Sketches

Good morning everyone. Here are some sketches I scanned from my current sketchbook. In order of appearance: British People, Aqua-Bot, Hover-Bot, Yelly Guy, Brian Corey(eating licorice), B.O.B guy. Enjoy.

Sketches

Here are a couple more sketch exercises. One is a stork-like bird in a baseball cap, and the other a bald black guy. It's important to be versatile.

Old sketches

Another post in my Sketches From the Past series. I did all of these sketches while working at HP. We would have down time, and production line meetings, and I drew these sketches while sitting and waiting. The excersise was a favorite of mine at the time, scribble on the page, then find objects in the scribble to turn into characters, or things.


In this sketch I spotted a man in a baseball cap, a witch, a woman in a hat, an elephant, an old car, and a dinosaur.


I have no idea what this is. ?

July 6, 2009

Do you ever feel like the days, and conversations and events are currents you make your way through? Just keep swimming... just keep swimming...

I'm back!

It's been quite a while since I've posted. Over three months. I've been very busy, getting married, moving, setting up my office/studio anew, working my day job at HP, and working freelance. I've been blessed this year, and am very thankful for everything that's happend. Here's an animated gif of a bunch of little characters I dashed off while sitting through an agonizingly boring meeting at work one day. Enjoy! -- Ryan

Pencil Sketch

This is a cathedral window in Paris, France. No, it is not at Notre Dame. It was a smaller cathederal, on a very narrow side street, and I didn't get the name of it. I had been working on it off and on since my trip in 2000. I don't know that it will ever get finished. I will get back to France, I can guarantee that.

A friend of mine (Kathleen Rietz) recently devoted a whole new blog to sketching in her moleskine book. Kate is at least as busy as I am, if not more so. When I learned of her new blog, this lead to blog posting guilt syndrome, a very real and serious affliction. So I decided to share this sketch with you. Enjoy. Have a great day everyone.

The Randinator

One of my many friends at my day job at HP is Randy. Today over lunch Scott and I decided that Randy's night job was that of professional wrestler. His nickname is The Randinator. He has a ferocious demeanor, and his trademark move is "The Tape Gun", where by he wraps his opponents up in the ropes, and then launches them across the ring shouting "AIR MAIL!!!!" Yeah. Sometimes we get carried away at lunchtime.

June 20, 2008 Illustration Friday

The Illustration Friday topic this week is "Punchline"


Get it? Get it?! See, the kids they're all in a line... and he punched them!!! AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

Well, I thought it was funny.

Learning

Hi everyone! Today's verb topic is "Learning":


Okay, the kid on the top is coloring, instead of learning. That sketch probably a little autobiographical. Just about every paper I ever turned in had doodles in the margin. Something about that little strip of paper to the left, broken up by the 3 holes, it was a creative wonderland that constantly beckoned to me. I really enjoyed taking notes in class, doodle-doodle... scribble some notes on the lecture... doodle doodle... this probably explains why I had trouble concentrating in meetings as an adult.

May 2, 2008 Creative Exercise Day 6

The topic I chose for today is Jumping. Man, am I tired. It's been a long week. I still love participating in this challenge though. It's kept me motivated all week.

May 1, 2008 Creative Exercise Day 5

Well, I didn't have nearly as much time today, so these are rough sketches at best. Three goofy kids dancing at the top, the middle one is doing the Robot, which is a nod to Alicia, and her robots the other day. Unfortunately the robot dance looks a lot like standing still, which is what I was trying to avoid, so I drew cartoony swishy lines in there. Then the three ballet dancing little girls, they kind of got blown out, thanks to my scanner. And the couple, that's what I was picturing when I picked dancing as my next verb to draw. The others just kept cramming themselves in, begging to be drawn first.

Beep-beep! This is a fun exercise!

April 28th, 2008 Creative Exercise Day 2

Here is my entry for the I thought eating was such a good verb I'd use it as a topic one more day. I sketched during two of my breaks at work today. I didn't have time to color them, hopefully I will have time later this week. These sketches are looser than my usual work, but I figured that was okay, given the spirit of the exercise.

And here is the second image, I don't care for the guy eating potato chips. His arms got all freaked out. But I liked the idea, so I posted him too. I'm really enjoying this exercise, and the sense of community I get from everyone involved. I tip my cap to everyone who's been participating.