May 9, 2008 21 Day Creative Exercise Day 12

My verb topic for the 12th day of the creative challenge is Swimming:



Thanks to my good friend Dan for the suggestion. I'll post a color version of this tomorrow. So... Sleepy...

May 8, 2008 Creative Challenge Day 11

Well, today my topic verb was "Crawling"


The drunk at the bottom was suggested by a coworker of mine. We've been hearing about impending layoffs at my day job. I'm not much of a drinker so I won't get drunk to cope with a bleak future. I'll just sketch a drunken stupor instead.

May 7, 2008 Creative Challenge Days 8, 9, 10

Well, my apologies for missing the last two days. I just didn't have time to post. I did sketch however. My verb the first two days was "Stretching":


My verb topic today was "Throwing":

May 4, 2008 Illustration Friday

Roland had lost track of more than one watermelon seed the night before. Now the question remained... where had the other seed gone!!

The illustration Friday theme this week is SEED. My first idea was to do a seed pod illustration, alla Invasion of the Body Snatchers, something with a husband standing in the shadows with a giant seed pod, while his wife reached over to turn out the bedside lamp. But time was limited, and this idea seemed more creative than an homage to a movie.

As always I hope you will visit my website to view more examples of my work at www.ryanloghry.com, and please visit my retail store at www.ookybizniz.com, thank you for visiting.

May 3, 2008 Creative Exercise Day 7

So I spent all day working on illustrations, and working on a new character when I realized I'd just drawn him standing there. D'OH! Had I forgotten what I'd labored at all week long? So I immediately sketched out an action pose, and voila!! My entry for today is animated(click on the image above to see the two frame animated gif). *bling*! My illustrated verb of the day is "Fighting". As in, "And everybody was Kung Fu Fight-eeeeeng!"

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!