Tonight's Work

Another Panera meet up tonight with my art friends. Dinner then discussing with my cohort Callie about APE, the BASA group, our anthology, and more, then getting down to some art when more people arrived. Tonight's work was inking this title page to yet another sketchbook. It was chilly outside after Panera shut down at 9pm so we finished up the night at La Scala until midnight.

American Eskimo

Tonight's homework drawing: Draw your first pet. We had a dog named O.J. who was an American Eskimo. I only have a few memories of that dog but the next dog we got was also the same breed.

Aye Aye, Cap'n!

Posting more homework drawings. Draw an advertising character: Cap'n Crunch

Custom Brushes

Well, this is a weird feeling. I'm so use to posting my artwork on here be it rough pencils to finished works and, even with previous classes, it was always a decent drawing effort on my part. But not this and the other Illustrator post the other day, which doesn't feel right. Like I'm posting my beginner experiments to recognize I did it in class. Does that make sense?

Anyway, I guess this blog will be a mix of that for a few months with my creative stuff and then class assignments, which really doesn't make sense since it always was that way before. Tonight, it was learning how to make custom brushes, even using your own artwork. Actually, nifty stuff that I could not do with illustrator back in the 90s. Will I have to be learning all this stuff ten years from now again? I learned even back in the 90s that is was a constant game of keeping up with these programs so I'm thinking my drawing skills might be a better thing to push that will not become obsolete in 2015 when "drawing 2.0" comes out.

A New Sketchbook

A new semester! A new class! This time, I'm brushing up on my Adobe Illustrator which is under Digital Illustration. And, other than the tones, this drawing was done by hand and not digital. Confused yet?

Anyway, I always start a new sketchbook with a cover page and this one was my lame attempt to swap out Olivia Newton-John's "Physical" with "Digital".

The Invasioneers

Finally! Done! Unless I have any corrections! Looks good though and I'll have to add some of these to my portfolio since the Comic Art section of it is painfully lacking in anything sequential.

So next I put on my Editor and Pre-Press hat as I prep and paginate everyone else's files for the printer as they role in.

Illustrator Throw Up!

 No animation classes this semester but I am taking a Digital Illustration class (aka Adobe Illustrator). I use to regularly use Illustrator with my old job but my skills need some updating. So the class will be useful. And here, per the instructor, an upload of our first tinkering with the program.