Day 41 - Dr. Phil?

Another example of my obsession with moustaches - I am sure there are examples of people who dont look great in them, but I cant really think of any

Day 39 - Me and Mrs. Nose

So a number of people have asked me to send photos of what my nose looks like, and rather than post a pic, I have decided to draw a flattering self portrait of my nose. Generally, I am against drawing self-portraits, unless I am using facial expressions for styling cues to add emotion to the face of an animal drawing, but I thought this compromise would satisfy the collective masses.

As an aside, somehow I totally imagine slow dancing,with my nose, listening to this (replace me and Mrs. Jones with me and my nose). Maybe a little candlelight, a bottle of champagne...

Me and my nose

we got some sniffing going on...

we both know it was wrong,

but breathing is much too strong to let it go now...

The same nostril, I sniffed everyday

10-20% air flow...no one knows she was that way

sniffing plants, making all kinds rants,

while bilateral breathing slipped away

Me and my, my nose my nose my nose....

me and my nose

Day 27 - Moustache

A foreshadow of things to come in the following week. I am part of a nontrivial number of men and women who thing gigantic moustaches are basically awesome. Think this, only the 2011 version.

Day 24 - Face on another

These is something really nice about this - The half obscured eye was mainly out of laziness - didn't want to ensure symmetry of the eyes, but this really adds something.

Tools: iPad, Sketchbook pro, finger!

Day 23 - Passenger 57

Wesley Snipes' legal troubles notwithstanding, he is pretty awesome. While most will remember him from this scene in Passenger 57, his acting range has really developed to include ex-CIA hostage specialist, CIA sniper, UN covert operative, ex-Special Forces bad ass, ex-security specialist, etc etc. One acquires this information about Snipes acting when the weather outside is -5 degrees and the entire Wesley Snipes film library is on Netflix.

I am increasingly convinced that the war on terror will only be won when Wesley Snipes helms our intelligence agencies.

Tools: iPad, Sketchbook pro, finger!

Day 21- Rapa Nui

I have been a huge fan of Rapa Nui for a long time, but my interest in the island was rekindled when I saw the beautiful surf footage from Step into Liquid.

Plus the line about "you would think there would be some goofy ugly looking people because of all the inbreeding, but some of the most beautiful people I have ever seen in the world, inside and out." is just priceless!

A quick technical note:

My solution to copying/cloning an image in Sketchbook Pro, Duplicate it as a layer and then move the image around. Not ideal, because the ability to subselect a part of the image is not available, but as a first pass, this seems to be ok.

Tools: iPad, Skechbook Pro, finger

Day 18 - Comic book nostalgia

If you were a comic book fan boy in the early 1990s, you probably recognized Jim Lee's work, first on the Uncanny X-Men, then on the revamped version of the X-Men , and when he left Marvel to found Image where he launched WildCats. His style is really distinct, and he influenced a number of artists - I was a big fan of his work, as well as some of the other Image artists, and this quick doodle brought back some memories of that early stylistic influence.

As an aside, I think an under-appreciated part of the visual change in the way comics looked back in the 1990s was the work of Steve Oliff and Olypotics, the guys that introduced color separation and computer coloring to the medium. I think the visual quality of the first titles out of Image, specifically Spawn, Cyberforce, and Wildcats was just something stunning and so different from the work at Marvel and DC....

I will now stop my fanboy geeking out...

Tools: iPad, Sketchbook Pro, finger!

Day 17 - Eyes

Again with the eyes.... and the ladies

Tools: iPad, Sketchbook Pro, finger!

Day 14 - Patches

Our aesthetic sensibilities seem by some measure to be rooted in ideas of symmetry. The eye patch is something that interrupts that symmetry, but the intriguing thing about it is the notion that behind this black is something interesting - I guess it illustrates to power of finding balance between symmetry and mystery. The tough thing is to get the rest of the proportions of the face correctly...I would say, meh in terms of drawing, but I will probably revisit this.

Tools: iPad, Sketchbook Pro, finger!

Day 12 - Rubens

Peter Rubens' first wife - Isabella Brant adapted from a version of this image I found in a Dover thrift edition - not especially happy with the drawing using the iPad and my finger - in large part it occurs to me the difficulty in drawing with ones hand instead of a pencil/brush.

Rubens is striking in that he does mass with an incredible weight.

Tools: Sketchbook Pro, iPad, right finger!

Day 9 - Silhouette

Nothing to be said but a quick exercise in green.

Tools: iPad, Sketchbook Pro, right finger!

Day 6- native colors

The colors came by way of a wedding I was at - the green and purple is really quite nice

Tools: iPad, Sketchbook Pro, right finger!

Day 4 -Eyes

Eyes are always fun to draw...especially those on women.

Tools: iPad, Sketchbook Pro, right finger!