Archive for December, 2008
I’m nearing the end of my high school teaching internship, and I have finally had an opportunity to reflect some on the experience. Rather than ranting about the ridiculous paperwork requirement of the certification process, I thought I’d focus on a bigger issue. I think that too many students are not getting what they should [...]
I came up with a whole bunch of comic ideas quite a while back, but I never got around to trying to create any of them. I just couldn’t decide the medium that would be best. Well, I decided digital would be best, but I had no luck creating anything where the art was not [...]
After playing around with the charcoal, I decided to do a pencil drawing. At first, I couldn’t decide what to draw. I didn’t want to do a regular face, but I wanted to keep improving those skills, so I ended up going with a/the predator. As always, the scanner missed a lot of the details. [...]
I did two quick, rough charcoal sketches today. I was really just learning how the more expensive “artist’s charcoal” handles compared to the cheapo stuff I had used before. This new charcoal is excellent. It’s hardness is considered medium, but it’s definitely much harder than the other stuff. The sketch of the face was done [...]
Over the past three nights I have focused on breaking down faces into individual components, so I could concentrate on details and make fine improvements. I started with they eyes and drew the top left pair Sunday night. I drew the other pair Monday night. Tuesday night I drew each of the noses. I feel [...]
