"What in tarnation!?"

Quick panel for an art jam at work:

Under the Wire

It's been a very busy week between digging out from Snow-mageddon and putting in some extra hours on the game we're finishing up, but I still wanted to sneak in a quick drawing this week. I follow a blog that a group of comic book artists put together called Comic Twart (don't ask me what the name means) where they do weekly sketch challenges. One of their recent topics was minimalism - everyone drew a picture of a character trying to capture their essence with as little visual information as possible. I thought that would be perfect for a week where I'm very short on time, so here's minimalist Two-Face:

I could have pushed the minimalist aspect further, but I wanted to do at least a little rendering.

Dusty

Even though I'm really busy at the moment, I'm trying to get back into the habit of regular drawing and posting. I'm going to try some sketch challenges just to get the ball rolling. Illustration Friday's theme of the week was 'dusty':

This one took about 2 lunches to finish.

Illustration Fridays: Theater

Another quick one - this week's theme, theater:

Illustration Fridays: Impossibility

Another quick take at an Illustration Friday challenge - this week's theme was 'impossibility'.

I've always liked the imagery of David vs. Goliath, so I thought I'd run with that.

Illustration Fridays: Fleeting

This week's Illustration Friday theme - fleeting:

Illustration Fridays

Every once in a while I'll draw something based on sketch challenges I find online, just to mix things up. I just found out about a site that has a weekly challenge, Illustration Friday. It's nice that it's a regular thing and seems to have a lot of participants. I'm dipping my toes in the water with this week's challenge 'talisman'.

I'm taking the approach of working with the first image that pops in my head based on the theme and then knocking something simple out. Just keep it quick, fun and hopefully better with each passing week.

Sketch Challenge #2

From the Penciljack forums - illustration based on "the day 15 year old Danny Moore discovered he could levitate objects":

Recharging the Batteries

I haven't been doing much drawing for fun lately, so I looked around online for some sketch challenges to try. James Gurney, of Dinotopia fame, posts a random phrase from old sci-fi books every week on his blog as an exercise for his readers to illustrate. This week's quote was, "the old man felt a tendril of anger rising." My quick take on it:

The sketches don't have to be drawn in any sort of genre style, but I'm a sucker for old pulpy sci-fi.