illustration + design
Super excited my sketchbook with all my work from 2016 arrived from Lulu books. Second year in a row the colors and paper stock were top tier all the way.
Slowly adjusting back to a normal sleep schedule after vacation is always rough. A few nights I started a couple of sketches and the next day I couldn’t figure out what I was doing. That said it really helps to just draw faces to get some ideas down.
Happy New Year can’t believe 2016 is done and over with. The last week of the year I try to organize a number of projects and scan my drawings into an end of the year folder for the annual sketchbook.
Last year my final sketchbook was 50 pages with 18 full color pages. This year its 83 pages with 18 full color pages. I can’t wait to get the physical hardbound version of this book. It’s nice to actually hold something physical that I made.
Above is the final design for Vol:2
Above is a much earlier concept I was playing with
Getting down to wrapping up 2016. I really want to cross a couple more illustrations off the list. Hopefully like in year’s past the last week of the year should be a good time to catch-up.
Can’t believe the year is almost coming to an end. I am very excited about creating my end of year sketchbook. So far compared to last year I will have a few more pages.
Lately I have gotten into the habit of looking for a quick warm-up sketch reference on Instagram. Thanks to everyone for posting.
Last series of sketches for Inktober days 22-31. As well as my illustration for October’s character design challenge.
Made a mistake of waiting for a bunch of sketches to pile up before posting my next batch on Inktober sketches. Going strong 3rd year in a row!!!
October 10th to 21st Inktober collection.
October is the annual Inktober challenge. Every night a quick illustration. I have a theme list this year and flaked on a couple and just did something for fun in place.
Oct 1st to the 9th Inktober collection
Busy last two weeks, I still managed to actually finish a couple of illustrations. I really enjoy the monthly character design challenge it pushes me to work on clothing.
Having fun tweaking the pen tools in Autodesk Sketchbook. Drawing a lot of quick sketches at night but most don’t make it past the blue line sketch point.
Spending a good amount of drawing time in Autodesk Sketchbook. A couple of minor issues with layer color change and 16 layer limit but besides that it’s a dream to use.
Busy the last couple of weeks so just a few late night sketches.
Gathering together my end of the summer sketches. The last couple were done in Autodesk SketchBook. I am not sure what magic they used but the Apple Pencil to digitizer feel on the iPad surface is really spectuacular.
I have a 1/4 stack of inked sketches that I will never get around to coloring them. My art book for 2016 will be stacked. All of these final pieces were illustrated in Procreate.
