May 21, 2008 21 Day Creative Challenge Day 21

My last and final day of the creative challenge. My topic is "Performing":



I think I'll do a circus background for this one, and use it for my Illustration Friday entry. Thanks again to everyone who stopped by and commented. I'm going to continue drawing verbs, and posting several times a week. Maybe not every day though. I need a break!

May 19, 2008 21 Day Creative Challenge Day 20

Hey everyone! My verb topic today was "Learning":


These two characters are seperate illustrations, and have nothing to do with each other, aside from sharing the theme. So, she's not floating above his bed in her desk, and he's not reading about her. They just happend to be on the same page in my sketchbook.

I can't believe I only have one more day to go. It's been a quick three weeks, I've been so busy, but I've gotten a TON of good drawings out of it. Thanks again for everyone who commented, and gave suggestions.

May 18, 2008 21 Day Creative Challenge Day 19

My verb topic of the day is "Flying" again. I like this topic.



Thier tongues are sticking out, because in order to fly you HAVE to make propeller sounds. I tip my cap to Kathleen Rietz, I decided to do a father and son after seeing her terrific father and child drawings. For those of you who haven't seen her work, be sure to check Kate out, I really like her work.

Has anyone in the challenge used blurb.com? I need to have a few copies of a children's book printed. I used Lulu.com before, and didn't like the results. Blurb offers hard bound, and a better variety of sizes and formats. Any info you could offer would be appreciated.

May 17, 2008 21 Day Creative Challenge: Day 18

My verb of the day is "Flying":


I'll have more flying people tomorrow, this is all I have time to post today. The weather here turned hot and bEEEEEautiful! So I'm going to get outside and enjoy it!!

May 15, 2008 21 Day Creative Challenge Day 17

With a lot of help from a lot of creative people here is a revised swimming man. I turned up the saturation of the color in the water, and on the man. I added bubbles. I added a rough white border. And I added a tenticle, which I prefer over a shark. Giant tenticled beasts are a lot more fun than sharks I always say. A special thanks to everyone who helped. I'm still not happy with it, I rushed the color work on the tenticle, so it looks sloppy to me, but otherwise I like it.


Also, has anyone in the challenge used a self publishing website called blurb.com? I was thinking of using them to create my next children's book mockkup, and wondered if anyone else had any info to share. I've used Lulu.com, and wasn't happy with the choices they give in regards to size, and binding.

May 14, 2008 21 Day Creative Challenge Days 14-16

I was away for a few days taking care of some family business, maybe I can post a picture of what I was working on, if I can scare up a digital camera somewhere... anywho... Here are the sketches I did the last few days, not as many as I've previously posted for the challenge, but I've been busy. My topic the last few days was "Singing".

Day 14
This guy is pretty good, I like him. Sorry these are so rough, I haven't had time to really clean them up as much as I'd like.


Day 15
This guy looks more like he's laughing than singing. I was going for singing and dancing here. Maybe if there was some frame of reference, like he was on stage, or holding a microphone. But that expression still looks like laughing to me.


Day 16
These are the roughest of the sketches I'm posting here. Look at their hands... I really need to sit down again and just draw hands for a week straight. They look like they're wearing oven mits. So maybe they're singing about baking cookies. "We're making CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWC-OH-LATE CHIPS! Peanut-BUUUUHTAHR and MAC-AH-ROOOOOONS! You'll eat plate after plate until you go LOONY TUNES!"

May 10, 2008 21 Day Creative Exercise Day 13

Here is last night's swimmer sketch colorized. The verb topic is "Swimming". I'm not happy with it. It seems very boring to me. Blah.