Art is fun! Dig what you see!
Now that many of us are back from a long holiday weekend, today's WRAP (Wednesday Random Art Post) I've selected this drawing from one of my old sketchbooks. The fact that it is an old drawing at this point and we still have to deal with people looking down at their phones while doing something very public, says a lot about our addiction to this device.
I drew this with a dark green polychromos pencil on sketch paper.
A little late in posting an appropriate piece of art for the start of Cruise Season in Seattle. Better late than never.
I used to ride my bicycle past those big ships when they were in port, north of downtown Seattle. Haven't done that in a while. Maybe this summer.
These concept ink drawings were done a few years ago, with possibly making paintings from some of them.
Posting more favorite trips from 2023 and these are more from my trip to Crater Lake. This time through the lens of my Nikon, rather than through my cell phone. I was able to not only get some detail around the park as I walked along but there was also parts of the lake, close up. A fun hike and a stunning view throughout.
Start your summer reading today, with the first chapter. 12 weeks of summer wrapped up in 12 chapters.
Start that journey today on my Amazon page.
Concepting art for games or animation studios is one of my all time favorite parts of what I do for a living. I can come up a at least 10 viable ideas in an afternoon and have most of them roughly drawn out.
I usually don't hesitate, but I do make time in the beginning for looking around for inspiration to spark some ideas. This usually doesn't take too long.
Concepting characters can be so much fun, especially at the beginning of a project and before the style is reigned in. Exploration is finding the visual depth of characters and so much of the time when the style gets reigned in it gets sanitized to the point where the characters look like they were stamped out in factory. Not every character design needs to look like a Pixar marshmallow. And bravo for some animation studios for taking a different tact with character design. Same for game studios.
