another warm up sketch that got away from me.  It started as a little blue line doodle about 2 or 3 inches tall.  I decided to scan it and I flipped it to see how the proportions where working and saw how terribly off they were, so I scaled it up and started inking.  Once the ink was completed I scanned it again and put it back the way it was originally drawn.  I let Photoshop trace the lines and cleaned up some of the worst offenders but left others alone and composed it on a background.

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Iron Man

Iron Man property of Marvel Comics

No lunch bag this week, my daughter is on a field trip that left at 5 in the morning.  But my son still gets a sketchcard.  We saw Iron Man 3 last night.

Strathmore Mixed Media board, copic markers, and prismacolor pens.

Quick Sketch Card

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This is a quick sketch card for my son who left this morning at 4 in the morning for a strings competition in East Tennessee.

Red Lunch Bag Study

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I am trying to use a red lunch bag this week so I am experimenting with the results.  This is a quick study.

Mummy Doodle

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This was a little doodle I did while sitting through a painful seminar on the merits of fiberglass windows.  The things you do to get CEU's.  

2012 Halloween Witch

Copyright 2012 - Michael Smith

First character for a Halloween composition.  Hand drawn and photoshop colors.  On to the next character...

Miriam Colors

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Here are the colors on the Miriam character, trying to flesh out the characters and get them to live in the spaces that the story revolves around.

Sticking with Robots

Still powering through some robots in my spare time.  

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Surprised Robot

Still just doodling in the sketchbook, this guy should get some more attention later on, but for now he will live in the pencils!

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Summer Sara

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Just a little poolside sketch as the kids swam, the color was added later.

Miriam

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This is a sketch base for one of the character's in Taylor's Story, she is one of the main characters in the story.  Kind of the princess and kind of the source of information.