Emerson Birthday
A few days ago was our little buddy Emerson’s birthday. That reminded me of a doodle I drew for him a few years ago of his two favorite characters from Rescue Bots and Paw Patrol (both ironically named Chase). I thought I would post it.
Doodled in Krita on my Surface Go 2.
Mural – Finished
Catching up on posting some of the projects I had worked on over the last two years of my blogging hiatus.
A few years back I was asked by a good friend if I would consider painting a mural in their office spaces. At first I thought that would be a horrible idea, as I’m not a fan of traditional painting, and most of my art style is much closer to a comic book/cartoon aesthetic. But we talked about if they would want something black and white that resembles a comic panel and they were totally on board.
The idea was to incorporate 6-7 different icons or elements into a single image and after a few revisions, we settled on a panel that ended up 6 feet by 24 feet. I also did some research and found these paint pens that seemed to be well reviewed and I thought I could try to “draw” it on the wall instead of painting.
Mural – First Character
We marked out the space with chalk lines and I built some reference markers into the image and on the wall to help line up the projector as we moved from one element to another. It ended up being tremendously easier to get the projector close to being lined up, and them simple manipulating the canvas perspective in Gimp to get it just right, than it was to try and make the projector perfect by itself. We also had to find a short throw projector as the space was a long hallway that had a finite distance we could push back the projector.
Mural – Third Character
From there is was just a matter of getting the characters up on the wall. I did most of the work over lunch breaks, with one final all-day push to wrap it all up. I also found spaces that simply needed to be filled with black paint and marked them with X’s, so someone else could help get them filled.
Mural – Masking Fills
Another thing that helped was making templates and using tape to mask off elements that didn’t need to be drawn by hand. I also got assistance filling in those areas, but I wish I had found a better paint. We used one that was almost identical to the look and finish of the pens when dry, but it required two coats because it wasn’t quite as good at covering the wall color.
Mural – Masking Fills 2
Ultimately, I was happily surprised how close it came to the original digital design. I’ll always find things to nit-pick about my work, but it was a very fun project, and I’ve been hoping to find time and an excuse to do more like it in the future.
narwhal bear cloud
A few days ago, my wife and I were out for an evening walk and came upon a distinctive cloud. I immediately reported that it looked like a Narwhal with a Disney Gummi Bear riding it. She said she could see what I was talking about, but she was probably just being nice to me. I felt compelled to take a picture and try drawing what I saw, which is below. I’ll consider this a glimpse into how my brain works.
narwhal bear
I also made a little GIF of the steps between the two. Doodled in Krita on my Surface Go 2.
narwhal bear steps
Greetings internet! I haven’t posted in a good long while because I decided to go back to school (while still working full-time) and have been devoting almost all my non-family time to that. I do have a list of projects and doodles I’ve snuck in along the way that I’ll get around to posting at some point, but not today.
Yesterday season 2 of “The Mandalorian” came out on Disney plus and the first episode was a great return to this awesome show. I had draw this little “Take your kid to work” gag a few days ago, so I thought I would post it. Hopefully I might get it colored in the next few days and can post that too.
Stay safe out there everyone! It doesn’t seem like we are collectively doing very well at listening to each other, or being considerate and compassionate towards others these days. I hope that is a trend we as a whole people can start changing for the better.
Taker-Waker
During a recent episode of LEGO Masters, the married team Amy and Tyler created this funny little rat character called the Taker-Waker that I kept thinking about for days later. So when I had a few spare moments, I decided to doodle my version of their design in my sketchbook, and then I found some more time later to color him on the computer. If you haven’t seen the show, it’s quite a lot of fun to see the teams build such different things from the same root idea. Stay safe and healthy!
Colored in Krita on my Surface Pro 3.
Taker-Waker Sketchbook
Bird King colored
Next up on the list of Inktober doodles in the Bird King from Cristian Ortiz. Some of the linework was goobered up when I isolated them for the big wallpaper piece (source for all these colored doodles), but I just rolled with it.
Colored in Krita on my Surface Pro 3.
Inktober 2019-10 Cristian Ortiz
bird king sketchbook
vegan lasagna
Happy Thanksgiving! I used to always draw some kind of turkey this time of year but seemed to have neglected them these last few years. Well, I’m bringing it back so Bobby Gobbler wanted to offer you a meat free alternative. (We will be eating turkey and ham at our house)
Doodled in Krita on my Surface Pro 3.
quick and dirty sketch
Cyclops
I’m still cranking out some colored versions of my Inktober doodles and I thought my little Skottie Young inspired Cyclops should be next.
Colored in Krita on my Surface Pro 3.
Jesper
If you haven’t seen it yet, I cannot recommend enough times that you should check out the Netflix original movie, Klaus. It is sure to become a holiday season classic and it wonderfully and beautifully made. I have been waiting for this movie since I first saw an early production teaser a year ago, and was not disappointed in the final movie.
Doodled in Krita on my Surface Pro 3.
Jesper process
Meow-tron
I’ve been excited about adding some color to this Inktober doodle, as I had to do lots of cross hatching on the black and white version. This was based of an adorable tshirt design be Matthew Armstrong.
Colored in Krita on my Surface Pro 3.
Inktober 2019-27 Matthew Armstrong
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